The first post

If you have not already figured it out, this is a blog about game design, with a slight focus on video games. I have had an interest in game design and working in the game business for quite a while now, and I have discovered if I write down any ideas I have I think a lot more critically about them. So I decided to put up all the things I write here, and if someone from the Internet would like to comment my ramblings, so much better.

This blog is will not chronicle my life or contain irrelevant stories about the well-being of my cat (if I had one), but perhaps a small introduction is in order. I am a young male who took the gaming alias Mrop from a fictional television show that played a minor role in a book I wrote with a friend in fourth to sixth grade. During this time, I also started dungeon mastering my very own role playing game, even though I did not know what a dungeon master was or had seen any form of traditional role playing game. Now, many years later, I have finally convinced two of my friends to write a game together in Flash, but the project progresses slowly at the moment.

I will try to write a new post each weekend, and next week will see the premier of a series of posts about how the classic board game Risk can be improved.