by Will Hindmarch | Feb 19, 2009 | MMOs, Musing, RPGs
This post by Christian Lindke, in reaction to my “Noob’s Lament” post last week, got me thinking again about the value of noobs. This started as a comment to Christian’s post, but expanded into more musings once I got the Matrix metaphor in...
by Will Hindmarch | Feb 10, 2009 | MMOs, Musing, RPGs, Video Games, Websites
This thing’s been sitting in my drafts for a couple of weeks, hoping for some blast of insight that would turn this post into a serious analysis revealing some essential kernel of the gaming experience. With Jimmy Fallon as our proxy noob. But who the...
by Will Hindmarch | Feb 4, 2009 | Design, RPGs, Websites
Jared Sorensen is an instigator. Last year, he challenged would-be game publishers to form companies, make games, and publish them for a price of exactly $1 apiece. On February 3rd, Sorensen named his winner: The Five. I haven’t played it, I don’t know if...
by Will Hindmarch | Feb 3, 2009 | Fantasy, MMOs, Movies, RPGs, Video Games
Machinima isn’t typically my thing… but tell me this isn’t story + game: The Craft of War: BLIND from percula on Vimeo. Wonderfully done. Fight scenes this complicated can be headaches to choreograph and cut, but the elaborate layers of action here...
by Will Hindmarch | Jan 30, 2009 | Promotion, RPGs
Mutant City Blues, the newest GUMSHOE-system game from RPG expert Robin D. Laws and Pelgrane Press, is almost here and Pelgrane commissioner Simon Rogers is very excited about it. The game is a police procedural mystery/thriller RPG in a world of super-powered...
