i took the family to IKEA today, as a weird potty-training reward for my youngest. The store offers free child care in a room with a ball pool; we told Izzy that they wouldn’t take kids who weren’t potty trained. Before a week was out, she was pooping on the can like a champ. But [...] Keep Reading

“Escalation” is the term game developers use to describe the ways in which a video game gets progressively more challenging. There are many different ways to escalate a game. Here are a few: decrease the amount of time the player has to complete a goal at the climax of Super Metroid, the player has to [...] Keep Reading

When Untold Entertainment Inc. turned three last year, we were reeling from the fallout of the global economic collapse. It’s been a slow, difficult recovery, and we still have a lot of work left to do, but i’m happy to say we’ve nosed out of the tailspin. This was a landmark year for Untold; we [...] Keep Reading

The current crop of teens and early 20-somethings in Ontario (and perhaps elsewhere, but i can only comment on Ontario) is being derided for its poor work ethic and its sense of entitlement. In my notorious articles What’s Wrong with Ontario Colleges? (Part 1 and Part 2), i boiled it all down to certain decisions [...] Keep Reading

i try my best on this blog to give you sneak peaks at my strategies and the methods behind my madness, lest i come off as just plain crazy. My schemes to launch a media empire may appear misguided. What’s up with ZombieGameWorld.com? Why did i come back from New York with a puppet? And [...] Keep Reading