Fantasy Flight Games is recruiting for a Marketing Content Coordinator, which essentially means someone to write the blurbs, ads, and other sales copy for the company’s brochures, catalogs, and web site. There’s also the process of planning content, soliciting contributions from others, and playing games so you know what you’re describing! According to the description, it doesn’t seem that advanced experience is required. However, the position is located in Roseville, Minnesota with a salary of $25,000.

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Limited edition flavors from Jones Sugar Cane Soda:

• Potion of Healing
• Sneak Attack
• Bigby’s Crushing Thirst Destroyer
• Dwarven Draught
• Eldritch Blast
• Illithid Brain Juice

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Scary Tales from Playroom Entertainment is a combat card game where each side plays a classic fairy tale protagonist. In the first two versions of the game, you’ve got Little Red Riding Hood vs. Pinocchio and The Giant vs. Snow White. The game is designed by Reiner Knizia.

Red and White look like busty superheroes with attitudes, so this isn’t your kids’ bedtime stories. I haven’t been so amused since I discovered the Wizards of Mickey CCG.

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Quest 2 Learn is a complete grade school educational curriculum in NY designed around games. Math, language, history, geography, civics, science, health, etc are all learned by playing, discussing, and designing games: video, tabletop, and sports. The project starts in a month, beginning this year only with sixth grade.

It is the instantiation of the principles of the Institute of Play and its concept of gaming literacy. The executive director of the institute is famed game designer and co-author of Rules of Play, Katie Salen.

It’s important to note that Quest is not a school whose curriculum is made up of the play of commercial videogames, but rather a school that uses the underlying design principles of games to create highly immersive, game-like learning experiences. Games and other forms of digital media serve another useful purpose at Quest: they serve to model the complexity and promise of “systems.” Understanding and accounting for this complexity is a fundamental literacy of the 21st century.

(source, hat tip)

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Adding to the roster of domestic violence games is Hero’s Journey, designed to stimulate 6-12 year old children in talking through their abuse by allowing them to safely project it on to the hero.

From the Toronto Art Therapy Institute.

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The RCA GameFrame is another digital board gaming device on the sketchpad. This one would fold up and also double as a general digital tabletop device.

Designed by Kate Huthmaker.

(source)

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Tuesday saw the release of the Dungeon Master’s Guide 2 rulebook for Dungeons & Dragons, as well as Revenge of the Giants, an adventure series for characters 12th to 17th level. DMG2 works to improve on the acclaimed first Dungeon Master’s Guide with more advice on enhancing the story in your roleplaying game. The book includes guidance on collaborating with your players, different approaches to skill challenges, and methods for building alternative story paths in to adventures. Yet despite this focus, in developing Revenge of the Giants WOTC appears to have ignored its own advice. Still, you will get 160 pages of fighting giants.

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