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Posts from Month: May 2024

General

Tabletop Mods

With the spring semesters wrapping up and flowing into the summer break, our Pathfinder group has started up again now that schedules are freer. In our first session back, our son joined our merry band of adventurers, which brought back my early days of exploring D&D. I do not remember exactly when I first learned […]

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By Doug Schwartz | May 29, 2024

General

Reinventing Sports

I may be a gamer, but I do not follow sports. However, a couple of recent headlines caught my eye. One was about politicians and blocking transgendered people from participating in campus sports. The other was about pay inequality between men and women athletes. These stories got me thinking…Why aren’t their more professional co-ed sports? […]

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By Doug Schwartz | May 15, 2024

Game Design

Code Breaker (Prototype)

Over the past few weeks, I presented myself with challenges motivating me to work through various coding hurdles for Peggy (Tabletop Game Engine). I have a fourth challenge dealing with additional CRUD for a game’s data objects. I set that one aside and considered another challenge (#5) exploring multi-faced game pieces (dice and cards). I […]

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By Doug Schwartz | May 1, 2024