Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for December 20th from 15:36 to 10:44:

• Gamasutra – Features – The Designer’s Notebook: Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie! XIII – The latest in the bad-design/no-twinkie series
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2012 – io9's picks
• [toread] Daring Fireball: A Big Misunderstanding –
• [toread] jwz: engineering pornography –
• How Disney makes licensed mobile games that don’t suck | The Verge – This whole "make a movie game/licensed game that doesn't suck" movement is catching on.
• AVENGERS Screening and Joss Whedon Q&A | Collider – More on Joss and writing the Avengers