🌈🚀 Reliable wonder engine. I make narrative role-playing games that imagine a weirder, queerer, more connected world.
getting up the mountain
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Hi Reader, How are you? Please, come in. Have a seat. I'll take your raincoat. The weather's been all over the place lately. These innocuous-looking white flowers on the table are bloodroot. Don't break the stems—the sap is poisonous. What a sword & sorcery flower. Last week, I went to GAMA Expo as a Horizons Fellow. "GAMA" is the Game Manufacturers' Association, and "GAMA Expo" is a professional conference of retailers, publishers, and distributors. The Horizons Fellowship is part of GAMA's DEI initiative. They kept saying "DEI" all the time, too, just to tick off people in Washington. It was pretty sweet. People celebrated us, I made friends, and GAMA covered most of our costs. I got to tell tons of people that Defy the Gods is coming soon. However, I think I have to push back the date of the Kickstarter, by about a month. There's just too much to do, and I'm running out of time.
It's been all Defy the Gods for me all the time. I've started a "megathread" on Blue Sky where I talk about it—the themes, the mechanics, and best of all, all the people who helped me make it. You can see it here. Next week, I'll be a special guest at Breakout Con in Toronto. I'm running Defy the Gods of course, but I'm also planning to playtest my Toronto Expansion for Raccoon Sky Pirates, with a raccoon-eye view of the city. It's a challenge to make raccoons in Toronto more over the top than they already are. My current idea is that the coyotes and seagulls band together to challenge the raccoons for control of Toronto. Should be a blast! If you're going to the con, I hope I see you there! Cheers, P.S. That sign-up page again: https://prelaunch.hecticelectron.com. Okay thanks! :) |
Everlasting, Neverending Game Night
🌈🚀 Reliable wonder engine. I make narrative role-playing games that imagine a weirder, queerer, more connected world.
Hi Reader, Welcome back to game night. I'm briefly out of the smithy—Udo has to bury all the bronze swords in the backyard for that weathered look, so the ball's in his court. Still, I've been busy. I'm working on enamel pin designs. What do you think? Can you tell what B is? I've also been publicizing the game. I contracted with a consulting company called LaunchBoom to help me, because I don't know from marketing. Little did I know it would drop me into the crossfire of tabletop games...
Hi Reader, [heat, banging] Welcome! Please, come in. I'll be right with you. Just need to stick this blade in the quenching bucket ... [steam, hissing] There we go. Whew! It's sweaty in here. Put your coat wherever. No, not there, that's hot. Why is our game night in a smithy? I've been working on Defy the Gods. Turns out, in a sword & sorcery game, there are a lot of swords. So, thank you for coming to my workshop while I continue to hammer away. But look what I've turned out! I've scheduled...
Hi Reader, Welcome! Happy New Year! Please, come in. Let's shake off that snow. Make yourself at home. The candles on the table are set up for Hanukkah. Tomorrow night's the eighth night—the big one! I haven't had you over for a while because I've been heads-down in the text for Defy the Gods, trying to finish it so I can hand it off to Rue Dickey, the copy editor. Now that the Christmas brouhaha is over, I'm putting every spare hour into this. I'm preparing to launch a Kickstarter for Defy...