Mobs Inc.

Mobs, Inc. is a beautifully crafted little brawler where you play a minor dungeon baddie hopeful of quick promotion. As with most brawlers, game's a little frantic for my general tastes, but the pixely aesthetics are beautiful.

St. Kilda

St. Kilda is an odd and isolated little island in the Outer Hebrides.  Thought I'd read somewhere that this might have been partial inspiration for Qwghlm.

Inhabited for a couple thousand years with very limited contact with the outside world, St. Kilda was evacuated in the 1930s.

Notable ancient stone structure referred to as the Amazon's House.

Barddas Exerpts

The Circle of Abred, in which are all corporal and dead existences.

The Circle of Gwynvyd, in which are all animated and immortal beings.

The Circle of Ceugant, where there is only God. The wise men describe them thus, in three Circles.

The Second Examination

Q.  Whence didst thou proceed and what is thy beginning?
A.  I came from the Great World, 1 having my beginning in Annwn.

Q.  Where art thou now and how camest thou to where thou art?
A.  I am in the Little World, whither I came, having traversed the circle of Abred, and now I am a man at its termination and extreme limits.

Q.  What wert thou before thou didst become a man in the circle of Abred?
A.  I was in Annwn the least possible that was capable of life, and the nearest possible to absolute death, and I came in every form, and through every form capable of a body and life, to the state of man along the circle of Abred, where my condition was severe and grievous during the age of ages, ever since I was parted in Annwn from the dead, by the gift of God, and His great generosity, and His unlimited and endless love.

Q.  Through how many forms didst thou come and what happened unto thee?
A.  Through every form capable of life, in water, in earth, and in air. And there happened unto me every se-verity, every hardship, every evil, and every suffering, and but little was the goodness and gwynfyd before I became a man.

- Excerpt from Barddas, c/o  Internet Sacred Text Archive.

Whale of Noise

From the Famicase (fake/fan-made 8-bit Nintendo cartridge) 2008 exhibition:

I want to play this game very much.
I really wish it existed.

Peter Mullen - The Cave

Do you vaguely approve of swords and sorcery? Does the term "webcomic" not completely bewilder you? When you espy images of honest-to-God pen and ink art, do you sometimes not turn away in utter disgust? Would you suffer an attempt that combines all of these elements into one semi-tolerable product? We would too.

- Peter Mullen

Man, I have loved this guy's work ever since I first saw the cover image for the Swords & Wizardry White Box edition:

If I ever publish a game and can afford it I'd like to use him as an artist.

Check out a ton more at:
The Cave

Communication: Building . . . SOMETHING.

Someone at work put up this motivational poster awhile back, with the encouragement that we should use "Communication" to "build bridges, not walls":



This immediately made me think of a different purpose to which communication is often put:



A copyright non-infringing version alternative can be found here.

The Nostalgia of the Infinite

I love this painting and even just it's title. But the combination is magic.

"Nostalgia of the Infinite" inspires awe in me. Also a sense that it's not just awe at a potential thing that might theoretically exist. But instead at something that you know, and had known and experienced and enjoyed at one time, that you remember fondly (ie. theophany on a grand scale).

It warms the heart and produces a hope and yearning.

May have been silly, but commenting on my sister's blog it inspired me to write:

Remember, before we started constantly breaking everything down into tiny pieces to analyze and control? It used to just stretch out there before us, vaster than worlds, boundless and heart-shaking, beyond imagination.

Man, I long for that feeling again.

(And, via the wonder of "nostalgia" here it is!)

Daedalus Blue (Comic)

Daedalus Blue was a web comic I followed for awhile. Not a huge fan of yet another Christian-fascist regime being portrayed (didn't care for it in "V for V" either for that matter). But the illustration is interestingly done. Artist apparently goes by the name John Aggs.

Unfortunately it seems do have been discontinued.

Site here.

The Tor - Map

This map is a plug-and-play piece of setting, intended for use with various roleplaying-games.

Personally though I'm just intrigued by the design and the lone, free-standing nature of the "stone tower" in the setting. It's solitary nature seems mysterious and makes me want to know more about it's history and origins. I wonder if there's a similar structure anywhere in the real world.

Link to product website here.