Craig Maloney 🎲 🏕️ @craigmaloney@dice.camp

Picked up Microscope, Microscope Explorer, and Follow from Lame Mage. Looking forward to playing this and talking about it (briefly) at Penguicon.

GUMSHOE Scenario Design Workshop with Robin D Laws, Gareth Ryder Hanrahan and Kenneth Hite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVTsfwj2PDM

#gumshoe #ttrpg #gamedesign

I have a book list of books about game design that changed how I think about games. It's incomplete, and a work-in-progress (more will be added later).

http://decafbad.net/games/game-design-books/

(Note: this list is my own personal list. I'm not trying to create a canonical list of game design books. Lord knows I've read a bunch of them.)

#gamedesign

Decided to post one of my prototype contest submissions to itch.io in the hopes that it gets more attention there:

https://craigmaloney.itch.io/the-mother-of-all-demos

#ttrpg #gumshoe

Nightmare scenario: finding out the covers for your book are reversed, and how one publisher fixed this without having to do a reprint of the whole book:

https://adamjury.com/2021/the-solo-stapler-and-the-case-of-the-backwards-covers/

#ttrpg #design #stapler

Check out https://event.taggsummit.org/ which is a convention about the therapeutic uses for games (presented by Geek Therapy and the Bodhanna Group. Beau Jagr Sheldon of Thoughty / Leading with Class is presenting two talks there: https://event.taggsummit.org/speakers/beau-jagr-sheldon/ #ttrpg #games

(Not that I'm upset. I think it's awesome that they're putting together what feels like a great convention, but it just makes my trawling for folks to present just feel futile)

Finding out that a proper gaming convention just announced today that they're on the same weekend as the event that you're organizing feels like you're just pissing in the wind and hoping no to get wet.

Things I didn't need to find out about: blank game boards, and blank hex cards.

I literally could build that hex exploring game that I've been thinking about.

If anyone knows the name of this game I'd love to know. It's starting to bug me that I don't know what it is.

(And lest you think I'm joking on how forgettable this game was, I can't even find an entry for it on BoardGame Geek)

This makes the deck useless for most games where the suit should be hidden information (unless you want to play Poker with friends that don't mind leaking that they have a flush, which... you do you.)

But A Quiet Year requires you to separate the cards by suit, so this deck is perfect for this game.

Wondering if there's other games that separate cards by suit because I'd like to have more than one reason to keep this deck around (other than sheer novelty and a reminder of a shit card game)

Realized that A Quiet Year could use a strange deck of cards that I have.

This deck is for some forgotten Rummy-like game (apparently they were more worried about putting their (c) 1988 K-- (initials of the company) than the actual name of the game. If memory serves the rules were forgettable, and are long since lost to time.

The cards are a "standard" four color deck (Red, Black, Blue, Green) but the "twist" is that the suit color is on the back of the cards. (cont.)

Just played a game of Ironsworn with JoDee (my wife) and it was amazing. It was goofy and messy, with in-jokes (we got caught trying to find forbidden mushrooms for Bob, the influential merchant in Grimland, but managed to escape. And we were traversing the ice caves for a Spear and Magic Helmet that would help our friend regain the throne of our village. It was the kind of thing that we needed to play. #ironsworn #ttrpg

I'm not saying that the world will end if you don't get the GUMSHOE Bundle of Holding,

I'm saying that you might not like the outcome.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/3Gumshoe

#gumshoe #ttrpg #bundleofholding