by Will Hindmarch | Dec 9, 2011 | Design, Promotion, Publishing, RPGs, Sci Fi, Story, Writing
I hesitated to post this here because this isn’t a Gameplaywright project, but you might be interested in seeing it all the same. I’ve launched my first Kickstarter campaign to fund the completion and publication of a story-game adventure called...
by Will Hindmarch | Oct 5, 2010 | Sci Fi, Story, Video Games, Writing
Greg Rucka—he of the comic books Queen & Country and Whiteout—has a new post up on his blog about the gameplay and story of Mass Effect 2. In it, Rucka looks not only at Mass Effect 2 and the storytelling techniques of video-game RPGs but at how they differ from...
by Will Hindmarch | Jun 29, 2010 | Fantasy, Question, RPGs, Sci Fi
This question came in via my Tumblr account not long before I left for the Origins Game Fair last week. I offered it up to some of my favorite gaming minds there at the convention, during a bout of late-night game talk in a hotel lobby bar, and we came up with a bout...
by Will Hindmarch | Jun 4, 2010 | Musing, Question, Sci Fi
More than a few times, and bordering on a lot, I’ve been told by more experienced folk in the gaming business that sci-fi games simply don’t sell. Sci-fi RPGs, be they Alternity or Trinity, fail to find the kind of audiences that fantasy RPGs do, be they...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 23, 2010 | Design, RPGs, Sci Fi
This weekend, I debuted a little RPG adventure called Alien Survivor — a one-shot survival-horror scenario in the vein of Alien and Pitch Black, using variations on the rules found in the great indie adventure, Lady Blackbird. I wanted to get this thing out the door,...
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...
