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Tag Archives: materiality

Frontier Scum: a review & retrospective

Acid Western roleplaying on the Lost Frontier

Posted byLīber LūdōrumAugust 1, 2022August 1, 2022Posted inReviewsTags:graphic design, indie, materiality, textuality, ttrpg2 Comments on Frontier Scum: a review & retrospective

Necromancer Dice: a review

The aesthetics and statistics of Cyberdicegames’s eye-catching offering

Posted byLīber LūdōrumJuly 18, 2022Posted inReviewsTags:design, dice, materiality, ttrpg2 Comments on Necromancer Dice: a review

Apollo 47 Technical Handbook: a material review-essay

The moon cropped from a photo by Partizia Strippoli. It is used under CC BY 4.0.

In space, no on can hear you yawn.

Posted byLīber LūdōrumMay 16, 2022March 20, 2023Posted inReviewsTags:hutchings, materiality, space, textualityLeave a comment on Apollo 47 Technical Handbook: a material review-essay

Charity Bundle Cavalcade

18 bite-size reviews of TTRPGs from the Trans Rights and Ukraine bundles

Posted byLīber LūdōrumMarch 28, 2022July 15, 2022Posted inReviewsTags:graphic design, indie, materiality, solo, textuality, ttrpg1 Comment on Charity Bundle Cavalcade

Mage Knight Redux

Reminiscences of a collectible miniatures game

Posted byLīber LūdōrumJanuary 3, 2022January 12, 2022Posted inReviewsTags:mage knight, materiality, wargamingLeave a comment on Mage Knight Redux

Mörk Borg & Human Occupied Landfill: A Comparative Review

The giant trash fire at the end of the world

Posted byLīber LūdōrumDecember 13, 2021January 12, 2022Posted inCriticismTags:comparative analysis, Human Occupied Landfill, materiality, Mork Borg, textuality, ttrpg5 Comments on Mörk Borg & Human Occupied Landfill: A Comparative Review

My Body is a Cage: a material review

Cover of My Body is a Cage by John Battle. Image © 2021 John Battle. Used with permission.

John Battle guides us through the dungeons of the night.

Posted byLīber LūdōrumNovember 29, 2021January 12, 2022Posted inReviewsTags:graphic design, john battle, materiality, ttrpg2 Comments on My Body is a Cage: a material review

Ludo-Garbologies

Garbage dumped in the marshes of Spring Creek in Jamaica Bay. US EPA, 1973, public domain.

4 games that make you think about trash

Posted byLīber LūdōrumNovember 10, 2021July 15, 2022Posted inCriticismTags:amanda lee franck, dirt merchant, graphic design, materiality, orion canning, sprinting owl, textuality, ttrpgLeave a comment on Ludo-Garbologies

Dice x Space

Using shiny math rocks for more than shiny math

Posted byLīber LūdōrumSeptember 20, 2021January 12, 2022Posted inCriticismTags:dice, dungeons, maps, materialityLeave a comment on Dice x Space

Dwelling: A Book for Ghosts to Haunt

A material review of Seb Pines’ solo writing/drawing/body-marking RPG

Posted byLīber LūdōrumJuly 23, 2021January 12, 2022Posted inReviewsTags:drawing, dwelling, interactivity, materiality, physicality, rpg, seb pines, solo, textuality, writingLeave a comment on Dwelling: A Book for Ghosts to Haunt

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