I spent most of last week–Aug. 2 through Aug. 8–at GenCon in Indianapolis. Thirty or forty thousand gamers, dealers, exhibitors, models, musicians, and cosplayers were also there. What a scene! I talked to a lot of people, sold and signed a lot of Tunnels and Trolls stuff, and got some incredibly kind words and compliments [...]
Archive for the ‘Magic the Gathering’ Category
GenCon 2011 4 comments
Dragons and Goblins and Trolls 1 comment
Dragons and Goblins and Trolls! Oh, my! Dragons and Goblins and Trolls! Oh, my! DRAGONS AND GOBLINS AND TROLLS! OH MY! I think that I’m likely to die. Oh my! With a tip of the Trollish sombrero to A. A. Milne and Winnie the Pooh . . . Yesterday I was talking a little bit [...]
Everybody Wants to be a Game Designer 1 comment
And . . . everybody can be. Game Design isn’t Rocket Science. Some games automatically turn their players into game designers. Role-playing games are pretty good at this. Once you have gone adventuring in someone else’s dreams and ideas, you inevitably want to be the person in controll. Thus you will make up your own [...]
Magic the Gathering–the Building of Decks 3 comments
One game I really enjoy playing is Magic the Gathering. The game was invented by Professor Richard Garfield and first released on an unsuspecting world in 1993. I was at Origins that year when It was released. The Wizards of the Coast booth was getting a lot of attention, and I walked over to see [...]
