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Archive for April, 2006

Snow From Korea

Posted in Game Design on April 22nd, 2006

This is an awesome little game still in design. It has alot of the elements I am trying to capure in some of the games I am designing, although I hadnt considered making a custom deck of cards. Check it out, its worth the read.

http://njyar.thesmerf.com/blog/category/games/snow-from-korea/

Stockholm Syndrome

Posted in StockHolm Syndrome on April 19th, 2006

My idea for a game.

The name of the game is “Stockholm Syndrome”

The goal of this game would be to simulate the genre of Cinematic Hostage Crisis situations. The best example of this I have found is Dog Day Afternoon. That has alot of my favorite elements such as the media element, the hostage-taker and hostages forming a relationship. Negotiator struggling with dealing with the hostage-taker in addition to pressure from his higher ups and the media. All that stuff is great.

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Sleepless Empire

Posted in Sleepless Empire on April 19th, 2006

Sleepless Empire, where shall I begin? This idea first started in my head years and years ago, I think I was 15 or so. It was originally titled ….get this..

 Guns & Gangsters.

 Isnt that just great? Gawd im a geek.

 Anyways, the idea was basically lasersharked D&D, I thought D&D is cool, 1920’s Mobster Movies are cool, lets combine em, and that was more or less the whole idea.

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This blog

Posted in Game Design on April 19th, 2006

Okay, im gonna talk about game design a bit. I dont really know that much about game design since I havent really every designed any games yet. But I am going to try anyways. I have a bunch of ideas for games. Here they are with short synopsis’s

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I have a blog

Posted in Game Design on April 4th, 2006

This is going to be my Game Design Blog. I really dont know what I am doing so it will likely be a big load of crap.