games

GIL Series: Thematic Charcuterie

Grant Rodiek | June 13, 2019

Games I Love (GIL in the title) is an article series about games I sincerely love. Inspired by numerous "best 100 games of all time" lists, I initially sought to cover 50 games, as it's a nice number.

GIL Series: Ridiculously Stupid

Grant Rodiek | June 12, 2019

Co-Op Concerns

Grant Rodiek | August 01, 2018

I Tweeted a bit about cooperative games last week and it stirred up a bit of a storm. Some agreement, some strong disagreement, some strange stories and anecdotes. It really clarified just how polarizing cooperative games are.

My 2018 Design Priorities

Grant Rodiek | December 24, 2017

Today is a bit of a slow day, so I'm going through my folders for active designs, in stasis designs, and old designs to have a heart to heart with my creations. Some active games are getting lopped off and killed.

Mini-Reviews: New to me in October 2017

Grant Rodiek | November 10, 2017

In October 2017 I played more games than ever before since I started recording my plays several years ago. Much of this was due to my attendance of SHUX in Vancouver, Canada. But, I had a game night every week and we played a LOT of games at work.

Journal: 10/30/2017

Grant Rodiek | October 30, 2017

I continue to be suspended from Twitter with no information or end in sight. Fantastic. I had a great weekend and wanted to cover a few quick topics today.How 'bout them Astros: This was a rough baseball season.

Hibernation

Grant Rodiek | May 20, 2017

A week or so ago I wrote a highly depressing article about tips for folks who want to be a publisher, largely fueled by anecdotes of my failures. A few months before that, I wrote an analysis of 2016, which gets more into the nuts and bolts of the failure.

Me + Overwatch: It's Complicated

Grant Rodiek | December 26, 2016

When I first heard about Overwatch by Blizzard Entertainment, I was incredibly excited. I love class-based team multiplayer shooters. If I had to pick a single video game genre, it would be that one. I loved Team Fortress 2.

2015 Games of the Year

Grant Rodiek | December 07, 2015

This blog has never been a review site, though I've written a few reviews about games and commented on some in a way that can only be read as a wholehearted endorsement. Never the less, the biggest part of my involvement in this hobby is playing games.

Some Start Up Thoughts

Grant Rodiek | March 20, 2015

At the suggestion of most excellent design peer Brett Myers, and in light of the publisher of Farmageddon declaring bankruptcy, I wanted to write about business today. In the past, I've written some basic Kickstarter Advice, as well as some basic advice on game development and production.