Inside GMT Dyson’s Dodecahedron Bruce Heard and New Stories Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerTrion (the company behind the English version of ArcheAge) can’t seem to catch a break. They were having lots of network latency on the servers (enough so that they ended up with overlapping properties because of server confusion!), so they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Me and Smudge (especially her) have been looking at War in the North since it was announced. The initial reviews of buggyness were disappointing, and the fact that it just seemed to disappear from view after release. But, it’s been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was originally going to be a completely different essay, but I’ve realized it’s past time to tighten up my definitions some, so I’m not continuing having to stop and figure out/explain pieces of my foundation just so I can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Smudge and I are still continuing through ArcheAge. One disappointment is that the number of dungeons seems to be pretty small. We’re currently level 33+, and have only seen one (for level 20) so far. At least we had a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve spent the last few days poking my way through the next Age of Wonders scenario, “The First Conflict”. Spare time has been a little sparse, so my playing was fairly broken up. It’s also a substantially bigger scenario. In[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After finishing my latest game of MoM, I took another look at my options. I’ve been wanting to stick with earlier fantasy conquest games, and I’m mostly ending up playing on Azuna. This leaves Heroes I/II out (which I did[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For my next game of Master of Magic, I went for the default all Arcane mage, Jafar, and turned the land size down to ‘medium’, so there were lots of separate landmasses to deal with. My initial continent just had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Some of this is cribbed from various videogamegeek posts…. ArcheAge is a new FTP MMORPG from Korean Developer XL Games and published by Trion (Rift). Smudge and I tried it out during open Beta, and have been playing for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: this post largely cribbed from comments on videogamegeek…. After losing as Rjak, I thought I’d play another game of Master of Magic as a default one-realm mage. In this case, I took Tauron, with 10 Chaos spell books and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Medieval-style fantasy has long had a strong hold on the imagination. It didn’t take long for fantasy to become a popular genre in computer games either. As various board wargame-derivative designs evolved during the ’80s, a fairly distinct genre that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…