by Jeff Tidball | May 7, 2009 | RPGs, Story
Here’s what I apparently do: I flog hope and fear as the pair of emotions that hit a game-player or story-reader in the gut and make any game or story worth a damn. Many months ago, I scribbled a note to myself while I was playing in a game of Grimm, to the...
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 Jeff Tidball | Apr 21, 2009 | RPGs, Writing
A short discussion of writing style in games broke out on an industry mailing list last week. It wasn’t long before discussion turned to more pointless matters, naturally, but I thought I’d share just one of my voluminous opinions on the subject. Tabletop...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 18, 2009 | MMOs, RPGs, Sci Fi, Video Games
At Ten Ton Hammer, a member of the notorious/infamous/renowned Goonswarm writes about EVE Online: There is a jagged fissure of insanity which runs through the heart of the EVE playerbase, a kind of feverish bad crazy that you simply don’t find in other online...
by Will Hindmarch | Feb 19, 2009 | MMOs, Musing, RPGs
This post by Christian Lindke, in reaction to my “Noob’s Lament” post last week, got me thinking again about the value of noobs. This started as a comment to Christian’s post, but expanded into more musings once I got the Matrix metaphor in...
by Will Hindmarch | Feb 10, 2009 | MMOs, Musing, RPGs, Video Games, Websites
This thing’s been sitting in my drafts for a couple of weeks, hoping for some blast of insight that would turn this post into a serious analysis revealing some essential kernel of the gaming experience. With Jimmy Fallon as our proxy noob. But who the...
