by Will Hindmarch | Dec 9, 2011 | Design, Promotion, Publishing, RPGs, Sci Fi, Story, Writing
I hesitated to post this here because this isn’t a Gameplaywright project, but you might be interested in seeing it all the same. I’ve launched my first Kickstarter campaign to fund the completion and publication of a story-game adventure called...
by Will Hindmarch | Nov 29, 2011 | Fantasy, Movies, Musing, Question, RPGs, Video Games
Again with War in the North. I’m using this game to explore some questions because (a) I am currently playing it and (b) because it’s a relatable property even if you’re not playing it—I feel safe assuming that many of you have seen the Lord of the...
by Will Hindmarch | Nov 15, 2011 | Design, Play, RPGs
What about traits that emerge during play between characters? What about traits that describe a group of characters, like an adventuring party or a superhero team? I’m thinking out loud about this because of something Sage LaTorra wrote about yesterday on...
by Will Hindmarch | Nov 9, 2011 | Books, MMOs, Play, RPGs, Video Games, Websites
I’ve just scratched the surface of Lord of the Rings: War in the North but I’d been looking forward to this game for a while. What drew me in was its promise of an original story set in Middle-earth’s less-visited locales, like Mirkwood or the ruined...
by Will Hindmarch | Nov 2, 2011 | Board Games, Design, Websites
The game designer Elizabeth Sampat has a new blog and its inaugural post is killer. The less I say to prepare you for it, the better. Suffice to say, it is a cutting and heartfelt look not only at Brenda Garno Brathwaite’s Síochán Leat, aka the Irish Game, but at the...
by Will Hindmarch | Nov 1, 2011 | Design, RPGs, Websites
In case you don’t have enough to read already, I thought I’d bring two more RPG-related columns to your attention. Are you reading these already? Back in September, the inestimable Monte Cook reunited with Wizards of the Coast and took over writing the...
by Will Hindmarch | Nov 1, 2011 | Design, RPGs, Websites
In case you don’t have enough to read already, I thought I’d bring two more RPG-related columns to your attention. Are you reading these already? Back in September, the inestimable Monte Cook reunited with Wizards of the Coast and took over writing the...
by Will Hindmarch | Oct 24, 2011 | Board Games, card games, Creativity, MMOs, RPGs, Social Games, Video Games
Chris Hardwick, he who founded The Nerdist empire (or, if not empire, then duchy) and hosts the likes of the Nerdist podcast and The Talking Dead, has a book coming out called, fittingly, The Nerdist Way. Hardwick’s also an occasional contributor to Wired (a...
by Will Hindmarch | Oct 12, 2011 | Board Games, Fan Culture, Video Games
Rich Sommer (Mad Men) is a board game fan. Now he’s taking his fandom to the airwaves with this (hopefully recurring) segment about board games for G4’s Attack of the Show. In this first installment, Sommer looks at a game I still haven’t played...
by Will Hindmarch | Oct 11, 2011 | Design, Musing, Question, RPGs, Websites
Here’s another thing that’s been open in my browser for a while: Mike Birkhead, via Gamasutra, asking “What makes combat fun?” I love reading this kind of article. Birkhead gets into details in this piece, breaking down what combat actually is...