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Speakeasy murder mystery - interest?
Just trying to gauge interest here initially. Would any of you be keen to play in a murder mystery party game with a 1920s Chicago speakeasy/gangster theme, some weekend afternoon in September in central London? (Obviously I appreciate that the exact date will be significant, but I'm just trying here to see if it's potentially a goer or not.) ( Read more... ) -
It's pronounced 'fronk-en-steen'
Question for the techies. How useful is Levenshtein distance as an accuracy measure for eg. quiz answers? Or do you know of a more appropriate method for fuzzy search comparison? What I want is for it to give a good guess at rightness if the answer is spelt slightly wrong or has punctuation added, etc. -
Hands Up!
I thought about another microgame idea last night. In the vein of Shape Up!, this one has the working title Hands Up!There are 18 cards, which each carry a symbol: there are two each of [red|blue|green] [circle|square|triangle ( Read more... ) -
Gamecamp
On Saturday I was at Gamecamp 6, which I thought a few people here might be interested in.
(I seem to have degenerated to LJing solely about games just lately. Sorry about that… although in my defence, they are occupying almost all my work and leisure time at the moment.)
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Peaky
Last weekend I went to my fourth Peaky freeform-writing workshop, and had an excellent time ( Read more... ) -
Economics of microgames
I took Shape Up! to the Playtest meeting again last weekend, and got lots of very positive feedback (some on BGG…)
This is the point where for a 'normal' game (like Fishy Business) I would be thinking about trying to get it published. However being a microgame, I'm not sure that is really practical. I don't think established games publishers are ( Read more... ) -
When the Dark is Gone
I spent last week mostly playing and running games, in the company of some excellent people, and it was great! Most of them were of the prepless and/or GMless style that I've been increasingly interested in in recent years. I'll probably spew out some more thoughts here about the others shortly, but I wanted to pick up on When the Dark is Gone ( Read more... ) -
Quiz feedback
Just realized I never fed back about the recent quiz that many of you were so kind as to help me with. It went pretty well -- overall, the team scores were (50, 75.5, 78.5, 81, 82, 84, 84, 85.5, 85.5, 90) out of 102, so apart from one outlier they all scored capably. And the team that won deserved to.
The horses round turned out to be quite a good ( Read more... ) -
Things that have interested me lately
And maybe they will you, too? Let's see:
- Victorian Blood Book - extraordinary decoupage project, made in 1854. You really have to view the slideshow to get the full majesty and oddity of it all. Not many people's idea of a wedding present for one's daughter.
- Your Paintings - this BBC site has gathered together all 200-and-odd thousand oil paintings ( Read more... )
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Horses for courses
This is just an ordinary quiz round, themed to reflect the topical interest in Tesco's burgers. (Well, it was topical a few days ago when I wrote the questions. No doubt it'll be completely forgotten by the time I actually run the quiz in a few weeks' time…)
Poll I've filled it in myself with the correct answers, so if you have a look after you've ( Read more... )