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The Essence of RPGs (3): Role-play. Withdraw (2nd Level Alteration Spell). The Essence of RPGs. Thursday, 07 May 2015. What makes something a role-playing game? The Essence of RPGs. Here are the three parts of. The Essence of RPGs. Each of which begins with a link to the corresponding part of the source serial:. If you enjoyed this serial, please leave a comment. Thank you! Posted at 17:30 in Game Design. You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed. I believe that this is a surfac...
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Alone, Unknown, and Unguarded: Learning from MUDs. Tuesday, 28 March 2017. Today, a discussion of three kinds of anonymity alone, unknown, and unguarded that compares the original online worlds of MUDs to Twitter and Facebook. Here’s an extract:. You can read the entirety of. Lessons from the MUD. Posted at 10:30 in Game Philosophy. The Gamification of Games. Tuesday, 21 March 2017. Today, a discussion of cyborg tenacity. That includes discussion of. And Xbox’s Gamescore. Here’s an extract:. Brian Green ...
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ihobo: The Essence of RPGs (2): Rule-play
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The Essence of RPGs (1): Children of TSR. The Essence of RPGs (3): Role-play. The Essence of RPGs (2): Rule-play. Wednesday, 29 April 2015. In the previous part, I staked my claim for a new understanding of role-playing games as nothing more nor less than the children of TSR’s seminal. The Game of the District Messenger Boy. 1949), which adds a map that is not just a track or a grid but clearly the layout of a fictional mansion. For the nerds of the late 50s and 60s, however, family boardgames such a...
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Wikipedia Knows Nothing - Out Now! Wednesday, 07 September 2016. What does the Wikipedia know, and how can it know it? More to the point, how can anyone using an anonymously edited source, the contents of which change on a daily basis, know that what they are reading constitutes knowledge? This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 License. From Lulu.com, or Download. Cross-posted from ETC Press. Posted at 10:00 in Press Releases. But I’m happy with h...
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Praise for Chris Bateman. The most thoughtful respondent in games, barring none". Wonderfully refreshing and inventive". On No Man's Sky Roundup. On No Man's Sky Roundup. On The Greatest Detective Game Ever Made. On Game Inventories (3): Diablo and Daggerfall. On Game Inventories (3): Diablo and Daggerfall. On Game Inventories (4): Resident Evil 4 and X-Com. On Game Inventories (4): Resident Evil 4 and X-Com. On Game Inventories (5): EverQuest and MUDs. On Game Inventories (4): Resident Evil 4 and X-Com.
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ihobo: Why Study Game Narrative?
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More Thoughts on Tutorials. Survey on Collecting Imaginary Objects. Why Study Game Narrative? Wednesday, 01 April 2015. A letter to students at ARCOS in Santiago, Chile. Dear ARCOS students,. It came as some small surprise to me when, in a recent letter, your instructor Pablo Gorigoitia mentioned that. Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames. To put this figure into perspective, we live nearly as far away from each other as the diameter of the planet we co-inhabit. Or I got a Tetris! We now risk fi...
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ihobo: The Essence of RPGs (3): Role-play
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The Essence of RPGs (2): Rule-play. The Essence of RPGs. The Essence of RPGs (3): Role-play. Wednesday, 06 May 2015. In 1998, I produced one of my final tabletop role-playing game designs with my friend and colleague Rob Briggs, who had also worked on my first published tabletop games,. My work in this space was always motivated by trying out something different that could build upon the successes of other games. Attempted to merge science fiction settings into a hodge-podge world in the same manner as.
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Tuesday, 17 January 2017. Over on another of my blogs, you’ll find a developing discussion of cybervirtue. The positive qualities of cyborgs like you and your smartphone. Thoughts, pushback, and further contributions welcome! Posted at 10:30 in Editorial. Tuesday, 08 November 2016. Taking my Autumnal break from social media, but feel free to leave comments in my absence and I’ll reply as soon as I get back in December. Posted at 10:30 in Editorial. Celebrating Ten Years of Blogging. Tuesday, 02 June 2015.
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Friday, 17 April 2015. May I draw your attention to Stephen E. Dineharts Kickstarter for his extremely cute game . Pinky Elephant: Collision of the Colorverse. Posted at 13:49 in Game Projects. The Voices of the Heretic Kingdoms. Wednesday, 05 November 2014. Take a tour of the voices of the Heretic Kingdoms! But I’ve never worked with a voice cast as large as the one on. This scurrilous secret council behind the Inquisition is currently the most powerful and dangerous force in the Heretic Kingdoms, and t...