These are my Game Chef 2012: Last Chance ingredients:

• Coyote
• Doctor
• Lantern
• Mimic
• Maelstrom, a game idea about virii in a virtual network.

The Fairy Hart

Marc Majcher

Having written a prologue to my own game in iambic pentameter, I am certainly glad I didn't write my whole game in it. It would have made the word limit even more of an issue, for a start. But perhaps more importantly, it would have been up against some stiff lyrical competition from a number of the other entries.

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Blood. Lines.
Keyl Sunders ( Read more... )

Succession
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The Temptress
Paul Lyons ( Read more... )

I finished the Game Chef Playtest Draft of Lords of Titania yesterday before heading off to M&L's #7stages going away party.

You can download the game at 1km1kt: Lords of Titania. There are still things to do (play aids, more play examples), and of course some playtesting. Comments welcome!

Here's the list of Game Chef contestants: SubmissionsIt ( Read more... )

I'm almost finished final drafts of the first two sections: introduction and character creation. How does this grab you? Am I missing anything obvious?

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INTRODUCTION

Lords of Titania is a tragedy for 3-5 players (and no GM). To play you’ll need a few friends, a pile of six-sided dice and some index cards to write details about your character ( Read more... )

Work on my Game Chef entry steps up a gear tonight. I'd say Lords of Titania is more than a working title at this point:

Our household rent by base and bloody strife ( Read more... )

When I cracked open LJ earlier today, it wasn't to write about beer, "but Mousie, thou art no thy lane, / In proving foresight may be vain: / The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley, / An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, / For promis'd joy!"

Well, nothing so dramatic really, but I'm drinking my first whisky in a week or so (a ( Read more... )