Recently playing a little of the "roguelike" computer game Brogue , I was struck by one aspect of its stripped-down design. You ar...

I've been playing the browser game Four Scepters . Like Grow RPG , it's a puzzle game disguised as a fantasy adventure, but with an ...

One of my regrets from the past year, indeed the whole past of this blog, is trying to design rules systems that meet a theoretical need rat...

"The problem with this new generation is that they grew up on computer games that hand everything to them. They don't have the gump...

Amusing? Entertaining? Infuriating? These are some possible reactions to the "one page computer RPG" Parameters, by Nekogames . Th...

Not only did the hex-and-counter game suffer a sharp decline in the 1980's, but the medium was not that well suited to depicting a fant...

From Metafilter comes a link to a really well-written blog that covers a lot of history relevant to old-school gaming: cardboard, paper and ...

Although I've stopped playing it, the development of the vast, ponderous, procedurally generated, obsessive-compulsive amazingness that ...