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By Corvus | May 27, 2005
Cue: Tom Waits singing Step Right Up.
The Carnival (of Gamers) has arrived. Be comforted, Jonathan Pryce is nowhere to be seen. This is, instead, a collection of Blog entries from across the gaming blogasphere. My entry, Sing it to Me One More Time (I had also submitted Rogue Opinion), was selected for inclusion in the cacophany of gaming pundits. Hm. Is cacophony the collective noun for pundits? Perhaps it should be.
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Speaking of Tom Waits, I’d like to see him design a game as well. Admittedly, a few of my other ideas were proffered with my tongue firmly in my cheek, but I do think Tom Waits has exactly what it takes to design a staggeringly fantastic game. Imagine a decadent, faded, rhythmic world in which every guidepost has a haunted past and your direction can be found at the bottom of a nearly empty fifth of bourbon. That’s rather what I imagine a game by Tom Waits would be like. If we were really lucky, it’d feature an original soundtrack.
I’ve got something to say about the female gameplaying “demographic” and the industry’s adolescent sophomoric insulting approach to appealing to said demographic, but it’s firmly entrenched on the tip of my tongue and demanding more coffee, so you’ll just have to come back if you care to hear what I have to say on the topic (I know, life’s hard).
Do you ever have a character in your head and when you try to draw it, it doesn’t look like you imagined it would? I’m doing a lot of sketches of characters from the Drachurae Cycle (my RPG system) for a (noncollectable) card game I’ve designed and when I tried to draw a human that I have always described as a short, tightly controlled, weathered, sadistic, Santa Claus with a blunt cut beard, it just didn’t capture his nature. The best I could manage was… a little severe. So, after a page of frustration, I change my approach and let my pencil describe his character. I nailed it in the first go. So the handful of you who have been to frozen peak of Tor Auntoun to meet Abmandu Aroe, Master of the Descendent Arc, here’s what he really looks like:
Tagged:Design, Sketches. | 3 Comments »
May 31st, 2005 at 12:33 pm
Good links over at the Carnival. I like the commentary about how game reviews are broken.
Matt Matthews, over at Carmudgeon Gamer, seems to have a good perspective: http://curmudgeongamer.com/article.php?story=20050427003610578
May 31st, 2005 at 12:38 pm
Yeah, I quite like the Curmudgeon Gamer.
May 31st, 2005 at 12:49 pm
Oh, and this is some interesting insight:
http://blogs.chimpswithkeyboards.com/vanhemlock/archive/2005/03/14/497.aspx