by Jeff Tidball | Feb 13, 2009 | Design, Movies, Props
I got a mass e-mail the other day putting out the word that nominations are open for the annual Humanitas prizes, which are awarded to screenwriters working in both film and television, to “encourage, stimulate and sustain the nation’s screenwriters in...
by Will Hindmarch | Feb 3, 2009 | Fantasy, MMOs, Movies, RPGs, Video Games
Machinima isn’t typically my thing… but tell me this isn’t story + game: The Craft of War: BLIND from percula on Vimeo. Wonderfully done. Fight scenes this complicated can be headaches to choreograph and cut, but the elaborate layers of action here...
by Jeff Tidball | Jan 6, 2009 | Board Games, card games, Design, Movies, RPGs, Story, Writing
A couple of months ago, I read a post on Signal vs. Noise about the virtue of packing half of what you think you’ll need. They’re generalizing from travel advice like this… You see that pile of stuff sitting on your bed, waiting to be stuffed into your...
by Jeff Tidball | Dec 16, 2008 | Design, Movies, Musing, Story
I heard last week on a mailing list for USC film school alumni that Nina Foch has passed away. Nina taught the course on directing actors that was required of all first-semester students in the graduate screenwriting program at USC. As new students, none of us knew...
by Jeff Tidball | Dec 28, 2007 | Board Games, Fantasy, Movies
One of my recent projects at Fantasy Flight was adapting Kingdoms into Beowulf: The Movie Board Game. The FFG webmeisters have recently posted my design notes on BTMBG, which touch on the difficulty of adapting a story to a board game, especially one with...
