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in line and everything will be just fine. two articles I fired up Noctis to see the Which, frankly, is about how many of us insanity for myself. That is the loneliest think to this day. With the exception of a game I’ve ever played. For those of you who fell asleep during very brave few. the classical mythology portion of your In response to “Development in a - Danjo Olivaw higher education, the stories all go like In this issue of The Escapist, we take a Vacuum” from The Escapist Forum: this: Some guy decides he no longer look at the stories of a few, brave souls As for the fact that thier isolation has In response to “Footprints in needs the gods, sets off to prove as in the game industry who, for better or been a benefit to them rather than a Moondust” from The Escapist Forum: much and promptly gets smacked down. worse, decided that they, too, were hindrance, that’s what I discussed with I’d just like to say this was a fantastic destined to make their dreams a reality. Oveur (Nathan Richardsson) while in article. I think I’ll have to read Olaf Prometheus, Sisyphus, Icarus, Odysseus, Some actually succeeded, while others Vegas earlier this year at the EVE the stories are full of men who, for crashed and burned. We in the game Gathering. The fact that Iceland is such whatever reason, believed that they industry may not have jealous, angry small country, with a very unique culture were not bound by the normal gods against which to struggle, but and the fact that most of the early CCP constraints of mortality. -
Runequestrunequest
RUNEQUESTRUNEQUEST The Fantasy Role-Playing Game BY STEVE PERRIN RAY TURNEY STEVE HENDERSON WARREN JAMES with editing and special sections by John Sapienza and Greg Stafford illustrations by LUISE PERRIN Sartar and Prax maps by WILLIAM CHURCH based on the universe created by GREG STAFFORD with second-edition clarifications and corrections added by STEPHEN J WELLS 1 This book is dedicated to Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax, who first opened Pandora's box, and to Ken St. Andre, who found it could be opened again. With thanks to the following playtesters and critics - Richard Barnhart Ken Kaufer Greg Stafford Clint Bigglestone Bill Keyes Anders Swenson Ann Bruner Rudy Kraft Art Turney George Bruner Charlie Krank Bill Voorhees Ruth Bruner Jody Lee Warren Walton Mark Chilenskas Les Lugar Al Dewey Steve Marsh special 2nd edition thanks to Don Dupont Hal Moe Mark Chilenskas Tadashi Ehara Gordon Monson Bill Keyes David Forthoffer Hendrik Pfeifer Dan Pierson Hilda Hannifen Dan Pierson John Sapienza Owen Hannifen Hilary Powers Greg Stafford Terry Jackson Zack Richardson Anders Swenson Bill Johnson Rory Root Bill Jouris John Sapienza Sherman Kahn Wayne Shaw and all the playtesters whose names we forgot to get, and the contributors to ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS, THE WILD HUNT, and THE LORDS OF CHAOS, who helped us find what was needed for the second edition. I INTRODUCTION 3 weapons use and training 24 VII RUNE MAGIC 53 background 4 missile weapons 27 mastering the Runes 53 map: Glorantha 6 shields 28 Rune cults 54 Pelorian Chronology (3rd age) 7 armor 28 -
DRAGON Magazine Is Still Read the Ecology of the DRAGON® Magazine (ISSN 0279-6848) Is by the Same Kind of People
D RAGON 1 Publisher: Mike Cook Editor-in-Chief: Kim Mohan On this day. Editorial staff: Roger Raupp Contents Patrick Lucien Price Mary Kirchoff Vol. IX, No. 1 June 1984 Roger Moore On this day in 1976, the first issue of Layout designer: Kristine L. Bartyzel DRAGON® Magazine rolled off the press. SPECIAL ATTRACTION Subscriptions: Mellody Knull (Which day? Oh, sometime in June. When Contributing Editors: Ed Greenwood a magazine has a birthday, it lasts for a Great Stoney . .41 Katherine Kerr month.) Way back then, it was The Ken Rolston All the parts you need to make Dragon without the ®. It was produced Advertising Sales Administrator: a miniature cardboard castle Mary Parkinson by two people, and it was read by a healthy This issues contributing artists: proportion of all the people who were de- voted to the new hobby of fantasy role- Denis Beauvais Harry Quinn Roger Raupp Dave Trampier playing. Dennis Kauth Kurt Erichsen The name is different now, and the staff Jerry Eaton Craig Smith is a little larger, but some things never OTHER FEATURES Jeff Butler Larry Elmore change. DRAGON Magazine is still read The ecology of the DRAGON® Magazine (ISSN 0279-6848) is by the same kind of people. The hobby isnt published monthly for a subscription price of $24 slithering tracker. .9 new any more, and a lot more people are per year by Dragon Publishing, a division of involved in it, but the basic makeup of our Dont look now, but . TSR, Inc. The mailing address of Dragon Publishing for all material except subscription readership is the same now as it was when Familiars with a special use . -
MARCH 1St 2018
March 1st We love you, Archivist! MARCH 1st 2018 Attention PDF authors and publishers: Da Archive runs on your tolerance. If you want your product removed from this list, just tell us and it will not be included. This is a compilation of pdf share threads since 2015 and the rpg generals threads. Some things are from even earlier, like Lotsastuff’s collection. Thanks Lotsastuff, your pdf was inspirational. And all the Awesome Pioneer Dudes who built the foundations. Many of their names are still in the Big Collections A THOUSAND THANK YOUS to the Anon Brigade, who do all the digging, loading, and posting. Especially those elite commandos, the Nametag Legionaires, who selflessly achieve the improbable. - - - - - - - – - - - - - - - - – - - - - - - - - - - - - - - – - - - - - – The New Big Dog on the Block is Da Curated Archive. It probably has what you are looking for, so you might want to look there first. - - - - - - - – - - - - - - - - – - - - - - - - - - - - - - - – - - - - - – Don't think of this as a library index, think of it as Portobello Road in London, filled with bookstores and little street market booths and you have to talk to each shopkeeper. It has been cleaned up some, labeled poorly, and shuffled about a little to perhaps be more useful. There are links to ~16,000 pdfs. Don't be intimidated, some are duplicates. Go get a coffee and browse. Some links are encoded without a hyperlink to restrict spiderbot activity. You will have to complete the link. Sorry for the inconvenience. Others are encoded but have a working hyperlink underneath. Some are Spoonerisms or even written backwards, Enjoy! ss, @SS or $$ is Send Spaace, m3g@ is Megaa, <d0t> is a period or dot as in dot com, etc. -
FANTASY GAMES and SOCIAL WORLDS Simulation As Leisure
>> Version of Record - Sep 1, 1981 What is This? Downloaded from sag.sagepub.com at SAGE Publications on December 8, 2012 FANTASY GAMES AND SOCIAL WORLDS Simulation as Leisure GARY ALAN FINE University of Minnesota As the longevity and success of this journal attest, simulation games have had a considerable impact on the scholarly commun- ity, spawning cottage industries and academic specialties. Simu- lation gaming is now well established as a legitimate academic pursuit and teaching tool. Simultaneous with the growth of educational games, the 1970s witnessed the development and popularity of other role-playing games, essentially simulations, which have enjoyment and fantasy as their major goals. These games are known generically as fantasy role-playing games. My intent in this article is to describe the games, discuss the relationship of these games to similar activities (including educational simulations), describe the players, and examine their reasons for participating in this social world. By studying these play forms, researchers who specialize in educational simulations can observe parallels in this leisure activity. AUTHOR’S NOTE: The author would like to thank Sherryl Kleinman and Linda Hughes for comments on previous drafts of this article. SIMULATION ~c GAMES, Vol. 12 No. 3, September I981 251-279 @ 1981 Sage Pubhcations, Inc. 251 Downloaded from sag.sagepub.com at SAGE Publications on December 8, 2012 252 WHAT IS FANTASY ROLE-PLAY GAMING? A &dquo;[fantasy] role-playing game&dquo; has been defined as &dquo;any game which allows a number of players to assume the roles of imaginary characters and operate with some degree of freedom in an imaginary environment&dquo; (Lortz, 1979b: 36). -
Wargamer's Newsletter
1*1 Wargamer's Newsletter A MONTHLY MAGAZINE FOR THOSE WHO FIGHT BATTLES WITH MODEL SOLDIERS MINIATURE FIGURINES LIMITED What we made in 1972 Others will make in 1973 TRUE FULL 5 mm. POSTAGE SCALE CATALOGUE 25 mm. EXTRA FIGURES 25p 30 mm. Miniature Figurines take thisopportunity ofwishing you a very Happy New Year with YET another new range of25 mm. Figures for your future Wargaming and Collecting. SAMURAI INFANTRY at 6 \ p each P.B 10-1 Marino of Augustus P.B 10!i Logionarius of the Early1st Century A.D. Sam 1 Samurai Warrior with Sword P.B Samurai Warrior with Spear 106 Cinturio of Legio XX Valeria P.B 107 Sam 3 Peasant with Sword Centurio of Legion XI Claudia Sam 4 P.B 108 Dalmatian Light Infantryman - Early 1st Century Sam 5 Peasant with Bow Sam 6 Peasant with Bamboo Spear P.B 113 Legionarius of the later 1st and Early 2nd Cen Sam 7 Peasant with Spear and Sword turies A.D. Sam 8 Samurai Warrior Archer P.B 116 Standard Bearer of tho 1st and 2nd Centuries A.D. P.B 118 Light Infantryman of the Later 1st and 2nd Cen SAMURAI CAVALRY at 17p each turies A.D. P.B 119 Asiatic Archers SamC 1 Mounted Samurai Warrior with Spoor P.B 120 Asiatic Archers SamC 2 Mounted Samurai Warrior Archer P.B 121 Barbarian Symmachiaruis SamC 3 Mounted Samurai Warrior with Sword P.B 123 Legionarius of tho Later 2nd and Early 3rd Con- tunes A.D. MONGUL INFANTRY at 6*p each P.B 124 Light Infantry of tho Lator 2nd and Early3rd Cen turies A.O. -
Module 2 Roleplaying Games
Module 3 Media Perspectives through Computer Games Staffan Björk Module 3 Learning Objectives ■ Describe digital and electronic games using academic game terms ■ Analyze how games are defined by technological affordances and constraints ■ Make use of and combine theoretical concepts of time, space, genre, aesthetics, fiction and gender Focuses for Module 3 ■ Computer Games ■ Affect on gameplay and experience due to the medium used to mediate the game ■ Noticeable things not focused upon ■ Boundaries of games ■ Other uses of games and gameplay ■ Experimental game genres First: schedule change ■ Lecture moved from Monday to Friday ■ Since literature is presented in it Literature ■ Arsenault, Dominic and Audrey Larochelle. From Euclidian Space to Albertian Gaze: Traditions of Visual Representation in Games Beyond the Surface. Proceedings of DiGRA 2013: DeFragging Game Studies. 2014. http://www.digra.org/digital- library/publications/from-euclidean-space-to-albertian-gaze-traditions-of-visual- representation-in-games-beyond-the-surface/ ■ Gazzard, Alison. Unlocking the Gameworld: The Rewards of Space and Time in Videogames. Game Studies, Volume 11 Issue 1 2011. http://gamestudies.org/1101/articles/gazzard_alison ■ Linderoth, J. (2012). The Effort of Being in a Fictional World: Upkeyings and Laminated Frames in MMORPGs. Symbolic Interaction, 35(4), 474-492. ■ MacCallum-Stewart, Esther. “Take That, Bitches!” Refiguring Lara Croft in Feminist Game Narratives. Game Studies, Volume 14 Issue 2 2014. http://gamestudies.org/1402/articles/maccallumstewart ■ Nitsche, M. (2008). Combining Interaction and Narrative, chapter 5 in Video Game Spaces : Image, Play, and Structure in 3D Worlds, MIT Press, 2008. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://chalmers.instructure.com/files/738674 ■ Vella, Daniel. Modelling the Semiotic Structure of Game Characters. -
Thank You All So Much for Making the Time to Come to My Early Morning Presentation
Thank you all so much for making the time to come to my early morning presentation. I’m really excited about this workshop and am happy to start it off. 1 First, a little background on what I’m doing. These are the 4 kinds of collections Henry Lowood called for in 2002. I’m sure we’re all well-versed in these different kinds of collections. 2 In 2008, I got an IMLS early career award focused on examining the creation behaviors in the videogame industry, primarily to help build models for collecting archives of documentation: what kind of documentation is created, what are some best practices for collecting and representing that documentation, what are some of the roadblocks… Towards that end, we conducted interviews with anyone who would talk to us in the industry, including producers, developers, programmers, and artists (both visual and music) – Primarily, we were interested in finding out more about their work environment, their communication methods, and how they documentated of decisions. Some of the more notable interviewees were: • Tarn Adams (Dwarf Fortress), • Russell Lees (Interactive Designer & Playwright – the Dark Eye), • Gordon Walton (Bioware / Playdom), • Bobby Prince (music & sound effects Commander Keen, Wolfenstein, Doom), • Harvey Smith (Deus Ex) A project partner was the Videogame Archive at the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, and the transcribed interviews, as well as the sound files from those interviews are available there. 3 The videogame archive at UT Austin was the brain child of Warren Spector, primarily, with Richard Garriott taking a secondary interest. -
Dragon Magazine
DRAGON 1 Publisher: Mike Cook Editor-in-Chief: Kim Mohan Shorter and stronger Editorial staff: Marilyn Favaro Roger Raupp If this isnt one of the first places you Patrick L. Price turn to when a new issue comes out, you Mary Kirchoff may have already noticed that TSR, Inc. Roger Moore Vol. VIII, No. 2 August 1983 Business manager: Mary Parkinson has a new name shorter and more Office staff: Sharon Walton accurate, since TSR is more than a SPECIAL ATTRACTION Mary Cossman hobby-gaming company. The name Layout designer: Kristine L. Bartyzel change is the most immediately visible The DRAGON® magazine index . 45 Contributing editor: Ed Greenwood effect of several changes the company has Covering more than seven years National advertising representative: undergone lately. in the space of six pages Robert Dewey To the limit of this space, heres some 1409 Pebblecreek Glenview IL 60025 information about the changes, mostly Phone (312)998-6237 expressed in terms of how I think they OTHER FEATURES will affect the audience we reach. For a This issues contributing artists: specific answer to that, see the notice Clyde Caldwell Phil Foglio across the bottom of page 4: Ares maga- The ecology of the beholder . 6 Roger Raupp Mary Hanson- Jeff Easley Roberts zine and DRAGON® magazine are going The Nine Hells, Part II . 22 Dave Trampier Edward B. Wagner to stay out of each others turf from now From Malbolge through Nessus Larry Elmore on, giving the readers of each magazine more of what they read it for. Saved by the cavalry! . 56 DRAGON Magazine (ISSN 0279-6848) is pub- I mention that change here as an lished monthly for a subscription price of $24 per example of what has happened, some- Army in BOOT HILL® game terms year by Dragon Publishing, a division of TSR, Inc. -
Dragon Magazine
— The Magazine of Fantasy, Swords & Sorcery, and Science Fiction Game Playing— A non-wargaming friend of mine recently asked me why I did this; why did I put all my effort into this line of work? What did I perceive my endeavors to be? Part of this curiosity stems from the fact that this person has no inkling of what games are all about, in our context of gaming. He still clings to the shibboleth that wargamers are classic cases of arrested de- velopment, never having gotten out of the sandbox and toy soldiers syndrome of childhood. He couldn’t perceive the function of a magazine about game-playing. This is what I told him: Magazines exist to disseminate information. The future of magazine publishing, the newly revived LIFE and LOOK notwithstand- VOL. III, No. 11 May, 1979 ing, seems to be in specialization. Magazines dealing with camping, quilting, motorcycles, cars, dollhouse miniatures, music, teen interests, DESIGN/DESIGNERS FORUM modeling, model building, horses, dogs, fishing, hunting, guns, hairstyl- A Part of Gamma World Revisited —Jim Ward ................ 5 ing and beauty hints already exist; why not wargaming? Judging and You—Jim Ward ............................... 7 I put out TD as a forum for the exchange of gaming ideas, Sorceror’s Scroll—The Proper Place of Character philosophies, variants and debate. TD is a far cry from Soldier of For- Social Class in D&D -- Gary Gygax ........ .12 tune, that bizarre publication for mercenaries, gun freaks and other vio- 20th Century Primitive—Gary Jacquet ...................... 24 lence mongers. In fact, the greater part of wargamers are quite pacifistic Gamma World Artifact Use Chart —Gary Jacquet ............ -
Game Developer Magazine
>> INSIDE: 2007 AUSTIN GDC SHOW PROGRAM SEPTEMBER 2007 THE LEADING GAME INDUSTRY MAGAZINE >>SAVE EARLY, SAVE OFTEN >>THE WILL TO FIGHT >>EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW MAKING SAVE SYSTEMS FOR CHANGING GAME STATES HARVEY SMITH ON PLAYERS, NOT DESIGNERS IN PANDEMIC’S SABOTEUR POLITICS IN GAMES POSTMORTEM: PUZZLEINFINITE INTERACTIVE’S QUEST DISPLAY UNTIL OCTOBER 11, 2007 Using Autodeskodesk® HumanIK® middle-middle- Autodesk® ware, Ubisoftoft MotionBuilder™ grounded ththee software enabled assassin inn his In Assassin’s Creed, th the assassin to 12 centuryy boots Ubisoft used and his run-time-time ® ® fl uidly jump Autodesk 3ds Max environment.nt. software to create from rooftops to a hero character so cobblestone real you can almost streets with ease. feel the coarseness of his tunic. HOW UBISOFT GAVE AN ASSASSIN HIS SOUL. autodesk.com/Games IImmagge cocouru tteesyy of Ubiisofft Autodesk, MotionBuilder, HumanIK and 3ds Max are registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., in the USA and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders. © 2007 Autodesk, Inc. All rights reserved. []CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 2007 VOLUME 14, NUMBER 8 FEATURES 7 SAVING THE DAY: SAVE SYSTEMS IN GAMES Games are designed by designers, naturally, but they’re not designed for designers. Save systems that intentionally limit the pick up and drop enjoyment of a game unnecessarily mar the player’s experience. This case study of save systems sheds some light on what could be done better. By David Sirlin 13 SABOTEUR: THE WILL TO FIGHT 7 Pandemic’s upcoming title SABOTEUR uses dynamic color changes—from vibrant and full, to black and white film noir—to indicate the state of allied resistance in-game. -
Interview with Warren Spector
Interview with Warren Spector Conducted by Carl Therrien Carl Therrien: In 2007, the Library of Congress made a significant move to integrate video games in their collection. Through a project set forth by Henry Lowood, ten video games were selected to be part of the “game canon.” New games are now added to the collection more systematically; game publishers have to give a copy of the game to the Library of Congress to complete the copyright process. If you had to go through this type of process, what selection criteria would you push forward? Is there a place for underdogs and lesser-known games in such a process? Warren Spector: I’m thrilled that the institution is taking an interest in videogames. In the long run, I think everyone, both in the industry and at the Library itself, will see the importance of this recognition. Having said that, if I were on the committee, the first thing I’d push for is a very clear definition of what the Library hoped to achieve with the growing collection. The list of games you select would vary greatly depending on the definition you select. To get an idea what I’m talking about, play the “desert island” game. You’re stuck on a desert island and can only take ten games with you – what are they? To answer the question, you have to decide what criteria you want to use. _____________________________________________________________ Kinephanos, ISSN 1916-985X History of Games International Conference Proceedings, January 2014, www.kinephanos.ca Interview with Warren Spector ▶ Do you take your ten favourite