Ctrl+Alt+Del is a webcomic usually about video games, including the competitive aspect of it. It also features an Xbox robot! Their recent run, however, is about one of the characters trying to introduce his hardcore video gamer roommate to Warhammer 40k. One of my favorite exchanges from this: “These guys have chainsaw swords.” “This is […]
Dripping with Theme or Drowning in Theme?
Last week I talked about The Triangle of how to approach a game design. One of those points of the Triangle is “Theme.” But there are different ways of looking at what theme is, and if a game is well-themed or not. When people talk about theme, they’re generally talking about what is otherwise called […]
From the "WTF" department…
As reported on Ogrecave, Games Workshop has decided to shut down its official forums. They recommend typing the name of your favorite army into a search engine to find new ones. Of course, you won’t be able to find official answers to rules questions, or talk directly with game designers, or give feedback to anyone […]
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 […]
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 […]
Online gambling measure attached to Port Security Bill in Senate
In case you have not yet heard yet, my dear friends (and I mean that in all sincerity, without sarcasm) in the Republican party have successfully attached an anti-online gambling act to a recent measure address port security. This was a saavy political move done by majority leader Bill Frist as a means of ensuring […]
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% […]
Inquisition of the Week: Religion?
Following older discussions about the differences between the Chronicles of Narnia and the Lord of the Rings book series, as well as a lot of the inevitable flak pertaining to the Left Behind RTS game, I ask you: Can Religion be a part of Games, Comics, and Movies?
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