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Maurice Suckling

@writegameread.bsky.social

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Writes stories, makes games, reads history. Assistant Professor, Games and Experiential Media, RPI, NY. Researching narrative in games & historical simulations. Writer of stories for games. Designer of board games. https://mauricesuckling.com

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Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social · 5d

Try to be clear about your focus - this guides you on what to exclude and how to organize things. It might mean you’re contracting a timeline by a regulated scale (for a defined set term), or might mean you can zip around a timeline in variegated scales to get to the relevant incidents/decisions.

Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social · 5d

This is my first time with the expansion and I like it. Combat feels better.

Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social · 5d

Today’s game. Back to Star Wars: Rebellion.

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Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social · 6d

Today’s game in Narrarive-Driven Analog Games: House of Danger.

Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social · 7d

Today’s game: Peace 1905 prototype, testing the 2-player and 3-player game modes. Russia wins with the treaty ratified by both governments in the 2-player. In the 3-player Roosevelt was ahead until Russia blew up negotiations and forced the Japanese delegates to storm out - giving Japan the victory.

Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks, Fred. That’s sitting on my shelf and also comes highly recommended.

Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social · 12d

This week’s read. He covers a lot of ground from a variety of angles. I really enjoyed this:

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Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social · 12d

RPI’s Games and Experiential Media department runs undergraduate and graduate courses with a focus on a blend between the practical development of games and the scholarly analysis of and around them. hass.rpi.edu/departments-...

Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social · 14d

New cards for Rebellion: Britannia prototype. New playtest. Never seen Rome struggle like this before. This suggests Rome is harder to play for new players. (Silures have lapped the other factions on the score track.)

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Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you to the generous, wise, and kind soul that is Richard Dansky for spending time with my students @rpihass.bsky.social and for dropping pearls of wisdom from his “The Video Game Writer’s Guide to Surviving an Industry That Hates You”.

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Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social · 19d

Today’s arrival: C3i magazine. Bittersweet as it is Rodger’s last.

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Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social · 21d

Sorry - slow here. Yes, I’m also out of my depth with this.

Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social · 21d

Today’s game - played with my Analog Games Lab, Chronicles of Crime, 1400.

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Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social · 21d

Today’s development update - revised board for Statecraft: Age of Elizabeth prototype (still building the physical prototype).

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Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social · 26d

Today’s project - new game development: Bartleby the Scrivener - a storytelling game.

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Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks for your thoughts, Grant.

Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social · 26d

Today’s arrivals: (planning one or two new projects for the new year).

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Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social · 28d

Indeed, what stories?…

RPI School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences @rpihass.bsky.social · 28d

This week in Narrative-Driven Analog Games with Assistant Prof. @writegameread.bsky.social, students explored “story-making” tabletop systems that spark imagination and collaborative storytelling. Next: they'll design & teach a game of their own to be tested in class. What stories will they tell?

Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social · Sep 7

Students at RPI play Untold: Adventures Await, a story-making game, as part of the first two weeks of my new course Narrative-Driven Analog Games, offered by the Games and Experiential Media department.