"Haiduc" is both the name of a game and a company. Founded by Mary Georgescu, this company largely focuses on tabletop games with interesting narratives. 2018's Play NYC had her company stuck up on…
August 24, 2019 | 12:30 EDT
There were a lot of new tabletop games at Play NYC this year, but one of the most unique was a small title called Zer0 Inbox, the debut game by Macho Zero. The game, depending on your point of view,…
August 20, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
In August 2019, we now head into the lead up to Play NYC, a convention for developers, fans and gamers of all ages. Put on by New York City-based community organization Playcrafting, the con heads…
August 8, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
I love going to conventions. While I may now live in North Carolina, I used to be a New Jersey resident. I always found the lack of conventions there to be rather weird. Thankfully we have…
May 14, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
Carolina Ravassa is a woman who is well-known to the gaming world as the voice of Sombra in Overwatch. Ms. Ravassa will be acting as the emcee for Playcrafting's The 3rd Annual Bit Awards, which is…
January 28, 2019 | 02:00 EST
ESC Games is a company that I first learned about after 2017's Playcrafting Bit Awards. The afterparty was hosted in a small Manhattan location and featured several original multiplayer titles…
August 26, 2018 | 02:00 EDT
Sumer is a title that holds a dear place in my heart for neatly combining tabletop games and video games into one fun package. It first debuted on Kickstarter in 2016 before eventually making its way…
August 26, 2018 | 01:30 EDT
Play NYC 2018 had over a hundred developers and nearly twice as many games. Rupie was a company that I was particularly keen on talking to, if only for the fact that they apparently sponsored fifteen…
August 25, 2018 | 02:00 EDT
Amongst the sea of games showcased at Play NYC, Razbury Games From Rust is perhaps the biggest tone shift from a previous work. Razbury Games is known for the unique RPG Vidar, a dark tale about…
August 13, 2018 | 05:21 EDT
The world of gaming conventions grows ever larger, and for the longest time there was a distinct void in the New York City area. Despite being a major city on the east coast, New York really hasn't…
July 26, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
Early in my career at TechRaptor, I searched for gaming events in the New York City area and boy was I coming up short. There was no equivalent of PAX, GDC, or E3 to be seen anywhere in Manhattan or…
July 25, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
Last year, I sat down to have a chat with a pair of developers who were working on a simple title with a concept that I found personally interesting. That game is Awkward Date, a co-op platformer…
July 22, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
"Cupcake fighters in giant space battles." That's how I would describe Galactose: Pastries In Space by Zero Eden Games. And that, in all honesty, is what got me interested in talking to developer…
February 17, 2016 | 01:00 EST
After Playcrafting's Fall Expo closed out, I found myself at the unofficial after party a few blocks away. One of the people I had the pleasure of speaking with was Dylan Cohen.Dylan was showcasing…
January 21, 2016 | 09:00 EST
Glenn Orzepowski is one of the people I ended up missing at Playcrafting's Fall Expo. Thankfully, I was able to follow up with him after the fact.A lot of the attendees at Playcrafting's Fall Expo…
January 6, 2016 | 09:00 EST
I was standing outside the afterparty of Playcrafting's Fall Expo smoking a cigarette and looking around to see if there were any devs I had missed. I saw two men standing next to an awful lot of…
December 21, 2015 | 09:00 EST
I met a lot of wonderful people at Playcrafting's Fall Expo. One of the first people I spoke with—the first person I saw through the door, in fact—was a lovely woman named Emma Larkins. Emma was…
December 17, 2015 | 09:00 EST
One of the fine people I met at Playcrafting's Fall Expo was Matt Schell of Mirror Fish Media. Mr. Schell was showing off a project titled Monarch Black (formerly titled Pollen). My interest in the…
November 16, 2015 | 09:00 EST
It all started with a GIF of a gigantic frog terrifying a crowd of people in a high rise building.I was at Playcrafting's Fall Expo. I was on a mission to find out more about the game behind the GIF…
November 12, 2015 | 11:00 EST
When I first started writing for TechRaptor at the beginning of 2015, I was keen on attending any interesting gaming events in my area. When I heard about a game developer expo that was going to have…
November 3, 2015 | 01:00 EST