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Tag: Ten Candles
A horror game by Stephen Dewey, published by Cavalry Games in 2015.
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Bluntly
Here are my reflections about Ten Candles insofar as I understand it. I don’t think it’s any good, and that to enjoy playing necessarily entails doing something other than what’s written there. Like it or not, here’s why.
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The didactic potential of Ten Candles
I recently took Ron’s People & Play course and feel like, more than anything else, it gave me language and context to talk about things I have experienced but lacked proper terminology for. One of the interesting concepts was that of zilchplay, and the idea that, oftentimes, play doesn’t even happen, which is something that,…
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Sympathy and Science
Recently, I ran a game of Ten Candles for David, Robbie and Manu after Manu had expressed an interest in the game on the Adept Play Discord. It’s a tricky game to run online but I managed to assemble all the technical pieces to pull it off. I also went out of my way to…