The nineteenth issue of Roolipelaaja, the roleplaying magazine I edit, is at the printers. It’s my tenth issue, and the first this year.
Games
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
Roolipelaaja 17 is now at the printers
Issue #17 of Roolipelaaja (The Roleplayer), the roleplaying magazine I edit, is now at the printers.
Lumimyrsky documentation
(Photo by Aarni Korpela) I created a documentation page for my larp Lumimyrsky (Snowstorm), played in Ropecon 2008. You can access it by clicking on the link in the right sidebar or here.
Post-Ropecon
Ropecon is over for now. I saw a lot of interesting programs, didn’t manage to see a lot of stuff I’d wanted to, and held a few program items of my own. My Roolipelaaja presentation experienced almost insurmoutable technical difficulties, but my larp Lumimyrsky (Snowstorm) went well. I’ll put up Continue Reading