Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 10th, 2007
My Gateway schedule
Hopefully I get into these games… We’ll see who’s get the draw on Monday!
Friday
3 pm unWritten (I’ll be running that)
8 pm SW saga edition
Saturday
10am unWritten (curious, I’ll be running that one as well)
3 pm Paranioa XP
8 pm Burning Wheel
Sunday
10am unWritten (Wow, that’s hilarious, I’ll be running this too!)
3 pm HeroQuest
8 pm Shadowrun 4e (yup, I [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in fun & games by alex
Friday, August 10th, 2007
unWritten, first public playtest
Hi, This is the first public playtest for unWritten. The text in red is incomplete, other then that I’d like everyone and anyone to go through it and tear it apart. Thanks for giving it a try.
To see the latest playtest check out the link on the right called “latest playtest” just above the blogroll.
2 Comments » - Posted in playtest by alex
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
uW Power 19
This is the power 19, a set of 19 questions designed to help one develop and understand what they are trying to create…
1) What is your game about?
uW is a game about collaborative storytelling. Players collaboratively create a setting, a group of characters, and the central conflict. This focuses game play on the characters, their [...]
No Comments » - Posted in design by alex
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
Outlining
I think that outlining via the Josh method has probably been the most productive way of organizing a game text, for me at least. Yes, its very 9th grade, but you know, its been a pretty long time since I’ve spoken to Mrs. English (yup that was my 9th grade english teachers name.)
In order to [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Journey by alex
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
Playtest file coming.
I’ll be taking the outline from below and creating a playtest file that people will be able to try out. Hopefully it will be up by friday.
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Josh and his conglomorous aid.
Yesterday Joshua BishopRoby and I had lunch. Over the tacos he help me with my game design and told me he’d help me out on the electric frontier, hence this blog. Thanks Josh.
After lunch we spoke a bit about layout and writing and other such Joshisms. By that evening he posted this on his [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Journey by alex
Monday, August 6th, 2007
post A
So I’ve begun blogging. This here post is my proof.
I’ve been developing an RPG for about 4 years now, about 6 months ago it ceased being an RPG and became a Story Game. I’m going to blog about this process, as well as, the further creation, completion, and publication of unWritten.