by Will Hindmarch | Mar 11, 2010 | Board Games, card games, Promotion, Websites
Geek Dad just spotlighted a lovely looking new game, Iconica, over on their blog. The game could be great — I have no idea. What strikes me about it, what has captured my imagination, is its venue. Iconica is for sale on Etsy. I like Etsy — it’s what my wife...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 7, 2010 | Accessories, Board Games, card games, MMOs, Question, Video Games
Every now and again, I open up my Tumblr account’s “Ask Me” feature, to get blog fodder from folks on the Internet. Last week, I got a gaming question that I thought we should talk about here. The question in question: When you play games online, the...
by Will Hindmarch | Feb 23, 2010 | Board Games, card games, Fan Culture, Question, RPGs, Video Games
This past weekend, Adam Jury wrote about a gamer he met who isn’t plugged in to the larger network. On Monday nights, I play with some gamers who are only loosely plugged in beyond their one weekly play session. Even I’m not plugged in like I used to be —...
by Will Hindmarch | Sep 28, 2009 | Board Games, card games, Design, Musing, Video Games
In his post on paragaming, Jesper Juul (Half-Real) cites a few fundamental criteria for good video-game design, each of which is violated by China Miner, a game that he enjoys despite, and because of, its faults. (Each of these might be thought of as a Thing Juul...
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 | Jan 26, 2009 | Board Games, card games, MMOs, RPGs, Video Games
This was tough, but we’ve got the winner in our Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria contest. We had some great entries submitted to us in comments and via email, but there can be only one winner. Some submissions were wonderfully provocative, some cut to...
