Archive for April, 2008

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Prada!

I love surrealist animations like this Link

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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Rats, actual play

 
Last night Greg and I played unWritten in a setting that Greg is developing for a comic book he’s working on… 
We started the game by talking about what we wanted to play. I said I wanted to play something inspired by Mouse Guard, a great graphic novel found here. Greg mentions his comic that was inspired by [...]

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Monday, April 28th, 2008

Rats, actual play

Last night Greg and I played unWritten in a setting that Greg is developing for a comic book he’s working on… 

We started the game by talking about what we wanted to play. I said I wanted to play something inspired by Mouse Guard, a great graphic novel found here. Greg mentions his comic that was inspired by [...]

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Monday, April 28th, 2008

Cinematic Rule Set, Quickplay playtest

Last night Greg and I played unWritten using the quickplay con rules. Damn, it was good. Brendon, I wish you were there. You would have loved it.

I realized that the quickplay rules really gave a cinematic feel to the game. While the standard rules give a longer, more drawn out, “literary” feel to the story. [...]

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Thursday, April 17th, 2008

a possible game.

So I was listening to my girlfriend talk last night. And it hit me. I want to play a game that is like “The Matrix” meets “THX.” Yeah, that terrible Lucas movie from the early 70’s that I never saw. 

Here’s the premise.

A group of people, that know they’re in a virtual world with their “meat [...]

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Thursday, April 17th, 2008

I’ve been written about!

Well, not actually me. Paul Tevis started a play test of unWritten at Nerdly Beach Party, but they didn’t get a chance to finish it. Here is what he said… feed://afistfulofgames.blogspot.com/atom.xml

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Thursday, April 17th, 2008

getting the next play test out!

I finally got a play test report from Per and Pooka. It was awesome. They had good and bad things to say. I worked on both. My next play test copy should be out in about a week(?) I’ve been getting a lot of people contacting me about play testing it. I’m working on it, [...]

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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Playtest, Tonight!

Tonight I played unWritten with Josh R and Mark V. Dam it was good! I got a lot of great feedback, but the best thing I got out of it was Mark saying, “Every choice I was seemed natural. Nothing seemed contrived.” That’s not exactly what he said, but it’s close. So good. Now I need [...]

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