Category: Nonsense
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Peace Was Never An Option
I wrote up a very light PbtA game about mischievous animals trying to act like people and generally committing low stakes crimes in the process. The fever dream prototype of this game turned out to be the perfect fit for the roleplaying club I ran for elementary schoolers last year.
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Giving Me Life
Here’s some stuff what’s been making life in the plague regime bearable. Some of it’s old, some of it’s new.
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Green Screens are Cosplay for Online Gaming
How to green screen for gaming, and why you should, even if you already use Zoom
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Exercise During the Time of Nurgle
We’re stuck at home with our two daughters and have had to adopt a different routine. So far it feels like it might be better for us as a family.
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Untitled Animal Heist Game
Tonight’s dice club with the kids was the first time in a long while I felt energized afterward. I think we found “our game” – inspired by Untitled Goose Game, completely normal animals come together for relatively nonthreatening heists.
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Fall is Video Game Season
Time to shirk! I’ve been buried under a deluge of new games. Here’s what I, a late-to-the-party random person off the internet with no credentials, thinks of the following video games that have been eating all my free time: Untitled Goose Game Geese are assholes, and this is a good game about being a douchey
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Making the Furious Road
Here’s how I made a two-piece desert highway for a post-apocalyptic car chase game inspired by Thunder Road and JUNK’D.
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Thunder Junk’d, Part II
I’m working on a car chase/combat board game descended from the old Thunder Road game and inspired by JUNK’D. This is where it stands after one actual playtest with coworkers and a lot of solo runs.
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Thunder Junk’d, Part I
I’m going back to Thunder Road’s roots and hacking Runehammer Games’ JUNK’D. This is HACK’D.
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Never Want For NPC Names Again
There are two places I go when I need an NPC name: The NIH Drug Information Portal and IKEA Let’s take them for a spin! Let’s see… we’ve got Brogrund, who sounds like a dwarf to me, possibly a dwarven skater. He puts the “bro” in Brogrund. Next, we have Desoxyn, who isn’t just methamphetamine
