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 […]
Author: Mo Holkar
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]