When you start making a game or book or product, one of the questions you will soon be faced with is How much disclosure? In other words, how much should you show people about your product? How much should you give away for free? How much should...
Getting players to continue their interest in a game is a bit like getting a reader to continue with your story. How do you keep them interested? How do you keep them thinking about the game and wanting to carry it on? The best way this works...
I've been stumbling around slowly learning how to make great adventures. You'd think it'd be easy, but it's not. Particularly if you don't take stand alone modules but instead let a story grow organically, based on the problems the players are faced with, and then...
I recently ran a few games at Aethercon IV, the Online Convention. As you might be able to tell from the name, it's the fourth year that it's been running, and I've been lucky enough to be part of it from the beginning. That alone...
I've had an intense last couple of months. Churning through well over 100 pages of the manuscript (250 is the target size), I've also hammered through the rules to make sure they're the best, simplest and most streamlined they can be. And it's been an...