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Play-by-Web

LiveJournal games?

I wait with slight terror to find out which of you are going to be getting heavily into these. Desperation or genius on LJ’s part? You decide. Edited to add: I should have had a sweepstake on who would be the first to crack and sign up. Impulsiveness, thy name is kauket… (Yes, the games […]

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Card games

Another dream game — aggravated Beat Your Neighbour

Last night I was playing a card game in a dream. I’ve posted about this sort of thing before, so long-term readers will recall that the games usually turn out to be boring in real life, and never get finished. I don’t suppose this one will be any exception, but here goes anyway! The game […]

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Tabletop role-playing

New game idea — Haunted House

I had some thoughts last night about what might be an interesting game. It might already exist, or might not work, in which case ho hum; but here you go anyway.

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PBM

Silver on the tree

I’ve just realized that this week is the twenty-fifth anniversary of me starting full-time professional work as a game designer. I can’t now remember exactly what the date was, but some time in early September 1985, just before my 18th birthday, I moved down to Southampton and set up Undying King Games. I’ve been in […]

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Play-by-Web

The Unicyclist

You might like to check out this new Flash game by a friend of mine.  Control a unicyclist, propeller twirling and grapple swinging, as he steals the Tzar’s treasure: just the sort of game that I’m hopeless at, but still great fun because of the charming design.

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Puzzles

Project Management for One

Read an interesting post by igor_nav the other day, describing his newly-devised methodlogy for tackling one-person development projects — specifically, dealing with the problem of not being able to finish things, by breaking down the tasks remaining. Take a look at his explanation! The problem he describes doesn’t really apply to me, because I have […]

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Verbal games

The Secret Agents’ Masked Ball

You might remember last year I posted here about a game idea, Resistance Is Useless. That proved a fun diversion for a slightly tispy evening — but, as commenters predicted, it lacked the ‘gamishness’ for real replay value. The conversational elements were not sufficiently exchange-y, and it worked best when people went off on unstructured […]

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Play-by-Web

Beat me up, you know you want to

Click here http://undyingking.mybrute.com to trounce my purple-haired warrior in a neat little Flash game. It doesn’t take much time, you don’t get to control your fighter or make moves or anything technical like that! But a pyramid scheme means that you can power me up just by giving it a go (and also presumably power […]

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Verbal games

Spoilerless book blurbs game

A conversation on a friend’s journal prompted the discovery of a new game, which all the family can play in the comfort of the comments section of this post. The idea is to write a brief publisher’s blurb for a well-known book, that avoids spoilering it. This is, of course, particularly tricky when a big […]

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Board games

The new thing in boardgaming

Wired is that prestigious magazine of the technological elites, its finger firmly on the cutting edge of all things geeky and zeitgeisty, right? Apparently there’s a new boardgame called Settlers of Catan, which is “poised” to become popular in the US. “Along the way, it’s teaching Americans that board games don’t have to be either […]