Michael Harrison

2582 points

Chapel Hill, NC

Michael an unrepentant geek with a love for games, the social web, and open source projects to share with his kids. He writes about raising geek children at GeekDad and records a podcast about games called The Dice Section. You can follow him on Twitter at @oldbie.

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Retro operating systems on Raspberry Pi, Ouya developer tutorial, and more

Open source games roundup Week of August 3 - 9, 2014 This week's edition of our open source games news roundup comes to you from the gorgeous countryside of the Bécancour…

Open hardware resources from Opensource.com

Pardon the noise. We've been banging around for a few months in our workshop, toiling away at our latest creation: What is open hardware?, a new resource page. And it's…

WWI Linux shooter Verdun, ChuChu Rocket clone Duck Marines, and more

Open source games roundup Week of July 27 - August 2, 2014 It's that time again. In this week's edition of our open source games news roundup, we take a look at a WWI shooter…

GOG offers up Linux games, Steam Controller speculation, and more

Open source games roundup Week of July 20 - July 26, 2014 It's good to be back! I had a blast at the beach last week and avoided looking at screens pretty much the whole time…

Justin Miller on how Mapbox runs like an open source project

Justin Miller is an open source vet. He's the lead developer on the Mapbox mobile team, but he's been through the ranks. He worked on Linux.com, put in his time as a sysadmin…

Epic Games contributes to Blender, Oculus open sources new acquisition, and more

Open source games roundup Week of July 6 - July 12, 2014 In this week's edition of the open source games news roundup, we take a look at Epic Games' donation to the Blender…

Authored Comments

Michael Harrison

23 Aug 2014

Gunpoint on Linux, Argentina's game dev scene, and more

Good catch. Fixed!

Michael Harrison

18 Aug 2014

The fall of Gary Gygax, keeping tabs on Linux ports, and more

I'm amazed at how this film seems to eschew satire and comedy for a completely serious take on the Chick tract. Can't wait to find the time to watch it.