#play design

[byronscore]

The RPO Is Not a Trend Anymore. It’s a Base Offense.

RPO football has moved past the gimmick stage. Teams build entire identity around it now, because it simplifies reads, punishes slow linebackers, and forces defenses to pick a poison every snap.

This post breaks down how the RPO evolved, what it looks like in modern playbooks, and why it keeps spreading.

The evolution of the RPO in 2026: How NFL offenses are changing

The evolution of the RPO in 2026 is a half-second fight: motion, glance routes, QB run threats, and the one-yard rule reshaping NFL attacks.

[strixhaven-star]

Currently in Standard, there are 31 cards that are either creature with indestructible or creatures/spells that grant indestructible. I think that's enough. What's the point in everything getting indestructible?

With that said, I really wish MTG would think of players who just want to play a fun game. Not everything has to be made for competitive play.

I mostly play via MTG Arena and you can't even play a Bo1 match that's strictly Standard because of the damn Arena Base Set being included in Standard.

To the people who think I complain too much of white life gain? Too bad. It's broken and "playing more removal" won't fix that. I make my own decks because I'm not a net decker and not every deck (of anyone's) has an answer to everything. Don't act new!

Also, I really wish MTG would provide more ways to specifically keep Planeswalkers around. There are more ways to get rid of PWs than to keep them on board. What's the point of playing with them if you can't keep them?

Yes, this post is a bit out of frustration but my audience will just have to deal with it. Stop sending me asks telling me I complain too much or I should play more interaction or removal. Show me a deck that can answer every single way to play Magic and I'll shut up. You can't and you won't be able and you know that.

[hipstersofthecoast]

Dan Burdick And The Infinite Universe Of Play Design

Kitchen Table Magic: Dan Burdick And The Infinite Universe Of Play Design #MTG

Editor’s Note: We’d like to welcome Sam and his amazing podcast, Kitchen Table Magic, to the Hipsters family!  https://soundcloud.com/kitchentablemagic/dan-burdick-and-the-infinite-universe-of-play-design-ep-303 Kitchen Table Magic is the storytelling podcast featuring the amazing people of the Magic: the Gathering community. This week, Sam Tang talks to Dan Burdick, the lead of Play Design in…

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[nielsgame]

Back in 2013, my class and I prototyped a locative game based on Shoot Me If You Can. In this South-Korean Urban Game made in the early 2000’s each players wears a shirt with a number printed on it. In free-for-all deathmatch fashion players attempt to “shoot” each other by taking photos of each other. These pictures are then sent via MMS (it’s 2005) to a game master who analyse who has been shot and divides points accordingly.

Nowadays we have fast mobile data connections and better cameras. This makes playing this type of game a lot easier for both the players and the organisers. Pictures where sent via 3G and each photo had GPS meta-data included so we could get a sense of where what is happening almost in real-time. We also decided to change up the general rules a bit by turning it into a team based capture the flag (CTF) type of game in which the flag is a person that has to be escorted from one part of the playing area (on and around the market square of ’s-Hertogenbosch) to the other.

[nielsgame]

The people of Shut Up & Sit Down talk about their experiences participating in StreetWars, an Urban Game that took place in Londen in June 2014.

Games like Killer and StreetWars show that Urban Games don’t necessarily have to involve technology. It can be played within the bounds of a university campus or scale of an entire city. Participants continue with their ordinary lives while playing at the same time; blurring the boundaries between the ordinary and play even more than any other game. This means that players experience the conflict component of the game as something real, causing total immersion without the needing to set lots of rules and boundaries.

[jm-matiere]

Design fou. Jeu.

Playdesigner, Invoxicated