Spooky Scary
Spooky Scary: How Horror Games Tick Late at night, JJ Muste and myself were staying up late after a Living Legend event I ran, and we were talking about horror […]
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Held With Hope!
Held With Hope!: An Intro Game’s Flow When I was younger, I was terrified of flow. When I’d write games, I’d desperately try to avoid thinking about flow. I’d build […]
Drawn With Courage
Drawn With Courage…: Starting an Intro Game Intro games are, far and away, the most common form of game we run at Wayfinder. Of our 14 unique games run in […]
Camp’s Magic Circle
Camp’s Magic Circle Recently I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about play and what it is. I’ve been taking a class on play theory (one of many reasons my […]
Location, Location, Location
Location, Location, Location: How to Create Your Setting Every story, whether it’s a novel, a movie, or an adventure game, has a setting. Maybe that setting is a whole new […]
Choose Your Character
Choose Your Character How to figure out who the PCs should be in your game So you’ve got an idea for a game. Cool! You’ve got a setting, you’ve got […]
Flows for Algernon
Flows for Algernon What actually happens in your game? Tonight we’re talking about the structure of an adventure game. The individual scenes that compose it must spring from your imagination. […]
Why We Write Games
Why We Write Games Did you enjoy your holidays? Because the Story Board Blog is back, and will continue to post thought-provoking and helpful essays, hints and tirades about the […]
Theme in Adventure Games
Theme in Adventure Games What is a “theme”? What is a “thesis”? A theme is an idea that comes up a lot in a creative work. A thesis is the […]
Three Character Sheets to the Wind
Three Character Sheets to the Wind Since we just had a conversation about characters, now seems like a good time to talk about character sheets. Character sheets are useful for […]