Title: Wicked – The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Author: Gregory Maguire Year of Publication: 1995 Genre: Fantasy/Fiction Length: 406 pages; small font, large book, not a quick read. Rating: 4/5 – Worth paying full price. Review: The Wizard of Oz is a classic story, whether you saw the film […]
Halloween Boardgames / The Triangle
First, a shout out to Halloween games. If you’re in the Halloween gaming mood, here’s some tabletop games to check out: Mall of Horror Arkham Horror Betrayal at House on the Hill (and if you see it around, it’ll probably be out of print soon, so might not be a bad idea to snap it […]
Garbage In, Garbage Out
Game design is like many other creative fields in that there are many ways to approach the creative process that will eventually lead to a game. If it were a science, we’d have programmed a computer to do it, and it would be making all of our games for us. (Though some have theorized that […]
LAN Party: Specificity is a Necessity
No, I’m serious, this actually happened. The Ochbad depicted here offers more of an excuse then was actually given, not that any was really needed, because we’ve come to expect no less from him. This isn’t to say that we dislike him for it at all, in fact the hilarity of the situation more then made up […]
Let's talk about Elegance, baby (Part 1)
All games should strive to be elegant. All games should strive to be elegant. ALL GAMES SHOULD STRIVE TO BE ELEGANT. OK, so then what’s elegant, and why should games strive to be it? It’s a little complicated…
Yo mama's so fiddly…
This past week, I’ve come across two pages that have got me thinking about “fiddliness.” The first was a post on Boardgamegeek entitled “American style games vs. German style games: fiddly is good.” The second was about Magic: The Gathering’s new set entitled “Time Spiral.” Both got me thinking about how there’s good fiddly and […]
Review: Straight Outta Lynwood
After last Sunday’s premier of a Robot Chicken episode that featured a Weird Al video, the Adult Swim bump said something to the effect of: “If you took a time machine back to 1986 and said, in 20 years, Micheal Jackson = flamed out, Weird Al = still relevant, we’d have laughed our asses off.” […]
Romantic Computers Cannot Cry
I’ll start off with an apology for not having a comic or any kind of new drawing for this week, it’s been an off week in general. I will, however, dazzle you with an amazing (and true) proverb! Pretty much all online sites with comments get innundated with spam, and we are no exception. Thankfully […]
OSU/GAMA/Wargamer Study Results
Remember that survey I asked you all to take? They have the first “sortie” of data back. They haven’t gone indepth with the analysis yet (and they admitted it was flawed in a few ways) but what we do have back are some not so surprising results- perhaps surprising in how overwhelming they are. 93% […]
This is How a Guild Dies (part 2)
Welcome back, I assume you enjoyed the puppies. We left off on our story at the vicious modem refusing to bear its electronic burden, instead opting to commit ritual sepuku on a regular basis. I was driven temporarily insane, either from the lack of constant internet or because of solar flares, it could have been […]
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