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Fantasy Is Universal

The Bottom Feeder

Sometimes I have to remind myself, with a bit of a shock, that I write fantasy for a living. Yes, I write fantasy. My almost thirty year fantasy-writing career has been very prolific (18 all-new games!) Who likes fantasy? What makes fantasy work? After all, fantasy is the default mode for fiction by humans.

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I’m making an RPG!

Keith Burgun

Starting somewhere in 2020, I started this huge dive into the Final Fantasy series – strangely enough, starting with the XIII trilogy. This article , in particular, from Nintendo Power, I have a distinct memory of reading and being totally transfixed by the concept of the world of Final Fantasy 1. (I A cool, fun game.

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Olivier Madiba’s Kiro’o Games is building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem

PreMortem.Games

Founder and CEO Olivier Madiba is pursuing his dream of creating the biggest African game studio by building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem which encapsulates games, comics, animation and even restaurants. There are even plans for a third saga in animated format targeted at babies and toddlers, featuring singing characters.

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Fantasy Strike is Crowdfunding Now

Sirlin

My team and I have been working on Fantasy Strike for almost a year and half now. It's a fighting game featuring the same characters as my Yomi card game and it's unusually easy to play. Here's our new forums for Fantasy Strike. Even in its early prototype state, it was. Here's our discord (text) chat server.

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Fantasy Strike patch notes, August 2016

Sirlin

Thank you to all our patrons for supporting the Fantasy Strike fighting game. If a really accessible, easy-to-play fighting game that's still tournament-quality appeals to you, please support us. Because he is generally playable, we wanted to get this to you before fixing his various animation problems. --b+A

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The RPG Report, and the worst things in RPGs

Keith Burgun

Kind of “adolescent anime” feeling story, a little silly and a little too fantastical in its basic universe for me, but seems well written. FINAL FANTASY XVI – After playing a bunch more Kingdomheartslikes and getting more used to that, I’ve gotta say, this is a very well made Kingdomheartslike.

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En Garde! by Fireplace Games is the right blend of cheesy, slapstick and endearing

PreMortem.Games

With graphics that wouldn’t look out of place in a Dreamworks animated movie and sword fighting action that would make Zorro blush. The original 8 member team that built the prototype at Rubika – school for Game design and animation in Valenciennes, France- all went their separate ways after graduating.