For this series of articles, I’m interested in actively trying to repurpose ideas from other kinds of games into RPGs in the hopes of discovering some new and interesting mechanics. It doesn’t mean something good will come from it, or that the idea is totally worth using but at least a few interesting new ideas […]
Moves in any “Powered by the Apocalypse” game have two main components: the trigger, and the effect. “When you do X” is the trigger, and “then Y happens” is the effect. For the moves to work well, they have to snowball, meaning that every move needs to lead to a change in the fiction that […]
Yesterday was the first playtest of MK’s new game: Epyllion! Epyllion is a game that draws on Spyro, Lord of the Rings, and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic! Long ago, the Dragon armies drove back the darkness and rescued the land from evil. Yet the darkness returned, creeping into the places once thought of as […]
Join us for one of the opening panels at the Indie+2 Game Convention. Mark Truman hosts a G+ panel about Indie Game Design LIVE at 6:00pm-Eastcoast time. Watch live and ask some questions or watch it later on YouTube. Check out Adam Koebel, Daniel Solis, and Sage LaTorra‘s thoughts about Indie Game Design! Indie+2 Indie Game Design […]
RINCON 2012 was a blast! Thursday night Mark and I flew in to Tucson where Matt Nielson was nice enough to pick us up and take us to the Hotel. Before bed we scoped out the lovely con space and sorted out our schedule for the next morning. Friday we held two panels: Inclusiveness in Gaming […]
In the typical default setting of white characters, Cartel switches the settings to that of Mexico which rarely happens without the GM saying so. It touches on weighty subjects of culture and the darkness that lies underneath when it comes to the issue at hand. But Cartel also does something that few games do; it is at its best and its core a Telenovela. Those of us who grew up in Latin culture can pick that up in a heartbeat and those who haven’t can lavish into the drama if it all. Aunque la…
