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 […]
Rage, Rage by David Miessler-Kubanek Rage, Rage is a game about the “last chance for hope in the face of futility and madness,” and the game delivers by using a variety of fears, hopes, and madness-inspired mechanics to draw out high drama from the players. Reading through it, I was struck again and again by […]
With a little more than two weeks to go, we’ve hit over 550% funding on our first Kickstarter project, The Play’s The Thing! As we said in our last update, we are just totally blown away by the response we’ve gotten from the Kickstarter community and our fans. Each and every day, we are excited […]
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…
