I just shipped off the draft for my Scourge of the Demon Wolf, 2nd edition, to my editor, and I am resuming work on my next major project, the full version of the Majestic Fantasy RPG. For those who…

As I'm writing this, there are two main Hullabaloos I'm aware of in the RPG scene. One concerns the upcoming 5.5 release of Dark Sun, and one Luke Stratton's Pirate Borg continuing to trip on the…

Michael Klamerus over at The Virtual Moose has issued a blog challenge, which he's allowed to do because it's his birthday (happy birthday, Michael), challenging everyone to write about an obscure…

Ever wanted to get your zen AND your game on at once? Boy, have we got the thing for you...

Deathloop, Arkane Studios. A game genre I’ve recently been trying to get into are immersive sims. As someone with a weakness for stylish game, one of my first forays into the genre was Arkane’s 2021…

Transcript of my talk for GIGF 2026

If you played the original Gratuitous Space Battles game about 500 years ago, you will recall that the online challenges were a very popular part of the game. If not, let me explain: GSB was the…

Do you like real-time tactics in the same vein of the battles in the Total War series? How about roguelikes where each run is different? If yes, Tabletop Tavern is a game you should check out.

I built a clean general search agent and it beat every opponent I had. Then I pointed it at a 400-line hand-written bot and lost three games in four. The opponents I had been measuring against were…

I ported Syndicate (1995) to the web.

Taking on The Nothic's Eye GLÅUGUST 2026 , challenge #3 is from a list by Purple - "Futility of categorization." I have been gathering the various '... but also!' cultures of play people have…

I've been playing through KCD I again ( for the 3rd time ) and the biggest problem is that I really want to play the second one. Not because the first game is bad, it's really good. It's just that…

Man, if you have not played this game then you are missing out! Probably one of THE best racing games out there, and it's completely free - as in free beer (the best kind) and free speech! I honestly…

These two Kingdom Hearts II interviews with director Tetsuya Nomura originally appeared in Hyper Playstation 2 magazine in 2005. The post Kingdom Hearts II – 2005 Developer Interview first appeared…

This is part of a pair of articles on the impacts of agent driven development - you can read thoughts on the review process here. I threw away the entire AI for Annhexation and started again.…

7:52 PM Well...The title DOES sound cool, but to clarify: This is about roleplaying and the struggle I had with making my ocs, MY ocs, and not an imitation of what I thought other people wanted to…

There was a mess of HDMI cables in the gap between the wall and the TV stand. Which one belonged to the PS3 was anyone's guess. Peering over the back of the TV, I couldn't make sense of it, so I…

What, precisely, do semi-luxury automobiles have to do with computer golf games? More than expected. Updated with information about another missing link.

A number of my dad friends play Mahjong, so I figured this would be a good time to finally take the time to learn to play. I’ve been able to use AI tools in a way that makes learning extremely…

In this interview with legendary composer Hiroki Kikuta, he expounds on his ideas about game music, creativity, and life at Square in the 90s. The post Hiroki Kikuta – 2025 Composer Interview first…

Part 1 , Part 2 Last installment for a while, since as you'll see shortly I am really stretching what qualifies as the Mythos. But I suppose that is part of the point. Anyway, fun series, definitely…

One of the coolest things I've discovered since getting a PS5 last year was remote play: you could use a device, such as my iPad Air, to connect remotely to your PS5 and play games. I've successfully…

Players familiar with the effortless gear drifting of OutRun 2 may balk at the idea that it inherits much from the team’s prior Daytona and Scud Race titles, but common DNA threads through each…

2035. The political struggle for control of the Moscow Metro, where ten thousand survivors from the 2013 nuclear war that ended the old world live with their descendants, has stabilised with an…

The top hit when you search for this is some bottom bin AI slop right now. So I figured someone outta post this. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying is the main game that uses advantage d100 (also called…

The Crows crowdfunder launched this morning, and with it a video by Mr. Colville [link] . About 27 minutes into the video he mentions SWORD!, a zine I'm working on for Crows. I showed off the cover a…

Based on the requirements of two of my WIPs, I needed robust character and conversation systems. Normally these would be game-specific since the story dictates how dialogue is presented and executed.…

Black Blizzard 52-70 1.5k att Aftermath 86-100 20 att Bloodlust 94-97 117 att Acu 21% 2k att Windy Landscape 68-100 311 att Big Shot 44% 666 att

Continuing with the promo tape theme, here are three from Tronix Multimedia / Joe Cataudella. I bought these when they were for sale in the mid-90s and digitized them a few years ago. The physical…

just noticed that the firefox browser is integrating widgets into the new tab. out of all them, the (not-so) 1 daily crossword might be my favorite. when i have no idea what the word is, even when i…

As one or two people may know, along with others that have seen it in passing, I've been trying to make it a regular thing to start streaming my gameplay on...

Hi ya’ll! The folks over at Taiga minis are doing minis for my necromancer skirmish wargame, Maleghast. Check it out!…

Every team needs at least three people. The code person, the data person, and the manager. As a solo dev, I’m all three. And up until now, I had completely forgotten/ignored to be the manager. There…

I decided to take the plunge recently get a new pocket retro gaming device. For the past several years, I’ve been using a Pocket Go S30. I’ve had it for probably six years or so, and while it wasn’t…

I used to love playing this PC game when I was a kid in the 1980s. Brings back so many aromatic memories!

Man, what a gorgeous game. Some truly stunning pixel art here, and the music is a jam too. The team that made this sure was talented. I wonder what they went on to do after this…

Rulgara Silvermane vs. Braziah Ashblood in a duel. Who will prevail? Zhara and Skanya stealing an airship, with a few mishaps along the way. Reading the diaries of Braziah and learning about what…

Hi it's 10pm it's Monday I'm gonna get this blog out before I go to bed. Another busy week (I could probably start almost every post with that). Monday I did get my Switch 2 about 30 minutes after I…

It is common for promotional pamphlets aimed at children to contain a themed variant of snakes and ladders. This is the “game” where the players toss a die, move as many places as the die…

Xiao Junfeng was born in Xi’an but was recruited to compete for Shenzhen in 1990. There was just one problem: the city had a gymnastics team on paper but nowhere for it to train. So Xiao trained…

One DM problem I’m struggling with lately is trying not to give too much away to my wife, who is a player at my table, outside the game. This is...

For Glaugust 2026 <img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAj4AAAJUCAYAAAAVXSyQAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAARnQU1BAACxjwv8YQUAAAAJcEhZcwAADsMAAA7DAcdvqGQAAAGHaVRYdFhNTDpjb20uYWRvYmUueG1wAAAAAA…

Post-reviewing Zero Parades: For Dead Spies , I have acquired a BG3-style brain tadpole that is making me play as many Discolikes [crowd boos loudly] as I am physically capable of before getting…

The shrouded hopping ghost of Indonesia

An unlockable class for Spuk's Ocean D&D. Attribute Requirements: Dex 7 or lower Alignment: Neutral Weapons: Latch onto an enemy Armor: Spiky Shell - AC 1 Communication: Reef, Wiggle Spikes Movement:…

The Headphones Ritual Game claims to summon a supernatural entity through music. Here's how to play the eerie game.

The Sims has been a franchise that's been with me since the mid to late 90s. A thing that started, for me, with one of the very first SimCity games, on a...

hi seal! i'm writing this question out as i go so hopefully it all makes sense. in the if i'm planning out, i'm allowing the MC to be able to not have any close relationships with the NPCs, the plan…