Tag: game

Game Design Critique: Rock. Paper. Scissors. Time Machine!

My friend Doug just sent me the image link, so if someone in particular invented this game, I have no idea who it is, or I would credit them. I would argue that this game, in it’s current state, is …More

Secret Achievement on Dominion.Isotropic.org Unlocked

I’ve been playing way too much Dominion online. The other night I won a brutal game of Pirate Ships vs. Bishop/Lighthouse/King’s Court with no green cards left in my deck. I love easter eggs.

I won’t feel old until kids can beat me at video games

Owning some kids at B.U.T.T.O.N. at IndieCade 2010. They didn’t have the right mindset to win, nor did they deserve to.

Give me all your ore or die

September 22, 2010
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Give me all your ore or die

I’ve recently been messing around with Jsettlers2, a java implementation of Settlers of Catan featuring AI players (it also allows network play, but I don’t really see the point in that. Most of the fun of Settlers is in the …More

Small World

December 31, 2009
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I gave my sister a copy of Small World for Christmas. For those who are not aware, I am pretty serious about my board games. If you are interested in game design, as I am, there’s often a lot more …More

Choose Your Own Adventure: Greatest Achievement in the Genre

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike… Remember these? Recently they have been reprinted. I saw a bunch in a bookstore two months ago. I wrote this year’s annual Christmas letter in the format of a …More

Demons Begone!

October 5, 2008
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Just won a 16 player online mafia game as the Demon, proving that when it comes to lies, deceit, and treachery, I’m your man! Mafia is an interesting game because it is all about tricking likely facts from a chaotic …More

Last week was crazy. I spent most of it at GDC, the largest annual event in the videogame industry. As I mentioned in a previous post, I went to GDC to both compete in the Student Finalist Showcase (10 games …More

I'm going to GDC!

January 4, 2007
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Euclidean Crisis took one of the 10 finalist spots at the IGF (Independent Games Festival) student game competition. There were 102 entries and we pwned at least 92 of them. Woot! Another interesting stat is that out of the 10 …More

Convolution Colonel

January 2, 2007
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After wrestling with it for the past week, I’ve finally got a mostly functional random dungeon generator for my roguelike game Witherwyn. I hit several serious set backs (such as my algorithm predictably terminating only at infinity). The upside, is …More

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