First off, I’ve been getting a couple of requests from game designers for me to do reviews, which is flattering. However, “What I Learned” isn’t really a series of reviews so much as a way to deconstruct games I’ve played because I’ve either learned something or it illustrates something I consider important – I’ve skipped [...]
For the past four months, I’ve been playing Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney on my iPhone, ever since Russell convinced me to check out its conversation and interrogation system. I haven’t finished (or really even started) the fifth “bonus” case, but I’ve played enough to babble about it for a bit. If it looks like a [...]
Before I get into Echo Bazaar, I want to talk a bit about the past “What I Learned” posts – “what I learned about ‘What I Learned’,” if you will. I learned that a lot of people read those posts, and that while I had thought that this blog was primarily read by people who [...]
Continuing through my queue of games that I’ve learned from, here’s what I learned from playing The Path. (Special thanks to Link Hughes for buying a copy for me, even if he mocked me later for playing it.) Before I dive into this, The Path is really one of those games you absolutely love or [...]
I haven’t done this in a long time, and the breakdown I did of “The Witcher” is one of the most-viewed pages on my site. So, I’ll start going through my Steam queue and catching up on these not-quite-reviews and not-quite-game-design-deconstructions. Over the summer I played 25 hours of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, and [...]
Full disclosure: I’ve had a couple of drinks with Matt in the past. However, I paid for my own copy of this book. (Yes, another review. What can I say? I had some time to get some reading done over vacation. And I picked up Amortals about the same time as In Hero Years…I’m Dead. [...]
Full Disclosure: I have met Mike Stackpole professionally a couple of times. I paid for this book myself, and wasn’t compensated in any way for it. I’ve been a fan of Mike Stackpole’s since I read his Fiddleback trilogy of novels. When I saw him post on his Twitter that he was releasing a new [...]