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Come Tuesday, I will be bound for Origins 2011. I’m trying something radically new there this year.

I’m not going as a publisher.

That’s not strictly true, of course. I’m going to check out the Origins Awards and hope for (but not expect) a win, and that’s an undeniably ( Read more... )

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Zeppelin Armada - Evil Hat’s first card game product, currently under development by Jeff Tidball - in the words of some of our first-round playtesters, describing the game to me as if I didn’t know what it is:

“It’s a dance of ever-moving minions protecting your nefarious ( Read more... )

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Jeff is going to be making enough changes following our first round of Zeppelin Armada playtesting that we’re going to want to do a second round in another couple weeks or so. For this, we need both our prior playtesters already on board, and a handful of fresh-blood folks who ( Read more... )

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I am looking to add up to five more people to our playtester pool for Zeppelin Armada. Reply here with your one sentence reason for why it’s you!

I can’t take all comers, of course, but I’d love to expand our crew. Thanks!

EDIT: Got all I need for this round. Thanks!

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This card game is going to have zeppelins.

Lots of zeppelins. Fast ones. Slow ones. Big ones. Small ones. Aggressive. Pacifist. Chaotic.

They’ll each be in a pulp-style villainous mastermind’s armada, but which fleet they’ll end up in isn’t predetermined. Maybe they’ll be in the ( Read more... )

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As I mentioned before, Evil Hat is looking at getting into making card games, relying on Jeff Tidball to do the design work and share the benefit of his extensive experience with us. We’re trying to start reasonably modestly, and - as with anything - work our way up to bigger ( Read more... )

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So, Rob Donoghue and I had an interesting chat around the beginning of the year about what we wanted to see Evil Hat do now that we’re past our previous Big Thing, the Dresden Files RPG. We got into a few bits & details there, but the big takeaway from that conversation was: let ( Read more... )