By Ronald Gordon Hello and welcome once again to the Roundup, where we gather up the stories of members and interns alike to give them a shoutout! This time around we’ve got news of the brilliance of Fortune’s Weave, getting drawn in by the art of a Catan-like, a work in progress card game with…
By Sarah Doherty Granoff I attended the New York City Pride Parade for the first time in 2019. Like many, I had spent the previous two weeks preparing my outfit. It wasn’t anything spectacular – a crocheted rainbow scarf with the word “PRIDE” on it and a custom ordered tee-shirt – but it was mine.…
By Ronald Gordon Dragon Age: Inquisition was a fantastic game I played back in my high school days, and one for which I still have fond memories. It took months, if not years, of my time, thanks to its characters, its story, and the world of Thedas drawing me in. I still have recent playthroughs…
Contributors/ace interns Donovan Floyd and Jeffrey Mizrahi are deep into playing Mass Effect: Andromeda. Donovan’s logged 40 hours thus far, Jeffrey, a little less. As they play, they’ll debate the high and low points of the game. Away we go! Donovan: I’ll start with the Mass Effect Andromeda’s gameplay -which I think is really fun.…
by Robert Gordon The author writes about what dialogue really means in role playing games — and what it should mean in the future. The survivor is panicking under the pulse of the pistol, her pistol, set against her own temple. A second ago it was trained on you, but the mission is to talk…
In this portion of our week-long Q/A, Mac Walters waxes on about the Mass Effect comic. How does it distinguish itself from the videogame? And how is it like the videogame. Mac tells you, right here. HG: When you look at Mass Effect as a comic in particular, do you always look at what readers…
Today, Mass Effect’s Mac Walters continues to speak about the craft of writing, giving you a look at the complete writing process for the series which takes place at BioWare’s lair in Vancouver HG: You’re writing up to 30,000 lines of script per game. How do you manage that? MW: It’s up to me as…