remj

Tonight I cooked dinner for my brother at his place in San Francisco. I peeled the apples for the apple pie, and then spent an hour-plus trying to figure out why his google apps admin rights couldn't fix the email problems for the accounts. (MX records weren't right, and I couldn't figure out a way to address it with just his access. I like finding problems I can't fix - very rewarding.) Afterward, I received the passive-aggressive-aggressive non-thanks. Family!

And tomorrow we leave for the rest of the family drama.

A friend asked me to help with a dice-based zombie game he wanted to have - that I would design & develop it, and...huh. I bet people get paid for that. (Some of you saw the dice at the SGSeattle white elephant.) Which means I must've unpacked it, and not put it back in. So I've spent a lot of hours the past couple of days modeling dice rolling in excel, and then expanding it to do testing for the game mechanics.

Some basic problems with the mechanics I came up with so far:
1. Zombies need to kill more.
2. Need better choices - mindless dice-rolling only goes so far. (It might be fine for zombies.)
3. Not enough suspense.

Which only means there's more work involved.