by Will Hindmarch | Mar 12, 2009 | Story, Video Games
Jordan Mechner’s The Last Express is probably the best rotoscoped Orient Express-based adventure game ever created. On his blog, Jordan Mechner recently released a remix of The Last Express, cutting the game’s animated gameplay into a 75-minute cinematic...
by Jeff Tidball | Feb 5, 2009 | RPGs, Story
Here’s the background: Over the weekend, Ryan Macklin (RyanMacklin), Rich Rogers (orklord), and I (jefftidball) went around a little bit, 140 characters at a time, on Ryan’s recent frustration with what he was calling “goal-focused RPG...
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 | Nov 21, 2008 | Board Games, Story
If you dig games with story, and are interested in a preview of the state of the art in stories told inside a board game, check out the just-posted video trailer for Android, Kevin Wilson’s latest effort, coming soon (or maybe now—nobody tells me when these...
by Will Hindmarch | Oct 31, 2008 | Horror, RPGs, Story
I used to run a one-shot RPG story every year around Halloween. Some years it was, naturally, Call of Cthulhu. At least one year I ran a game centered on the Internecivus raptus. I ran Wraith: The Oblivion (which you know I loved) and I ran a spooky fantasy-horror...
