Having enjoyed the first Open Design project, which resulted in the fantastic Steam & Brass, Wolfgang Baur is ready to leap into the breach once more. Chip in as a patron at any level, and you can get in on the ground floor of the project now. Start by helping to choose what it will be.
Marvel Meets the Soaps
I’ve long explained to my wife that superhero comics are the male equivalent to the soap opera: continuing storylines, implausible plots, cartoonishly drawn (literally and metaphorically) characters, and over-the-top dialog. Now, according to ICv2.com, Marvel helps me put another nail in that argument’s coffin by teaming up with Guiding Light to help promote each other. Newsarama has an interview with …
Indie Game Development
Greg Costikyan of Manifesto Games (a venture started with my fellow Alliterate Johnny Wilson) posted a column about how the budgets of computer games have grown to the point that publisher can no longer afford to experiment much anymore. You could take his points and apply them to tabletop games almost verbatim. His closing says it best: I don’t mean …
Back to Basics
If you keep up with the news, you probably know that Congress recently approved a bill that allows for the revocation of habeas corpus and permits the President to define what constitutes torture, among other things. I don’t want to turn this website into a political forum, but let’s say I’m less than comfortable with this. A good friend of …