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Boston FIG 2026
Read more: Boston FIG 2026I went to Boston FIG today! Or yesterday. Not quite sure when I’m going to finish this article, so it’s possible neither of those end up being true. Anyway, the Boston Festival of Indie Games is a small event focused on surfacing independent and in development board and video games. In my case, it’s a…
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Randy Pitchford Confuses Me
Read more: Randy Pitchford Confuses MeI don’t really understand Randy Pitchford. He’s one of very few gaming CEOs whose name I remember, mostly because every time a new Borderlands game rolls around, he decides to randomly pick fights with people on Twitter. And every time I have to imagine that there’s got to be a better way to manage him…
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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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