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• RPG analysis - Why Grognardpunk? _itch
  August 24, 2023 by Alessandro Piroddi#Game Design, #rpg-culture, #blog

  Usually I publish the article's text here as a blog entry, and then attach to it a (slightly) nicer PDF as reference. Not this time. Because this "article" is the whole of my bachelor thesis. A whoppi... Continue reading
• RPG analysis - I screen, you screen, we all screen for GM screen
  January 14, 2023 by Alessandro Piroddi

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  #blog, #rpg culture

  I screen, you screen, we all screen for GM screen humble tool, status symbol, relic of a fading past This is not a peer-reviewed academic article. This is the end-term essay for the Media Archeology s... Continue reading

  
• RPG analysis - Do roleplayers dream of algorithmic sheep
  September 06, 2022 by Alessandro Piroddi

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  #blog, #rpg culture

  Algorithmic cultures in tabletop roleplaying games Do roleplayers dream of algorithmic sheep? This is not a peer-reviewed academic article. This is the end-term essay for the Algorithmic Cultures semi... Continue reading
• RPG analysis - Narratives Against the Time-Machine
  May 24, 2022 by Alessandro Piroddi#blog, #rpg culture

  Narratives Against the Time-Machine how playing stories can affect people’s perspective on time, the universe and everything This is not a peer-reviewed academic article. This is the end-term essay... Continue reading
• RPG analysis - Myths of Play
  May 06, 2022 by Alessandro Piroddi

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  #blog, #rpg culture

  Myths of Play roleplaying games as a factory of new myths This is not a peer-reviewed academic article. This is the end-term essay for the Philosophy of Mythology seminar, a module within the broader... Continue reading
• Talking about the Grognardpunk Manifesto
  April 22, 2022 by Alessandro Piroddi

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  #grognardpunk, #game design, #osr, #nsr, #fkr, #rpg

  I recently uploaded a document titled the Grognardpunk Manifesto . Why? Let me start from the very beginning ;) I started out my RPG journey as an "old school" roleplayer. I used to play (to death) th... Continue reading
• RPG analysis - The rulebook made me do it
  March 28, 2022 by Alessandro Piroddi

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  #blog, #rpg culture

  The rulebook made me do it how different kinds of readers relate to RPG texts This is not a peer-reviewed academic article. This is the end-term essay for the Algorithms and Activities seminar, a modu... Continue reading
• Modern RPG design - the Good the Bad and the Money
  February 08, 2022 by Alessandro Piroddi

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  #design, #blog

  [ WARNING ] If the layout of this devlog feels horrible and the images are all over the place, try getting the article as PDF from the download section . It's free :) [/WARNING] I originally wrote thi... Continue reading
• RPG Design Theory Primer #01 - Coherence
  February 01, 2022 by Alessandro Piroddi

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  #design, #blog

  [ WARNING ] If the layout of this devlog feels horrible and the images are all over the place, try getting the article as a PDF from the download section . It's free :) [/WARNING] In RPG design conver... Continue reading
• How to blog with itch.io
  January 31, 2022 by Alessandro Piroddi

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  #blog

  itch.io lacks a proper blogging function. Still, it's an important tool for a game dev. Devlogs are nice, but they can only exist as posts related to a specific game project. Having to hunt down a des... Continue reading