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Fandible Interview Recap

Last week I had the chance to speak with not one, but two awesome game designers. On Wednesday, I did a podcast interview with David Hill of Machine Age Productions about his intriguing new game The Gospel of Sarah. We had a great conversation, diving into the idea of what it means to have a horror game about…

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Fandible Interview: Anna Kreider, Thou Art But a Warrior

Welcome to our second Fandible interview! Today I’m here with an interview with Anna Kreider about her current IndieGoGo campaign to fund a second edition of her game Thou Art But a Warrior. You might also know Anna from the internet sensation Go Make Me a Sandwich and as a fellow contributor to Gaming as Women….

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The Struggle Against the Dark

Berserk is a cartoon and manga series I had no business reading when I was growing up. A Japanese style animation set in a fantasy world, the themes are dark, brutal, and make you wonder sometimes whether humanity deserves to survive as a species. The world of Berserk, without its fantastical elements, is cruel enough…

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New on Fandible: Review and Fair Use Policies

As avid gamers, there’s little the Fandible crew loves more than interacting with other people who love games just as much as we do. For us, those people tend to fall into two groups: the people who design the games we play, and the people who then listen to us play those games. As part…

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#1reasonwhy – Women Talk about Sexism in Gaming Industries

If you follow any sort of gaming people on Twitter this week, you probably saw the #1reasonwhy hashtag. It all started with a simple question: “Why are there so few lady game creators?” The hashtag #1reasonwhy was created in response, and it blew Twitter up. While initially it was about RPG design, it exploded across…

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The Forgotten Story

When Odyssean tales of epic struggle saturate your games, it may be time to explore the experience of the nobody to rejuvenate the thrill of gaming.

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Stranger Than Fiction

As someone whose pastime often asks us to imagine the outlandish and bizarre, a storm left our city in an unimaginable state

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Roleplaying the Jerk

Franklin Strauss is one of the best characters I have ever played in any role playing game. A College Professor I play in our Hollow Earth Expedition role playing sessions, he is a super genius engineer with a penchant for creating a wide assortment of mechanical wonders and an urge to show the world the greatness that is the Hollow…

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