Lars Doucet's personal blog covers game design, land value tax and economics, AI research tooling, and his own game development projects, including tutorials. It also features fiction such as a serialized short story about humans communicating with intelligent ants.
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A newsletter of essays and interviews about tabletop RPG design, currently a series on metagames, game theory and the links between theatre and RPGs. Readers get critical analysis with scholarly references, plus context for the author's own game releases.
Games criticism by Nick Capozzoli, combining close reading of individual titles like Baby Steps and QWOP with essayistic arguments about how gaming discourse frames itself. The sample also includes a personal essay about losing a pet, which shows the writer's voice beyond games.
Brain Worms is an essay newsletter that explores strange and unusual questions about media, from genre labels in video games to cult-like books and the cultural history behind them. Each issue offers a long, witty, digressive piece that uses a quirky premise to examine how media works and how people think about it.
PARADISO is a creator newsletter about designing and playtesting otherworldly tabletop RPGs, centered on the megadungeon project The Blades of Gixa. Readers get development updates, design rationale, and old-school rules tinkering such as house rules for Old School Essentials.
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