Tag: Jim Munroe

The Difference Engine Initiative

Started by found CG Edtitor Jim Munroe and Mare Sheppard, The Difference Engine Initiative aims to diversify what kinds of games are made by offering gamemaking incubators for underrepresented groups in the game industry.  As part of this, the  Hand Eye Society will be running 2 game incubators […]

Jim Munroe’s Rapture

The Gutter will help you get ready for the Rapture in Chicago with Gutter Founding Editor Jim Munroe’s Therefore, Repent! (free here) and the sequel set in Post-Rapture Detroit, Sword of My Mouth, featuring excellent art Shannon Gerrard.  The Rapture isn’t what we think it is. (Full disclosure: […]

The Cultural Gutter Is Now A Book!

The Cultural Gutter book is now available!  Enjoy the Gutter as a hardcopy (hooray for the codex!), on your e-reader or as an e-book online!  And if you like it, please vote it up on Boing Boing’s Submitterator! Thanks, Drew, artist EJ Lee and everyone at Carnegie-Mellon University’s […]

Twilight of the Geeks

Patton Oswalt wants to save geekery by destroying it:  “In order to save pop culture future, we’ve got to make the present pop culture suck, at least for a little while.”  It reminds me of Jim Munroe’s question at WisCon 2008:  “Does it have to get boring before […]