Last week, we asked what kind of gamer you classified yourself as. The top pick was Explorer/Achiever with 9 votes… possibly because it was the most positive of all the options. I know that most of you like to talk smack and just won’t admit it. Second place was my pick, the Dysfunctional Game Designer, […]
Rug-Sweeping and the Party Game Problem
Thanks again to Bartoneus for filling in for me last week. (Guess this means I need to make a comic for a Random Encounter– there’s a scary thought.) As a short rebuttal to the question he posed, I generally don’t talk about fun specifically because it’s hard to design to be fun, and it’s a […]
GLEEMAX
Wizards of the Coast announced that they are working on a new online portal called Gleemax, both from an inside joke among the staff and (I assume) something that sounds vaguely like Google. Icv2 has the big interview with VP of Digital Games Randy Buehler, which explains what Gleemax will one day be. The site…will […]
YouTube of the Week: Playing With Your Lightsaber Edition
Presented for your approval: Two Star Wars fan videos. The first a short film called Jedi Breakfast, the second called “Three in the Afternoon.” Both will make you think about where you put your lightsaber. Or something. Be sure to check out Robot Chicken’s Star Wars Special this Sunday, and keep an eye out for […]
YouTube of the Week: Sith Lords with Candy Edition
Star Wars Public Service Announcements. Found via ExtraLife. Five more after the jump.
Inq. of the Week: Finales!
Oh so long ago, we asked if the recently announced Starcraft 2 should increase the number of races in the game, and if so, what they should be. Most of you said that you’d rather keep it simple and maintain the balance in the game by having the original three races and nobody else. Coming […]
Balticon Panel Recap / Crappy First Prototypes
First, thanks to everyone who came out and attended the panel I was on at Balticon. The guys with me on the panel are geniuses who I always like comparing ideas too, and I’m glad we had a good discussion with an audience that seemed genuinely interested. Some random points that I remember from the […]
We're back!
Sorry for the downtime everyone- we became too popular! We’ll be sure this month to make sure we have plenty of bandwidth to last us, especially to accomodate all the new stuff we want to do… (mysterious!) We’ll try to fill in a few days worth of posts for the last week. The Inquisition of […]
YouTube of the Week: Dance Party Edition
WoW dancers and their real-life counterparts. Strangely hypnotic. Via ExtraLife
Handslap!
In our group, if you make a rules mistake and inadvertently try to cheat, Jake will say “Give me your hand.” He becomes quite insistent until you present your hand, at which point, he will slap it on the backside like a nun’s yardstick. This is his way of enforcing the rules, and I believe, […]
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