Warriors Adventure Game

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 [...]

Bluefishworks Posters

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 [...]

Touch Technologies: Chrome

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 [...]

RPGs Were Always Going To Beat Brain Training

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 [...]

Endless Ocean 2

Diving adventure Endless Ocean was quite successful on the Wii. The diving and exploration side of the game worked well, allowing players to meet a wide variety of marine wildlife. The ‘adventure’ gameplay was more limited and didn’t go beyond looking round some sunken ruins and searching for a mysterious white whale.

Catan Online

The Settlers of Catan boardgame is an excellent example of a tabletop game that allows players to use a deceptively straightforward rule set to enjoy a great variety of gameplay. Players may start the game with relatively few resources but those who think ahead, and adapt to changing circumstances, soon create plenty of [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21

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BBC Helps Out Bloggers

Games designers, bloggers, self-publishers and teachers/ lecturers might want to take a look at the free training materials for journalists released by the BBC.

The BBC’s own journalists use the same resources and they offer as high a quality of web content and ‘inside knowledge’ as you’re likely to come across on [...]

Touch Technologies and Gaming: Update 2

Nintendo recently released statements about being in no rush to produce an upgraded Wii console and a policy of delaying hardware releases until software support is in place. It was also suggested that the next versions of Zelda and Metroid Prime for the Wii would not be arriving any time soon.

With [...]

Tabletop RPGs and Skills: Part 3: Storytelling RPGs

Mouse Guard

The Mouse Guard RPG is based on David Petersen’s fantasy books about anthropomorphic mice combating the predators that threaten their territory. Players’ characters join the ‘Mouse Guard’ and play through plot driven adventures using a moderately complicated set of rules.

Mouse Guard Roleplaying Game

Playing the part of [...]