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Neither. I was interested in playing 3, as per the recommendation of Steve Gaynor, but never put in the legwork required to find a copy.
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I'm truly taken aback at this. This is very nice of you to say.
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This is the kind of question I get when I don't write about video games for a really long time.
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No, but they may as well be. I didn't remember that the extremely similar character in the Nadia Heller story was also called Evan until after I'd written No Big Deal. Pretty slick, huh.
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That's how we flow here
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asked by Austarr
What should you be playing? I guess recent things that I like a lot include Red Dead Redemption.
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asked by pelagic
Trick question: not a question.
It is discouraging, to be honest, but I'm so used to having a low readership that it's not as if it's a dealbreaker. I'm never going to have a hissy fit because I'm not as popular as I think I deserve to be.
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Yes. Nothing in particular, but I like having something going on in the background. Otherwise it's just me at a keyboard, alone and in total silence, which is the worst thing about writing.
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I get 35% of each sale. I'd make them available for free if I could, as I think it's kind of tacky to be selling them, but that's up to Amazon.
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That they're bad tippers?
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Maybe you were misled by my frequent Yahoo Serious references.
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At GDC in 2009, I think one of the other Idle Thumbs guys just came up with it. I don't remember why. But it delighted us all to varying degrees, and we repeated it constantly throughout the remainder of the week, including several times on a podcast (if you can get your head around the Idle Thumbs podcast repeating a nickname over and over!)
Nobody has ever called me Slam Duncan since then.
Although, later that year, someone outside the video game world asked me if I ever had a nickname, and "Slam Duncan" floored them. -
When I was seven years old, every time I was asked to write a story in school (which doesn't seem like it should have happened that often, but I guess it did) I would write something completely straight-forward and factual about my life. That always seemed to me like the obvious and appropriate response to such a request. None of these stories were at all interesting and I didn't care about them very much, but it was just one of a dozen things that you have to do in school like that.
One time I wrote a story about something that happened to one of my teeth. Maybe I had a dentist appointment or a tooth fell out. Who cares. My teacher thought this was as exciting as it sounds and suggested that in the future I try making something up. And I thought, like, oh, you can do that?
The next thing that I wrote after the tooth adventure was a serialised medieval epic with tons of characters and plot twists derived from every work of fantasy or adventure fiction ever produced. Oh yeah, it had pictures, too. I think I wrote about twenty installments of this before my teacher told me I had to stop.
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I can tell how many page views Life Starts Here gets, but as far as I know, there's no way to accurately say how many "readers" there are. I can say with some certainty that there aren't very many of them, and the readership is definitely smaller than that of Hit Self-Destruct. I understand why this is the case, but it often makes working on Life Starts Here a drag for the obvious reasons.
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asked by fullbright
Trick question: this is not a question, and I am not bound under the Formspring terms of service to respond. How's your San Francisco party going?
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Yes I have, thank you for the pre-order and sorry for the browser thing.
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This is such a flattering question that I'm not sure whether it's genuine or a sarcastic takedown. Either way, the answer is, sadly, that I don't really know. I always like to write characters as sounding as true to life as possible. Every conversation that occurs in a Life Starts Here/Hit Self-Destruct story is a conversation that I could imagine having myself. It helps that all my stories are relatively realistic rather than in crazy science fiction universes,
I like to pay attention to what people say in real life, and take note of the really interesting things or unusual things that pass through some stranger's lips. For instance, way back in high school I remember a classmate of mine saying "Get out of my life" and that was something that I'd never heard before and wanted to put into a work of fiction ever since. I think I put that in "The Education of Nadia Heller". I don't even remember. -
I've never felt like it was necessary to provide any more of a resolution to a story. It's not my intention to leave big questions unanswered, but pretty much all of my stories are about a short period of time in the lives of one or two people, and in that context, wrapping up things too tidily seems forced and unrealistic to me. I do try and put in enough of a hint as to how things would go for the characters in the future, but the stories are always just small moments in time. But there's another answer to your question, which is
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