Armchair Reviewing, Writing, and Designing
Been quiet for a while, healing my stupid leg up.
First, if you read this spot, then you know I go on and on and on about Hobby Games: 100 Best. If someone I haven’t convinced you to track this wonderful piece down, perhaps the fine folks at Armchair General can tip the scales.
They do a nice review:
Quick—name the best game you’ve ever played!
Tough to narrow that down, isn’t it? But 100 game designers, developers and others from the game industry were asked to do something similar: to submit three or more “best game” nominees. They were then asked to write about one of those nominees and explain why it deserved to be included in Hobby Games: The 100 Best.
Second, on the scriptwriting scene, I helped Dev come up with a few shorts for a work project. His mandate was to incorporate responses from an employee survey (comments and concerns) into short skits for a presentation. It was a fun little exercise, and with luck they will be filmed and we’ll get a copy.
Been working on a few more urban fantasy outlines for several stories, but need to do a lot more work where they are concerned.
And I’ve been putting together some ideas for a D&D adventure. It will be a low-level / introductory thing, probably using kobolds (who doesn’t love kobolds), stealing some of Will Hindmarch’s ideas, a few of Mike Mearl’s, mixing in some Greek mythology, and a heavy dosage of George Martin flavoring for the world setting. If I flesh it out more, I might sketch some of it out here.
Posted in General on September 9, 2008 by Jesse
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