The greatest gaming lab ever created is the Las Vegas casino industry. That lab’s most significant finding is that humans crave two things in games: pattern completion and intermittent rewards....
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By Aecer’s Light! Back it!
My buddy Jahmal Brown is running his first ever Kickstarter as part of their Zine Quest promotion, an adventure/campaign/culture booklet for Burning Wheel (and Dungeon World, via stretch goal by Johnstone...
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Soth is an amazing game
And Soth creator Steve Hickey is doing something awesome during the Kickstarter for the reprint. Update #9: Soth will support the people of Christchurch.
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Recalibrating
Has it really been a month since I last posted? I swear, there’s something about running the Indie Game Reading Club Slack channel that consumes whatever bandwidth I used to have to...
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Fiddling While Rome Burns or Drawing the Magic Circle Anew (probably both: Forbidden Lands session 4)
Last Tuesday we played our fourth session of Forbidden Lands. My heart was — is — so heavy. But on we played. Last week I decided to go all-in on FL’s procedural...