Metal Bat

Video Games

Game Shelf is a database of all of my video games.
Button Trance is a column that I write about infatuating games. The first one is still at the somewhat-busted old Heisei Democracy site, which I administered back in its heyday. The rest are just blog posts.
I always liked video games. But in 2002, I discovered Sakura Taisen and it turned me into a whole new kind of geek.
A decade later, I researched and wrote a 15,000-word article on the Sakura Taisen series for Hardcore Gaming 101.
Solarized theme for Dwarf Fortress, based on the Solarized color scheme by Ethan Schoonover, is for elite nerds. It looks like this.
In like 2000 or so I made a Genesis controller work on PSX.

At the moment I have three tabletop RPG characters: Cross the tiefling paladin, Xo the half-elf psion, and Sulðr the dwarven alchemist banker.
Did you know you can use OmniGraffle for tabletop gaming? We use this for our dual-DM campaign at work.
I have a nice Warmachine army, of the Protectorate of Menoth faction, but there are no photographs of it yet.

Learning iOS Design is a book I wrote, available June 2013.
Since 2004, I’ve been the User Experience Lead at the Omni Group, makers of maxgood Mac and iOS software.
Designing Graceful, Gracious Interfaces for iPad is a one-hour talk I gave at Voices That Matter Autumn 2010 and Spring 2011, and Øredev 2011.
From Mac to iPhone to iPad and Back is another one-hour talk that I gave at Voices That Matter Autumn 2011 and Øredev 2011.
I have a few posts on the Omni blog about design and things.
The Design of Dungeons & Dragons is an examination of D&D books over the decades.
This typefaces sheet is a rough cheat sheet for which common fonts are appropriate for which cultures and eras.
All the iOS icons. All of them. is a guide and template that I made for my book, for use with Slicy, to build iOS app icons.

Clamm-bon Eigo-ban is my long-running project to provide English info and lyrics translations for clammbon, my favorite band in the world.
A bunch of us fans are trying to create a new English version of the lovely PS2 game Ar tonelico 2, at the At2 Relocalization Project. I worked on the style guide, translated Chroche’s Cosmosphere, and translated Frelia’s Binary Field.
In 2002, I coordinated the Xenosaga Madness Project, a translation and guide to the PS2 game Xenosaga Episode I.

Sometimes I do 3D modeling. It used to be in Cinema 4D, then Blender, and now Modo. I have nothing to show for this yet, though.
I have accumulated a whole lot of garage kits, but the only one I have built is Goth-Loli Rei.

(out of context) is a lo-fi photo-journal that begins in Tokyo in 2002 and continues to this day.
One time someone tried to sell me fake video games on eBay.
A long time ago I documented my first and second trips to Japan.

I played bass in a rock and roll band called HOXA with @optshiftk, @zroundbls, and @frozendevil.
You can follow my listening habits at last.fm.
Sometimes I try to figure out how to play obscure songs on the bass, and document my findings.
I am slowly pursuing Operation: Learn to Play Bass on Every Rush Song Ever.

I really like Python and jQuery.
Julian and I have been trying to make a game since 2003. You can watch us at Momo Pax Dot Com.
It is remarkable how many names in marketing and fiction could have been created by my Badass Name Generator.
Helpify is a tool for turning OmniOutliner documents into Apple Help Books.