Show Notes – 12/7/2011

• Business: Ghost Pirates boardgame on Kickstarter! Only 38 hours to go!
• Chat: Jason and I discuss the convergence of analog and digital in the tabletop/hobby gaming space. Example: FiascoMobile, an app I developed for accessing Fiasco playsets from anywhere.

Show Notes – 11/3/2011

• Kickstarter rewards, origami dinosaurs, and a story about discovering girls
• Shoutout to Martha!
• There’s a technique to watercolor!?
• Fiasco Mobile (is actually done: check it out at http://fiascomobile.ogreteeth.com)
• The creative process can take many forms – and what GS discovered while writing his thesis on the topic.
• Better Angels
• When is it done?
• Chad Underkoffler is responsible for how awesomely well Unknown Armies 2E is organized.
• Finish things…and don’t let GS operate on your brain.

I’ve finished putting my Metatopia (November 4-6, Morristown NJ) Designer Schedule together, and am now posting what I submitted here in case you’re going and want some idea of what’s going on with my games. This schedule isn’t final, but I don’t think it will change.

Friday:  8pm – 10pm
Board Game: Yellow Press
Take on the role of a newspaper to manipulate the reputations of your local superheroes. Be an editor like J. Jonah Jameson, or a plucky reporter like Clark Kent. Or both! Decide who is a hero, and who is a menace.

Prefer 4-5 experienced play-testers or board game designers who are interested in “light” narrative board games with euro-inspired elements.

Saturday:  9AM – 11AM
Party Games: Feral Survivors, Rap Battles
Feral Survivors is a journaling party game — think: Lord of the Flies, Lost, and Robinson Crusoe in an Exquisite Corpse format.

Rap Battles is a party game where Wannabe MCs compete to showcase their lyrical prowess using the same verbal ingredients.
Grandmaster Flash Fiction wants to know: are you ready to throw down?

Anyone welcome at any time, party game format means quick rounds of play.

Saturday: 2PM – 4PM
Open Board Game Rules Testing
Help identify confusing rules, unclear language, and where diagrams would be most useful. Various board games available for review.

No limit on number of participants, anyone welcome, including designers interested in rules-testing their own games (bring paper docs)

Saturday: 8PM – 12AM
RPG: Hyperreality
HYPERREALITY is the best and worst of the new wave of reality TV. Chaos, controversy, adrenaline, sex, violence, and even death are just par for the course. It’s time to win big, so put on your game face and take this chance to get anything and everything you ever wanted. In HYPERREALITY, you put your life on the line—on-line. The internet age is over, it’s time for HYPERREALITY.

Prefer 4-6 RPG/StoryGame-Savvy players/designers, 18+

Sunday: 10AM – 12PM
Board Game: Yellow Press
Take on the role of a newspaper to manipulate the reputations of your local superheroes. Be an editor like J. Jonah Jameson, or a plucky reporter like Clark Kent. Or both! Decide who is a hero, and who is a menace.

Prefer 4-5 experienced play-testers or board game designers who are interested in “light” narrative board games with euro-inspired elements.

Sunday: 3PM – 7PM
RPG: Hyperreality
HYPERREALITY is the best and worst of the new wave of reality TV. Chaos, controversy, adrenaline, sex, violence, and even death are just par for the course. It’s time to win big, so put on your game face and take this chance to get anything and everything you ever wanted. In HYPERREALITY, you put your life on the line—on-line. The internet age is over, it’s time for HYPERREALITY.

Prefer 4-6 RPG/StoryGame-Savvy players/designers, 18+