Posts Tagged ‘exploration’
small worlds
Small Worlds is a beautiful game by David Shute, with music by Kevin Macleod. Like all of my favorite games, this is a game about exploration — perhaps something like a cross between Myst and Pitfall. The gameplay is incredibly simple, involving navigation through space using the arrow keys to move and the spacebar to […]
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Tags: David Shute, exploration, game, imaginative space, Kevin Macleod, Small Worlds, video game
On my birthday, which was March 4 (i.e. a million years ago in syntax time), I took the train down to Hinase with Yo-chan and various members of the Osaka shashin-bu clan so that we could ride boats and eat oysters. Hinase is a small city that sits on the edge of the Seto Inland […]
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A month or so ago I went to Mt. Kongo with Yo-chan and members of the Osaka Daigaku Photography Club. Kongo-san is most famous for the hoarfrost and icicles that cover its forested peak during the winter, but we were too late for hoarfrost and came for the view instead. The weather had been threatening […]
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One thing I didn’t get to do during my summer trip back to the States was drive out to the Northern California coast. The beach is only 20 minutes away from Petaluma, where I spent most of my time growing up, and so the Northern California coast has a familiarity to it that will never […]
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Tags: Alaska current, beach, beachcombing, Bodega Bay, coast, driftwood, exploration, glassmakers, glassmaking, Highway 1, Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, Marshall Gulch, Northern California, ocean, Petaluma, Petaluma Market, Salmon Creek Beach, sand dunes, sea creatures, skimboarding, surfing
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