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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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Stalcraft
Read more: StalcraftEd Note: Most of this writeup was written earlier in the year, around Christmas, as was my time in the game. Some of this info may be out of date. Still, Stalcraft is weird enough for me to want to talk about, even if I don’t plan on playing anymore in the near future. Stalcraft…
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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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