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The March of Giants playtest was cool.
Read more: The March of Giants playtest was cool.The current March of Giants beta ends today at midnight, so if anything in this article seems cool, download it literally right now, because there isn’t another playtest till 2027. I love MOBAs just as much as I love CCGs, and while the two types of games are quite different (real time vs turn based,…
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Bloomburrow Sealed Writeup
Read more: Bloomburrow Sealed WriteupIt’s been a while since I really did any physical Magic tourney events. As I said two years ago: So in conclusion: I probably wouldn’t go to another physical prerelease. Magic: Arena and Magic as a physical card game are two competing ecosystems instead of a single synergistic one, and they’re both expensive. Me, 2022…
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Grindstone
Read more: GrindstoneGrindstone offers a view of an alien reality, a world where mobile games are not the wallet-consuming apex predators that they are in ours. That doesn’t mean their evolution was entirely disrupted. Just as all animals become crabs, all mobile games have at least some things in common. Clean UI. Simple, easy to learn mechanics,…
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Sidequest – Subversion In Games
Read more: Sidequest – Subversion In GamesI’ve got a review on a game called Athenian Rhapsody that I’ve been working on for a while. It will hopefully be up in a week or two. It’s quite a bit longer than most things I write, and I’ve also rewritten and restarted it several times. Athenian Rhapsody is a tricky game to talk…
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Million Monster Militia – A Bunch of Unsolicited Feedback
Read more: Million Monster Militia – A Bunch of Unsolicited FeedbackUpdated 7/7/2024 – This write up has been updated to include the dev’s response. Pre-Script: It occurs to me after writing all of this that it will make absolutely no sense if you haven’t actually played the game I’m talking about. Whoops, and sorry. Actual reviews on a game to come later this week. I’ll…