Comments on Hit Self-Destruct: Writing Shotgun

This is fantastic. I love the idea that we co-auth...

2008-10-01T12:17:00.000+13:00

This is fantastic. I love the idea that we co-author a game through save titles.

I recently installed Fallout for the first time, and I'd been naming my saves after Half-Life's justifiably famous chapter titles: "Apprehension" - I'm apprehensive about going through this spooky cave; "Questionable Ethics" - I decided to violate my 'no murder' code to free a couple of slaves. Anyway, I've since moved into creating my own names, and I guess in that way it's...hey, wake up.

I don't have any of those games installed anymore ...

2008-06-22T23:33:00.000+12:00

I don't have any of those games installed anymore unfortunately. I think though if you look at the list of Hit Self-Destruct post titles, that's pretty much the same thing. Now that I'm looking at them, it's very weird how much they've changed (I can't believe you were able to adhere to a naming convention): they used to be very prosaic and now they're getting so esoteric. Pretty soon my post titles will have absolutely nothing to do with the subject matter.

I was never a big savegame namer, but I'd love to ...

2008-06-21T02:58:00.000+12:00

I was never a big savegame namer, but I'd love to see some screenshots of your savegame lists.