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Description of freeform
I've written a blog post describing what 'freeform' usually means in the UK, mostly for people from elsewhere who might be expecting it to mean something rather different: http://blog.ukg.co.uk/uk-freeform/
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Blog: Rainbow Towers
New blog post up about a dexterity game idea: Rainbow Towers!
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Murder mystery playtest: interested?
We're testing a new murder mystery game in London (at a centralish pub yet to be confirmed) on the afternoon of Sunday 26th January: would you like to come along?
It's called A Speakeasy Slaughter and is set in 1920s Chicago, with gangsters, showbiz, Prohibition and all that kind of stuff:
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Very small games: a trend
Bruno Faidutti calls it 'Japanese minimalism'. What would you call it? New blog post: http://blog.ukg.co.uk/japanese-minimalism/ -
Blog: bravery
New blog post! About a simple dice mechanism for variable outcomes of bravery options. http://blog.ukg.co.uk/bravery-outcomes/ -
Blog post: board game redesign
I did another blog post! - this one about a competition to design a new boardgame using the components of an old one. Here: http://blog.ukg.co.uk/redesign/ -
Mass effect
One of the things I love about English is the quirks of its structure which native speakers aren't consciously aware of, but which bedevil learners. An example is the way it handles mass and count nouns. Maybe you got taught this sort of thing at school, but I never did: so here it is now, some actually useful grammar.
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Poll, and blog post - Consequences round-up
I've posted to my new games-related-stuff blog! - it's a round-up of what I played/ran at Consequences, the recent larp con that ran down in Hampshire. It was great!
http://blog.ukg.co.uk/gothic-consequences-21-24-november-2013/
And while I've got your attention (or not), a quick poll just to find out who's still here:
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Games blog
Gosh, it's been a while since I posted here, sorry about that. Rather hectic and in places stressful few months have left me little time for reflection. (And other such excuses.)
Anyway, the news now is that I've started a blog, at http://blog.ukg.co.uk. It is intended to gather together my ideas and thoughts about games -- those I've designed, ( Read more... ) -
Prologue
I just found a chunk of a YA novel I started writing, several years ago, which I'd forgotten about. I had it mostly planned out, but I never got past the first couple of chapters. As secretrebel (who should know) says, "Writers write", and I didn't and don't and so amn't. But I quite like this prologue, seeing it again:
This is a story about how sometimes you ( Read more... )