I started playing Mind Control Delete yesterday and I'm struck by how immediately timeless Superhot is and also how much they iterated on it to add layered systems on top of such a solid gameplay loop.

I'm leaning hard on LeGuin for influence, as well as a lot of older sci-fi. My hope is that it's something that feels fresh, but retains some of that Golden Age influence. It's dark, but not cynical, which

I've always just had issues with the non-numerical nature of the FFG stuff. My players are allergic to reading (and therefore painfully slow to pick up on what the symbols meant) and I never found it as

See, this is why I've gone from programming video games to writing tabletop games (when I do, which I'm hoping to do more of this year). Used to tear my hair out all the time with technical issues. Now

Sadly, the really experimental thing about it was being written in free verse. On one hand, good exercise. On the other, I think I'm the only person who understands the rules, and I feel really bad for

It's good to be back. I'm pushing myself to write like mad this year, so hopefully I'll finish at least one game project. I don't know how that will overlap with my Master's program and getting back to

I never really played HOI3, but from my limited understanding I think HOI4 is to HOI3 kind of what CK3 is to CK2.

I'm finding CK3 to be a lot easier to get into than CK2. I've sort of settled into HOI4, but I've played it half to death and I really enjoy some variety.

I think the important distinction to be made here: It's not theft if someone doesn't make something new for you. HIVE is a fork of Steem, but the only way it negatively impacts Steem is by being more desirable

Nice to see you again!

I always find the early gaming industry concern over clones to be pretty weird and surreal. First, you have to think that they would've known that it was okay to do some of that in the sense that you can't

Outstanding work as always!

I've generally felt like 5e just generally lacks decisiveness in its combat. It's true that sometimes characters have more options (though I think that it's definitely a step down from 4e in that sense),

I'm not so sure that we want to ban auto-voting. It's a great way to support people even when we're not able to be active, and it also helps individuals use their voting mana more effectively (i.e. not

I will maintain that the greatest sin of 4e was that it wasn't really learned from. 13th Age is probably my favorite d20 system game, despite some major improvements that 5e has over it, because it remembered

Great work! I was wondering if I'd see you on Hive not too long ago.

Thanks for the write-up! I don't think I've ever actually read an issue of Dragon or Dungeon. Some of that is that I was pretty young for most of its print publication and I never really got into D&D

I love these old engravings. Really good stuff!

I personally gravitate toward the one on the left, in part because I think it'd look more distinct at small scale.