Reviews

A deeply atmospheric game of people with dark secrets hunting monsters in Victorian London.

My current choice of writing tool is iA Writer. This is why.

Do you remember Happy Days, with Fonzie, Richie Cunningham and all their pals in a nostalgic situation comedy back in the 1970’s? It was fun, exciting and spawned a whole generation of people

During the last year of COVID I’ve had the great delight of enjoying some regular Sunday night games with friends from America. We’ve played a wide range of one-shot games and playtests. Today

Move over indesign, there is a new kid on the block and Affinity Publisher is better for game designers than you!

John Wyndham was a master of writing dystopia science fiction from the point of view of ordinary people. I think this is one of his finest, with elements which are directly applicable to

In these days of instant messaging, WhatsApp and texts, the pleasure of writing and receiving letters is perhaps in danger of being forgotten.

Why I think Blades in the Dark is an important new design in tabletop RPG’s

Metatopia 2019 Report Metatopia is the game design festival run by Double Exposure. I was able to visit Metatopia again this year, with a different game in a different state of development. It

Description and mechanics brought together beautifully through the rules for ‘Aspects’

Time travel as an RPG genre is one with infinite possibilities, but really hard to do right. For my money, Timewatch is the best example out there today, and I’m going to tell

Leo Marks was the principal code-maker for the SOE during the war. This book which is filled with wry humour and bureaucratic frustration covers his war from 1942-45. He was considered the “one

This is the true stories of seven of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-occupied France. The author has taken a chronological view of events from the rise of Hitler in 1933

What does a tiny game design company do in order to get high quality feedback on a new game they are developing? Why, go to Metatopia of course!

I had always wanted to try a ‘story game’, but was afraid to try. I didn’t think I’d have the creative wits to be any good at it, let alone enjoy it. So

I have come to understand that some of the very best games have mechanics which support the theme of the game in some way. For me the outstanding example of this is Ten

So I decided to re-read 1984. I first read it about thirty years ago as a teenager, and I remember it being dreary and with a bit of horror at the end. Reading