Ludic Writing: Lady of the West

Have you heard about Ludic Writing? It’s a new series I started up on Entropy last fall, using gameplay as an engine to drive fiction. The newest work generated from this grand experiment is “Lady of the West,” inspired by a play of Tim Fowers’ original deckbuilding word game, Paperback. When the mayor of lawless Narrow […]

Intrinsic Value

My word, is it 2015 again already? These universe cycles go so quickly these days. Next thing you know, it will be the Big Squish all over again. 2014 was a good year for me. That’s how I plan on thinking about it, at any rate. While some aspects of my personal and professional life […]

Season’s Bleatings

It’s true that I haven’t posted on this website of late. I’ve been too busy transforming my life into a nightmarish montage of self-imposed deadlines and unquenchable exhaustion. But now! Now I have something for you, darling readers. Halloween is my favorite time of year, and I have been exceptionally busy (even for me) […]

You’re Not My Mom

You’re not the boss of me. I can review a game I’ve already reviewed if I wanna. See? Boss Monster Card Game Review So naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Rant Gaming Round-Up: 10/27-11/02

What a week! It started out on a high note with Boss Monster: A Not So Old School Review. Not So Old School is by far my favorite thing to write about at Rant Gaming, and it’s even better when I get an advance review copy of an excellent crowdfunded game! Be sure to check […]

Rant Gaming Round-Up: 10/20-10/26

Welcome back to the Rant Gaming Round-Up, your weekly update on the new video game and board game content written by yours truly. Well, almost weekly updated. As you may have noticed, this Rant Gaming Round-Up has an end date of 10/26, while the current calendar date is 10/31 (as long as you have a […]

Rant Gaming Round-Up: 10/13-10/19

Now THIS is what I’m talking about! A week that started out with a sort of consolation prize for poor people (Not So Old School’s list of the Top 10 FREE Board Games for Halloween) ended up delivering a few unexpected, but not unappreciated, gifts to gamers great and small. For example…. Sony Announces Deadly […]

Rant Gaming Round Up: 10/6-10/12

This was a slow week for Rant Gaming articles, but I have a good excuse! Training! That’s right, I’m now (training to be) a certified member of the workforce! Economy get! So, let’s see what I was able to squeeze into my busy, busy schedule…. The main bulk of the week’s posts went to Not […]

Rant Gaming Round-Up 9/29-10/5

In the gaming world, we’re entering what I like to call Interesting Times. Christmas is, from the point of view of retailers and publishers, just around the corner, which means that we’ll be seeing a solid three months of hotly-anticipated, ridiculously overhyped titles, lauded with superlatives such as “THE Game of the Year 2012!” (conveniently […]

Rant Gaming Round-Up 09/22-09/28

Another busy busy week for me. We moved! Again! And then I had a reading! In LA! With a lot of cool people! Not much time to sleep! Not much time to write! Out of coffee! Gotta keep my fingers moving! Here’s some gaming stuff! This week’s Not So Old School review wasn’t a review […]