Playtest

There’s been a lot of news reports about the global credit slump etc, but it really can’t be that bad if I can be approved for a credit card.

Since getting my DS, I’ve noticed that a lot of interesting games seem to be released in Australia anywhere up to a year after they are released in the US (the less said about the lag behind Japan the better), and often cost twice as much. Happily, the DS doesn’t bother with the ludicrousness that is region coding, so I can happily import them from Hong Kong based online shops.

One I’m particularly looking forward to is DS-10, essentially a software synthesiser made in conjunction with Korg. Its currently only planned to be released in Japan, but given that all the dials etc are labelled in english, I can’t imagine the language barrier being much of a problem.

Well more accurately a stiff neck anyway. I think I might coin a new medical condition – DS neck! I’ve been wanting to get a Nintendo DS for quite a while, and it hasn’t disappointed, playing Zelda on the train to and from Uni is great. However I made the mistake of introducing my house-mate to Cooking Mama 2, and he’s probably played it at least an hour or two everyday since I got it on Saturday. I was looking forward to taking it online, but unfortunately it doesn’t support the quite ridiculous wireless setup that I have at home which forgoes using a router as a access point in favour of an aptly named ‘ad-hoc’ setting on my PC’s wireless card.

I’ve been doing ok with writing this week. I’ve got the backlog down to slightly more than 3 days worth, so with a bit of luck and effort hopefully I can knock that of by the end of the week. It’ll be interesting to go back through what I’ve been writing for the introduction chapter and see if it makes any sense, I’m a little bit apprehensive given that I had only a fairly loose idea of the progression of the argument in my head before I started, and as a result its probably a little bit unclear. I’ve been able to slot in sections of my DiGRA paper, and they seem to fit pretty well despite needing a bit of revision, which is encouraging – at least I’m still on more or less the same track.