Humble Bundle recently let me go down a rabbit hole and revisit the past with their Brian Michael Bendis bundle.
Friday, June 13, 2025
AKA Goldfish is a flawed early work but still delivers devastating gut punches
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Koala Rescue Club is a series of knife fights in phone booths with just one die
Koala Rescue Club is the second collaboration between Joey Games and Postmark games. It’s a Print and Play, Roll and Write game for as many players as you can cram in. It’s designed by Phil Walker-Harding, the same guy who designed Sushi Go, Imhotep and Barenpark. And part of the proceeds go to real life koala conservation.
Friday, June 6, 2025
Die rollers versus actual dice
I had already overcome my initial resistance to Roll and Writes when the 2020 lockdown hit but that really pushed me further into that particular niche of gaming. Not that I am alone in that.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Katrielle Layton deserved a better video game
When my wife, then fiancé, wanted to bring me back to the world of video games, two of the things she did was get me a DS and a copy of Professor Layton and the Curious Village.
Monday, June 2, 2025
My May Gaming
While May was a month where I made a lot of Print and Play Projects, it wasn’t a month where I learned a lot of new games. To be fair, I was making fresh copies of games or systems I was already familiar with.
Mysticana - Sorcerer’s Showdown
Advent of the Wyrms
Paper Pinball - Ski ‘93
Super Dice Heroes
99 (traditional card game)
Sunday, June 1, 2025
My May PnP
May ended up being a month with more PnP crafting than I had expected. A lot of them were small projects, laminating Roll and Writes pages. Still, it added up.
Mysticana - Three Spires
Decktet (minimal art deck)
Paper Pinball - Ski 93
Flip Freighters
Letter Snake
Paper Pinball - Sherwood 2146 (vol 1&2&2.5)
Paper Pinball - Wave Wizard
Paper Pinball - Squishington Goes to Venus
Dungeon of Gems
Judgement: A Nine Card Deck Building Game
Ukiyo
Paper Pinball - Wolf Hackers (vol 1&2&2.5)
Paper Pinball - Laser Sisters (vol 1&2.5)
Paper Pinball - Goblin Circus (vol 1&2)
Paper Pinball - Championship Boogerball
Paper Pinball - Sorcery School Sleuths
Paper Pinball - Fight Back the Winter
Paper Pinball - Space Marines vs Dragons
Super Dice Heroes
Delve - Starter Adventure
Devil Bunny Needs A Ham
Some Kind of Genius?
One Card Mazes
Shut the Box Cards
Escape of the Dead
Mysticana - The Queen’s Interests
Flipword
Friday, May 30, 2025
Advent of Wyrms doesn’t push any boundaries but I had fun
Advent of the Wyrms was one of the games that made me want to revisit the Decktet. It’s a soliatire game that was released in 2020 so it gave me a way to see what people have been doing with the Decktet more recently. For a certain definition of recent. I suppose.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
I won’t spoil Fire Force but, trust me, it’s far weirder than it looks
Thanks to Bundle of Holding, I have read through the entirety of the Fire Force manga by Atsushi Ohkubi. My initial impression of it was My Hero Academia as fire fighters. Which isn’t remotely accurate but I love me some My Hero Academia so that was enough to get me on board.
Monday, May 26, 2025
Adaman is a good but not to my taste
When I decided that I needed to revisit the Decktet with a focus on solitaire games, I knew that my starting place was going to be Adaman, It is one of the earliest Decktet games, developed by the same guy who developed the Decktet itself, P.D. Magnus. Now, I had played it before, about twelve years ago. On the one hand, I remembered almost nothing about the game. On the other hand, I did remember playing it, which is still something.
Friday, May 23, 2025
One Card Mazes is back on Kickstarter for a third season
One Card Mazes is currently running their third Kickstarter for a third set of their puzzles. Well, I got to do my part to get the word out.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
The Decktet’s vast potential
For years, I have said that if you were to only make one PnP project, it should be the Decktet. And, to be honest, I haven't changed my mind yet about that. It is one of the versatile one-and-done projects I can think of.