Archive for Tag: Dear Readers
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Dear Readers: Stupid Things Developers do to Ruin Their Awesome Games: Part 2
Columns by Paul Franzen on 
3 Hello world, and welcome to GameCola: the only videogame Web site on the entire Internet. In my "Dear Readers" column last month, I talked about stupid design mistakes developers make that nearly ruin their otherwise awesome videogames.
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Dear Readers: Stupid Things Developers Do to Ruin Their Awesome Games: Part 1
Columns by Paul Franzen on 1 I hope you all enjoyed GameCola's first-ever April Fool's Day extravaganza! In case you missed it, GC writer Zach Rich took over GameCola.net, rechristened it "Zach Rich’s Slightly Carbonated Extravaganza for the Hard of Hearing,"
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Dear Readers: How to Spell GameCola
Columns by Paul Franzen on 1 My name is Paul. I'm not going to tell you my last name. Or where I live, or where I work, or anything else you might be able to use to identify me. I can't afford to take that kind of risk. If they knew who I was, I'd be dead—or worse than dead, really, with a giant slug in my brain controlling my movements, my speech, my everything.
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Dear Readers: The Gates of Life: Season Two
Columns by Paul Franzen on 2 I had a fantastic idea—no, really, it was the best—for my "Dear Readers" column this month, but, after listening to this month's GameCola Podcast, now I have to throw it away, because I have to talk about how awful The Gates of Life isn't.
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Dear Readers: A Storybook
Columns by Paul Franzen on A children's storybook about the January 2009 issue of GameCola.
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Dear Readers: Sorry About the Lack of Cheesecake
Columns by Paul Franzen on Traditionally, the December edition of Dear Readers is all about me offering cheesecake photos of myself in exchange for your writing services.
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Dear Readers: Penguins!
Columns by Paul Franzen on Aren't these penguins just the best?
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Dear Readers: View-Master Interactive Vision
Columns by Paul Franzen on 6 This month in Dear Readers, I'm going to talk about a videogame system you've never heard of before. I was originally hoping to become the number one source on Google for information about this system—thus raking in oodles of new hits from people trying to figure out what this chunk of plastic they found at a yard sale actually is—but, apparently I was beaten to that eight years ago by Robert Morgan, who wrote a whole FAQ for the system.
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Dear Readers: Old People, Women, Babies, and Monkeys
Columns by Paul Franzen on So I was trying to come up with an idea for Dear Readers, and I thought to myself, "Wouldn't it be great if I could melt people's faces together? To create one freak-face?"
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Dear Readers: Scenes of Costa Rica
Columns by Paul Franzen on OK guys, here's the deal. I'm actually writing this way, way ahead of the deadline—about a month early, in fact, because I'm going to be out of the country the last two weeks of this month.