by Will Hindmarch | Mar 20, 2013 | Design, Movies, Musing, Video Games, Writing
I’ve enjoyed a slew of Indiana Jones video games, like The Fate of Atlantis and The Emperor’s Tomb, but I haven’t played the Indiana Jones video game I really want right now. It doesn’t exist. Yet with Uncharted and Tomb Raider paying homage in...
by Will Hindmarch | May 10, 2012 | Movies, Musing, RPGs
I don’t quite have it yet, but there’s something here. Spoilers for Indiana Jones movies follow. During play, when Indiana Jones is in combat, he must keep moving. When he is fighting in an environment that he can use to his advantage—around a flying wing,...
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 Jeff Tidball | Feb 21, 2011 | Business, Movies, Story
Over the weekend, Will threw up a tweet pointing to a relatively short GQ piece called “The Day the Movies Died.” It laments Hollywood’s apparent wall-to-wall dismissal of Inception’s critical and commercial success. [I]t’s really bad...
by Jeff Tidball | Jan 15, 2011 | Comics, Licensing, Movies, RPGs
Apropos of my earlier post on Steve Long’s licensed games op-ed piece: Roleplaying games are not very easy to adapt to traditional narrative forms like novels and films because the most important thing about traditional narrative forms are their protagonists and...
by Will Hindmarch | Sep 21, 2010 | Movies, RPGs
Did you see the actual-play post that Fred Hicks wrote describing his one-shot RPG scenario set in the universe of Inception? If you’ve seen the film, and you’re curious about how the procedural of a dream-heist might work in play but you didn’t want...
