Michael Iantorno PhD Candidate, Game Designer, and Writer

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One Page Dungeon Contest 2019

The One Page Dungeon Contest returns once again! As we are wont to do, my brother and I crafted an entry for the competition – our fourth submission in the last six years! We decided to keep things a little looser this time around, incorporating gnomes, squid, and pseudo-science into our adventure. Following a total system failure, Captain Huxley recruits a team of adventurers to salvage...

One Page Dungeon Contest 2017: Winner

Earlier in April, I mentioned that Matt and I had entered the perennially entertaining One Page Dungeon Contest, where amateur game designers compete to create the ultimate single page role-playing adventure. After two weeks of judging, we’re happy to announce that we are one of the contest’s winners. The awards have arbitrary, made-up names, so I’m not quite sure what the...

One Page Dungeon Contest 2015: 3rd Place!

A few weeks back I mentioned that Matt and I had entered the One Page Dungeon Contest, an annual competition that challenges amateur designers to create the ultimate single page role-playing adventure. After a month-long judging process, the results are finally in! Matt and I managed to sneak into the 3rd place category with our entry, Vesna’s Refuge. In celebration of this win, I am...

One Page Dungeon Contest 2015: Vesna’s Refuge

The 2015 iteration of the One Page Dungeon Contest is nearing its deadline, and Matt and I have just put the finishing touches our submission! Impressed by the maps and layouts of last year’s entries, we were inspired to create something with a bit more of a visual “punch” to it. The fruits of our labour is Vesna’s Refuge, a system neutral island adventure about evil...

Yavmir Almanac: Lineages

Yavmir is an ongoing project, where Michael and Radiostorm work together to build a slavic-themed fantasy setting. More information can be found at the WoR Wiki. Continuing on the same thread as last week’s update, today I have posted some more character creation rules for Yavmir. With the monstrous races out of the way, we move along to a familiar group of creatures: Humans.  Numerous and...

First Impressions – Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together

I’m a huge Final Fantasy Tactics fan, so when I heard that Squeenix had made another tactical RPG that looked essentially like the same damn game my interest was piqued. I picked up the PSP version with high hopes of playing another strategic masterpiece, and although I may have set my expectations a bit high I’m still pretty impressed. Below are my first impressions of the game...

Michael Iantorno PhD Candidate, Game Designer, and Writer