We recently played How We Came to Live Here—a game about playing in a myth derived from the cultures of various Pueblo peoples. When I first picked up the game, I had concerns. One was about the appropriateness of my taking a role in a Native American myth, but that’s a post for another day. […]
Sometimes, I think about game development in a computer-game-y way. Particularly, I divide system—procedures, rules, crunch, etc.—from assets—the pre-provided things you use to engage with those systems. As I’ve been working on Et in Arcadia Ego, and particularly thinking about how to make room for continuing content, I’ve realized that the continuing content has to […]
I’ll be at Metatopia the weekend of November 4th, in Morrisotwn, NJ, representing Transneptune Games. I’ll bring Et in Arcadia Ego to play in its current form, and I’ll be officially running it at 8pm-midnight on Friday and 3pm-7pm on Sunday. If you’re there, come say hi!
Game Tasting 2 closed out with How We Came to Live Here. It underscored the theme of this game tasting week, which is that expectations need to be managed. We went into it having not noticed quite how long set-up could take. After two hours of making characters and making the village, we were spent. Had […]
Thursday night was Annalise, a near-perfect game of Gothic horror. This was the best game I’ve played since Apocalypse World, with which it shares some ancestry. The game says that it’s “written in the tradition of role-playing games, but works in different ways”, and that’s true. It’s pretty deep in post-Forge indie-brain-damage land,1 but if […]
I was excited to play Lady Blackbird after the years and years of hearing people talk about it. Secrets! Airships! Magic! I was also curious how a game who’s core rules can fit on half a page would work given that the best rules section I’ve ever read was the very lengthy rules and commentary […]
So, when we were unable to muster the energy to play Misspent Youth, we decided to try out the board game Doom. At first, I had confused it with the game Frag—a frantic, devil-may-care interpretation of death-match style play. But Doom is more of the “first-person mode” interpretation. It’s from the same family lineage as […]
Edited to add: I don’t much talk about the mechanics of the game in this post. If you want, I can expand in the comments. It’s pretty short and sweet. Last night, we played Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple, by Daniel Solis. It was a blast. Earlier that day, Daniel had tweeted saying that […]
On Tuesday night, we went to play Misspent Youth, but didn’t succeed. There were a number of lessons we drew from this. The first was simply a logistical one. Game tasting needs a day of rest, somewhere in the itinerary. The prospect of 5 days of unbroken gaming is fine, but when you stay up […]
So, you might recall the game tasting we did a bit ago. We’re going to do it again this week! On the menu are: Monday: Lady Blackbird Tuesday: Misspent Youth (replaced with Doom) Wednesday: Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple Thursday: Annalise Friday: How We Came to Live Here As before, the discussion and dissection should […]
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