[Diaspora] Diaspora Review on Game Cryer

[Brad Murray]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Darren Brewster <excrusader at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey guys, just pointing out that Diaspora has been reviewed over on Game
> Cryer:
>
> http://gamecryer.com/2009/12/04/diaspora/
>
> It is a pretty even handed review, though I doubt that if Brad hadn't
> called attention to it, no one would be complaining about the font
> selection, and the Wargames aren't really stripped down at all, just
> organized in such a way as to be fair for both sides.
>

Thanks Darren, I just saw that this afternoon too. I'm actually pretty
pleased with it (at least in part because it's not so exuberant that a
reader might wonder who's paying him) and I think the criticisms are
generally good. I think there's a little depth missing -- some of the
mechanisms he doesn't understand the buzz over are things that subtley
interact in actual play (like the cluster/character feedback loop) and lead
me to believe maybe he didn't get a chance to play it much. Or, possibly,
that it didn't happen for him, in which case it really is a failure of the
game.

As for the font, well, he's not actually the first to complain (though the
first to diss Helvetica -- how dare he?!) and it's a good complaint I think.
I talked about it at blue collar space in my first post I think: <
http://www.vsca.ca/halfjack/?p=1>

All in all I'm quite happy with it!

-- 
Brad Murray (halfjack)
VSCA Publishing
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