My friend Jesse Scoble has an excellent article up at Gameplaywright.com about the “Pixels to Paper” panel held at this past summer’s Gen Con. The panel featured my pals Jack Emmert (of Cryptic Studios) and Ed Stark and Dave Williams (of Red 5 Studios) talking about both video games and tabletop games and what they can learn from each other. …
Citizens of Virtue
Today I stumbled across a website that’s just too damned funny: Citizens of Virtue. At first, it looks like your standard right-wing, evangelical Christian site, but you dig a little deeper and see that it’s actually a finely crafted satire. The add for Passionix–the drug for correcting rampant hormones in teenagers–should be enough of a tip-off for anyone. This is, …
Angry Robot Unleashed
My pal Marc Gascoigne–formerly of the Black Library and Solaris–was just recently named the head of Angry Robot, a new imprint of HarperCollins. For fans (and writers) of genre fiction, this is, of course, excellent news.
Moore for Free
Michael Moore’s latest film, Slacker Uprising, debuts today. I’ve yet to see the film so cannot comment on its content. However, the most interesting thing about the film is how it’s been released: online, for free, to anyone living in the US or Canada (or willing to pose as such). Love Moore or hate him, at least now you don’t …
The Toy & Game Inventor Awards
The fine people at the Chicago Toy and Game Fair (Chi-TAG) and the Toy and Game Inventors Expo (TAGIE) just launched a new awards program aimed at honoring not toys and games but the people behind them: the TAGIE Awards. On November 21, at a gala dinner at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, they plan to hand out …
Pulsipher on Prototypes
Lewis Pulsipher (designer of the board game gem Britannia ) had an article published at GameCareerGuide.com yesterday about the value of using paper (or tabletop) prototypes when designing video games. Good points all around.
Bear @ Gen Con
My pal John Wick has a funny video he’s made up from a series of photos he took at Gen Con. Most of these feature people at the show posing with John’s plush avatar Bear. I show up in the first photo, less than 20 seconds in. Stick around and watch the whole thing for fun and to see how …
GAMA Elections
Normally, I steer wide of GAMA politics these days. However, three of my good friends–Hal Mangold (of Green Ronin), Michelle Nephew (of Atlas Games), and Paul Tevis (of Have Games, Will Travel)–were elected to the GAMA board at Gen Con. Condolences Congratulations to all three!
The ENnies
On Friday night at Gen Con, I took home less than 1% of a silver ENnie for the small part I played in Hobby Games: The 100 Best. Still, I’m proud that people recognized what a great book it is, as well as what a great job my friend Jim Lowder did in pulling it together. Congratulations to all my …
Prints of Floods
I know I’m late coming to this, but my pal Aaron Acevedo and his wife Jeannine came home a while back to a flooded house. To help pay for the repairs, he’s having a flood sale on his excellent art prints. Be sure to check them out!