Recent content by JPL

I would not be convinced that the game, stripped of all "backstory", must get across the idea of the Holocaust. No, but it should be able to convey some of its intended themes without that. The act of herding humans like cattle, the administration of murder on a massive scale, the...

Train sounds like a particularly shallow and (probably unintentionally) crass application of theme. I'm disappointed that people seem so impressed with it simply on the basis of its premise. I'd love to see its full rules published though; it's possible there's more to it. Any game that...

Nice work. Doesn't work for me in Linux with Wine like most GM games do though :( There are definitely some of us in videogame-land that value openness, and I suspect it will become more relevant to ordinary gamers in the coming years, as Microsoft tries to re-assert its ownership of the PC...