Archive for July, 2009

Dance and the Dawn: What’s the game like?

Friday, July 31st, 2009

The Dance and the Dawn is a game for 3-5 players and is played over a chessboard. One player plays the part of the Narrator (and will control the Duke and Queen, as well as several Lords), and the other players will each control one of the Ladies. The game is a bit of a [...]

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[How to Host a Dungeon] and the GrimDark Song of the Pyrple Wyrm

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

I played How to Host a Dungeon the other evening, and it was a surprising amount of fun. It’s solo game of procedural dungeon creation, with emergent narratives and everything.
Let me tell you about my dungeon.

In the Primordial age… three rivers cut through the bedrock below. (The River of Delusion, the River of Phantasmagoria, and [...]

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Dance and the Dawn: a retrospective, and some news

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

The Dance and the Dawn was developed in the course of the “Iron Game Chef: Fantasy” contest, where participants had a week to develop a fantasy-themed game in a week’s time, using a number of pre-established elements, such as “Dawn” and “Island”.
I developed the game in a mad rush over a few days (1 2 [...]

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