by Matt Colville | Jan 8, 2008 | RPGs, Story, Video Games, Writing
Or: “It Was Like The Monolith In 2001…And I Was The Monkey. Except I Wasn’t Naked. Also, I Didn’t Smash In Another Monkey’s Head With A Femur.” I was talking with a traditional RPG-designer friend of mine who was extolling the virtues of...
by Will Hindmarch | Dec 21, 2007 | Books, Fantasy, MMOs, Video Games
A screenshot of Weathertop in Lord of the Rings Online, taken from actual play.Out of curiosity, ever since the first day I played LOTRO, back in August, I’ve been informally polling players in the game with a few questions. I’ve asked on open channels,...
by Will Hindmarch | Dec 19, 2007 | RPGs, Story, Video Games
You’ve read the same kinds of opinions that I have regarding RPGs, especially D&D, versus MMORPGs. Specifically, I’m thinking about the opinions that say, “If all I wanted to do was walk a bunch of miniature figures through a dungeon, fighting...
by Will Hindmarch | Nov 19, 2007 | Props, RPGs, Video Games, Wii
The Ghostbusters’ proton-pack is the fantasy device second-most-urgently calling out to be adapted to the wiimote, right after the lightsaber. Good news, then, that Ghostbusters 3 will be a video game. Though we’ll see versions for the 360, PS3, PS2 and...
by Will Hindmarch | Nov 11, 2007 | Board Games, MMOs, Musing, RPGs, Story, Video Games, Will's Thesis, Writing
This is the start of something. This something began with “Storytelling Games as a Creative Medium,” an essay that first appeared in Second Person: Roleplaying and Story in Games and Playable Media. (If I had it to do again, I’d change that title.)...
by Jeff Tidball | Nov 11, 2007 | Board Games, card games, Musing, RPGs, Story, Video Games
It’s a new thing, Gameplaywright, and it’s about games, and it’s about stories. It makes sense to start this new thing with a statement for the record — I’m not sure I’ve ever done this — about what I think a game is, and what I think a...
