Escape Pod One: Launched!

The results are in from the 200 Word Challenge and Escape Pod One WON! I’m so excited and happy about this! I never expected to win. When the game was among the 33 finalists, I thought “cool!” but figured that’s where its journey would end. When it made it to the second round of finalists, I was stoked to […]

Wee tiny octopus!

In the past week or so, I made a couple of little amigurumi octopus because I had thread, a small crochet hook, and some stuffing lying around. Over the weekend, I went to Strategicon, where there was a vendor selling octopus similar to these, but larger, and attached to barrettes as hair adornments.   Thinking […]

Gumshoe Demo Videos

I ran three GUMSHOE demos this morning at the ConTessa Spring Break weekend!  Each video is 50-60 minutes long. We played over Google Hangouts, with Roll20 for the tabletop. I screwed up in the Ashen Stars game and didn’t have the Roll20 screensharing (dangit!), so you don’t get those pretty pictures. Alas. First, we went to Krakow, Poland, for […]

Kickstarter Round-Up

Over on the G+, some folks have been posting about their late-delivering Kickstarters, whether they’re still excited about the rewards, etc. It’s tough when you back a project and, a year later, you realize that you just aren’t that into that style of game anymore. I backed Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls, but I’ll probably never […]