Thumbs & Ammo

This is awesome. A graphics editor in England was used to sending and receiving Photoshopped jokes with friends. Someone came up with the concept of Thumbs & Ammo: taking iconic movie stills and removing the guns, replacing them with thumbs up. Replace a gun with an affirmation. I love it.

The tag line of the blog: Real tough guys don't need guns, they just need a positive, can-do attitude.

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/03/thumbs-and-ammo/?viewall=true

http://thumbsandammo.blogspot.com/

A development tool for choose-your-own adventures

Came across a tool that's designed for writing, what is in effect, solo adventures. And since it supports both stored variables and a random number generator, there's no reason why you couldn't write a combat randomizer in the background. It's called Twine, and the development system and is multi-platform: Windows, Mac, Linux via Python. And it's free to use and free to release. You can put your developed stories on web sites or burn them to CD.

I can't say that I've worked with this, but it looks like it has huge potential and definitely seems worth looking in to. It has a GUI interface where each block has a name and text with code for options, the code branches to other blocks. Seems fairly straightforward. It was used to develop a recent Hamlet Choose-your-own Adventure that was massively funded on Kickstarter.

This is pretty cool.

http://www.gimcrackd.com/etc/src/

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/12/hamlet-choose-adventure/?pid=8876&viewall=true