2026-06-05T17:38:36Z https://d.moonfire.us/tags/board-games/ D. Moonfire Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 2014-01-13T06:00:00Z https://d.moonfire.us/blog/2014/01/13/board-games-and-broomsticks/ <p>This was a pretty eventful week of board and computer games, a bit of writing, and moving forward.</p> <p><!--more--></p> <h1>Writing</h1> <p>Another week end and it was actually a relatively productive one. I managed to rewrite one story and resubmit it and also wrote a new chapter for <a href="http://d.moonfire.us/blog/tag/sand-and-love">Sand and Love</a> that will hopefully fill in a gap in the plot (or at least understanding).</p> <h1>Boardgames</h1> <p><a href="http://weirdauthor.com/">Shannon Ryan</a> and his wife came over for board games, along with two of our friends from Iowa City. We played <em>Redneck Life</em> and <em>Deadwood Studio</em>. Both of those games have a much different feel with six players, not quite what I expected.</p> <p>Of course, that meant cleaning. I was up until two in the morning cleaning the house because it was the first time they had been there and SMWM had a maternity photo shoot a few hours before that. So, it was clean everything I could, set up a studio, take down a studio, and clean some more.</p> <h1>Starbound</h1> <p>https://twitter.com/ilona_andrews/statuses/422434271609884672</p> <p>(I never tried to embed a Tweet before.)</p> <p>After some comments on Twitter, I realized that I had <a href="http://playstarbound.com/">Starbound</a> but had never played it. Sadly, this seems to be true with a number of kickstarted projects, but it was a little fun for a few hours. I don't know how long I'll play it, mainly because I usually have to make a decision between "playing a game" and "writing". And I usually pick writing.</p> <h1>ownCloud</h1> <p>It may not be obvious, but I'm uncomfortable with cloud companies. No doubt, they are very useful and I don't think I could live without my Gmail or Dropbox right now, but that doesn't mean I don't try to find alternatives.</p> <p>For a while, I've seen <a href="http://owncloud.org/">ownCloud</a> but I dismissed it because it looked like it was just a web file system. Last night, however, I noticed it appeared to have a Dropbox-like client to it. And it is controlled entirely by me, which means there isn't a constant pressure for referrals and "buy me for more than 2 GB" notices.</p> <p>No idea if it will work, but I'm willing to try it. I'm (almost) always willing to try new things.</p> <h1>Plans</h1> <p>Speaking of that, I have no plans for this weekend. I ended up working through my lunch the last couple days of the previous week, mainly to try getting something done that was my idea (so naturally, I didn't want it to fail).</p>