by Will Hindmarch | Mar 4, 2010 | Creativity, Design, MMOs, Musing, Websites
Matt Forbeck mentioned Evoke in a comment on my previous post about didacticism, and it occurred to me that we haven’t really talked about it on the site, yet. Aside from the actual website for the game — www.UrgentEvoke.com — most of my opinion on it was formed...
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...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 1, 2010 | Books, Design, Dice
Here’s your first look at the cover for The Bones. Please note that the final contributor list (if you can make it out) is still subject to change. Additional alterations to the cover may yet happen. The Bones is coming soon. Cover photo by Chuck Wendig. Cover...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 1, 2010 | Dice, Fan Culture
I don’t think I have any room left in the budget to solicit reprint rights for today’s XKCD comic for The Bones. Alas:
