Wayne Santos | Toronto-based writer and game journalist
Horrifyingly Inappropriate Bedtime StoriesDespite the fact that I am not a parent and don’t plan on it, I have over the last couple of years, found myself in the position of telling bedtime stories on occasion at the demand of the Fiance. And so every once in a while, late at night, I will [...]
Games As Art
I don’t care how many of you disagree with me, I am absolutely convinced that games are going to become the next art form just as soon as they get over the stigma that things like plays, novels and movies initially had. All it’s going to take is someone that is the [...]
Fan Fiction For HarryI was doing a little bit of research.
I found a website with over 16,000 pieces of Harry Potter Harry Potter fanfiction stories. They run the usual fan-fic gamut from earnest sequels to alternate histories, to cross-overs with other characters to romance and, yes, slash (For those unfamiliar with the term, “Slash” is [...]
Okay, So Maybe Harry Potter Teaches The Wrong ValuesThis is going to be an unpopular point of view, but oh well… For the record, let me just state that while I like Harry Potter, I am not a huge fan, and have only read the first three books, having gotten too lazy (or nauseated [...]
Recasting Episode IIIIt occurs to me that perhaps the last of the Star Wars prequels might have been saved with a little bit of recasting. Of course, retroactively this applies to the entire run of prequels, but I imagine I would have gotten a lot more enjoyment (unintentional and otherwise) had certain characters been replaced [...]
Days Of LaborFor the next few days it’s going to be all about the commission to do the kiddy book. There’s not much time, but it’s not a tremendously taxing job, so it’ll be a busy, but not maddening thing. Of course, the timing is perfect.Comments from readers are starting to come in [...]
I Am Going To CryAs most wannabe novelists are wont to do, I sometimes like to go into the bookstore and play the “Imagine-Your-Book-Is-There-On-The-Shelf” game. This mostly involves going to the Science Fiction and/or Fantasy section of the bookstore and finding the “S” area, and making a space in the shelf between surnames that begin [...]
This Is Your Nose. This Is Your Nose On The Grindstone. Any Questions?It turned out to be one of those things were people say they need work done on something fast, but then kind forget for a while that you’re the one will do it, then suddenly remember again and come back to [...]
Why I Shouldn’t Be In An Adventurer’s GroupIf, like the 80’s cartoon Dungeons & Dragons I were to find myself magically transported to a strange D20 based fantasy world, I think it would have catastrophically bad consequences for the party I end up in.Witness my first encounter with the group alchemist:Me: So you’re the alchemist, [...]
I Finished Killer 7!And haven’t the faintest idea what happened.If Salvador Dali had access to a development team and put Andy Warhol in charge of the art design with Fredrico Fellini directing the cutscenes, and John Woo in charge of some of the gun coreography, you might just vaguely have an idea of what the [...]