A blog about the writing of the game Flashback, which I have been hosting on AOL for thirteen years.
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
My Favorite Source
I'll have something to say about the 1861 game in a bit, but I'm writing a game about 1986 and I realized that I was starting it with what I have long considered my favorite source of all. It is a book called "The Clothes Have No Emperor" and it's a comprehensive chronology of the Reagan years. What makes it my favorite source is that the author has the same sense of humor I do, and it never fails to give me a chuckle as I read it. And I have never, ever been unable to find a good question to use from it. It's not quite day-by-day, but it does have about 20 quotes or quips about every month that Ronnie was President, so the chances I couldn't find a fresh, interesting question for a year are pretty small. It's never failed me. The author is Paul Slansky. He's welcome to continue with something on the W. administration (actually, he did).
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