New Casual Game The Hunger Games Adventures Is More Appointment-Based Panem-Ville Than Adventure Story The Hunger Games novels suggest so many good games — a minigame hunting prey with Katniss’ arrows (a popular choice for the middle-school girls in my game design classes), a crafting and survival game like Lost In Blue set in the forest outside District 12, a combat game in the Arena, or even a social RPG, like Whitewolf’s Vampire: The Masquerade, set in the Capital — that I had high hopes for The Hunger Games Adventures. Even when I realized this game had some appointment-style mechanics, … Continue reading Panem-Ville: Hunger Games →

This week we introduce a brand new feature, the GiN Blog spotlight. GiN will be teaming up with the best bloggers from within the industry as well as commentators and reviewers. We’ll be simulcasting their best and brightest work right here. First up: Meg Stivison, who knows this industry from all angles.