MetaFilter posts tagged with gaming and ScienceFiction

Beyond the Vault

Artw — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:52:09 -0800

Gaming made me - RPS writer Patricia Hernandez on how Fallout 2 shaped her world view, her politics and her sexuality.

Player of Games

Artw — Wed, 09 May 2012 09:54:13 -0800

Iain M. Banks talks about his favorite games.

What value does humanity bring to galactic civilization?

BitterOldPunk — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:15:01 -0800

Why Mass Effect is the most important science fiction universe of our generation (Contains SPOILERS for Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2)

His name is a +2 Killing Word

Artw — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:16:54 -0800

The Dune RPG that never was.

A Cthuluvian perspective on lolcats

Artw — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:40:54 -0800

The biggest literary influence on my approach to game design, however, was one of the writers I worshipped as a teenager: Alice Sheldon, aka James Tiptree, Jr. Tiptree had one particular recommendation for starting a story: “Start from the end and preferably 5,000 feet underground on a dark day and then don’t tell them.” This is precisely how we begin Half-Life. It was a deliberate antidote to the many game openings that involved pages and pages of backstory presented in scrolling text. - An interview with Marc Laidlaw, writer for the Half Life series.

After the revolution, life goes on... and so do the bugs.

homunculus — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:11:38 -0800

The Exterminator’s Want-Ad, a short story by Bruce Sterling, is a twisted first-person missive by a former K-Street lobbyist making his way in a post-collapse socialist regime of sharing. It's part of the Shareable Futures series of short stories and speculative essays at Shareable.net. [Via]

Roll for mutations

Artw — Thu, 27 May 2010 11:53:40 -0800

old School Science Fiction RPGs: Traveller, Metamorphosis Alpha, Gamma World.

"Magic missile!"

Artw — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:05:54 -0800

The New York Times profiles Jack Vance (but fails to mention Vancian Magic. (Curse you Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition!)

Hey little sister what have you done

Artw — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:17:27 -0800

There's something in the sea... and it has a big drill for an arm.