Dwarf Fortress UI
The Dwarfiest Dwarves Who Ever Dwarfed, Now Accessible to Non-Zealots Dwarf Fortress is the quintessential fortress management game. A two-person indie project first released in 2006, it was notorious for its intensely detailed simulation, wacky emergent behaviors,...
Frieren
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, is a surprisingly succinct title that describes exactly what this anime is about. We meet the protagonist, Frieren, on her way back from saving the world from the Demon King with her party of adventurers. Her companions are two humans...
Delivery robots
Delivery food, minus some stranger’s car. Note: Don’t tip the robot. How would you feel if you order a burger and fries on Uber Eats and a little robot showed up at your door with your food? If you live in LA or one of the upcoming pilot cities, that could happen. At...
The War Within
One take that dwarves would rather leave, aka the less-than-proud origin of Dwarves Every well-developed fantasy setting has its share of lore. Often, that extends to origins stories for the various races that inhabit the world. In various incarnations, dwarves have...
Delicious in Dungeon
The cooking/dungeoncrawler mashup you didn’t know you needed. Iron Chef? More like Adamantine Chef! Anime has a reputation for magical girl fairytales and over-the-top power fantasy combat shows. You get your occasional Death Note or Cowboy Bebop mixed in for...
Poll: Quintessential Fantasy Dwarves
When I first introduced my Dragonhammer Saga series to my Email Insiders, I posed this question about fantasy dwarves. What is a dwarf? We’re setting aside the outdated medical term and Tyrion Lannister (the very narrow intersection of two otherwise unrelated topics)...
Free Guy
Free Guy = Free Will. Can you be more than you’re programmed to be? 2021’s Free Guy was a Ryan Reynolds action comedy about an NPC (non-player character for you non-gamers) who finds himself given the agency of a player inside a world that’s reminiscent of Grand Theft...
Fire of Eidolon
DIY dungeon crawler on the tabletop...D&D Lite in a tiny little box In Fire of Eidolon, you and up to 5 friends will explore a dungeon of little cardboard tiles to find and rescue the eponymous Macguffin and save the world. You and your party will collect tokens,...
Interactive art exhibit
Step Into the World of Art - Literally A framed picture on a wall. A parade of tourists marches past with a glance. Some pretentious bohemian with a turtleneck and ponytail poses thoroughly, staring at a single piece. This is kind of the stereotype of art exhibits....
Rings of Power
When is history not history? Can you write a fictional history as objective truth? Amazon’s Rings of Power is a controversial adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s work. I say J.R.R. Tolkien’s work, but the Silmarillon was published posthumously by his son Christopher and...