Archive for June, 2010

Sunday we drove back from our trip to Columbus, Ohio and the 2010 Origins Game Fair. As usual, the convention was a great time. Unfortunately, this year was unusual in that many of the typical Ithaca crew weren’t able to make it for one reason or another. Folks from the East Coast that were able… »

Not long ago, a gaming acquaintance sent me a copy of a game he’s working on and asked me to playtest it. What I’ve learned from this experience is very simple: Make playtesting your game as easy as possible. If you can, provide playtest packages containing everything needed to play. If you can make playtesting… »

I don’t like heights. I will go so far as to say that I fear them, mainly because they make me feel dizzy and think that I’m going to fall and die. This makes it exceedingly difficult for me to clean our rain gutters. The last guy we paid to clean out the rain gutters… »

This weekend we went to the first Wixercon of 2010. As usual, it was a good time. This time around I ran games of Microscope and Lady Blackbird, both of which, in retrospect, were a bit unsuitable to the nature and setting of the convention. They both played out tolerably well, nonetheless. Friday night, Britt… »