UALR Game Resources

Site for generating Gamer and Board Gamer profiles. Gives interesting set of motivation scales for identifying player motivations.

Awesome vector art program for making fast game art.

Great site for CC license UI icons for game design.

This looks like something fun we should try out--another digital tabletop.

Great summary/analysis article of games that use decks of cards to tell a story.

Cool review of Arctic Scavengers, which is a Dominion-like game, only, according to the review, better.

Great video from Mark Rosewater about game design lessons learned working on MTG.

Great site to buy digital assets.

This is for all of us working on still-unfinished games...

These two nerds hit the nail on the head about immersion, narrative, and the new media mistakes of video games. 

Watch the video. Incredible. 

Here's the "about" page for Magic Leap (mentioned in previously linked article). 

Neal Stevenson has always be WAY ahead of his time. He's working on something called "Magic Leap" now. Here's a quote from him;"...it's going to demand a new way of thinking about what a game is [and] what content is..." Looking forward to more. 

I mentioned HabitRPG in a previous Wednesday night meeting. It's a "gamified" to-do list. I've been using it for everything from remembering to drink more water to getting specific tasks done on my game. It's been one of the best, most consistent motivators that I've ever found for encouraging good habits and discouraging bad. The mobile interface is a bit wonky, but they're working on it. The web interface is really the best way to manage it. I recommend the mobile mostly for logging completed tasks.  One nice feature of the game is the wide community of others working on tasks. You can join parties and guilds, and work together with others to complete quests and challenges. 

More of a rhythm game with RPG elements, but you play as a shop keeper who makes items based on requests of the heroes who visit your shop

Rhythm. Crafting. RPG. What a crazy combination!

List of the EdgebeeStudios games on Kongregate. These include Critter Forge, Sorcery Quest and Sword & Potions 1 & 2. Some of the best "big idea" games on Kongregate, IMHO. 

Here's Critter Forge, the game that my friend Lewis said he'd pay $100 for if they did a good update to it. 

Here's the blog I mentioned at meeting #14. This guy plays and reviews board games that can be played solo. Pretty interesting.

"Eldritch Horror" for one. Dude's brave.

It seems this post has been taken down :(

Weird. They're breaking the internet.

An excellent resource for icons to use when making games. They are great as placeholders, but are also viable as permanent solutions and are completely free to use as long as credit is given.

Those are so good!