Below are things I’ve learned or found interesting in the past month: Uranus is the only planet named after a Greek (rather than Roman) god. The (English) discoverer wanted to name it afte...
Miro and Street Magic
Miro is an online whiteboard and collaboration tool. It was designed for office workers to scribble out ideas on virtual post-it notes and draw lines between them, like a mix of Visio and a conspir...
Things I Love
I considered this as an entry to my Digital Garden, but that is a place for organizing personal thoughts, and this is a place to share. These, I want to share. I may continue this series in the fut...
Cornhenge
Twelve years ago, my hometown spent 1.5 million dollars on corn. Not the kind you can eat, mind you, but big metal stalks in the middle of a roundabout. Not a roundabout people used, either. When t...
Game Design Roundup 1
Great ideas an innovation are rampant in the RPG space, and I want to highlight two that I’ve seen recently. Playing with character sheets First, over on reddit, user Wabriel shares a brilliant i...
June Roundup
Below are things I’ve learned or found interesting in the past month: A British Super Smash Brothers player was disqualified from a North-American tournament he had illegally entered. The ...
The Two Truths and a Lie approach to NPC design
Two Truths and a Lie approach to NPC design All you have to do is imagine a character and say three things that are true. He’s the king’s advisor He’s the most loyal servant of the realm H...
May Roundup
May Roundup Below are things I’ve learned or found interesting in the past month: The now-ubiquitous score track on the outside of many board games was invented by Wolfgang Kramer in 1982...
Lacy's Great Escape
I used to trust my dog. She had a fancy collar, and a matching door. It was a doggy door, but not one of those flaps that a Home Along burglar could wriggle through. This was a pane of glass that ...
What to expect when you're Kickstarting (part 2)
The Campaign Itself What should it look like? Make a video. 30 seconds to three minutes. Ideally show off the art, but most importantly, tell me what I’m getting. Art sells games, and people resp...