Playtesting TTRPG Stories
by Austin Conrad Tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) are built from basically two elements: game mechanics and narrative. Unlike video games, […]
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Playtesting Card Games
by Marie Vibbert Every three months, the Cleveland Game Developers host a Play Test Night for our members. Last time,
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Playtesting Narrative Content in Board Games
by Will McDermott Writing narrative content for board games is different from any other writing I’ve ever done. It’s even
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Quark – A SFWA Public Digest
A quark (/kwɔːrk, kwɑːrk/) is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. In an effort to
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The Inexorable Growth of BIPOC in Publishing
by Emily Jiang AN INTRODUCTION OF SORTS: To Boldly Go Where I Have Never Gone Before “We often fear what
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Introduction to Game Writing and Playtesting
by John Dale Beety In science fiction and fantasy (SFF) terms, game writing is exactly what it sounds like: writing
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The Past Is Not as Rosy as You’ve Been Led to Believe
by Jeff Reynolds A game we authors enjoy is “discuss how the short story market used to pay so well
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Game Writing with Text Adventure Games
by Misha Grifka Wander When I teach video game analysis to college students, I sometimes tell them that they’re going
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(Temporarily) Computer-Free Writing
by N. R. M. Roshak Editor’s note: This piece is part of a series titled Writing by Other Means, where
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Dance the Exotic Dance for Me!
by Yoon Ha Lee When I was a kid in the 1980s and 1990s, I adored classical mythology, Arthurian mythology,