by Will Hindmarch | Aug 19, 2009 | Board Games, Books, card games, Conventions, Promotion, RPGs
For me, this past Gen Con was more about shopping and conversation than it was about playing actual games. This was a terrible mistake on my part. I could’ve been having conversations while I was playing games, but I didn’t quite manage to pull that off....
by Will Hindmarch | Jul 19, 2009 | Books, Promotion
You remember Hobby Games: The 100 Best, right? Great book. Today, editor James Lowder announced the official contributor list for the sequel book, Family Games: The 100 Best. It includes Jeff and myself and somewhere between a dozen and a million great game designers...
by Will Hindmarch | Jul 1, 2009 | Board Games, Books, Design, RPGs
Paul Tevis and Ryan Macklin make it hard for me to work. They keep raising the bar on game analysis and discussion, so I have to jump that harder to write or design things that I think will impress them. They keep brightening the lights, leaving me fewer shadows in...
by Will Hindmarch | Jul 1, 2009 | Board Games, Books, Design, RPGs
Paul Tevis and Ryan Macklin make it hard for me to work. They keep raising the bar on game analysis and discussion, so I have to jump that harder to write or design things that I think will impress them. They keep brightening the lights, leaving me fewer shadows in...
by Jeff Tidball | Apr 28, 2009 | Books, Promotion
Will and I got word over the weekend that Things We Think About Games has been nominated for an Origins Award in the Non-fiction category. Ken Hite’s Tour de Lovecraft: The Tales from publisher Hal Mangold’s Atomic Overmind Press provides excellent company...
by Will Hindmarch | Dec 17, 2008 | Books, Horror, Promotion
Ken Hite is a genius. He’s so bright that if you stand next to him you cast no shadow. He travels the universe absorbing books whole, transmuting information into knowledge in a clean-burning process that produces only text and conversation in its wake. In the...
