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Tim Cain on same-sex marriage in The Temple of Elemental Evil

Posted on 09/29/2014 by

When we were putting together The Temple of Elemental Evil, we’d put together all kinds of ways you could get involved with nonplayer characters. We had a good-looking woman who a male character could get involved with. We also had a … Continue reading →

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Steve Gaynor on Violence from 2010

Posted on 09/26/2014 by

Earlier today, Sparky Clarkson tweeted about this article from Steve Gaynor from a few years back. I re-read it and really latched onto this part: Violence in film, literature or on stage can either be meaningful or meaningless. When it … Continue reading →

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Steam Curation and a Group For Readers

Posted on 09/24/2014 by

Steam Curation was released a few days ago. The gloss on it is pretty simple: groups can now create lists of recommended games in an effort to solve the “there are so many games on Steam” discoverability problem. With that … Continue reading →

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Destiny and Writing

Posted on 09/15/2014 by

1. Destiny is a hodgepodge of a lot of different mechanical and conceptual elements that sometimes cohere but mostly fall apart, together, spectacularly. It’s hard to point to Destiny‘s strong points at this moment, but it is quite easy to point to … Continue reading →

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New Game: Napoleon Loves Waterslides

Posted on 09/12/2014 by

Today I was watching Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (currently on Netflix), and I thought it was incredibly funny that there’s an entire subplot of the movie which is, fundamentally, “Napoleon’s Adventures in San Dimas.” So I made a game about it. … Continue reading →

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Tomb Raider, The Last of Us, and deliberate action

Posted on 08/26/2014 by

A few days ago Cara Ellison wrote a wonderful piece about Tomb Raider and the difference between the earlier and later games in the series. My experience with Tomb Raider as a kid was limited to buying it in a bargain bin and having … Continue reading →

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On Alastor and Ifrit

Posted on 07/29/2014 by

1. A while back Oscar Strik wrote an article titled “An Ode To Objects” where he explained that the most wonderful items in games are ones that are clearly part of the game world itself. Essentially, if you can “plug … Continue reading →

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