The Haunted Game Cafe

Speak With Monsters

Speak With Monsters is a web comic from the monster’s point of view.

Thanks to The Art of Darkness for the link.

Ghostbusters, the Premake

We seem to be on a Ghostbusters kick here of late. In any case the smart folks over at Premakes have given us this very cool and funny premake of Ghostbusters.

Thanks for the link to Wil Wheaton, who ain’t afraid of no ghost.

Who ya gonna call?

The New York Public Library is facing a 37 million dollar budget cut. So, in order to draw some attention to their cause, they invited Improve Everywhere to do a scene in the library.

Don’t Close the Book on New York Public Libraries

Thanks for the link to Cobwebs on Art of Darkness, who knows a ghost when she sees one.

Game Store Owner Screws-Up Own Website

As you can see, the web site has been updated to a newer and hopefully cleaner and easier to read format. This was mostly done because I accidentally deleted the template for the old site and had to scramble to make a new one.

Nothing is foolproof to a determined fool.

The Passenger

A Belligerent Guide to Board Games

Lore Sjoberg has taken a swing at modern board games in his column “Alt Text” at Wired.com. He’s taken board games and broken them down some helpful categories, such as:

Games You Can Get Large Groups of Drunk People to Play

Games That Last Almost as Long as the Wars They Depict

Games That Make You Want to Make Battle Sound Effects When You Play Them

Games That Sound Incredibly Boring but Aren’t

Here’s a quote from the article:

Games Your Grandmother Has Heard Of
These include most games you can get at Wal-Mart, like Yahtzee, Sorry! and Monopoly. The only thing you need to know about these much-loved classic games is that they’re crap. Especially Monopoly. Monopoly is to the contemporary board gamer as garlic-infused kryptonite snakes are to Super Vampire Indiana Jones.

(Chess may be a technical exception to this rule, as no board gamer will say bad things about chess, although they will not actually play it.)

Read the whole article here.

Thanks to The Art of Darkness for the link.