Speaking With Woodpenny’s Pat King

Today we were lucky enough to speak with the very nice local game developer and founder of Woodpenny studios, Pat King! Pat has lived and worked in the Valley for years, first with Hitpoint Studios and now with his own Woodpenny studios! Woodpenny makes digital and physical objects and all of them are really neat. […]

October 26th – November 1st

The Valley Nerd Watch! So last week we had the pleasure of playing a “hack” of the locally developed and quite roundly well-regarded horror-RPG Dread! In fact, we had the singular experience of playing it with the prolific promulgator of preternaturally purple prose himself, Epidiah Ravochol! It is because of this we were able to […]

October 19th – October 25th

The Valley Nerd Watch! We’ve been talking about Pioneer Valley Game Developers events for a while now. They’re a great group of people who work to bring interesting speakers and fun times to all the hard-working local game developers, and that’s great. But also, they do their own projects sometimes too! Pat King of Woodpenny […]

October 12th – October 18th

The Valley Nerd Watch! First of all, some sad local news. In case you were not aware, the Platinum Pony experienced a very intense fire last Monday night. No one was injured, as it took place after the close of business. Because of the damage, the Platinum Pony will be closed until former notice. If […]

Speaking With Editor Josh Yearsley

Josh is a professional editor living in Northampton who works on games and science literature. He’s edited over two million words, which is pretty cool. Some of those words have reached top journals such as Nature, and you’ll find plenty among shelves of your local game or hobby store—he’s checked, he’s that vain. You can […]

October 5th – October 11th

The Valley Nerd Watch! We’ve had an excellent week, everyone! Thank you for being happy for us. So first of all, hey Star Wars and/or miniatures fans: have you tried Star Wars Armada? It’s a miniatures game and it’s a heck of a fun time. Basically the fun part of it is the fact that […]