Category Archives: Electronic Games

Fun with the machine

System Sketch: Console Dice

Posted on November 19, 2010 by admin

I love The Force Unleashed series because I like Star Wars, superheroes, and video games that cater to people bad at playing video games. So I whipped up a quick game system based on a console controller layout:

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Kinect — Jumping and Waving Like a Fool

Posted on November 5, 2010 by admin

My XBox 360 actually belongs to my older son. I’ve been meaning to get another one so that the original can join him at art school (back in the Big City of your author’s birth) and the $300 Kinect and…

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Why You Can’t Have Nice Things

Posted on June 19, 2010 by Malcolm

A couple of years ago I had this client — great guy, worked with him a few times. He’s a former tabletop RPG player and was really interested in bringing some of the ideas he loved from that into a…

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Cleaning, Rearranging and Writing

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Malcolm

Some of you may have noticed that I’m shuffling around categories and tweaking the site. I think there’s been a bit of a heavy emphasis on tabletop RPGs. I love ‘em, but I want to talk about other things, and…

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Story is So Over

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Malcolm

It’s easy to bring creatives and managers together in a fiction-based media venture by emphasizing “story.” A supposed story focus makes writers feel good because they can take credit for it, and managers feel good because (aside from the fact…

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Multiple Attack Update

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Malcolm

Hi folks,

I’ve been pretty sick for about a month off and on due to strep. That’s why this blog’s been silent. What’s going on?

Aeternal Legends: It’s available in print and PDF, still. Stew and I are slowly talking…

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An Impractical Idea: Cyberpunk via Hard Drive

Posted on February 20, 2010 by Malcolm

I was going through some old hard drives with an IDE/SATA to USB converter (thanks to Stew and others for advice on this) and the feel of it — seeing/hearing/feeling a chunk of weighty metal rev up thanks to the…

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CES 2010: A Guide for Tabletop RPG Players

Posted on January 10, 2010 by Malcolm

CES happened this week, and tech companies rolled out a bunch of new gear that has major implications for electronic tools in tabletop RPGs, a topic I’ve blogged about here and here. As I cover the tech beat for one of…

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The RPG EBook of the Future

Posted on December 4, 2009 by admin

To follow up on the Next Gen RPGs post I’d like to toss up a sample interface:

This is probably a Flash application. You can resize, minimize or dismiss each pane in the interface above. The book screen is…

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Next Gen RPGs

Posted on December 2, 2009 by admin

Between the CCP/White Wolf announcement and the obvious rise of e-publishing as a vital component in the industry it’s time to ask: What should electronically delivered tabletop RPGs look like?

The Current Formula

Electronic implementation is currently a user-organized…

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