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MattDP
Written by: MattDP
I’m not a game designer. I have some ideas, but I doubt that I’d ever have the patience and perseverance required to see a design through from inception to endless rounds of play testing to a final f...
June 11th, 2009
Written by: MattDP
I was expecting to be playing Napoleon's Triumph at my game group last night, since it's the current hot ticket, but on a whim I took along The Fury of Dracula (the GW edition) instead. I'm currently r...
June 9th, 2009
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#Cast you mind a good few months and hopefully you'll recall that co-operative games are al rubbish. So it might seem a bit of a surprise to see this piece on here authored by me, especially considering t...
June 3th, 2009
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#People don’t tend to like to think of themselves as part of aminority, and especially not a minority of a minority. Such a positioncan engender a perverse sense of pride in being one a small number...
June 1th, 2009
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# When I was about 8 years old I found an old book at a book sale called "What is Dungeons and Dragons". It described some bizarre sort of game where the players wandered about being minor hero...
May 22th, 2009
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Fun n. 1. A source of enjoyment, amusement, or pleasure. 2. Enjoyment; amusement: have fun at the beach. 3. Playful, often noisy, activity. - American Heritage Dictionary 1...
May 12th, 2009
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#I've had myself another fill of old trash culture recently, some films, some books, although I've not been doing a lot of video gaming of late, so there's no computer games for you this time. Format is t...
April 24th, 2009
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#As you probably all know I make periodic statistical checks on games that are highly rated amongst players in the Ameritrash community. For these numbers to have any meaning, inevitably I have to have a ...
April 23th, 2009
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#Let me paint you a picture: one which will likely be horribly familiar for most of you. You’re playing a game - a long game, but a good one. The first two or three hours were utterly fantastic and had ...
April 23th, 2009
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# I've made no secret of the fact that I'm a bit of a Tolkien nerd. Not so much of a Tolkien nerd that I have researched extensively what a greater obsessive once described to me as "the external te...
April 22th, 2009
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#The explosion of the game scene on the internet has had a series of unexpected consequences. I’ve discussed one or two of the negative ones in the past but on the whole its been excellent, positiv...
April 17th, 2009
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# Last column I had Mad Dog step up to the plate and complain that no-one ever posts about Ameritrash games here anymore, so I determined to do a mega-dose of trash for my next pieces. I wanted to stuff ...
April 14th, 2009
Written by: MattDP
#Age of Conan first caught my eye when I heard it described as a simpler, shorter, multi-player version of War of the Ring. Being someone who loved WotR but thought it suffered somewhat from being comple...
April 6th, 2009
Written by: MattDP
It often seems to me that when it comes time to write my column, the stars align and I suddenly see that several of the game-related thoughts that have occured to me during the week actually have a con...
March 30th, 2009
Written by: MattDP
#I have a confession to make: in spite of it being a favourite whipping boy of many gamers whose opinions I respect, I’ve been nosing around Race for the Galaxy recently, although I’ve never...
March 23th, 2009
196. Zalgo
Written by: MattDP
# I first came across Zalgo early last week whilst browsing my favourite humour site b3ta. A little delving later and I found myself hooked on a small but intriguing internet phenomenon. It seemed ...
March 16th, 2009
Written by: MattDP
# I spent a recent column trying to take a different view of what it is that unites us all under the banner of "Ameritrash". But there's one particular unifying factor that I forgot, and whi...
March 2th, 2009
Written by: MattDP
#One thing I didn’t mention in my last column about keeping up with my resolution to play the games I own an awful lot more was that I have recently been attempting to organise a new local gaming ...
February 23th, 2009
Written by: MattDP
# You may recall a column from a couple of weeks back which sprang from a discussion I'd been having with Pedro Silva. It's proved a pretty rich vein in which to mine for column inspiration - in the la...
February 16th, 2009
Written by: MattDP
# In my last column of 2008, I made a public declaration that I was going to use John Farrels’ excellent stats tracking facility to actually try and make a concrete, measurable effort to play my ...
February 9th, 2009
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