Posted inReview
Solipsist RPG Review
I ordered Solipsist yesterday, paper and PDF, and spent a bit of last night poring over the PDF version. I'll start out this potted review by saying that it's shockingly…
Posted inThe Great Game
What’s an ARG?
The Technology column in the Guardian writes: An ARG is an interactive narrative in which players work together to solve puzzles and co-ordinate activities in the real world and online,…
Posted inThe Great Game
There are video games that you can actually live inside.
The following quote is from "Cybergeneration", an RPG dating from §993 by R. Talsorian Games. With direct visual feed, projected ICONs at will, and a way of interacting with these…
Posted inCommentary
Zombi RPG
the earth won’t hold the dead What if the people who were dead got up one day? What if they got up and started killing other people? What if the…
Posted inARG Commentary Game Design
The Great Game
Alternate Reality Games (or Layered Reality Games) are going to be big. When someone mentions ARGs, I always think of Total Recall (the film) [thanks Eamon]. The protagonist takes a…
Posted inMerchandise Zombi
Zombi Ts…
To coincide with the next printing of Zombi and the 'very soon' release of the PDF version, we've put some Zombi Ts on CafePress. Click on the image (or here)…
Posted inCONTROL Game Design
6 – Terminology
(Though I'm still unsure of the final name to call this game, for the time being I'm going to be referring to it both by the nom de plume '6'…
Posted inGame Design HyperLocal
Viking Ghost Hunt – a ‘hyperlocal’ Dublin-based game
While down at the National Digital Research Centre last week, I saw a brief presentation from two Dutch guys, Soren and Mads, who were making an iPhone game which overlaid…
Posted inGame Design LateGaming Layout
Fonts, fonts, my kingdom….
I'm having trouble identifying a font I used for the original printing of ZOMBI and this is the replacement I have come up with. The original was quite clean and…
Posted inLateGaming Zombi
zombi
I've spent the last week working on the PDF version of zombi. I've been updating bits and pieces as well, adding in references for "Fast Zombies" and other things which…
Posted inSupers
Superheroics
I've been reading a lot and prepping my 'superhero' game and though I love the concept of GODLIKE and Wild Talents, it's really turned into an exercise of accountancy. I…