by Will Hindmarch | May 8, 2009 | Design, Horror, Musing, RPGs
For quite a while I tried to cultivate V:TR as an espionage game — sometimes set in posh parlors, sometimes in lavish state houses, sometimes in awful bloody gutters formed in the spaces where de facto nations (like the police, the media, and the living) simply...
by Will Hindmarch | Apr 23, 2009 | Design, Fantasy, MMOs, Promotion, RPGs, Video Games, Websites
Jeff reminds me that I never mentioned, here, an article of mine that The Escapist published an issue or so ago: Bow Before the Worm-Slayer. The issue’s about achievements in games — or more accurately, achievement systems. For me, it was largely an academic...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 24, 2009 | MMOs, Musing, Story
Peter Sagal, who you know from Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me, recently recorded a new commentary on the imaginary people we grow up with. Some day, alas, Viggo Mortensen will (presumably) pass away, but the Aragorns we know through Lord of the Rings games (Sagal...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 18, 2009 | MMOs, RPGs, Sci Fi, Video Games
At Ten Ton Hammer, a member of the notorious/infamous/renowned Goonswarm writes about EVE Online: There is a jagged fissure of insanity which runs through the heart of the EVE playerbase, a kind of feverish bad crazy that you simply don’t find in other online...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 12, 2009 | Story, Video Games
Jordan Mechner’s The Last Express is probably the best rotoscoped Orient Express-based adventure game ever created. On his blog, Jordan Mechner recently released a remix of The Last Express, cutting the game’s animated gameplay into a 75-minute cinematic...
