The news of Ian Trout’s dying of cancer likely won’t be huge news in the industry, but it should be. He founded SSG with Roger Keating in the early 80s and their direct work resulted in some first class game design like Carriers at War, Reach for the Stars,Warlords II, and other titles. But it’s […]
Entries from August 4th, 2011
More on Interesting Decisions
August 3rd, 2011 · 4 Comments · Design, Three Moves Ahead, Wargames
It takes me a while to catch up on listening to episodes of Three Moves Ahead that I am not a part of. Not that I listen to the ones that I am on, but I was there, so I know what I said. When I edited the show, I heard them all. Now I […]
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My Online Landscape
August 2nd, 2011 · 4 Comments · Blogs, Me
There are now too many ways to interact with people online. I am kind of happy that the Flash of Steel Facebook group never took off, because if it had, holy crap that would have been a mess. The big new thing, of course, is Google+ and I am still trying to find a way […]
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The Roman National Character
August 1st, 2011 · 11 Comments · Feature:Nations, History
What this is about, including full list. Long time readers will know that I extensively covered Roman games in my first ever feature series, one that did not take nine months to write because life was better then and I wrote more quickly and I played more games. The epilogue to that group of essays […]
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