Free-range thoughts about design, writing, and play
I’ve never been much of an real-time strategy (RTS) gamer. I like building up bases, but smashing opponents doesn’t excite me and I hate having to do everything in a hurry. So it took a lot of rave reviews before I tried out Offworld Trading Company, but now I’m hooked on the twists and turns of its…
Our last library meetup was mostly spent with Mare Nostrum, but another game also made a short visit to the table. Can there be such a thing as Too Many Cinderellas?
One of my regular writing gigs is to research business trends. I talk to a lot of interesting entrepreneurs and software developers, but every once in a while I run into a business that I want to spread the word about.
Mare Nostrum is back! It took about a year from the initial Kickstarter announcement, but copies landed in backers hands this summer and we’re played it our our June and July meetups. So how does the Academy Games edition of this grail game stand up?
For a moment, I thought I had made a horrible mistake. Ms. Ashley had told me signups had been good for the “Awesome Games” design workshop at the San Marcos Public Library, but I figured that meant eight or ten kids would show up. Now I was looking at twenty kids AND their parents.
Last week I ran an “Awesome Games” event for the San Marcos Public Library, turning twenty kids loose with buttons and construction paper to design their own board games.