Thinking About Content
Lately, I’ve been browsing the interweb to see what else is up in this media niche that I’m here being a part of. Lots of great people are doing great things, a lot of which overlap with things that I...
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Con Report – Dexcon 2011
This last weekend saw my second trip to Dexcon, held in Morristown, NJ every summer. It’s run by the same group that puts out Dreammation (and coming this fall: Metatopia) and seemed to me this year...
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Do: Book of Letters
The Do: Book of Letters has just been released as a PDF to both Kickstarter Backers and is also available for sale to the general public for just $5. This is particularly exciting for me as I...
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Design Diary #1
I’m starting a new feature here, as I work on designing a new game. The idea is that it’s a solitaire/multiplayer game based loosely on the old Wing Commander: Privateer video game; which is about a...
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Design Diary #2
Two weeks after the first post about the new space freighter game, I’ve had a lot of great preliminary response and put in quite a few hours on getting the first samples together for an open playtest....
View ArticleEpisode 032 – Conversation with Greg Stolze, part 2
Show Notes – 11/3/2011 Kickstarter rewards, origami dinosaurs, and a story about discovering girls Shoutout to Martha! There’s a technique to watercolor!? Fiasco Mobile (is actually done: check it out...
View ArticleEpisode 035 –“It is what it is.”
Show Notes – 4/1/2012 Interview with R.A. Salvatore We chat about his return to the world of Neverwinter, how fantasy got him to read again, his foray into writing, then chat about Kingdoms of Amalaur,...
View ArticleEpisode 036 – Chat with Filamena Young
Show Notes – 4/1/2012 Hyper-Positive Post-Apocalyptic Roleplaying. Sold yet? I am. Her game Flatpack is about a scuffed-but-still-good future where you have adventures and fight monsters in order to...
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Review: Blackbirds, by Chuck Wendig
This book is creepy as hell, and I loved it. In true to form Wendig style, Blackbirds takes you on a disturbing ride that explores weird, unique characters with a hint of magic realism in the form of...
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Review: Switchflipped, by Greg Stolze
Stolze’s twisted view of reality continues to rock my world. Greg Stolze is one of my favorite writers today; stories like Switchflipped are why. Twisting what we know as reality just a little bit to...
View ArticleEpisode 040 – Freelancing Tips with Brian Engard
Show Notes – 7/23/2012 Brian Engard gives us a heads-up on his coming work, and tips on some of the really simple things that make for a successful freelancer. Download MP3
View ArticleA New Magazine?
A few weeks back my friend Kit La Touche raised the question “why aren’t there more Gypsy Brewery-like behaviors in game design?” [1] I had to ask what he meant, and he described a scenario in which a...
View ArticleSmoldering
It’s a long slow burn that Dice, Food, Lodging has been dealing with. The podcast has been dormant for nearly a year now, the blog for about nine months. But I keep it up, because I might come back to...
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