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By Thistle, on August 20th, 2010
Design games set out to help players to go beyond following the rules and gameplay presented by game designers. Most games can offer some level of design gaming in terms of making it easy to adjust or adapt the basic format of a game, e.g. minor changes to the rules when playing a [...]
By Thistle, on July 23rd, 2010
After collecting a bit of information from and about Kingdom of Adventure, we’re confident we’ve a few suggestions that can help to grow the business without jeopardising the existing customer base. They’re offered informally and presented as ‘zero cost’ options, so it’s up to the owner, or any other FLGS owner, to make [...]
By Thistle, on July 20th, 2010
An interesting email arrived from Favourite Local Game Store (FLGS) Kingdom of Adventure, which is based in the Scottish town of Kirkcaldy. The store’s owner runs a successful ‘comics, RPGs and wargames’ model that’s ideally suited to delivering a loyal customer base.
A quick look at the website, (and related [...]
By Thistle, on July 2nd, 2010
The second free Tabletop RPG promo featured this week is an interesting offering for kids. The Warriors Adventure Game is a short RPG based around the popular ‘warrior cats’ books by Erin Hunter. Unsurprisingly, players roleplay the adventures of the wild cats featured in the books.
The Warriors franchise adopts the Dragon [...]
By Thistle, on June 26th, 2010
Bluefishworks is a UK-based company offering a range of high-quality art and design posters. They also sell a wide selection of art and design books, as well as ‘art packs’ containing multiple copies of various famous works of art for passing round classes.
Our interest is in the posters, because they look [...]
By Thistle, on June 16th, 2010
Girls generally have more social skills at a younger age than boys. They also tend to be involved in more elaborate pre-school roleplaying than most boys. As girls get older many enjoy videogame RPGs, puzzle games and ARGs. They also take part in fantasy gaming ‘spin-offs’, such as writing fan fiction, visiting videogame [...]
By Thistle, on June 5th, 2010
The assumption with most books is that kids should and will use them to read quietly in much the same way as adults. Picture books for pre-school kids are a bit of an exception, as parents and carers often share stories and storytelling with younger kids. Thereafter, books typically become part of the [...]
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 simplified text
Single [...]
By Thistle, on April 25th, 2010
The iPad is already impressing as a gaming platform. Games such as Need For Speed 2 and Mirror’s Edge are selling well and shared gaming is appearing as a standard feature in suitable games. For instance, there’s a very slick Scrabble application for the iPad, with the extra option of letting everyone keep [...]
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 [...]
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