{"id":2360,"date":"2012-06-22T18:30:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T01:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2017-03-15T15:32:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T22:32:12","slug":"doing-the-alphabet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/2360","title":{"rendered":"Doing the Alphabet"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been over two full months since my last post. I could describe the immediate causes for the delay, but to be honest, I’ve been through worse before and still posted. So I have to admit that the real reason is simply my abandonment of the Oath. I can’t write without a pretense of obligation. (And it really does have to be a pretense. Nothing kills motivation faster than real<\/em> obligation.) But I am still unwilling to simply resume the Oath in its current form.<\/p>\n

You know when I was posting the most frequently? 2010. The year of the Chronological Rundown<\/a>, when I added an additional stricture on top of the Oath. I’d like to try something like that again, but without the Oath underneath it. I’ve made mutterings about doing the alphabet — one game starting with each letter — under something similar to 2010’s rules: at an allotted two weeks per letter, it would take a full year to get through all 26. I had been thinking of this as something I’d start with a new year, but why wait? It’s going to wind up irregular anyway, especially if I take October off for the IF Comp. Plus, on reflection, there needs to be a slot for 0-9, and possibly punctuation, depending on how one wishes to handle the .hack<\/em> series. So what the heck, this begins now, almost but not quite halfway through the year.<\/p>\n

The new rules: I’ll start playing and posting about a game every two weeks, give or take. I may play other games without posting them, even if they’re on the Stack. In choosing the game to post about for each letter, I intend to give preference to ones on physical media. Bundles have exploded the Stack of late, but if I narrow my sights and only consider things I own on disc or cartridge to matter, the Stack can be seen to be shrinking after all. Exhausting my supply of such games is something I could actually accomplish, given a few more years, and when I do, I can pretend that it means something. <\/p>\n

Tomorrow is 80 Days<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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