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Thursday, 17 January 2013

Some interesting links

Some links I picked up the last two weeks:

Documentary about reenactors in England, with the hopefull title of 'Weekend Nazis' (part 1) 

Mike Whitaker poses an interesting problem of probability rolling 3 dice. Do you charge in? 

Interview with Sandy Petersen, designer of Call of Cthulhu and Runequest RPGs. By the Gentleman Gamer 

Michael Barnes ponders mass murder in (video) games: a quest for 'realism' gone wrong? 

These French WWI images were found in a second hand camera. Check out the rest of the blog as well for others 

New Osprey titles for first half of 2013. Anything you fancy? 

Master of Europe, 200th anniversary megagame of the Leipzig campaign. Saturday June 22nd 2013 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Be warned: the worst 10 boardgames of 2012

Great blog post by Pijlie about how the goal of participation games (ie attracting new players to games) leads the design choices

Movie of a replica A7V German WWI tank at Bovington Tank Museum

Brilliant visualisation of all the zombies killed in The Walking Dead. Type of weapon used and by whom

Example of a game of Angels 20, the dog fight system from Axis & Allies. By David Crook


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