by Will Hindmarch | Jun 18, 2011 | ARGs, awards, Board Games, Books, card games, Dice, Events, Fan Culture, MMOs, RPGs, Video Games
You have a single prize to award to one noun — person, place, thing, or event — in recognition of excellence in gaming for the previous year, from July 2010 to July 2011. This is a prize of celebration and recognition only. No trophy, no money, no stickers, no medals....
by Will Hindmarch | Dec 29, 2010 | ARGs, Board Games, card games, Question, RPGs
2010 is on its way out. You’ve played a lot of games this year. What sticks out? Not the titles—not just the titles—but the big wins and the bad beats. What do you recall from this year’s epic battles, risky bets, sly bargains, and other outré gaming...
by Will Hindmarch | Sep 1, 2009 | ARGs, RPGs
Roger Traviss is a classicist, a gamer, and a professor at the University of Connecticut. He is also the Demiurge that oversees what may be the first Roleplaying Course (RPC), called Operation KTHMA. Like a great Olympian Dungeon Master, he looks down from the starry...
by Will Hindmarch | Sep 1, 2009 | ARGs, RPGs
Roger Traviss is a classicist, a gamer, and a professor at the University of Connecticut. He is also the Demiurge that oversees what may be the first Roleplaying Course (RPC), called Operation KTHMA. Like a great Olympian Dungeon Master, he looks down from the starry...
by Jeff Tidball | Jul 22, 2009 | ARGs, Musing, Story
I was working on a writing project recently that touched a relatively wide span of game types. While trying to make sense of this taxonomy in the context of the project at hand, I came to this idea: The difference between a game and a sport is whether the player is a...
