Despite its weird sci-fi veneer, Atari 2600 shooter Yars' Revenge is one of the greatest sports videogames ever made. Sorry Pitfall, Adventure, and Defender. No offense, ...
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In Part I, I introduced the concept of spatial vectors as they apply to the opening screen ...
A design study Poring over NES and Famicom games for the past year and a half has led to a lot of thinking about game design ...
An informal genre survey. Pen-and-paper roleplaying games are a fascinating genre, hovering somewhere between storytelling, board games, gambling, genre fiction, and statistics. And thanks to their ...
Combat turns are tricky. My current tabletop group plays Dungeon Crawl Classics, which borrows the standard combat sequence from D&D and its kin. Once combat ...
Though not all tabletop roleplaying games use dice, the majority do. And most players consider dice to be the lifeblood of the genre. Part ...
Sinter RPG features six trade types: Archinxect, Curia, Gemyltan, Kybernan, Mallei, and Smolders. Each trade is associated one of six characters attributes: Craft, Temperance, Wit, ...
In the two-week interim between dissertation submission and defense, I've been stir crazy. For the past seven months, I wrote 6-8 hours a day, 5 ...