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Tabletop RPGs: Treasure v1.4

By Thistle, on April 27th, 2010

Version 1.4 of free tabletop fantasy RPG Treasure has just been released in xHTML. The game offers a full fantasy RPG at zero cost. Treasure is also a Graphic RPG, which lets players choose to display some, or all, skills, actions and events as images, icons or gestures.

New Features

Streamlined and greatly [...]

April 27th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Family Games, Images, Learning, Pen and Paper RPG, RPGs, Shared Gaming, Tabletop RPGs | Comments are closed

RPGs Were Always Going To Beat Brain Training

By Thistle, on April 22nd, 2010

The BBC report on further evidence that Brain Training software is of very limited value is here. This may sound like bad news for encouraging the use of games in homes, schools and libraries. It is to some extent, because the headlines may be remembered and held up as evidence against any use [...]

April 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Family Games, Games Design, Learning, Libraries, Pen and Paper RPG, Play, RPGs, Software, Tabletop RPGs, Videogames | Comments are closed

Fantasy Fiction: 7+

By Thistle, on April 16th, 2010

The Harry Potter books have to be commended and congratulated for getting so many kids interested in reading and fantasy books. However, they’re far from the only ‘Wizard School’ books suitable for kids of roughly 7-13.

The following titles offer much the same boarding school formula as Harry Potter but without [...]

April 16th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Books, Learning | Comments are closed

Prince of Persia

By Thistle, on April 8th, 2010

It’s difficult to write with any certainty about The Prince of Persia movie, which is presumably going to be a ‘by the numbers’ adventure. It’s also hard to predict whether or not Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is going to eclipse Zelda: Twilight Princess on the Wii.

It does, however, [...]

April 8th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Family Games, Play, RPGs, Software, Videogames | Comments are closed