Presented at PAX West 2017, this panel on rage quitting is about how gamers quit, why they quit, and what quitting really means in game design. The table gets flipped. The healer sits down in spawn...
Tag: game design
Rage-quit isn't the only form of quitting. People stop playing games for a huge range of reasons. They get bored, they get frustrated, they get distracted, they sometimes literally just forget. It...
Game design is a wide subject. The best approach to mastering it is to focus on the fundamentals, and what better place to do that than with Atari 2600 games? Join us for a deep game design analysis...
The rules of a game literally define it. In video games, they are intrinsic limitations. In tabletop, players must enforce them. In all games, players need to learn them. There are good and bad ways...
PAX South 2016 – Scared Yet: A Discussion of Horror in Games
Jump scare! Kris Straub (Broodhollow) and a panel of esteemed horror and video game enthusiasts hold an informal round table on where fear works best in gaming, and where it doesn't make the cut....
Luke Crane (Burning Wheel, Mouse Guard, Torchbearer), Thor Olavsrud (Torchbearer) and Adam Koebel (Dungeon World) talk trash about boring (and offensive) ideas in fantasy RPGs while waxing poetic...