#149: Interlude
I. Dear Reader,
This week got away for me so no article at the top - but I’ll see you all next week with something good. Enjoy the links and have a good week!
Cheers,
Thomas
II. Media of the Week
Love to see this kind of stuff from big Youtube channels like OSP. A very enthusiastic look at indie RPGs, including World Wide Wrestling, Lancer, and Good Society.
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III. Links of the Week
On the Spearwitch blog, Giuliano Roverato tells the story of how he came to make Bakto’s Terrifying Cuisine, which is going from pamphlet to hardback.
On Wargamer, a look at Gubat Banwa and how it’s rooted in South East Asia and provides a very different tactical RPG experience from D&D.
On Polygon, a review of Apocalypse Keys, the Hellboy-inspired game about stopping the apocalypse every week.
On Dicebreaker, a review of Fabula Ultima, the very unofficial Final Fantasy tabletop RPG.
The writer Matt Jarvis also wrote an article about how people who like boardgames could enjoy reading James Joyce’s Ulysses. (Behind a paywall.)
On videogame magazine, Unwinnable, a look at how ideology speaks through architecture: “Space is perhaps represented most truthfully, and with the fewest barriers to expression, in videogames. Digital spaces are not bound by the limiting realities of real-world physics and scale, allowing for boundary-breaking architectural expressions that simply wouldn’t be reasonable or even possible to construct otherwise.”
On PCGamer, a round-up of some nice worldbuilding games.
Exalted Funeral have teamed up with Role to release their games on the VTT.
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