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I’m making an RPG!

WIP pixel artwork by Wizbane

(Above: some WIP pixel art from Wizbane) You might have noticed I’ve been writing about and playing a lot of RPGs recently. Starting somewhere in 2020, I started this huge dive into the Final Fantasy series – strangely enough, starting with the XIII trilogy. Over the past year and a half I’ve been diving hard …

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The case for Hearthstone Battlegrounds ending after 4 eliminations

Hey all! This is just a short little article where I will try to make the case for why I think Hearthstone: Battlegrounds (which I’ve gotten back into now that the Buddies system has been removed) should end after four players have been eliminated. Currently, for those who don’t know, HSBG is an eight-player FFA …

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Giving up on the “1P Strategy Game”

I’ve long had this vision of the “1P (one player) digital strategy game”: a system that you can play over and over again, that has a match structure with a win/loss outcome, that has interesting decisions, that has a ranking system more comparable to an online matchmaking or Elo than a typical “Easy/Medium/Hard” style difficulty …

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“Handicaps”, “Balanced Difficulty” and the one-player perspective

Did you know that the origin of the word “handicap” is “cap in hand”, thereby suggesting a connection between disabled people (who in the past had been referred to often as “handicapped”) and street beggars/panhandlers? 😬 It definitely seems worth moving on from this term and using another term in its place. While we’re at …

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