Remembering Our Sketchiest Product
I just realized that February is the 10th anniversary of one of the mundanely quirkier items we've offered at Steve Jackson Games: Munchkin Sketch Edition. For those who aren't familiar, the Sketch Edition is mechanically all the cards from the beloved core Munchkin experience (First Edition, of course – the...
The Bird And The House Conspire, Cutely
For those who want inspiration for a mystery or other gaming mayhem – or just want to see something really flipping adorable – I present . . . a YouTube short of a cockatoo taking control of a home's voice-activated system. -- Steven Marsh
This Title Would Use Up Half The Available Storage All By Itself
I adore "useless" tech ideas . . . so my day was made when I stumbled across an amazingly impractical device. Behold, courtesy of the Adafruit blog: the magnetic-core-memory USB drive! For those unaware, magnetic-core memory was old-school, hard-wired memory, storing individual 0/1 bits in an intricate array of cores....
Our Favorite Munchkin Second Edition Cards
Munchkin Second Edition features bold, modern art that has been fully updated by Munchkin's original artist, John Kovalic. We polled our staff to find out which card is their new favorite! Thief. You simply cannot go wrong with a good unitard. -- Allison Electric Radio Active...
Dot's A Dashing Good Song
A YouTube Short by Reuben Levine tells the amazing story of how the Colombian Army hid a message in a pop song via morse code. You can read more about it on Wikipedia, or just see the visualization. Truly, the whole song – "Better Days," by Natalia Gutiérrez and Angelo...
Nostalgia Returns In The Not Too Distant Future?
I've loved the movie-mocking TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (a.k.a. MST3K) literally my entire adult life (and a bit before). I've also been a fan of the related movie-mocking project RiffTrax, starring many of the alumni from MST3K. So it was with some surprise and delight that, in time...
Rolling Against Default
A side effect of growing up playing GURPS is that I occasionally think and talk about my everyday life in game terms – especially when I'm talking to other gamers. Lately, I've been thinking a lot about the joy and satisfaction that comes from rolling against default. If you haven't played GURPS, I'm talking about skills....
Take This Article With A Grain Of Robot
Do you want to see programmable robots smaller than a grain of salt? Okay; now that I type it out, I realize that might be difficult, because that's really small. Let's try this: Do you want to see a zoomed-in human fingertip sporting a tiny programmable robot that's barely visible...