by Jeff Tidball | Jul 30, 2010 | Business, Conventions
Gen Con is next week, so the advice for attendees is going around. The best advice I’ve ever read about convention attendance comes from Derek Sivers, who’s not a gamer (as far as I know). Even so, his advice on how to attend a music conference is also the...
by Jeff Tidball | Jul 28, 2010 | Business, Design, Publishing
Craig Mod has written a profoundly beautiful and informative essay, “Kickstartup,” about how—and why—he used Kickstarter to republish his book Art Space Tokyo after it had fallen out of print. If you read nothing else this week, Craig’s essay...
by Jeff Tidball | Apr 2, 2010 | awards, Business
You’ve seen, probably, the recently released list of Origins Awards nominees for games released in 2009. I dig the Origins Awards. Congratulations to all of the fine nominees, many of whom are Friends of Gameplaywright. The Origins Awards are given annually by a...
by Jeff Tidball | Mar 9, 2010 | Business, RPGs
Being a tabletop RPG’s line developer is an interesting job. It involves work that draws on diverse disciplines not frequently united in the same person. A good line developer has top-shelf creative chops, both in-the-trenches writing and editing abilities as...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 3, 2010 | Books, Business, Video Games, Websites
Did you see this article in the New Yorker about Random House’s video-game division? Though I’ve long complained that my generation has failed some enormous life test by not leaving behind its video games in childhood, that’s always been the nervous argument of...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 2, 2010 | Business, RPGs
Paizo honcho Eric Mona is on YouTube talking about the state and fate of tabletop RPGs, as seen and heard as the GamesU 2009 keynote at NeonCon. A lot of what he says is well known to folks in the RPG business, and all of it should be. Best of all, Mona tells it all...
