Running through the end of the month, it's blown past its initial funding goal of £12,000 and is close to doubling it. For about $37US, you get the rules and all stretch goals in PDF, add $10~ and get them in print ( Read more... )

A friend learned it at a steampunk con in San Deigo from a bunch of pirates and taught it to us tonight ( Read more... )

Flash Point is an awesome cooperative fire fighting boardgame. Everybody takes a role: Fire Captain, Rescue Specialist, Generalist, Rescue Dog, etc. Every role has a special ability. The Veteran has a sixth sense about explosions and can dodge if they have a saved action point, and anyone in line of sight also has this ability. The Captain has ( Read more... )

This is pretty cool. A very simple card game requiring two players and three standard decks of playing cards ( Read more... )

No, not rocket-propelled grenades, though that could make life interesting. We're talking role-playing games. Lots of good stuff in here: Traveler, Call of Cthulhu, Eclipse Phase, Night’s Black Agents, Firefly, etc. They’re mostly demo packs, but still an excellent overview of new RPGs that might be worth checking out ( Read more... )

Very interesting story. This game, Glitch, was a browser-based (Flash) 2-D scroller that had a good fan base but never made a lot of money. According to comments, it required a lot of hands-on work from the programmers, that's probably one of the reasons for its downfall. It shut down last December. Well, the owners of all of the code have ( Read more... )

Prof. Barker is very well known in some circles, he was a linguist, ethnologist, writer, probably more than a little versed in archeology and sociology. He was also the inventor of one of the first role-playing games, Tekumel: The Empire of the Petal Throne, and a few fictional books on the world. The game was so complete that he invented a ( Read more... )

First, the Open Goldberg Variations. From the Kickstarter page: "We are creating a new score and studio recording of J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations, and we're placing them in the public domain* for everyone to own and use without limitations on licensing ( Read more... )

Whee! Sadly, no info on when, so I doubt we'll have it for Xmas.

Definitely want.

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/10/settlers-of-cat.html

I wanna see what happens when Richard Dawson tries to kiss River ( Read more... )