Minecraft mastermind Markus "Notch" Persson has
officially announced his company's next project:
a hybrid online board game/trading card system called
Scrolls. Spearheaded by Mojang co-founder Jakob Porser (
interview) and with backstory penned by Penny Arcade wordsmith Jerry "Tycho" Holkins, the game will consist of turn-based battles between collectible "scrolls,"
illustrated character cards strategically deployed on an abstract gaming grid. In an interesting inversion of the
Minecraft model, the game itself will be free, while updates in the form of additional scroll packs will cost a nominal fee -- a business model gaming analyst Sean Maelstrom decries as
"snake oil." Mojang, for their part, is unafraid and even eager to target an untested slice of the gaming market, and is angling to get their playable prototype of
Scrolls ready for a possible Alpha release this summer.
posted by Rhaomi
on Mar 2, 2011 -
128 comments
The stereotype of people who play a lot of videogames is that they're mostly guys who can't get a good-looking woman to talk to them unless they're paid to do so.
GameCrush is not assisting in the refutation of that stereotype.
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posted by Halloween Jack
on Mar 31, 2010 -
60 comments
Jack Thompson, well-known anti-videogame violence crusader, recently submitted a
modest proposal to the game industry: Make an ultraviolet game of his creation featuring, but not limited to, urinating on the brain stems of slain fictional game industry members, and he will donate $10,000 dollars to charity. Of course people
leapt at the chance, and of course,
Thompson backed out. So then Gabe and Tycho of
Penny Arcade donated the $10,000 dollars to
charity themselves in Thompson's name. Thompson's response?
Call the cops! No wonder the National Institute on Media and the Family
distanced themselves from him.
posted by robocop is bleeding
on Oct 18, 2005 -
78 comments
