by Jeff Tidball | Mar 16, 2010 | Websites
You’ve noticed, perhaps, that Will and I have been doing more blogging at Gameplaywright over the past few weeks. We’ve made a conscious choice not only to post new material more frequently, but also to include more short posts that link to and grow from...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 11, 2010 | Board Games, card games, Promotion, Websites
Geek Dad just spotlighted a lovely looking new game, Iconica, over on their blog. The game could be great — I have no idea. What strikes me about it, what has captured my imagination, is its venue. Iconica is for sale on Etsy. I like Etsy — it’s what my wife...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 4, 2010 | Creativity, Design, MMOs, Musing, Websites
Matt Forbeck mentioned Evoke in a comment on my previous post about didacticism, and it occurred to me that we haven’t really talked about it on the site, yet. Aside from the actual website for the game — www.UrgentEvoke.com — most of my opinion on it was formed...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 3, 2010 | Books, Business, Video Games, Websites
Did you see this article in the New Yorker about Random House’s video-game division? Though I’ve long complained that my generation has failed some enormous life test by not leaving behind its video games in childhood, that’s always been the nervous argument of...
by Will Hindmarch | Feb 5, 2010 | Board Games, Design, MMOs, Movies, RPGs, Video Games, Websites, Writing
Here’s something I wrote about games as art, eons ago, when somebody on the Internet made me all mad. Someday I may finish it, and update its bunch of busted links, but for now I offer it up in rough form, in honor of the Art History of Games (#AHoG), happening...
by Will Hindmarch | Sep 14, 2009 | RPGs, Websites
I can’t vouch for all of these, as I’ve read fewer than half of them, but it seems like a fine slew: that gamer-blog bastion, Gnome Stew, has gathered thirty great GM-oriented blog posts and articles from its archives — including a few from game-writer and...
