Over the years, I’ve had some trouble expressing my point of view about pre-game asymmetric choices (characters, factions, etc) in games. Back in 2013 I wrote “Debunking Asymmetry“, which was my most clumsy attempt, and which awarded me over 100 comments, from notable game designers like Naomi Clark, Raph Koster, Greg Costikyan, Jon Schafer and …
Okay, I have two objectives here: 1). To talk about the effects of longer arcs, both in storytelling and in game design, and 2). To talk about what an amazing show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is. Actually, this was the main thing, really. But I did connect some stuff that I observed from this show into a …
Larger-arc contextualization, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Read More »
Alexander King, who teaches at the NYU Game Center and the Parsons School of Design, has been tweeting about math for game designers a bunch – you should definitely go check out his tweet thread on the topic here. It also got me interested to have him on the show – I don’t think we’ve …
This patch note list is a lot bigger, really, than it appears – like the second bullet point about improvement to UI elements, there could be 20 bullet points in there. Overall it’s a huge patch with a ton of improvements to the game, but of course the biggest thing is the introduction of the …
GWT 1.25 patch notes – The Neverending Party and more! Read More »
Introducing the NEVERENDING PARTY, the new fourth faction in GEM WIZARDS TACTICS! The Neverending Party is a loose, spontaneous federation of musicians, artists and political activists who have risen up to fight for the oppressed across the globe. Coming from the far Northern realms, many of them are a species of Skeleton people – originally …
Gem Wizards Tactics’ latest faction: The Neverending Party! Read More »
Today’s guest is Dayan Radisic, the lead developer at Stygian Software, the team behind the indie CRPG UnderRail. I’ve personally only played a handful of hours of the game so far, but it’s definitely the kind of game that’s in the “RPG Project” territory – it’s quite clearly super inspired by games like the original …
