Game designer David Sirlin has worked on games like Super Street Fighter 2 HD Remix (XBLA/PSN) and Kongai Virtual Card Game (Kongregate.com), author of the widely hailed book Playing to Win: Becoming the Champion, and a serious gaming tournament competitor. He founded Sirlin Games and is its sole product developer. He has many tabletop games under his belt as well, including Yomi, Puzzle Strike and Flash Duel. I talked with him about his book, his games, and his plans for the future. (continue reading)
Toward the end of our San Diego Comic-Con International panel on the psychopathy of the Joker, an audience member asked the panelists whether we thought the Joker’s association with Harley Quinn has been good or bad for the character’s mental health. I’m not going to point out every time the audience laughed because nearly every statement that appears below got a big laugh. Plain text cannot convey the entertaining quality of Jerry’s delivery – his simple “I would” cracked people up – or how Adam was clearly engaging in tongue-in-cheek humor and knew darn well what was going on every step of the way.
Since I posed the question “What is the worst superpower?” on the site to get your feedback, I also thought my team and I would see what some celebrities at San Diego Comic-Con International ’09 would have to say. Respondents varied in how they interpreted “worst” with regard to whether it meant most inconvenient, annoying, debilitating, […]
During Comic-Con, the Action Flick Chick discussed twitter and superpowers with the original TV Batman himself.