I’ve worked in the videogame industry since 1996, and some of the first games I shipped were on the Game Boy. That’s a long time to watch game design evolve, along with the hardware to push pixels. Somewhere back in the Xbox 360 era, I came up with a fun XBLA game concept — Dinosaurs […]
Tag: old west
This month’s free adventure is St. Cecilia’s Blasphemous Bordello. It’s a creepy, investigative horror adventure set in the old west. But I’m going to use this adventure to talk about the problem with all modern-era big bads. The problem is this. With magic and melee deemphasized, the toughest RPG boss can barely last a turn […]
I was drawn back into Call of Cthulhu when one of my friends started running one-shot adventures for his teenage son. Suddenly, even old, barely-remembered adventures like The Haunting were magical again, and we were all having a blast tromping around abandoned cabins, fleeing cultists and Deep One-infested lighthouses, and laughing as we inevitably went crazy and died horribly […]
