Growing up in the UK there were a few places on the high street that I could pop into and geek over the latest tech and computer games. These days, with the might of Amazon to compete against, and perhaps not always able to offer the customer the sort of quality service boutique high-quality audio […]
Archives for November 2018
Navigate the Enterprise: 6 Star Trek floor plans
Geek Native has featured marketing efforts from Angie’s List before. They’ve done illustrated architecture which was gorgeous and nostalgic pixel floorplans. I guess geeks make a good audience and there’s some floorplan related service Angie’s List can help with because they’re back for round three. This time it’s Star Trek. Want to see inside a […]
Roll20 reveal their Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica preview
The Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica goes on sale today. This is the new D&D setting from Wizards of the Coast… except it’s been a Magic: The Gathering setting for many years now. Ravnica is the first crossover setting between the two huge product lines. Roll20, the virtual tabletop, also put their Racnica bundle up today […]
York gets a Dungeons & Dragons inspired bar
The Quest Inn is a family-friendly fantasy themed restaurant opening in the centre of medieval York. The Indiegogo pitch for The Quest Inn raised some money but not the full £50,000 that would have made this clever idea a slam-dunk certainty. Geek Native spoke to the architect of the plan, Elliot Howden-Roberts, about the project. […]
Thoughts on the touchy nature of player mortality
In July Geek Native published a review of Nathan Quill’s Middenarde. In this guest post, Nathan shares his reply. Games in which player death is par for the course have always been divisive. When the survival platformer Rain World released in 2017, it caused an explosion of debate over the worthiness of its punishing karma […]
Moglan’s D&D augmented reality items deck struggles on Kickstarter
Ben Doran’s idea is to help DMs put the magic back into magic chests or even those chests you get at the end of a battle. Rather than risk forgetting to put some exotic loot in your notes for the Moglan magic item cards let the players get a more visual experience and something to […]
Genre Police: The Spy Who Critted Me
Espionage is an instantly recognisable genre. Due to its very clearly defined tropes, everyone can remake a spy movie – just think about it now, you can already see the grand opening action sequence in your mind. But when we get down to particulars, lots of spy media are very different. Goldfinger is not the […]
Roll20 lets D&D gamers into the Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Wizards of the Coast’s latest D&D 5e titles, “Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica and Dungeon of the Mad Mage, are now available on the virtual tabletop Roll20. Geek Native has some art from inside the Waterdeep adventure Dungeon of the Mad Mage to share. In the game adventures find themselves exploring the mage Halaster’s Undermountain domain. […]
Out of the Mouth’s of Outlaws: A Retrospective on the Dialog of Rockstar Games
Few game developers craft dialog that compares to the distinct voices of the residents of New Austin, Los Santos, and Liberty City. Bandits wax poetic about the changing times, gang bangers expel the virtues of capitalism, and hitmen talk politics. It’s loud, crude, and it’s all Rockstar. Rockstar Games distinct writing style wasn’t developed overnight. […]
TORG Eternity: The Nile Empire brings in the pulp
Ulisses is looking to expand The Other Roleplaying Game, aka TORG, with the help of some 1930’s pulp fiction. Ulisses Spiele bought the license for TORG back in 2015, president of the company, Markus Plotz, being a fan of the game. Now there a Kickstarter expected on November 20th to add new adventures, heroes and […]
