Munchkin Second Edition Crowdfund Ends Today!
I'm not going to bury the lede here: The in-the-moment crowdfunding campaign of Munchkin Second Edition is ending soon on BackerKit. It's currently scheduled to wrap up sometime on Wednesday, but I believe BackerKit has a special process – the Backer Train – where the campaign keeps on going so...
Are We Entering The Age Of The Digital Symposium?
I recently found "Fighting Fire with Fire" to be an interesting read - it's tempting to push our workloads onto the various powerful and easily accessible AI chatbots out there, especially for students. What's a teacher to do? Build a digital Symposium, that's what. The article gives quite a...
Uh-Oh, It's Magnets . . . When I'm With USB
Here's a life hack I've used for a few years, and especially ramped up in the past couple of months since more of my gear has upgraded to USB-C: magnetic USB dongles. If you've ever messed with old-school MagSafe connectors on Apple laptops, the concept is familiar. The magnetic-dongles kit consists...
I Think More Infographics Should Do This
I'm not sure if you all will find this as amusing as I do, but check out the first 70 seconds or so of the Wikipedia file Alcohol prohibtion US since 1880.webm, with the sound on. I haven't stopped thinking about it since I saw it, and am inspired to...
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...