These may not be the top 40 board games ever designed, nor is it the top 40 influential or otherwise important games. If you aspire to really understand tabletop, or if you have visions of designing...
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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...
Is it truly ethical to design a game to be addictive, or is "addictiveness" simply a sign of good design? Do games change us in more ways than we might realize? Is regulation on the horizon (as we...
First person shooters. Role playing games. Platformers. Real time strategy. We're all familiar with these terms. In most mediums, genres are established by the content of a narrative and the...
Rym and Scott of Geeknights appeared on two panels at MAGFest X - "Gamer Motivations" and "Money Making Games" - and also presented a lecture: "Beyond Dungeons & Dragons." In "Money Making...
This is about tabletop RPGs, you perverts. Anyway, I don't play tabletop RPGs and have never had a girlfriend, which makes me totally unqualified to have been in the room with this panel, but here we...