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#92: Movement in Video Games, Talking in TTRPGs
I. Dear Reader, Video games are quite good. I recently started playing them again after a gap of around 15 years and I’m really enjoying catching up on everything I’ve missed. One interesting facet of videogames is how they make movement fun. Running, climbing, jumping, gliding - these are all things you can do in videogames. Some games make them awesome…
The City Series
#119: Splashing around Eversink!
I. Dear Reader, We are back to taking about cities! To learn more, read the introduction post. Previously, we looked at Doskvol, Spire, Endon, Infinigrad, The City (a|state). Today we’re looking at Eversink from Swords of the Serpentine, a fantasy GUMSHOE game from Pelgrane Press, published in 2021. This article covers roughly a hundred pages (Pages 227 t…
Surveying Forged in the Dark Games
#47: Surveying the Dark - Part 1
I. Dear Reader I love Forged in the Dark games. Have I said that before? I might have let it slip once or twice or a dozen times. And its not that I think this is an unpopular opinion in the slightest - the system gets a lot of love online. For good reason.
Games From Around The World
#61: Finland! 🇫🇮
I. Dear Reader, I did something different this week. Petri Leinonen, a game designer from Finland, was sharing some really cool games on his twitter account. And these were all games I’d never heard of! So I reached out to Petri to do a guest feature on the newsletter talking about some of these fascinating games. And he very kindly said yes so here you …
