Tag: Review
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Who is Player One?
My first game, Game of Runes 1: The Swamp of Nok, is a fantasy narrative adventure. With combat, traps, encounters with strange folk, it’s a fun example of the genre. Give it a go and let me know how you get on. But while I love. love. love narrative fiction games, playing Game of Runes is limited to people with a reasonable…
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What makes a great game or gamebook?
The key to making an online game or writing a gamebook is simplicity, but not the type of simplicity you might imagine. What’s crucial is not the simplicity of the mechanics of the game that the players never see or are perhaps not even aware of, but it’s the simplicity of use to the player that…
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How to write the gamebook journey
The journey your player takes is crucial to the success of the game. It may be a twisty journey with side quests and diversions and possibly dead ends (I’m not a fan of dead ends myself, there are no dead ends in Monopoly after all) – but what all journeys must have is a well-defined…
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Amazing art of Aaron Howdle
This blogpost is an appreciation of the work of super-talented artist, Aaron Howdle who was kind enough to send me the awesome steampunk submarine illustration at the top of this post. A DM chat led me to his website where reside more incredible work. My father was a draughtsman and growing up he had a…
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