http://twoscooterspress.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:44:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Things have been going along decently for the last couple of months, with a few hiccups. But we seem to be back on track: Game Completion I totally missed my deadline of having a completed game text by Dreamation. Part of this was due to my entire family getting violently ill, myself ... http://blowback.twoscooterspress.com/2010/03/blowback-for-1k-state-of-the-project/ Things are going really well for the text of Blowback. I finished writing the final section of the players' guide, and have started The Agency Handbook. In the meantime, I'm running a contest over on Story Games asking people to stat up their hometown. The coolest town wins you a ... http://blowback.twoscooterspress.com/2010/03/update-also-a-contest/ Hey guys! It turns out I'm running Blowback on Sunday morning, not Saturday. Sorry. You can still get in touch with me about playing in it, though! Here's the latest version of the Blowback document, and it includes Mission: Blowback: Playtest document 2 Enjoy! http://blowback.twoscooterspress.com/2010/02/blowback-new-playtest-preview-dreamation-correction/ Hi guys! I'm running two official games of Blowback as a part of Indie Games Explosion at Dreamation 2010 in Morristown, NJ (February 18-21). The first game is Thursday night at 8 PM, the next is Saturday morning at 9 AM. These are "playtest track" games, so you can get ... http://blowback.twoscooterspress.com/2010/02/blowback-at-dreamation/ Happy new year, folks! I just wanted to give everyone an update on my progress. Timeline I am 49 days away from my first deadline: a polished playtest document. I'm halfway through writing it, and I've done some more playtesting, including a really fun game with Epidiah Ravachol, Emily Care Boss, Vincent ... http://blowback.twoscooterspress.com/2010/01/blowback-for-1k-progress-report/ The first real playtest of Blowback went off with flying colors. In fact, you can read an AP report by two of the players over here on The Forge. As I told the players during a break: I'd played through Analysis twice, talked through Mission once, and sort of had ... http://blowback.twoscooterspress.com/2009/11/jiffycon-playtest-wrap-up-and-ap-report/ With thanks to Shreyas. You can download it in PDF form here. http://blowback.twoscooterspress.com/2009/11/new-character-sheet-just-in-time-for-jiffycon/ Here are the quotes I've gotten from various printers, and how I feel about said printers. Unless otherwise specified, the quote is for a 50-page, perfect-bound, full color book, at a quantity of 100 books. My plan is to cover half the cost of the print run with money from ... http://blowback.twoscooterspress.com/2009/11/blowback-for-1k-printer-roundup/ For some reason, comments aren't working for me-- I can't seem to be able to comment, and I don't know if this is a just-me thing or if it's something other people are having issues with. (I think it must be a wider problem, because the spam comments have slowed ... http://blowback.twoscooterspress.com/2009/11/blowback-for-1k-response-to-comment-gbsteve/ So, a big part of the challenge was that I have one year to make the game: I've got to do everything I said I'm going to do by October 31st, 2010. This is going to be a bit of a challenge, but as I've already got part of the ... http://blowback.twoscooterspress.com/2009/10/blowback-for-1k-timeline/