Working on a New Card Game
This past weekend, I began work on a new game. With Anarchs Unbound winding down (just about ready for the editor!), I wanted to switch gears and move toward a smaller, more concise type of game that...
View ArticleAnarchs Unbound: Redlines and Rewrites
If you’re into Vampire, I’ve recently put up some redlined material from the forthcoming Anarchs Unbound book. A blog entry discussing the redlining process and the general production pipeline is here....
View ArticleToxic Community and the Illusion of Agency
Bioware has a reputation for storytelling, but it’s taken some hits recently. Over at gamesindustry.biz, I saw an article about the negative environment at Bioware’s social site, however. Part of the...
View ArticleGhibli-Style Storytelling
Yesterday, Madeleine and I went to see Nausicaä at the Ghibli Collection retrospective at the Carolina Theatre. It’s an excellent movie, my favorite of the Ghibli films, and one that works whether...
View ArticleKickstarter from a Jaundiced Eye
Let’s start with a warning that everyone reiterates, but that many people don’t often consider: When you back a Kickstarter project, you’re not necessarily buying a product. You’re funding an attempt....
View ArticleClans and Covenants as a Matrix
In working on Vampire: The Requiem, one of the things I wanted to offer players was a greater pool of character relationships than was available in Masquerade. In Masquerade, your character creation...
View ArticleSome Hunters Hunted 2 Redlines
Lubricating the development of Vampire since 1998. Good evening, my darlings. I’m hard at work on Hunters Hunted 2 for Vampire: The Masquerade and I wanted to pull back the curtain a bit and show you a...
View ArticleChildren of the Revolution: Full Text Available
(Crossposted at the ChilRev blogsite.) The full text of Children of the Revolution is up here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18J5p636V-OrGcF1ZI4c3pfV7m_mwNPLjK8X3oE-97oA/edit Feel free to share...
View ArticleDesign Academy 2012
This morning, we checked into the Château de Châtenay, in Châtenay-and-France, just outside of Paris. I’m here for the Ubisoft Design Academy, which will take place all week, but hasn’t yet started —...
View ArticleUp-to-Date Draft Development
I wish they would have called it “OSX Cougar.” I really do. One of the things that has me most excited about OSX Mountain Lion is its built-in sharing. This doesn’t sound like much on the surface — in...
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