A Brief History of Wiz-War - Interesting history of the inspiration for Magic: The Gathering. The game itself is also very interesting, albeit somewhat random. It's really good, solid Ameritrash. And wild spell-slinging and wild brawling. It's a lot of fun, but it is quite text-heavy due to the cards. The design is really very similar to M:TG, the cards simply convey their effects through text that you have to understand and execute (and not, for example, like in classic Eurogames through symbols and clear rules).
Archive July 2014
Here's what I considered worth reading during the week and didn't want to link separately, collected and uncommented.
- Final report on the plagiarism affair: University of Düsseldorf settles accounts with Schavan friends
- Free .Net implementation: Mono to become faster
- Privacy: Invisible tracking with images instead of cookies
- Own cloud: Owncloud 7 with server-to-server sharing
- Open formats: ODF and PDF become government standard in the UK
Alderac Entertainment Group • View topic - Thunderstone Variant - Cutthroats & Sellswords. Fascinating game variant - fan-created and brings Thunderstone more into an interactive RPG direction. Always amazing what fans come up with as their own rule sets for games.
Deckmaster: A MTG Variant Format by Jim Bowie. Interesting Magic variant that turns the cards into a deckbuilder similar to Star Realms, but still allows the use of the very interesting Magic card pool. Build your own Deckbuilder. I could have thought of that myself, given my preference for deckbuilders and Magic.
Those who have wondered why it has been so quiet here in the blog (quieter than usual anyway), here is the answer: Roadtrip through Slovenia. Vacation. With lots of photos. Simply click on the changing images to go to the respective album, click on a picture there and a comfortable slideshow will start.