Hey Man, well this is Babylon

In this post I talk about changes to Cannibal Contagion, I rave about the awesome game session from last night’s group gathering, and I review Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy.

On Cannibal Contagion

I thought about it pretty heavily over the weekend, and today I finalized my decision to remove the “Samurai Slaughterfest” bit from the name of Cannibal Contagion. This has kinda been nagging me for a while now, but didn’t jump into my mind full-focus until I found my original design document for the game over the weekend. There are a lot of initial ideas from that document that never made it into the current vision of the game, or that I’m holding onto for a lot more testing and possible release in an expansion - meaning, a whole lot of extraneous add-on kinda stuff. Read more

What a weekend!

Good Times (anytime you need a favor!)

Friday night Avatar: good times! Thanks for bringing over those episodes, Trinity. I’m glad you’re finally getting to see Season 3. Soon you will understand why I love Zuko so much! And thanks for Skies of Arcadia Legends, Andrea. I’m enjoying it greatly. Plus, it’s good inspirational fodder for the Sky Pirates game (further below). Also, Bethany picked up a copy of No More Heroes for the Wii, and so far, it’s pretty sweet. My one complaint: so far, I don’t notice any strategy in it. There’s several things you can do in it when facing enemies, but mainly it seems that the “hit A repeatedly to beat them down” strategy is really the best tactic. Regardless, it’s bloody and brutal and lots of fun. Read more

I sadly suspect that my planned upcoming Burning Wheel game set in our homebrew “Undiscovered Countries” setting will never see the light of day. The game has been doomed from the start, and I’ve been fighting it. Three player drop-outs so far (two replacements acquired), and one no-call no-show. I really want to run this game, but fate seems stacked against it.

Grrr.

- NPC