Bruno Faidutti calls it 'Japanese minimalism'. What would you call it? New blog post: http://blog.ukg.co.uk/japanese-minimalism/

Just trying to gauge interest here initially. Would any of you be keen to play in a murder mystery party game with a 1920s Chicago speakeasy/gangster theme, some weekend afternoon in September in central London? (Obviously I appreciate that the exact date will be significant, but I'm just trying here to see if it's potentially a goer or not.) ( Read more... )

On Saturday I was at Gamecamp 6, which I thought a few people here might be interested in.

(I seem to have degenerated to LJing solely about games just lately. Sorry about that… although in my defence, they are occupying almost all my work and leisure time at the moment.)

( tl;dr it was good fun )

Last weekend I went to my fourth Peaky freeform-writing workshop, and had an excellent time ( Read more... )

I took Shape Up! to the Playtest meeting again last weekend, and got lots of very positive feedback (some on BGG…)

This is the point where for a 'normal' game (like Fishy Business) I would be thinking about trying to get it published.  However being a microgame, I'm not sure that is really practical. I don't think established games publishers are ( Read more... )

I spent last week mostly playing and running games, in the company of some excellent people, and it was great! Most of them were of the prepless and/or GMless style that I've been increasingly interested in in recent years. I'll probably spew out some more thoughts here about the others shortly, but I wanted to pick up on When the Dark is Gone ( Read more... )

And maybe they will you, too? Let's see:

• Victorian Blood Book - extraordinary decoupage project, made in 1854. You really have to view the slideshow to get the full majesty and oddity of it all. Not many people's idea of a wedding present for one's daughter.
• Your Paintings - this BBC site has gathered together all 200-and-odd thousand oil paintings ( Read more... )

(Warning: this will probably not be of interest if you're not a gamer. In fact even if you are, it still might easily not be :-)

( Don't say I didn't give you fair warning… )

I was sorting out some old files the other day and I came across a game I wrote back in the summer of 1995 (and had completely forgotten about). It's essentially a larp, but set indoors and for just six players, with pregen characters. The working title was (the dreadful) 'Cannes-tasia' - the characters are movie people at the Cannes Film Festival ( Read more... )

'Tis the season and all that, so I thought it might be nice to share these with you. Courtesy of ar_boblad, about 15 years ago now I guess it must have been. Où sont les vampires d'antan?

• A crossbow bolt through the heart will stake a vampire.
• Cut off the feet of someone killed by undead, and they will not be able to walk if they become undead themselves.
• ( Read more... )