Issue #20 of Roolipelaaja, the roleplaying magazine I edit, is at the printers.
Games
Antarctic Research Blog #90 – Beyond the Mountains of Madness
Roleplaying game supplement: Charles and Janyce Engan: Beyond the Mountains of Madness (Chaosium inc. 1999) Beyond the Mountains of Madness is a Thirties campaign adventure published for the Call of Ctulhu roleplaying game. Some of the best roleplaying adventures ever made have been published for the Call of Cthulhu game, Continue Reading
Tappaminen on hauskaa
Kirjoitin artikkelin siitä, kuinka hauskaa tappaminen on videopeleissä. Juttu julkaistiin tänään ilmestyneessä Nyt-liitteessä ja löytyy täältä.
Roolipelaaja #19 is at the printers!
The nineteenth issue of Roolipelaaja, the roleplaying magazine I edit, is at the printers. It’s my tenth issue, and the first this year.
I am a reference
I recently wrote a small piece about the Christian guitar game Guitar Praise for NYT-liite. While I was googling myself, I discovered that I’d been cited as a source in the Finnish language Wikipedia article about the game. I also discovered that the Wikipedia article about the game was really Continue Reading
Lautapeleistä Hesariin
Kirjoitin lautapeleistä Helsingin Sanomiin artikkelikokonaisuuden, joka julkaistiin 19.12.2008. Pääjuttu käsitteli pelisuunnittelija Kimmo Sorsamoa ja hänen julkaisematonta peliään Maximus. Vieressä oli boksi suomalaisen pelijulkaisun klassikoista. Lisäksi mukana oli arvostelut kolmesta kotimaisesta pelistä, Zanziarista, Bilekuosista ja The Clubista.
Videopeliarvosteluja
Tän päivän Hesarissa on peräti kolme mun tekemää videopeliarvostelua. Mukana on isompi juttu Fallout 3:sta (josta ylläoleva kuva on peräisin) ja joukko miniarvosteluja, joista Fable II ja LittleBigPlanet on mun aikaansaannosta ja Mirror’s Edge ja Dead Space Jussi Ahlrothin käsialaa.
Race in D&D
The way race is treated in Dungeons & Dragons and other fantasy stuff becomes harder to swallow as I get older. Even when I played the game as a kid, I had trouble with the orcs and goblins because there was just no real world equivalent to the idea of Continue Reading
Roolipelaaja 18 is at the printers!
Issue 18 of the roleplaying magazine I edit, Roolipelaaja, is at the printers. Here’s the cover:
Antarctic Research Blog #79 – LittleBigPlanet
Video game: LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule, 2008) LittleBigPlanet is a game in which a little critter (pictured above) runs around complex levels. The selling point of the game is that users can create their own levels, which are then shared on the game’s network. A number of these user-created levels are Continue Reading