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  • Sunday, March 1, 2009

    Sita Sings the Blues

    Movies

    Nina Paley’s movie “Sita Sings the Blues” is available now, and it’s fantastic.

  • Saturday, February 28, 2009

    Who Tackles the Untackleable?

    Movies

    The opening credits of the “Watchmen” movie were shown at WonderCon, and they’re amazing. If the rest of the movie can live up to the first 10 minutes, I’m sold.

  • Tuesday, February 24, 2009

    Myths of Videogame Storytelling

    Storytelling, Videogames

    A recap of all my posts so far on the subject of storytelling in videogames.

  • Monday, February 23, 2009

    On Brevity

    Storytelling, Videogames

    Why “videogame writing should be short” is bad advice.

  • Sunday, February 22, 2009

    Oh, stop thinking how ridiculous it is!

    Lost

    My opinions of “Lost” episode “316”

  • Thursday, February 19, 2009

    Content Withholders

    Television

    Hulu.com is going to great lengths to block boxee from accessing its “service,” and its self-serving justifications aren’t helping.

  • Saturday, February 14, 2009

    Happy Valentine’s Day!

    Personal

    Make your own! Some good ones available via twitter search.

  • Saturday, February 14, 2009

    All Will Be Revealed… At Once

    Battlestar Galactica

    Apparently the revolutionaries of the last few episodes were armed with low-caliber exposition rounds, Teflon-Flashback coated to penetrate the armor of the Rules of Dramatic Writing, including “Show, Don’t Tell.” But I kid “Battlestar Galactica” only because it annoys me so much. This week’s episode (“No Exit”), was paced and written as well as it…

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This is the personal website of Chuck Jordan, an occasional game developer living in Los Angeles

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