Fortress: Ameritrash Blog

So there's a game design I've been working on (and off) for the past year or so, called Jesters, where the basic idea is that each player is an indie jester working on the medieval entertainment scene. After a couple of early versions that didn't really work in playtests, the third main version worked reasonably well and drew some prototype requests from some small publishers who had read the rules. But the thing is, once I playtested that version, which was kind of a combination of worker placement, efficiency and area majority, I was thinking, yeah, there's...

I JUST CODED INFORMATION ON FRENCH POLITICIANS ALL FUCKING DAY AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH      ...on the other hand, if you do find yourself in the Est circumscription of France on Saturday, please, please do us all a favor and vote PCF to get this comically ridiculous Frenchman into the EP.  He needs YOUR vote since he's way down on the list in 8th position.

One of the aspects of running an online store is packing and shipping orders to customers.  Now, generally we have to purchase the boxes from a wholesale supplier due to the variety of sizes of orders and games that we get.   However, we do get a ton of boxes and packing materials from our own distributors as well.  And its the reuse of those materials that are sometimes of concern. Packing materials are generally always reused (except the black trash bags that one distributor once used. I'm not sure what that was about).  Especially when we get...

i am way too old to hold this point of view legitimately, and in addition, i am not even sure quite how far i agree with what i am about to write here, but i want to put a counterpoint, a position that perhaps you agree with or perhaps you think this line of thinking is pathetic garbage of the weakest calibre...  mr. michael barnes has a column on the site where in the latest iteration he momentarily bangs the drum for the latest star trek movie, pontifcating about how the it successfuly breaks away from it's grim,...