I'm challenging myself to do more with game design this week, so I'm going to work through the exercises in "Think Like a Game Designer". I'll blog about my progress with this challenge.

Encouragement appreciated. Help keep me honest with this challenge.

While mowing the lawn I listened to two podcasts that I would like to recommend. They gave me some food for thought and how I want to change my perspective on my game design work.

The first was the latest Back to Work episode. I like Back to Work and …

One of the issues I've had with working on the Fate-based version of Pepper & Carrot is how the magic system works. Magic in Pepper & Carrot is manifested in potions and spells (moreso potions than spells, but that's another story). So in the case of episode 20 there is no show …

I've been noodling making a Pepper&Carrot Fate-based RPG for a while now (since October). Pepper&Carrot is a monthly-web-comic by the talented David Revoy. The artwork is amazing and the storyline is compelling. Plus it's released under a Creative Commons CC-BY license (by attribution). Coincidentally Fate is also released …

And the wheels fell off the wagon.

I've been pretty good thus far about not doing the whole Social Media and "bad browsing" habits up until around Wednesday of this week. That's when the wheels fell off the proverbial wagon. I chalk it up to a combination of things, but …