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Like several posters already, I follow an iterative process - do enough top level prep to provide a ‘helicopter view’ of the campaign as...

Maybe better to call it Improv, pantsing has another meaning:

I guess most people are a mixture of the two ideas. I tried both and had varied degrees of success. I think if I was going to make...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Today we're going to discuss two ways of creating many things: not just games but stories and game worlds...

I'm just happy that, in the current climate, an American company is going ahead and opening a new branch in Canada. Remember when that...

No need to wonder. This is exactly the strategy they are pursuing and they have made no secret of that. Every release is an EVENT...

I grew up in Montreal, went to school there and worked there before I moved to the USA. I visit every once in a while and have friends...

BG3 exists in this weird space where it’s a great game, sure, but it also rode the coattails of another series (Baldur’s Gate and...

A fluke in terms of WotC historically not really having a good record of picking licensees that work out...it's been a crapshoot. The...

Another project goes on the wall of failed D&D console/PC games. At this point, I'm more shocked when a title actually gets released. I...

Not only that, but it was a fluke the studio decided not to follow up on with a sequel. The reasons for that can be discussed...

It's a no-man's-land problem. The absolute titans of the industry, like Microsoft or Square Enix, can bite the bullet and pay for the...

It kind of depends on how you define 'live service games' exactly. The companies behind Path of Exile and Warframe weren't big when the...

Think of these game studios like OSR style level one characters. You have to be willing to tolerate dozens of deaths until you can get...

Is anyone surprised about this #1 It's Starbreeze (has been having a lot of issues), #2 It's Hasbro/WotC... Giant Skull is also a new...