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This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (And Why It Matters) – Book Review
Read more: This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (And Why It Matters) – Book ReviewI guess I’m doing book reviews for a bit. Look, at least some of these books will be about games, so at least that helps. Not this one though! This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong is a (generally) non-fiction book by Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones, who are better known for their Map Men…
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Asking the Tough Questions
Read more: Asking the Tough QuestionsEvery now and again, I come up with a Tough Question. I’ve put capital letters there on purpose, so let’s justify them before my editor removes them. A Tough Question is differentiated from my other musings by the following criteria. A Tough Question: As an example, “Does Hidetaka Miyazaki [director of some of the Dark…
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Card Game Resource Systems
Read more: Card Game Resource SystemsIt’s Tuesday, I haven’t been playing anything new recently, and I need something to write about this week because breaking a habit is the killer of goals. So today I’m just going to be rambling about resource systems in card games, mostly collectible card games. Also I’m going to be focused on what I’m calling…
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Glitch – A Quick Retrospective
Read more: Glitch – A Quick RetrospectiveThere’s no lack of reviews of dead games on this site. Deceive Inc is on life support. Crowfall went offline for “future planning” multiple years ago at this point. Crimesight wasn’t a live service game, but got taken offline anyway, because the world is stupid. Glitch is a little different than those games because it…
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One Piece Card Game
Read more: One Piece Card GameI had a busy weekend. I played a lot of Deadlock, I lost horribly at a Magic draft, and I fixed a lot of technology for one of my parents. I got absolutely none of the work I had hoped to do done, but I did get a chance to try out the One Piece…