2022-07-14 Assorted

It's peak vacation season in the northern hemisphere. The world of games slowed down after last time, but picked up again in time for another monthly roundup.

To begin with: belatedly (but this is big enough), David Ahl places all his classic computing publications into the Public Domain. Also in the way of game history:

• “Atari Was Very, Very Hard” Nolan Bushnell on Atari, 50 Years Later: a good interview,
• a retrospective of Wizardry, and last but not least,
• Early Collaborative Games of Fantasy and Imagination;

Yep, it turns out there are tabletop RPGs literally as old as Frankenstein.

That's damn cool! Now for the complete opposite, some tales from the crypt... o:

• Developer Ambushes NFTs In Public Talk, Makes Crypto Sponsors Real Mad (okay, that's funny at least)
• and from two weeks ago, Owner of itch.io accuses newly launched alternative w3itch.io of theft; like PC Gamer goes on to explain, "As well as copying another site's UI, w3itch.io is apparently selling games without their creators' consent."

Funny how anything related to crypto seems to involve art theft. See you next time.