Tomorrow, November 7th, is election day in the USA. for the past two weeks I’ve been getting pounded with canned calls and surveys from “news” organizations all wanting to know or change my vote.I hang up on the canned calls and I lie to the pollsters. Now I’m going to tell you why.Does anyone remember…
Day: November 6, 2006
Game Review: Run for Your Life, Candyman!
When the concept of Run For Your Life, Candyman! (Smirk & Dagger Games, 2005 – Curt Covert) was explained to me, I just started to laugh. During my first game of it everyone was laughing pretty much the entire time. It’s not like Candyman is a great game. In fact, it’s not even a good…
Game Design: What comes first, theme or mechanics? Part 1
I’ve been designing games for a long time, I don’t have many published but I have designed a lot.One question I often get is, “what do you do first, pick a theme or design a mechanic?” I hope to use this article to answer that question.Theme vs. mechanics is one of those “chicken and the…
Gaming the Digg: Friends
As many of you may already know, a while back Digg introduced a great “friends” system that allowed you to track what your friends Dugg/submitted. This was designed to help you find good stories from good submitters. It was great, then it got changed.I have been reading the blogs of various big name Diggers and…