I bought a book today…
...entirely because it was illustrated and designed exactly the way I want Q to be paid out. I spent a few minutes leafing through it and in my minds eye…[...]
Heroics, Risk and immersion.
James "JimJamJom Jimbo" Wallis writes about Heroics: Of course, a lot depends on how the player views their avatar, whether they regard the game-character they’re controlling as ‘me’, as a…[...]
The Game I’d Play Right Now
I'm having a lot of fun writing half-a-games at the moment. You know - getting the grist of a game together. I'm not really enjoying the layout/art section though I'm…[...]
Natural Wonders
The Giant's Causeway is one of the most astounding natural formations in Northern Ireland. This got me thinking about the representations of natural wonders in gaming. In the Aurore Sourcebook…[...]
Crucible Design’s Games on Sale at Key20.
After what seems an age, the first roleplaying games I wrote are on sale again at Key20 SpaceNinjaCyberCrisis XDO The 23rd Letter ( RPG.net Review ) Zombi: The Earth Won't…[...]
I haven’t eaten anything since later this afternoon.
I've been thinking a lot about the Time Killers game - mostly about whether or not there is room for ANOTHER time travel game out there. One of the best…[...]
I tolerate this century but I don’t enjoy it.
Jim passed me this link about Pretend to be a Time Traveller Day.. Now imagine mixing this with KILLER and I think you'd have a bundle of fun with your…[...]
An update and also “Under Development”
These are the games I'm currently working on - as in trying to spend an hour every night writing something, anything. Some nights are more productive than others. I'm only…[...]
CONTROL
Tonight I put together the first eight pages of CONTROL, a game I hope to release in PDF form in just two weeks, time permitting. CONTROL is an espionage game…[...]
Racer
For the last forever, Aidan and I were working on a new game. It started out as an idea for a videogame based on racing through courses around the Solar…[...]
Spy games …
Over the last few hours I've been watching episodes of 'The Sandbaggers' - a Cold War spy thriller TV series which aired in the late 70s and early 80s. Twenty…[...]
The Quiet Time
We've not posted much in the last couple of weeks. This has been for a few reasons: Real life has got in the way of roleplaying Real life has got…[...]
A hatred of self and the games that do it.
How many games put you in the role of playing Ordinary Joe? Not many. A recent thread on TheRPGSite talks about: Originally Posted by The RPG Cliche List Nephilim Law.…[...]
Pan’s Labyrinth
Watched it last night round with Aidan, Abi and some ice cream. It's a good movie - personally I don't think it's the same sort of emotional tour-de-force as perhaps…[...]
Art:
northerain is the blog of the artist behind Bloodsong Media. I like his stuff which he describes as: My style is more or less based on existing photographs. I use…[...]
Riffing off The 23rd Letter.
Ghost Whistler on RPG.net came up with a23rd Planet idea. He was riffing off the name of the game but it made me think tonight about: The 23rd Century Fast…[...]
Bit of a buzz on these days
I've been writing a lot more these last few days - ironically not much on the two tasks I have been given - but plenty on other stuff which I…[...]
Status: Refugee – Perspective Selection
One thing that was bugging me about this game was that which we've discussed on a number of occasions about different games: scope. If you are playing refugees with only…[...]
Look out of genre for ideas.
This thread on TheRPGSite looks for some ideas about how to populate a story based on the theme "Traveller: it came from jumpspace!. Some of the ideas are very good…[...]
r-Maps (and being ahead of the curve)
There's a lot of talk of relationship maps. I've been playing with the idea of an r-map for gaming for use as a player aid for a while. It really…[...]