on Games

Doug Designed Computer Games

Doug Bolden's Simple RGB Match Game (Blog post about it).

Board Games

Devil Bunny Needs a Ham

Settlers of Catan

Special Deck Card Games

Munchkin Cthulhu [w/ Epic Rules]

Zombie Fluxx

Custom-set Dice Games

Cthulhu Dice

Zombie Dice

Traditional Card Games

Gin

Roleplaying Games

FIASCO

• Fiasco Session Write-Up for News Channel Six, also general system review (22 Jul 2012). Played Fiasco tonight with my wife and a friend, and it went mostly smashingly. Good fun harking back to the days of old style pretend, all with an adult flair. In this case, a couple of news anchors cat and mouse around a porn movie, and there's even a death. With some review of the system towards the end.
• Playnotes for the Fiasco Playset: The Murderists (26 Sep 2013). The Murderists is a Fiasco playset from the new Run, Fool, Run playset package. You take on the role of killers. It is ok, but somehow ended up lacking a little bit of the magic of other playsets.

Board Games + Alcohol = ?

Chess Drinking: a mixture of alcohol tolerance and strategy (29 Dec 2009).

Videogames

My vote for the three hardest, but enjoyable, computer/console games (27 Aug 2009). These are three games that I would pick out of a line-up for the crime of being mind-bendingly hard but still worth playing.

My vote for the three best totally free, mutli-OS computer games (15 Oct 2009). Three games that are playable on just about everything (well, two of them are, and the third is playable on pretty much all recent computers).

Gamboy, GB Advance, and Nintendo DS

• Dementium: The Ward (DS)
• Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
• Link's Awakening
• Mario Kart DS

Playstations 1 & 2

• Demon Stone

• Dragonball Z Budokai

DOS Games

• Doom

Mac Games

• Mystery Case Files: Huntsville

Flash Games

• The Fog Fall

Interactive Fiction

My general tips

Howard Sherman is "retiring" from Interactive Fiction Titles (22 Jul 2014). Howard Sherman, the developer of Malinche's Interactive Fiction titles, has decided to focus on traditional fiction instead. Some thoughts.

The Games

• 2604 (Admiral Jota)
• (Colosal Cave) Adventure
• Anchorhead (Michael Gentry)
• The Awakening (Dennis Matheson)
• Azteca (Malinche) (also includes some preliminary thoughts on Maclinche)
• Baluthar (Chris Molloy Wischer)
• The Cellar (David Whyld)
• Deep Breathing (Admiral Jota)
• Desert Adventure (Sam Trenholme)
• Dino Hunt (Admiral Jota)
• Down (Kent Tessman)
• Dunnet (Ron Schnell)
• The Ebb and Flow of the Tide (Peter Nepstad)
• Ecdysis (Peter Nepstad)
• The First Mile (Malinche)
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Infocom)
• Lost Pig (Admiral Jota)
• The Lurking Horror (Infocom)
• Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It
• Pentari: the Prequel (Malinche)
• The Phoenix Move (Daniele Giardini)
• Slap that Fish! (Peter Nepstad)
• Spider and Web (Andrew Plotkin)
• Theatre (Cave Rock/Brendon Wyber)
• Pirate Adventure (Scott Adams)
• Zork I (Infocom)
• Zork II (Infocom)
• Zork III (Infocom)
• Zork: Troll's Eye View (Dylan O'Donnell)

Brian Howarth's Mysterious Adventures (Scott Adams)

Short/er/ish IF reviews (linked to, individually, above).

Minecraft

The Day of Exhaustion and weird anxieties being dealt with (and brought up) by playing Minecraft (30 Sept 2010).

I have a bad feeling this will be my greatest accomplishment in this lifetime... [Minecraft] (9 Feb 2012). I made a hedge-maze with a secret laboratory in the center in Minecraft. Good times.

Finally have my own custom Minecraft skin (hint: it's me), and still my favorite Penny Arcade comic after a bit... (30 Nov 2012). Decided it was time for me to get into Minecraft...as a skin. Also, Penny Arcade.

My banner in Minecraft: Cthulhu on a Night of Blood (9 Aug 2014). I have finally worked out what I want my banner to be in Minecraft 1.8+: Cthulhu on a Night of Blood. I worked out the steps for it and have one I can fairly easily replicate. Steps and terminology included.