UALR Game Resources

I've shared this in several places, but I wanted to post it here as well, for safe keeping. 

Someone has FINALLY made digital, multiplayer game manager for traditional pen-&-paper games. It's looks really well done. One feature in the video for it (in the link) is that the GM can type in a custom item like a weapon, including the name, damage, and bonuses, then click on the text, and have a digital d20 appear with the bonuses automatically added into the roll. Genius!  There's a free demo of it on Steam right now. 

Cool. I just added it to my wishlist.

Cool designer dice. They just did a kickstarter and made their funding. Should be able to buy soon.  These would be great for adding flavor to a custom design game.

This week's Humble Bundle give you $370 worth of game design content for $12 with RPG Maker VX Ace, lots of DLC tiles sets, art and music, and a few games made with RPG Maker as well. It's a steal! 

Great site to buy digital assets.

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

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

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

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

Great site for CC license UI icons for game design.

Awesome vector art program for making fast game art.

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

Play all the old Sega console games in a browser (if you're into that sort of thing). Thanks to Drew Glover for this walk down memory lane. 

This is the Diablo clone with giant skill web that I mentioned. Here's a link to the interactive skill web: http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree Description from page: "Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in the dark fantasy world of Wraeclast. We're a small independent team of hardcore gamers based in New Zealand and have created Path of Exile as the game that we'd want to play ourselves."

This looks interesting. It incorporates "sins" as a game mechanic. Plus, it's based on The Canterbury Tales, so it's kind of required gaming for word geeks. ;) 

Just posting this because it's a great reference. 

Nice site for table top game reviews and news. It's a bit more user friendly than boardgamegeek. Lots of good reviews and articles. 

This is the Game Studies journal

Best game design software ever.

A great web design magazine.