The Weekly Squeak - Contentful with Paolo Negri

In this episode I speak with Paolo Negri about their API-first content platform. Also features the story of Bullfrog, history books for roleplayers, judging an open source project, and more.

xx Chinch

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How to judge open-source projects

Plenty of people have put together systems to collect, judge, and evaluate open-source projects, including information about a project’s popularity, reliability, and activity. But they all have flaws. Take that oldest of metrics: Lines of code (LoC). Yes, it’s easy to measure.

Dungeons & Dragons TikTok Is Gen Z at Its Most Wholesome

A lifelong bookworm and a fantasy geek, Sarah Chaffee had for years admired Dungeons & Dragons from afar. “In the culture I grew up in,” she says, “it was very much like, ‘D&D is devil worship.

Bullfrog after Populous

I’ll give you an analogy of what Populous is in my mind. Imagine if I had a blank canvas. Some people that are true artists will take a palette of paint and mix them together and carefully handcraft each and every single brushstroke until they have some beautiful and amazing picture.

Four Great History Books for Game Masters: How to Expand Your Campaign and Impress Your Friends

Game Masters who design their own stories are always looking for new sources of inspiration. A reasonable strategy is to lift something from an already existing fantasy story (or story in the genre your game is in) and file the serial numbers off.