The pending release of Icebreaker 2, a video game that is a sequel to an old 3DO console game that features the virtual pre-cursor to Icehouse pyramids, snuck up on me and yelled, “Boo!” Sorry for this tangent, but this is a game that might have been lost behind obsolete copy protection if that protection… Continue reading Icebreaker 2 is new old
Category: Games
Dwarf Fortress
I got a glimpse of “Dwarf Fortress” being played by one of my brothers. Since I generally don’t use Windows, this was something I hadn’t heard of. But, I have to tell you it was a bit of a shock to see my brother playing a game that appeared to be completely in ASCII. That’s… Continue reading Dwarf Fortress
Zombie Fluxx
It’s official! There’s a new member of the Fluxx family of card games: Zombie Fluxx. Via The Wunderland Weekly News for 4/26/7: “Yes, it’s Fluxx… with Zombies! The newest Fluxx features a new type of card: The Creeper. It’s like a Keeper you don’t want but must play anyway, and it usually stops you from… Continue reading Zombie Fluxx
Politics in the Dark Ages of Online Games
Via Boing Boing: “Can you be a citizen of a virtual world? That’s the question that I keep asking myself, whenever anyone tells me about the wonder of multiplayer online games, especially Second Life, the virtual world that is more creative playground than game.” There’s been an online multiplayer RPG called Dark Ages for a… Continue reading Politics in the Dark Ages of Online Games
5,000 year old backgammon set found
Via Boing Boing and Neatorama, there’s a Persian Journal article about a 5,000 year old backgammon set that’s been found. Lots of interesting stuff, but this design sounds spiffy: He added the board features an engraved serpent coiling around itself for 20 times, thus producing 20 slots for the game, more affectionately known in Persian… Continue reading 5,000 year old backgammon set found
More paper craft: Roman Seas
At the end of Oct, I got an e-mail from the creator of Whitewash City, the paper craft set of buildings available in PDF format for printing and building. I posted about that in relation to gaming in the universe of Joss Whedon’s Firefly and Serenity. Apparently, they were doing some search for sites that… Continue reading More paper craft: Roman Seas
Risus, the “Anything” RPG
I was browsing around, thinking about fan fiction writing within the Firefly / Serenity universe, and ended up on a website with an adaptation of Firefly to an very interesting roleplaying system called Risus: The Anything RPG by S. John Ross, who has an e-mail address at the old illuminati domain io.com … which is… Continue reading Risus, the “Anything” RPG
Whitewash City
Last night, I ran across this papercraft model of a wild west city, which can be used for multiple games. Whitewash City looks pretty wild, and sounds interesting. There is a game by the maker of the model city called Gold Town which is a non-violent game set in the wild west. Looking at this,… Continue reading Whitewash City
This is not the console game system you were thinking about …
All these video games, at home, from Target?! It’s a full size arcade machine, even. Via “Uber-Review – BigGames Home Video Arcade Machine” “Target Stores will offer BigGames Home Video Arcade machines that will retail for less than $500 nationwide in November of 2005. Each unit plays 12 of the original arcade versions of the… Continue reading This is not the console game system you were thinking about …
Glass bead games
Based on the glass bead game from hesse, but it’s … er, a mind mapping game structure? The HipBone Games There’s two hipbone different game sites? Looks like one might be a stale identity? Anyhow here’s a link in the other one to an example game: Hipbone WB: Totentanz More storytelling, than game. Quite possibly… Continue reading Glass bead games
Timeon Rizer
This seems to be a bit stale, but there’s some interseting RPG pages, with promises of having the game system available soon. Timeon Rizer Rhunyen: World of Fog & Sky Update: Looks like there’s still plans to put out the game system before the end of 2005.