gaming | Liam O'Donnell

Nether Nightmare launches. Chaos ensues.

by liam | Aug 29, 2015 | Battle of the Blocks, writing news

Okay, the only chaos is me running around my kitchen giggling with glee that Nether Nightmare is now available online! Judging from the early reviews coming in, I’m not the only one who is happy to dive into the second book in the Battle of the Blocks series....

Four More Essential Plugins for Minecraft School Servers

by liam | Apr 3, 2015 | Battle of the Blocks, education, gamebasedlearning, gaming, Teacher's Guide

About two years ago, I made a promise to write a follow-up to my post: Essential plugins for Minecraft servers. That post never happened. I am a bad blogger. And more than one visitor to this blog and my personal blog told me as much. But that changes today! So, here...

Five Books to Get Your Gamer Reading

by liam | Jan 18, 2015 | literacy, Teacher's Guide, video games, writing news

Last week, I dropped by the fantastic Pragmaticmom blog to share my book picks to get gamers reading. I also shared a version of that of that post on the GamingEdus blog. So I figured, I might as well share on my own blog, too! So here it is in all its glory. Enjoy....

I catch my breath and publish Descent into Overworld on Amazon

by liam | Nov 20, 2014 | video games, writing news

I’ve been running around like a headless enderman for the last few weeks but now I can finally stop, take a breath and announce that Descent into Overworld is available on Amazon, right now! If you have a Minecraft-loving reluctant reader on your holiday...