RPG Reload Extra: What Lies Ahead for the Reload
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the weekly feature where we usually take a look at an RPG from the App Store's past to see how it holds up in the present day. We're not going to be doing that this week, however. We just closed the book on the second year of this feature, with a hefty article delivered each and every week since the Reload launched on August 15th, 2014. I've covered more than 90 RPGs and/or RPG-related games, put together two large Christmas specials, done two year-end award ceremonies, recorded nearly 20 podcast episodes, and created a book-sized 12-part feature on the history of handheld RPGs. Our readers (you all!) have shown tremendous support to this weird, niche idea, and I'm always thankful for that. The Official RPG Reload Club thread in the forums just passed 1,000 posts, if you can believe that. It's as good a time as any to take a little pause and consider where we're going. Warning: this will be navel-gazey and bloggish. We'll be back to the games next week, I promise. When I first pitched the idea of the RPG Reload to Eli and Jared, I was really just looking for an excuse to write about some of my favorite older RPGs on the platform. Being such a young market, relatively speaking, the mobile side of the hobby had shown little interest in retrospectives. News and reviews were heavily focused on the now. To a large extent, content is still that way. But I wanted to write about Chaos Rings, The Quest, and Saturday Morning RPG, ...
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