What’s So Keen About Android: Netrunner?
UPDATE 25 FEB 2013: Check out my interview with the lead designer for Android: Netrunner, Lukas Litzsinger! Fantasy Flight Games are not only a huge threat to my wallet, but …
The Thing-A-Week Project Plan
You know, I’ve done an awful lot of talking about making fun since I re-branded my web log to Step One: Make Fun! Yet in that time I’ve not actually made all …
Can Deathwatch Make Fun In Grim Darkness?
The tag-line for Games Workshop’s fictional universe known as Warhammer 40,000 is, “In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.” It’s like an odd mash-up of The …
Fighting the Blues With Progress in Small Chunks
Sometimes, it’s easy to get distracted by troubles when they come up, especially when you’re already trying to sort yourself out after prior ones. The extra pressure makes you want …
A Return to Old Playing and Getting Paid to Podcast
It’s been a good seven days here at the Realm. It’s been an upswing in both progress toward getting paid to play and, well, just playing. On the play front, …
Why Mass Effect 3′s Fans Are Wrong About The Ending – But So Is BioWare (Part 4)
So after looking at how the problem with Mass Effect 3’s ending is a reliance on a major plot point that BioWare didn’t allow players to influence while letting them …
Why Mass Effect 3′s Fans Are Wrong About The Ending – But So Is BioWare (Part 3)
In my first post in this series on the controversy over the ending of the video game Mass Effect 3, I posited that the true fault that caused fan upset with that ending is a lack …
Why Mass Effect 3′s Fans Are Wrong About The Ending – But So Is BioWare (Part 2)
In my first post in this series on the controversy over the ending of the video game Mass Effect 3, I posited that the true fault that caused fan upset with that ending …
Why Mass Effect 3’s Fans Are Wrong About The Ending – But So Is BioWare (Part 1)
To say that audience expectations of Mass Effect 3 were huge would be an understatement. One pundit claimed that the Mass Effect trilogy of games is “the most important science …
Ten Things Miracle of Sound Can Teach You About Making Fun
Making fun. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? Try it for five seconds and you’ll soon realise it ain’t. It involves just as much focus and effort as your day job. How …