Summer games approaching?

No more GEAS sessions, Conpulsion next week...

Trying to dodge hail as I consider this makes it seems less imminent.

I do of course have at least one terrible idea. Hmm.

Hello, World

The Earth from Artemis II. This got me choked up.

NASA, Reid Wiseman

See the article for the much bigger version.

Good Friday

Sadly Father Brown ended last Friday.

Conpulsion Quiz 2026 Update

I have now done one of the two rounds I have to actually research.

I have a Buffy question and a Sarah Michelle Gellar question. So there.

Artemis II

Artemis II has launched. Going to be hopeful, and tense, for a while.

The Emperor Protects

The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical

Doing it RENT style really pushes it over the line.

April

Tread carefully.

Consider Halfway To Halloween as an alternative.

The Faculty

The Faculty was a particularly fun Screamalike as it applied a degree of Kevin Williamson script polish to an SF horror story, while still in high school, instead of a slasher.

The Pod Universe got a remake pitch from Taylor Ortega (spoilers for it, and Scream 4, and also White Nights) which got me to watch it again. And I now wonder if the final monster influenced the worst boss in Bloodlines.

Scream 8

Scream 7 did really well, unfortunately, so here we are. Scream 8 script order for Nora and Lilla Zuckerman, so yes, handing the keys to the big comedy slasher franchise to the writers of the Buffy: New Sunnydale pilot, which kinda seems validating after attempts to blame the script.

Ballad Hunters

Ballad Hunters, a GUMSHOE game of haunted folk songs and breaking the curse through ballad magic in 1813, Kickstarting now.

Conpulsion quiz update

Answer sheets off to be printed en masse.

Now to get enough questions.

Project Hail Mary

I loved The Martian and liked this.

Trying not to think about the science from a biology POV though.

Summer

Ah yes, British Summer Time, I can tell by the hailstones.

Manly Men With Uzis

Malcolm Craig on Delta Force and related 1980s action RPGs with the Historical Games Network.

The Airport

When a game creator is stuck in an airport... I think this is where Over The Edge began.

The Bunker Game is coming

The Bunker Games is a (mild) development of something I did with students on my Nuclear Cold War module at Edinburgh Uni between 2014 and 2016. You’re trapped in a bunker after a nuclear attack - who is allowed to survive?

This is not something I would run with students now, certainly not without considerably more preparation and buy-in.

However, it is an interesting artefact, if only from a personal POV, seeing how my pedagogical approach has evolved over a decade.

Malcolm Craig

Physical copies launching at Conpulsion!

Ryan Coogler's The X Files leads

Himesh Patel joins Danielle Deadwyler in the pilot for a new take on The X Files written and directed by Ryan Coogler.

For Hulu, so here’s hoping That Guy doesn’t get to decide if it goes ahead.

Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish

Trailer for an XBox game due next summer, from the makers of RoboCop: Rogue City who can certainly hit the vibe. Fingers crossed for a smooth development run.

The End Of Oak Street

It’s a pleasant surprise to get a trailer for an interesting movie I hadn’t heard of. The End Of Oak Street (trailer) (Empire talk) looks like a La Brea situation where a suburban street is transported to dinosaur times, stars Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway and is written and directed by It Follows creator David Robert Mitchell.

Late arriving horror heroes

An announcement for the new multiplayer game of John Carpenter’s Halloween has revealed that on the non-Michael side you can play Dr. Loomis or a deputy... after your first character dies.

Making a note of that idea for future horror games.