Renegade Game Studios What makes our town famous? Why is it notorious? What rumors have you heard? How do you know each other? With these questions you create your world together and then the game begins. Kids on Bikes is a roleplaying game which relies as much on storytelling and creative input as it does […]
Escape from the Isle of the Lost (Descendants, #4) by Melissa de la Cruz Disney Hyperion, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1368020053 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook Escape from the Isle of the Lost is the last book in Melissa de la Cruz’s media tie-in series to Disney’s Descendants franchise. For those not familiar with Descendants, be warned that this review is packed […]
Happy Death Day & Happy Death Day 2U by Aaron Hartzler Blumhouse Books/Anchor Books, 2019 ISBN: 978-1-9848-9772-5 Available: paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook Remember the good old days when movie tie-ins were available for almost every film out there, and good authors wrote them? Lest we forget, Alan Dean Foster, Terry Brooks, R.A. Salvatore, and Orson […]
Gaming in Education
September 28, 2019In August I attended my first GenCon in Indianapolis, IN. While I’ve been a gamer since high school (in every form, tabletop, board games, video games) I only recently started game design and only recently started exploring gaming as an education and cultural tool. Gaming is becoming widely more recognized as a good modern tool […]
Peter Green and the Unliving Academy: This Book is Full of Dead People (The Unliving Chronicles #1) by Angelina Allsop TCK Publishing, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1631610646 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook Fourteen year old Peter Green wakes up on the floor of a hotel lobby wearing only pajamas and a silk tie, and discovers he is dead, has no memories […]
Graphic Novel Review: Belzebubs by J.P. Ahonen
September 24, 2019Belzebubs by J.P. Ahonen Top Shelf Productions, 2019 ISBN: 9781603094429 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, comiXology edition, special editions with full album and band merch The life of a metal band can be challenging, especially trying to balance time with family and religious obligations to fulfill. Called a “trve kvlt mockumentary”, Belzebubs, which started out as a webcomic, gives us a […]
T.V. Review: Lucifer Season 1
September 21, 2019I love this series so much! Based (loosely) on the characters created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, and Mike Dringenberg, season one follows the disillusioned former lord of Hell as he loses, and finds himself, in the debauchery of L.A. When a friend is killed outside his club, Lucifer finds a drive to do more […]
Book Review: The Fever King by Victoria Lee
September 19, 2019In a post-apocalyptic world where the United States has fallen apart due to a deadly virus that leaves survivors with magical abilities (is that not enough to get you to grab this book?) sixteen year old Noam finds himself the only survivor o an outbreak in a refugee neighborhood and suddenly swooped into a world […]
Book Review: Wuftoom by Mary G. Thompson
September 17, 2019Clarion, 2012 ISBN-13: 978-0547637242 Available: New hardcover, paperback, and Kindle edition Deformed by disease, Evan’s only visitor and caretaker is his mother, until he is visited by a wormlike creature of the dark who informs Evan that he is transforming into a Wuftoom . Desperate to hang on to his humanity, Evan resists. Then he […]
Anime Crash Course: The Devil is a Part Timer!
September 14, 2019The title of this one captures a lot. The Devil flees his world during a siege by the good guys and ends up with his best general nearly powerless and in modern Japan. They have to acquire jobs, an apartment, and pay their bills like normal people. But they aren’t normal, and they aren’t the […]