🌈🚀 Reliable wonder engine. I make narrative role-playing games that imagine a weirder, queerer, more connected world.
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Hi Reader, Welcome! Please, come in, into the A/C. On the table, I've put bunches of honeysuckle in a jam jar. We used to pull the flowers apart and suck the juice from them. Today, in the most Raccoon Sky Pirates result possible, the ship carrying the Raccoon Sky Pirates Kickstarter exploded before making it halfway to its destination. That is, I canceled the campaign. s.If you backed it, thank you! And I'm sorry I had to cancel. If you didn't back it, no worries. I'll retool and come back with something closer to the original mailer-box edition. I'll offer the big box of components as a high-tier pledge option. In the meantime, I'll focus on supporting Defy the Gods. It needs help finding people who'll love it. That's what I'll be doing at Origins in a little over a week. I can't believe it's coming so soon! Canceling the Kickstarter was a gut-wrenching decision, but it was the right one. "The money in the pot isn't yours," as they say. The sunk cost wasn't going to justify putting more effort into the game. It might have gotten halfway to its goal, or even 60%, by the end of June. But it wasn't going to make it all the way, and I need to conserve my limited time. Canceling the Kickstarter is also a wake-up call. This is exactly what happened with Defy the Gods! How often will I keep aiming too high and doing a mulligan? I want to learn from this and change how I do things. Here's to learning and changing. xoxoxo P.S. I hope I see you at Origins! I'll be at Booth 1813. Please come say hi. |
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🌈🚀 Reliable wonder engine. I make narrative role-playing games that imagine a weirder, queerer, more connected world.
Hi Reader, We're into the last four days of the Kickstarter for Raccoon Sky Pirates! And it's been a wild ride. We hit the funding goal in just four hours. In the 26 days that followed, we unlocked: Black Flag Friday, the expansion where you raid a big-box store right before Black Friday shoppers rush in. A VTT package to play Raccoon Sky Pirates online. The Haunted House expansion as an add-on for all. The July 4th expansion, where you sail across the National Mall and raid the White House...
Hi Reader, Welcome! Please, come in. It's getting blowy out there. On the table, we've got flame-orange dahlias. The Raccoon Sky Pirates Kickstarter is doing well beyond my wildest hopes. But, for once, I'm not here to talk about that. I recently read Lin Codega's diaries of their experience playing Over/Under, the massive, 30-day game on Discord that started a year ago. Here's what I said about it on Bluesky: Me when O/U was happening: Man I wish I had time for this. Me after it ended: Man I...
Hi Reader, It's All-Raccoons Eve! Tomorrow at noon Eastern, assuming nothing wacky happens in the meantime, the Raccoon Sky Pirates Kickstarter will launch! I've just finished (whew) the free Haunted House Map that goes to everyone who backs in the first 24 hours. I hope you'll be one of them! Here's a low-res screenshot from the first floor. There's a second floor, an attic and of course a basement. It has its own Disaster Track and over a hundred cursed items to steal! If you haven't...