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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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PAX Unplugged 2024 – Day 2
Read more: PAX Unplugged 2024 – Day 2It’s the second day of PAX Unplugged! This meant that I actually had time to attend some of the meetings that I’d set up yesterday, starting with a demo of Obscurids! Obscurids As a game, Obscruids can be described as an attempt to fix all of the problems with Magic: The Gathering’s commander format. Mana…
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PAX Unplugged 2024 – Day 1
Read more: PAX Unplugged 2024 – Day 1Woof. It’s just around 4:00 PM, and everything is in a bit of haze. Maybe it’s the hours on the con floor, or maybe it’s the 5 hours of sleep. It’s been a good event so far, if busy. PAX Unplugged actually sold out for the first time this year, but it hasn’t felt too…
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SolForge Fusion
Read more: SolForge FusionBefore I talk about SolForge Fusion, I want to talk about SolForge. SolForge was its predecessor. A digital-only card game that lived a brief 4 years, and then died. We should talk about why. SolForge never had a problem being fun. Its core mechanic was, and remains, brilliant and simple. Here’s how it worked. In…
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The DreamWorld Playtest is an AI Nightmare
Read more: The DreamWorld Playtest is an AI NightmareDisclosures: I received an unsolicited playtest key for this Beta via KeyMailer, the key distribution site. The content in this write-up was made in what the game describes as “Alpha 2 v 1.0”. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, as such I present the following. Now that I’ve got your attention, either…