http://www.metafilter.com/tags/yahtzee Posts tagged with 'yahtzee' at MetaFilter. Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:15:17 -0800 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:15:17 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/77581/Im%2Djust%2Denthused%2Dout%2Dof%2Dmy%2Dface Perennial MeFi favourite Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, the behatted ex-pat brit best known for the bitingly sarcastic game reviews in <a href="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation">Zero Punctuation</a> (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/64121/We-may-need-you-to-play-twingtwang">previously</a> <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/66812/Freeware-Friday">on MeFi</a>) has <a href="http://gamedamage.net/">a new project</a>... ...and some friends, apparently. Teaming up with Guy "Yug" Blomberg and Matt "Matt" Burgess of the <a href="http://www.australiangamer.com/">AustralianGamer podcast</a> (upon which Yahtzee has previously been a guest), the three Australian-based game lovers have produced <a href="http://gamedamage.net/">GameDamage</a>, a pilot episode of a game review- preview- and humour- show. More ambitious than the usual 5-minute video podcast, the pilot runs as a half-hour TV magazine show format ranging from on-the-sofa interaction between the three hosts, cutaway pre-recorded monologues, skits (of varying quality, to be honest) and a grand prize* competition... The makers have made it clear that this is not "Zero Punctuation TV", nor do they have any desire to make it so, but are instead going for a wider web-based or even true TV audience, if the pilot drums up enough interest. *For certain values of "Grand Prize", that is... tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.77581 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:15:17 -0800 australiangamer bencroshaw game gamedamage gamers podcast videopodcast yahtzee zeropunctuation Nice Guy Mike http://www.metafilter.com/76416/I%2Dnever%2Dhear%2Dthe%2Drattling%2Dof%2Ddice%2Dthat%2Dit%2Ddoes%2Dnot%2Dsound%2Dto%2Dme%2Dlike%2Dthe%2Dfuneral%2Dbell%2Dof%2Dthe%2Dwhole%2Dfamily <a href="http://zilch.playr.co.uk/zilch.php">Zilch</a> is a nice little (flash) dice game. Via <a href="http://jayisgames.com/">JIG</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.76416 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:16:13 -0800 buzzball dice Farkle flash game greed jayisgames ohcrap quack sand wimpout yahtzee zilch zonk le morte de bea arthur