“I have this great idea for a game.” In creative circles, it’s a phrase that gets joked about because it’s often followed by some variation on “…and you should make it for me.”
Magic Patents, Trolls, Scabs, and Open Source Spells
Spells have a special problem: they’re information. Spells are knowledge which, when learned, perform a specified effect.
Corporate Contracts in the Far-Off Future Dystopia
Violence makes things messy and inconvenient. Corporations like things neat and convenient. And bureaucratic.
Game Design by Example: Introduction
When I started designing games 4-5 years ago, I used to post all of my designs in public as I was working on them. As my life got busier, I started doing that less and less. I’ve recently realized that I need to do it more.
Magic: the Gathering Officially Comes to D&D
For years, gamers have wondered why two of the biggest fantasy brands in the world, Magic: the Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons, couldn’t come together, especially since they’re both made in the same building.
Surviving
Survival mode pumps Fallout 4’s feel up to the right notch, adding a little something I missed without quite knowing it.
The Decker and the 10M of Fiber Optic Cable
Algorithms become faster, smarter, and more efficient. Nastier. More aggressive.
Shotgunning
Since that day my first nameless elf died in the gray-ooze cave in The Keep on the Borderlands, I was hooked. I got into roleplaying games over three decades ago because I was interested in the drama.
Shadowrunners and the Theft of Crypto-Corporate Data
It’s impossible to put a dollar value on the worth of a refrigerated semi carrying the data of an entire corporation. One file is valuable, sure. Maybe a few files are valuable. But an entire truck worth of files…
A Plot, So Meta
Canon serves as a framework for a setting, but after that, strict adherence to and advancement of canon along an official timeline is harmful to the setting and its audience.
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