The Unwanted Panacea
Symptomatic: Number of polearms with picture, stats and description: 11 Number of items for healers with picture, stats and description: 1 Ammunition types for assault rifles: Eight different types for […]
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Social Combat – Final Round. Fight!
In Round 2, I briefly sketched out the possibility of generally using combat to determine the results of actions and situations and some of the resulting effects on storytelling. But […]
Social Combat – Round 2. Fight!
Perhaps I should have given this a more universal title when writing Round 1 because it was fairly inevitable that it would escalate beyond simple social interaction. After all, the […]
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Makes the use of capitalisation in a game’s title a difference? Are Hunter hunter HUNTER perceived differently? Are they completely different games? And what about HuNtEr hUntEr … ?
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[German] International Classification of Disadvantages
Everytime someone starts talking about how useful “the ICD” is for a “mature”, “deep” and “realistic” portrayal of characters with mental disorders, I cannot help but think that what the […]
Social Combat – Round 1. Fight!
Fight is my Diplomacy! Sometimes, everything just clicks together suddenly. Of course there is not need for interaction rules when trying to capture the storytelling of fighting games with an […]
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[German] Alltagsinspiration
Some German musings on inspiration from everyday life.
Character Selection Theme
Influencing character creation via music? My initial impulse is to say that this will work best with computer assissted character creation. Although that thought obviously stems from the association with […]
Language Validation and Translating Games
Since Geh nicht in den Winterwald, the German language version of Don’t Walk in Winter Wood, came out earlier this year, I cannot quite shake the thought of language validation […]
Cyber Law: Double Body Jeopardy
Scenario: A person can transfer their consciousness between different bodies (and/or bodyless forms of existence). Violence is perpetrated against one such body while it is currently uninhabited by the person’s […]