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 2, 2009 | Board Games, Design, Fantasy, Promotion, RPGs, Video Games
BioWare and Green Ronin both have reputations for making great story-based games. Where BioWare has given us classic computer-driven RPGs like Baldur’s Gate, Knights of the Old Republic, and Mass Effect, Green Ronin has created original RPGs like Mutants &...
by Jeff Tidball | Jun 9, 2009 | Board Games, Promotion
The week before last, I was part of an informal conference call Ed Healy put together among a handful of board game pros. He calls it Gamerati; you can download the edited audio from his site (link below). Thrill, if you like, to my passionate plea that board games...
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 | Apr 23, 2009 | Design, Fantasy, MMOs, Promotion, RPGs, Video Games, Websites
Jeff reminds me that I never mentioned, here, an article of mine that The Escapist published an issue or so ago: Bow Before the Worm-Slayer. The issue’s about achievements in games — or more accurately, achievement systems. For me, it was largely an academic...
by Will Hindmarch | Jan 30, 2009 | Promotion, RPGs
Mutant City Blues, the newest GUMSHOE-system game from RPG expert Robin D. Laws and Pelgrane Press, is almost here and Pelgrane commissioner Simon Rogers is very excited about it. The game is a police procedural mystery/thriller RPG in a world of super-powered...
