UALR Game Resources

Here's a page with a link to the Princes of Florence ruleset.

We might want to check this out at some point. Its narrative and trading mechanism might give us some good ideas.

Just to make you smile.

Hahaha. Take note of #19: "Stack villages and use them back-to-back in Dominion"

Guide to board games on iPad.

This is basically Josh's game, right? It looks super cool.

Holy COW!! One guy made this! Damn, I'm lazy. 

So easy, even I could use. :) 

It reminds me a bit of pencil for firefox. Only a very souped up version.

This is the link to Rise of Venice. Pretty different from what we're working on, but interesting nonetheless.

I was going to say that it looks very similar to the Port Royale series, then I read that it's from the same game designers.

They have a family tree!! "With your own family tree you can interact with your family members, send them on missions and watch how the power of your family grows over time." Curse you, Zeitgeist!!

Yes. Probably. Maybe. 

Skyrim "made crafting relevant and extremely easy to access." 

Gamespot's "Game Series of the Decade." It's down to The Elder Scrolls and GTA. Interesting to see the early losers and how the matchups worked. Poor Red Dead Redemption never stood a chance against Zelda in the first round. 

Hey Brad- I think this might be your absolute dream city sim!! Check out the video on the homepage :-)

Classic D&D meets deck-building

I got my beta key for it last week. It's pretty fun. They've done a great job of mimicking the table-top game experience online. I like the way that a character is a pretty basic set of stats that level up as you advance, but that the real variability and strategy comes from the items that you equip your characters with in the form of action cards. So if you equip your mage with one wand, it will have 3-6 actions with it like lightening bolt or fireball. But a different item will have a different set of cards. So much of how you play depends on how you configure your items.

Worth checking out for the mechanics it shares with your game (people as turn actions; building a family).

I've got the iPad version. It kind of... busy. I think it would be easier to follow if I'd played the table-top version first. I do like the people-as-turns model, though.

This is pretty a pretty quirky use of digital maps. A guy in the UK created a map service that divides the world into 3-meter squares and gives each square a 3-word tag. It's much easier to remember than numerical GPS coordinates. Could this be used as a name/clue key in a real-world city game? 

"Heroic Worlds: A History and Guide to Role-Playing Games"

Indie Boards & Cards game publishing page. 

I'm not sure what I think about this. 

How D&D deals with the math of game mechanics. 

Listing of "game" related courses from Coursera. I'm not sure what I think about this.