I aten't dead
Checking in briefly to report that, unlike John Denver, I did not die in a plane crash.
I'm mostly settled now in Edmonton; so is the cat, although she briefly escaped into the great outdoors where, thankfully, she managed to evade getting eaten by coyotes. (They have those here.)
Writing has been on a bit of a hiatus while I took care of all the moving stuff, but I'm now back on track with the next Casefile of Jay Moriarty story. Watch this space.
This Week's Links
Right now, it's 100 percent acceptable to make a game where you kill people graphically, but it's not to make games about your experiences with sexual abuse/violence/trauma. People are using the spectre of sexual violence to silence people from talking about their own lives.
A New Video Game Allows You to Repatriate African Artifacts by Looting Western Museums
Earlier this month at the annual Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles, Nyamakop unveiled its latest project, Relooted, a side-scrolling puzzle platformer—think early Tomb Raider or Prince of Persia games—where players join a crew of Robin Hood-esque thieves staging elaborate heists to take back stolen artifacts from Western museums, and repatriate them to the peoples from whom they were taken.
Jellyfish swarm forces French nuclear plant to shut
A French nuclear plant temporarily shut down on Monday due to a "massive and unpredictable presence of jellyfish" in its filters, its operator said.
I'm also back on Instagram for the sake of keeping up with my Newcastle friends, plus a halfhearted attempt at the #bookstagram thing. We'll see how that goes.
-K
