Coding By Moonlight

Behemoth bacon burgers and Moogle angel-food cake.

(!!!)

It's dangerous to code alone.

I'll post a super-swell round-up of the games I choose to hunker down and play.

Until then, FOCUS.

Happiness, The Video Game

I consider my best friend to be a happy person, content with the life she has built around the solid, loving partner she has found (though, to their credit, the path to balance and harmony was not easy, and the snags they hit as a couple forced them both to grow as individuals). I’ve often had people accuse me of the converse. I am, to many people, a generally melancholy human being. Now,…

Crytek A River: Wow, This Industry Is Terrifying

I don’t mean that pun to be insensitive, I just couldn’t help but make it. There’s nothing funny about a huge company – in many ways a cornerstone of this industry – not paying its employees on time. If you were using my MacBook and you happened to open Google Chrome, my two home pages would pop up: Tumblr, and a listing for a writing position at Crytek’s Frankfurt office from 2012. When I first…

It's Thursday, which means there's only a three day stretch between me and New York City.

Holy shit.

In three days I will be living in Manhattan.

Without getting too nostalgic, I have to mention that this has been a dream of mine since I was eleven (when I went to NYC to meet my internet boyfriend I'd wooed via Neopets).

So: big city, bright lights, no kitchen.

Well, that's not entirely true, there is physically a kitchen, but the appliances are so old running gas to them would be a (potentially deadly) fool's errand. As a devout foodie and home-chef, I immediately panicked when I heard this. Then I did some Google-ing.

You can make cake in a rice cooker.

I haven't tested this out yet, but the internet seems to want to convince me it's true. Here is a nifty list of all the rice cooker recipe collections on the topic I have found.

Three cheers for city life!

Summer 2014: video game development and rice-cooker-cakes:

BuzzFeed: 21 Surprising Things You Can Make In A Rice Cooker

Everybody Eats Well in Flanders: RCC #6 - Rice Coooker Moist Chocolate Cake

One Cook. Two Kitchens. Lemony Risotto with Shrimp

All Recipes: Vegetable Rice Pilaf in a Rice Cooker

The Kitchn: 5 Things You Can Make In a Rice Cooker (Other Than Rice)

Zojirushi: Recipe Collection

STEAM SUMMER SALE TRADING CARD NO. 4, THOUGH.

Two upcoming mobile titles I think are neat-o bandit-o!

Okay, so another quick post so I don’t forget these two really swell lookin’ mobile titles I’ve noticed poppin’ up on my new feeds:

Midnight Star

and

Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake

So, you can click either of the titles to mosey on over to Joystiq’s previews of them, or you can dig the jive I’m laying down:

Midnight Star looks super snazzy because it’s a mobile FPS that doesn’t look god-awful!That…

Sunset Overdrive's latest TV episode details character customization and traps.

Them there sound like fightin' words to me.

Quickly, since I'm supposed to be at work:

1. TRAPS! TRAPS TRAPS TRAPS I'm going to enjoy this game so much.

2. "You can be a dude in a skirt." If you hadn't had me at hello, Insomniac, you've certainly got a spot on my dance card now.