Ships in the Fog Blog of Game Design?

I know I haven’t blogged a lot recently (under-statement), and even less than I actually blogged in general had been posted here, as I decided to stop cross-posting from my other blogs here… I’ve been swamped with school, Chen, dealing with miniatures and such. I’ll elaborate on this more as time allows, but that time [...]

“Story Now is False”; A Requested Chat-log, Paul Czege and I.

A couple of days ago I posted on twitter the following: ""Story Now" is a passive activity, once you’re active, it’s ahead or before." Scott Dunphey asked me via twitter to elaborate on it, so I said that I’d try and secure permission from Paul Czege, with whom I had a conversation on the matter, [...]

On the Dread Terror of (C)RPGs!

This will be a short post on Computer/Console-Role-Playing Games (RPGs), which are why I’m so scarce this week; as opposed to last week, when it was due to me attending a convention. Rush and Irina Sykes. Protagonist and sister. The Last Remnant, Square Enix‘s less than stellar last game, is the one I’m currently spending [...]

[TIL] Infernal Contraption Card-game – Advanced Mutual Solitaire.

I’ll cover the board game known as Infernal Contraption by Privateer Press in this post. I use the definition "card-game" even though it’s a non-collectible card-game, ala Munchkin, which I think is really a "board-game"; I hope you can bear with that. Furthermore, I’ll tell you the general gist of this post: We did not [...]

Classroom Deathmatch RPG! Jake Richmond Interview part 2.

Panty Explosion is a role-playing game about psychic girls and school drama. Classroom Deathmatch, the next RPG Jake had worked on is based on Battle Royale, to a degree. A game where a class of students must fight to the death. This part of the interview will deal mostly with Classroom Deathmatch, but also with [...]

Panty Explosion RPG! Jake Richmond Interview Part 1.

Hello gang. This is an interview I’ve conducted with the game-designer and artist Jake Richmond, whom I’ve known for several years. The interview’s first part will follow here, and the second part will be posted in a week’s time. Jake does anime related RPG design, and this week we’ll focus on Jake and the game [...]

[TIL]Writing About Your Interests.

So, some of you may know, I’m a university student, I’m one (1,800+ pages of material) test away from finishing my second year, studying Philosophy and Sociology/Anthropology. And one of the bennies when you get a too-open assignment, is to write about shit you care about. I wrote an assignment on Holism in analyzing RPGs. [...]

About Communities (Story-Games)

This post is dedicated to my friends. Those who like SG, those who don’t like SG, and those who do, but not in a manner that they feel like participating. I want to begin this post by a statement. Like an earlier post about politics, there is no assigning blame in this post. There is [...]

The Tale of The Eternal Couple and the Semi-Solipsist World

Have you heard the tale of the Eternal Couple that had birthed this universe amidst the multiverse, the couple that had birthed that cluster of universe we call the multiverse, the couple that keeps being given birth to in this universe they gave birth to, and keeps giving birth to all that would be? Before [...]

[TIL] Settlers of Catan – Benchmark Boardgame.

In Israel, at least when I was a child, there’s a culture of board-games. We have, or had, an Israeli company called “Kodkod”, which released games, and I think some of them were originals. I’ve definitely played strategy games as a kid, I’ve played Talisman many times, I’ve seen used copies of Risk at the [...]