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Two amazing talks on the creation of "Legacy" style board gamesI've posted before about how I had the most amazing time playing the board game Pandemic Legacy. Pandemic (2007) is one of the most famous cooperative board games, and it is a great game in its own right. But the idea of a Legacy game is to add elements to the game that change each time you play it. Stickers are applied to cards, new boxes are opened revealing new pieces to play with, and new surprises are unveiled as an ongoing story unfolds over the course of a 12-24 games. It is an incredible experience -- by far the best gaming experience I've hard in decades of playing board games. It really makes me want to get into making one of these kinds of games.. Anyway, the designers of Pandemic Legacy recently gave a couple of talks on the development of the game, and the talks are surprisingly insightful and useful for anyone considering working on this kind of thing, and I hadn't realized how seriously they considered some of the issues that just seemed to flow naturally during the course of the games.. Highly recommended for anyone interested in this kind of thing.. Video 1: Video 2: http://gdcvault.com/...y-Games-From-Risk-to |
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Game Design KitThere was a thread a while back about prototyping games, and the high costs of doing so. But now, there's a kickstarter for that. The White Box: A Game Design Workshop-in-a-Box The White Box is a learning, planning, and prototyping tool for tabletop game designers. |
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Some long-overdue updates to my more popular apps - Mar 24, 2017 Mar 24, 2017: I've uploaded long-overdue updates to some of my more popular apps. The most significant improvement is that these apps should now look much better on high-DPI screens -- 4k displays and displays where the text size is set to something larger than 100%.
More updates will be coming soon.. |
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When testing untrustworthy software, remember virtual machines can be escapedFor those of us who occasionally test "untrustworthy" software from sources we can't be sure of, using a virtual machine is generally considered "safe". Whatever happens in a virtual machine stays in a virtual machine -- or so we hope. This is just a reminder that malware authors are actively trying to find ways to break out of virtual machines and infect the host pc, and to be careful. Contestants at this year's Pwn2Own hacking competition in Vancouver just pulled off an unusually impressive feat: they compromised Microsoft's heavily fortified Edge browser in a way that escapes a VMware Workstation virtual machine it runs in. The hack fetched a prize of $105,000, the highest awarded so far over the past three days. https://arstechnica....hat-escapes-vm-by-ex |
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Re: Hardware and software for quality youtube podcasting (for boardgaming)?Nice long article on getting your podcast recordings to sound amazing: "The ear training guide for audio producers" http://training.npr....for-audio-producers/ "This post will help you identify problematic audio, prevent the most common problems and recognize when it’s time to call for help. It’s a great reference guide for anyone who works with audio, from new producers to seasoned veterans." |
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