This F:AT Thursday was mostly devoted to Matt and Josh doing the vocal work for the upcoming F:AT Cast. It's been close to a year since they put one out so it was cool to see them back at it. They tried to get me to do a segment/rant for them but I don't think it turned out too well. Wasn't near as funny as I would have hoped. Perhaps Al will have mercy on me and just leave it on the cutting room floor where it belongs. We then broke out Cyclades again but...

I try VERY hard not to talk politics. However, when someone shoves an opinion in my face, I'm hard pressed not to say something.The other day, I was working an assembly line, and a very polished older Asian lady told me she wanted to show me a picture on her Iphone. I figured it was a picture of her kid or something, so I said OK. Besides, our line had stopped working (a rather common occurrence in our line of work at the USPS.)The lady clerk (we'll call her Judy for the sake of the rest...

My observations; The Characteristics of Games by George Skaff, Elias, Richard Garfield and K. Robert Gutschera. Its 04.20 am and I can't sleep. Usually when I can't sleep I read, and lately I've been reading this book. Fortunately I’ve just finished it, so I can give you my observations... Roughly a century ago history and geography were subjects of categorising and describing stuff. Most school kids are still taught this way, and pub quiz specialists...

Game Designer Survey Results   In the last half of December through the first part of February I distributed a survey for game designers on the Internet:  "This is a short (10 questions, five minutes or less) survey for people who call themselves game designers, video or tabletop (which is as good a way to define who game designers are as any other)."  In the end, 142 respondents have had a game published commercially, along with 46 self-publishers, more than half of the 346 respondents.  Here are the results.   Because...

I probably wasn't going to get it at $60, since I've grown averse to roll-and-move games. I'm fine with Runebound, because you can move in more than two directions and adding one deck of cards can radically change how the game is played, while any of the large expansions do so, as well, rather than just adding on to the main game a la Talisman. Caveat: As I've mentioned several times before, I owned a full set of 2nd Ed. Talisman and played it to death. I loved it, but I wasn't willing to fully reinvest...