Last week I recorded a session with Andrew Doull and Darren Grey of the the Roguelike Radio podcast. Go over there and listen as we talk about the connections between strategy and roguelike games. A lot of people have suggested I make appearances on other people’s podcasts, but Roguelike Radio was by far the most […]
Entries Tagged as 'RPGs'
Roguelike Radio Appearance and Podcast Life
December 9th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Me, Podcast, RPGs, Three Moves Ahead
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FTL: Sid Meier’s Starfleet
September 20th, 2012 · 10 Comments · RPGs, Sci Fi
FTL: Faster than Light from Subset Games is the early fall indie hit of choice. It had a very successful Kickstarter campaign (an increasingly valuable marketing tool, as we’ve discussed on the show) and it plays to all the fantasies we have of being space captains. I have been a space captain many times. Starflight. […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 186 – Playing at the World
September 17th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Board Games, Podcast, RPGs, Three Moves Ahead, Wargames
This week, Troy and Bruce talk to Jon Peterson, author of the epic gaming history tome, Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People and Fantastic Adventures from Chess to Role-Playing Games. They talk about the turning points in the evolution of wargames, when a wargame becomes a role playing game and the […]
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Book Review: Playing at the World
September 3rd, 2012 · 10 Comments · Books, RPGs, Wargames
There are tours de force and there are Tours de France, and sometimes Jon Peterson’s Playing at the World: A History of Simulating Wars, People and Fantastic Adventures from Chess to Role-Playing Games is both. His new book from Unreason Press is a landmark history of the evolution of Dungeons and Dragons, firmly rooting it […]
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Dungeons of Dredmor
July 26th, 2011 · 7 Comments · RPGs
I seem to be writing a lot about my failures in gaming lately, and since the alternative to this post was an update on my continuing struggles in racing games, I thought that since roguelikes are designed to kill you, writing about Dungeons of Dredmor (Gaslamp Games) would be less embarrassing. (Because seriously, Tom. Beating […]
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Back to Work
June 14th, 2011 · 2 Comments · E3, Me, Medieval, Paradox, RPGs, Sci Fi
E3 was fun, but different. I was a little envious listening to Bill Abner and Tom Chick and Gus Mastrapa all my other friends talking about the great stuff they saw at the show, since I was mostly tied down and I hate waiting in lines. I did get a couple of breaks to just […]
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