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Miskatonic School for Girls is a deck building card game currently seeking development funding through Kickstarter. It looks quite cool: They’re taking pledges through December 5, 11:21 am EST. A $45 pledge will get you a copy of the game with custom insert. (For those of you who don’t know how Kickstarter works, it’s a “funding [...]
Mon, November 21 2011 » Cthulhu Mythos, Gaming » No Comments
As I learned in a desktop publishing class I took as a M.A. student at Portland State, kerning is the process of adjusting the spacing between letters. Kern Type is a game designed to teach you how to kern well. It’s very cool. It even has mutitouch capability for those accessing the website via an [...]
Wed, October 12 2011 » Coolness, Digital Resources, Gaming, Teaching Resources » No Comments
Rodger Travis of the University of Connecticut has posted a chapter proposal for examining three Bioware MMORPGs from the perspective of oral formulaic theory. I’ll be quite interested to see how this idea takes shape.
Mon, November 8 2010 » Digital Studies/New Media, Gaming, Media Ecology » No Comments
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video This fall, LEGO will release a MMO, LEGO Universe, available for both PC and Mac platforms. From the Mashable website: Beyond the story-driven gameplay, LEGO Universe also features an extensive building and behaviors system that lets players create and animate their own LEGO [...]
Wed, June 23 2010 » Coolness, Gaming » No Comments
From Charles Stross’ blog: Cubicle 7 Entertainment is producing a roleplaying game based on the award-winning Laundry series (The Atrocity Archives, The Jennifer Morgue, and the forthcoming The Fuller Memorandum) by the even-more-award-winning Charles Stross, and uses the also-award-winning Basic Roleplaying System (Call Of Cthulhu) by Chaosium Inc. “We love the Laundry Files novels, so [...]
Wed, March 10 2010 » Charles Stross, Coolness, Cthulhu Mythos, Gaming » 1 Comment
I wasn’t going to do a Gary Gygax tribute post even though role-playing games were a huge part of my life up through my undergraduate days. (I was first introduced to role-playing games (Dungeons and Dragons, of course), in fifth grade, shortly after I finished reading The Lord of the Rings. That was huge for [...]
Wed, March 5 2008 » Comics/Anime/Manga, Gaming, Science Fiction/Fantasy » 2 Comments
