Anything y’all want looked into?
Can you get an advance copy of Widower’s Sky? Or an interview with Whaleo to get some insight into the game, release dates, etc?
And I’d love to hear more about Warhammer Quest 2, too. To. Two. Also…
How’s your AH LCG campaign going? Have you done a campaign yet? Do one and write about it. The Journal of Spoiler A. Lert.
You could inquire a little about Playdek’s plans for the near future. Or Coding Monkeys. Or Simogo.
What I personally would find fitting as well would be articles like the ones on WIRED… IT/People/Society.
Or more hardware news… Not every tiny new invention, but the SWITCH for example could have been mentioned there, or the features of a new iPad etc.
I’d love to see the definitive history of the FunSockets/Goko/Making Fun disaster.
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I am friggin’ terrible at this. I can’t commit. I’ve now written four different versions, one complete and three almost complete, and every time I think “This sucks. Should I fix it now or finish it badly and then revise? Screw it, I’m starting over a different way.”
Anyway, just wanted to let you know I’m not just ignoring all these cool ideas. Many thanks for them! A big part of the reason I write is to learn to write better, so this is a good challenge.
It would be interesting, if you guys are still connected, to get a debrief of the game Owen made.
I find things like that fascinating and saw a few articles that TA did with the butterscotch shenanigans guys and crashlands.
I guess I want to know more about the process and the teams behind the games; both successful or otherwise
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The process of porting to mobile.
I know it can sound a bit dry, but there are a lot of technical and design sensibilities involved. The ports we’ve seen range from so brilliant they improve the original experience (FTL, through some quite subtle changes), to good to competent (Invisible Inc., XCOM), or rough (Qvadriga, before it was fixed) to unplayable (Sid Meier’s Colonization).
Talking to lots of people might be a bit arduous, but maybe seeing how one of the specialist firms do it could be cool. Blitworks did the Invisble Inc. ports, for example.
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Okay, the Arkham Extras thing has been a ton of fun, and pulled me out of my comfort zone. So, A) many thanks, and B) now I keep coming back to thinking about more stuff to do with that. One of the things I haven’t seen a lot (though I’ve not read the fiction, so perhaps I’m simply unaware of it) is cool little bits of history or wider period-appreciation story beats. So I’ve been reading some stuff which might relate, and have started looking into World War I.
Which leaves me feeling like maybe I have an excuse to look into GMT’s Fields of Despair. I love the tactile experience of block games, but I’d probably only get to play it solo. Would y’all have an interest in a review of FoD played solo? Anyone played it and have thoughts on whether I should indulge purely for the joy of it?
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I keep hoping it’ll hit Mac someday so I’ll be able to play it. Last Days of Old Earth, it was, and it looked excellent (based of the old Armageddon Empires, which was a great design marred by serious performance problems).
I’d enjoy that.
And I’d enjoy anything that’s along the same lines with board games. I’m actually a board gamer more than a app-gamer (though of course, as with most people here, I love the board game apps 
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So content like the Arkham Extras looking at other board or war gaming stuff would be great!
I’d be curious about which board gaming conventions might be most worth attending. I saw @Neumannium wrote he is going to Dice Tower Con. World Boardgaming Championships looks pretty fun too, and there is international table top day, and that boardgaming cruise ship, and when and where is the first Stately Play Con? I went to one or two nerd-cons in my youth, but have no idea which ones might be compelling now, say for someone in their 30s-40s?
For those in the Pacific Northwest, Dragonflight is the last weekend in August. It’s in Bellevue (suburb of Seattle) and is always a lot of fun.
And it’s not huge, like Origins/Gencon/etc. It’s just gamers getting together and playing games.
I have never been to a con. Good idea for someone to write up, though–I’ll mention it to the others and see if anyone’s better suited than I.
Cool, let me know if Stately Play needs me to fly out somewhere and report, otherwise I’ll await the SP-con… SuPerCon? [edit-- I googled supercon and it exists already, StatelyCon?]
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