Running battles in combat-centric role-playing games can be as painful as stepping on a caltrop. You’re either depending on the Gamemaster to keep the entire scene in his or her head, or you’re constantly drawing and erasing the map on a ratty piece of graph paper. I’ve seen groups use Lego minifigs, chess pieces and [...] [...]
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I’m excited to go to the NYC Toy Fair again this year and an thankful that I have more time to plan for it. Rumor is that one or two other GeekDad contributors will be there so a meet-up is hopeful. Christmas 2009 brought a good haul of LEGO, including another entry in the LEGO gaming range: Race 3000. Maybe it’s my parenting instinct to try and get the best out of my writers, like I do my kids, but I’ve really enjoyed sharing their talents with a wider audience (the writers rather than the kids) I have loved games, maps and geography for as long as I can remember. Having all of them at once is only that much sweeter. A few years ago I discovered the 10 Days in.. games from Out of the Box, but I never did buy them. They’ve been on my Amazon Wish List for [...] [...] We’ve posted about cool cake art on GeekDad before, and about cupcakes, and of course about games. But we’ve never posted about all three topics at once, until now. My three-year-old daughter loves puzzles, particularly the chunky wooden puzzles with pieces shaped like parts of the picture (as opposed to jigsaw pieces, which she has more difficulty with). So it’s no surprise that one of her favorite iPhone games is a puzzle game. Whimsy Animals has sixty simple puzzles which then reveal photographs of [...] [...] One of my favourite old school games from the Commadore 64 era has found a new home in my pocket, courtesy of Tatio’s latest remake – Arkanoid for the iPhone and iPod Touch, available now from the US iTunes App Store for $4.99 and for £2.99 in the UK. |
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