Game design from beyond the grave
PLAY ▶️ was featured at GdR in Prima Serata in Genova, Italy — and the reviews were excellent!. They also posted a highly illegal picture of their viewing session (which I will not repost).
I’ll be at Pax Unplugged in Philadelphia, PA Dec 1-3 with limited editions of the Super Format, which contains:
Owner’s manual
Event deck
Viewing record sheet pad
Remote control
Forensic evidence bag
GenCon has come and gone and we’re sold out of the Super Format of PLAY ▶️
Books and PDFs are still available.
More to come for Pax Unplugged in December! We’ll be selling additional Super Formats with remote controls, cases and a whole new card set.
One more thing: you can get the soundtrack for free or visit Bandcamp and pay just $1 or more to the artists to add it to your collection.
I’ll be in Indy with BWHQ at their booth #2523. I’m selling copies of InSpectres, the Lacuna set and Parsely, as well as a brand-new game called PLAY ▶️ (in a super- and standard-format edition) and showing off a demo copy of the HUMAN trilogy in print…well, just because.
Be sure to check the con schedule as my pal Luke Crane is doing some panels.
Book One in the Human Trilogy
A sci-fi comedy game inspired by Solar Opposites, My Favorite Martian, Third Rock from the Sun, ALF, Mork and Mindy and The Coneheads. Comes with character sheets for 6 alien family members and 2 humans.
Book Two in the Human Trilogy
ALMOST HUMAN is an RPG about evolutionarily uplifted animals living in a near-future dystopia. They work for the corporation that created them, one that will loans them out to corporate and government allies in exchange for money or political favors. Their work is illegal, unethical and violent. They have no names, only numbers. They have no rights. They are property. They are Things.
Book Three in the Human Trilogy
NO MORE HUMAN is an experimental game about an experiment in artificial intelligence. This game requires four people to play (or four people plus a facilitator).
Designer’s Note: I play-tested this game in August ‘23 and … it doesn’t really work. I have updated the document to v1.5 which corrects a glaring error that prevents anyone from actually finishing it. Consider is a failed experiment that taught me some important things.
Download: Test Matrices a/b
Burning Wheel #2523
I’ll have Lacuna, InSpectres, Parsely and (✊ 🪵) PLAY ▶️
Sometimes the forces of good…aren’t.
Book Two in the Human Trilogy
ALMOST HUMAN is an RPG about evolutionarily uplifted animals living in a near-future dystopia. They work for the corporation that created them, one that will loans them out to corporate and government allies in exchange for money or political favors. Their work is illegal, unethical and violent. They have no names, only numbers. They have no rights. They are property. They are Things.
Inspired by The Mandalorian, here’s my take on a paladin class for Torchbearer 2nd edition. For a more sinister version, check out His Hand.
I will not be attending the convention in person, but Pandemonium Books and Games will have Parsely at booth TT62 at PAX East 2023 March 23-26 in Boston, MA.
In the early-mid 2000’a I created The Three Questions. They are:
What is your game about?
How does your game go about this?
What behaviors does it reward or encourage?
To this list I’m adding a fourth question:
Can the players master this game — and if so, how?
Edward Hall and Jared Sorensen have a chat, October, 3 2022.
https://cardboardconjecture.podbean.com/e/wbpw-88%C2%A0-whatcha-been-playing-wednesday/
Review starts at 25::15 but listen to the whole show!
These two games are now available as zines in Games In Print! I’ll also have them with me at Pax Unplugged.
