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...
by Will Hindmarch | Feb 4, 2009 | Design, RPGs, Websites
Jared Sorensen is an instigator. Last year, he challenged would-be game publishers to form companies, make games, and publish them for a price of exactly $1 apiece. On February 3rd, Sorensen named his winner: The Five. I haven’t played it, I don’t know if...
by Jeff Tidball | Oct 21, 2008 | Promotion, Video Games, Websites
My friend Jeremy Bernstein is mad as hell. Being a game designer, he decided that the appropriate “not gonna take it anymore” course of action was to make a game. In Truth Invaders, you control the White House (“use arrow keys to move, spacebar to...
by Jeff Tidball | Sep 12, 2008 | Promotion, Websites
As a public service announcement to an astute readership that is no doubt already aware, Ken Hite’s long-running and highly recommended Out of the Box column is back from hiatus, now sponsored by and hosted at Indie Press Revolution, a fine organization now...
by Will Hindmarch | May 30, 2008 | Business, Musing, RPGs, Websites
Perhaps to the surprise of no one but me, Forbes has covered the online leak of the D&D core rulebooks, along with some information on retailers who broke the street date for the books. Best of all, they also mention Andrew White’s Pre-Release Rules...
by Will Hindmarch | May 30, 2008 | Business, Musing, RPGs, Websites
Perhaps to the surprise of no one but me, Forbes has covered the online leak of the D&D core rulebooks, along with some information on retailers who broke the street date for the books. Best of all, they also mention Andrew White’s Pre-Release Rules...
