Tag Archive for ‘games’
Unboxing Free League’s Blade Runner Tabletop Role-Playing Game (Plus Some Kanji Lore)
I couldn’t help but buy the most luxurious version Free League had on offer.
“Interviewing for Game Design” Revisited
Occasionally, the fault lies not in what is said, but in the lens through which it is considered.
Stock AI Generator Is Not Just Bad But Wants Your Money Faster Than You Can Count to Five
For AI-generated images, don’t follow that guy with the candy bar into their van.
After the C-Suite, Unity’s Business Model Is Showing Its True Colors Too
The bright future of mobile games that Unity is banking on.
The God of Blazing Dung Fires: Monetizing Undesirable Player Behavior
Blizzard sounding out how much more profit you can make from blazing dung fires than from enjoyable playing experiences.
Get Ready for a Bicycle Tour of Los Santos
If there were a standard protocol for this that works with any game, I’d buy a smart home trainer this instant.
Twilight: 2000 by Free League—The Post-WWIII Apocalypse Never Looked so Good
Will I ever play this marvelous game again, as a player or perhaps even gamemaster? I don’t know! But that’s not the point.
Agency, Autonomy, and Power in The Last of Us
Like most action-adventures, TLoU doesn’t excel in player agency. But there’s a problem.
The (In)Famous Encumbrance Modifier
What’s really wrong with encumbrance rules isn’t how badly they’re implemented.
Game Design, Digitalisierung, Gamifizierung: Unser Digitalk-Vortrag bei der Digitalen Stadt Düsseldorf in der MD.H
Spielmechanismen für die Digitalisierung von Gesellschaft und Geschäftsmodellen und persönlichen Lebenswelten von Gesundheit bis Arbeitsmotivation
What’s Wrong with NPCs?—One of Numerous Questions Austin Walker Nails Perfectly
In most video games most of the time, non-player characters are the meat in the player character’s power fantasy sandwich.
Aliens: Colonial Marines — Let’s Sue This Whole Mess from Orbit, It’s the Only Way to Be Sure
Ha! hold my Brain; be still my beating Heart.
Can Somebody Draw a Videogame Metaphor Cartoon Just Like This One, Only With Cats?
Just kiddin’. Another great cartoon about gaming, a few months old already, that’s too good to not being reposted on my blog!
Game Companies Are Your Friends! (All of ’em Dudes, of course, and One Adorable Kitty)
Just too good to not repost this on my blog.
Pen-&-Paper RPG Creators & Gamers Raise $62K for Pakistan Flood Relief
What amazes me most is that there’s still so many pen-and-paper RPG gamers around.