Want to get 20% off Telepath RPG: Servants of God for pre-ordering? Make sure to snag the game before 11:59 PM EST tonight!
Read More »Attention ladies and gentlemen: as of today, there is precisely one week left to nab Telepath RPG: Servants of God at the early pre-order price! On Tuesday, September 27, the price goes up from $19.95 to $24.95. In the meantime, I’ve once again updated the demo* with a variety of…
Read More »Looking back on my last developer rant, I’ve decided that I was a little bit too scattershot in my approach. I wanted to cover a multiplicity of areas where detail tends to get overlooked in RPGs, but in doing so I skimped on solutions. In particular, I want to revisit…
Read More »Since the release of the AIR build of Telepath RPG: Servants of God, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how to install the game. This post will stand as the definitive guide to doing just that. This post primarily concerns installation of the game in Windows, but the…
Read More »I’ve now officially released the first AIR build of Telepath RPG: Servants of God! This version of the game runs on Windows, Mac and Linux alike using a single installer. To install, make sure you have Adobe AIR–it’s free and available right here. Install AIR first–once that’s taken care of,…
Read More »Hey folks, good news! Sinister Design is going to have a booth at this year’s Chicago Comic Con! The show hours are as follows: Thursday, August 11, 2011: 5pm – 9pm Friday, August 12, 2011: 12 NOON – 8pm Saturday, August 13, 2011: 10am – 7pm Sunday,…
Read More »The Sinister Design SwagShop has received an update, with lots of new products and some drastic price cuts. (Everything in the shop is now being sold at close to cost!) Check it out!
Read More »The RPG is an inherently inelegant creature. It is something of a Frankenstein monster, a suite of different gameplay systems stitched together into a shambling chimera. Character creation, simulated markets, item management, navigation, combat, stealth, dialogue, puzzles, class and skill trees–as a developer, it is difficult enough simply to make…
Read More »2K Marin, the developer working on the X-Com series reboot, has become the latest big studio to take a turn at trashing classic turn-based games:
Read More »Soon–within the next few weeks–I’m going to release an updated version of Telepath RPG: Servants of God. Starting with that update, the game is going to be distributed exclusively as an AIR installer, meaning that it can be installed and played on any computer that runs Windows, Mac or Linux.…
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