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Piracy Must Be Our Fault
Do you remember when Total Recall freaked out business analysts with its skyrocketing $65 million budget? That was 1990. In 1994, Roger Ebert commented on the exuberant cost of Stargate’s $55 million stating, “They must have had a lot of lunches.” A year later the world was up in arms over the bloated production of [...]
Questioning Piracy, Part 4 – Pirates Are Still Consumers
(These series of articles involve quotes from posts on a forum website that distributed copyrighted material. With certain exceptions, names and website addresses have been withheld) “I downloaded your game for free and thought it was awesome, but I won’t give you money because I believe in free distribution for all creative content.” No, this [...]
Gen Con 2011 Play Report Part 2–With Bonus Swag!
This is a quick wrap-up of the games I played with a brief section on game purchases made at Gen Con 2011. After the terrible Terrorwerks experience we engaged in World War 1 aerial combat in the Fantasy Flight area. The “Wings of War” furball pitted 28 players against each other in a last-man-standing format. [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2011 Exhibitor Coverage – Part 11
Today’s GAMA Trade Show 2011 exhibitors include 42 Games, Stronghold Games, Heartland Games, Cleveland Kids, and Battle Foam 42 Games 42 Games was showing off their newest game, Orbit: Rocket Race 5000. Orbit is a fast-paced strategy card game where you try to match colored sides together to play them, going around in an “orbit” around the board. They [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2011 Exhibitor Coverage – Part 8
GAMA Trade Show 2011 coverage continues with Looney Labs, Chivalry Games, Digme Productions,Flying Buffalo, Arcane Tinman, Acrylicos Vallejo, and WorldWise Imports. Looney Labs The Labs were showing off three new products. First is Pirate Fluxx, which released in February. As the many other Fluxx flavors, this adds Pirates to the game. There are a couple [...]
GAMA Trade Show 2011 Exhibitor Coverage – Part 6
GAMA Trade Show 2011 coverage continues with Gary Games, RPS Games, Ovation Productions, Greater Games Industry Catalog, MerchantOS, North Star Games, and GameBrother Gary Games Gary Games was showing off the first expansion to the Ascension deck-building game. This new expansion, called Ascension: Return of the Fallen, adds new mechanics (Fate cards), support for more players (up to 6), [...]
Blues for Black and White Art
I feel like an old man rocking on his porch swing, reminiscing of simpler times. I still own a first edition printing of classic D&D, Gamma World, and Star Frontiers. I own Mekton II, Battletech, and Top Secret. I remember when the best artwork seen in role-playing games were only found in Palladium. Now it [...]
Interview: Sandstorm Productions
Sandstorm Productions is a new player on the game publishing scene and I made time at Gen Con 2010 to sit down with Jessica Blair, the VP of Sales and marketing for Sandstorm and chat for a few minutes. This post is the result and is a summary of our conversation, and not a strict [...]
Wizards of the Coast Gen Con Interview – Part 2 of 2 (D&D / Gamma World / Fortune Cards)
This post concludes my interview with Dungeons and Dragons designers Mike Mearls and Rodney Thompson at Gen Con. In part 1 of this series we talked about the upcoming D&D Boardgame line. However, the conversation quickly drifted into other D&D products, including Dark Sun and Gamma World. D&D RPG Stuart Greenwell (SG): The Dungeons & Dragons [...]