A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work

The Gameshelf Blog's subscription count has been increasing daily since its (re-)launch ten days ago. Yesterday it broke 50 subscribers, and also surpassed the number of people subscribed to the video-only feed. And we got our first comments from users who aren't themselves authors on the site. (Specifically on a Zarf essay about "The Game". The recent meme/prank, not the 1997 Michael Douglas movie.)

Meanwhile, I just soft-launched the Gameshelf Casting Call. This is separate from the specific casting call I will do for upcoming episodes, which I've actually started to schedule, if you can believe that. No, this is me trying to cast a wider net, something I've been wanting to do for a long time, and the show's having a blog (and therefore a continual presence even between actual episodes) makes it feel more feasible now. After the thon, I'll start promoting that page (and therefore the rest of the Gameshelf site) around LJ and such.

Announcing The Gameshelf Blog, a new community of intelligent-if-eclectic game news and discussion. I hope that it will fill out the long and dreary spaces between new Gameshelf episodes with interesting game-related tidbits that share the show's spirit.

I've invited everyone whose name has appeared in an episode's credit roll to join the site as a contributor. I went by memory so it's entirely possible I overlooked you (or your mail client ate the invitation as spam); if that's the case, and you want to help, please contact me!

Yes, it's the same URL that the show has held for years. I quietly replaced the static site with blog software a few months ago, and more recently redesigned it so that a link to the most recent episode will always appear at the top. The blog and the episode videos have separate RSS feeds, too. (Rather, one's a subset of the other.)