This past Gamestorm, Jake Richmond and I won second place in a design contest. The contest was a “Junk Drawer Design War” – the organizer brought six identical bins filled with identical parts, most of which were salvaged from other board games. Each team of contestants had an hour (or two? i don’t remember) to…
After some awesome demo sessions yesterday at Free RPG Day, I’ve updated the Quad rules a wee bit: Removed “Substance” mechanic. Health and such have been incorporated into the core Tiks mechanic. Improved the Degrees of Success mechanics. Now based on matching dice instead of subtracting lows. Updated examples to illustrate new changes The new…
After re-reading my last post, I started thinking a lot more heavily on the idea of lighting mechanics, and how they both are and can be implemented in games both video and tabletop. Video Games I find that lighting is most often used in video games for purely atmospheric and aesthetic purposes. That’s all fine…
(cue the slow bass drum and Mr. movie Guy) Wisconsin. 2009. Early Summer… A boy who struggles to quell his inner sins and reach a more glorious light… A girl who bears his child, born from a love that can never be… An athlete who cannot deny the truth of his Self… An outcast who…
One of the most unexpected joys of this past GameStorm was a pick-up game of Quad on Saturday night. Started initially as a way to pass the time while waiting for rides home, this game turned out to be one of the several comically hilarious moments of the con. It all got started after the…
Read all the juicy details here! I’ll be selling the last of the signed-and-numbered copies of Cannibal Contagion’s first print run there. Additionally, I’ll be giving out free copies of the PDF to all who take part in the demos, as special thank you gifts for coming in and playing my game. I’m also looking…