Filed under: Games, Life, thoughts | Tags: colonial gothic, game design, projects, Rogue Games, SS&S, thoughts, thousand suns, writing
My title says it all; this is going to be a nice snapshot of my current projects. Playing games is my hobby, but so too is the designing and writing of them. I enjoy sitting with one of my Moleskins and writing and designing games. I love the process – even the editing and revision – no matter how bad my day goes game design makes me happy.
The first part of this year saw me overseeing not only the art direction but the project lead of the last two Thousand Suns books. In addition, I was putting the final touches on the Colonial Gothic manuscript, doing the Art Direction for it, and then getting it to the printer and out the door. When all of that was done, GenCon prep hit. Now with GenCon done, I am rested. It is time to get back to the writing. Some of the below I was working on here and there, but now I am up to full speed. So what is on the list? Here you go:
- Colonial Gothic Halloween PDF: First draft written; now I just need to type it up and get it ready for the editor. This is on schedule.
- eBook Preview of the first non-fiction book: Editing done, just need to lay it out.
- Shadow, Sword & Spell: I love this game. Period. Action chapter done, Magic chapter done. Monster chapter almost done. Equipment chapter almost done. I have a few more odds and ends to finish, and then I will go over James’ stuff. James will do the same with my stuff.
- New Colonial Gothic Demo: Will be running this next month again, as well as a few other times. Once I am happy with the results, and have enough notes, this bad boy will be revised, edited and then put up on the site.
- Colonial Gothic Projects: A bunch of PDFs, and possibly a new book that I did not mention last week. This book will be a published adventure. In addition, a lot of research.
- Thousand Suns Revised: Bits and pieces. This is James’ baby, and I am helping him when he needs it. This is what he did for me with Colonial Gothic.
- Dolphin: This is a new RPG that I tweeted about last Friday. I will have a post about this in a week or so. For now, this is a RPG that has you play dolphins. It is a different game for me, and currently exists in a Moleskin. My players really enjoy the game, and it is they, who convinced me it is worth working on. In addition, this is one of the few games I have done, that Ariana has expressed interest in not only seeing, but playing. This along is motivation enough for me. The game is powered by 12°, but a much simpler version of the mechanic. When the game is done, I will have a more public playtest for it, and then from there, James and I will decide what is next. Print or PDF I am not sure. I do know this is not going to be a big book; the game should not be any more than 96-pages.
- Megadungeon.net: Hold on to you socks, I am writing an entire level. This is being done for two reasons: One, I want too. Two, I really want to make sure this project restarts. James needs help, and this is what we do, help each other.
- Rogue Games Book Publishing: Doing a lot of research and work in getting the original fiction and non-fiction we want to do, finished and published. I mentioned this last week as well, but this is a major goal for us, and I want to do this. There are two non-fiction books lined up, which will see release sometime next year.
So there you go the list. It looks like a lot, but it isn’t. As I said, I love writing and designing, and all of this is fun for me.
Filed under: Games, Rogue Games | Tags: projects, Rogue Games, thoughts, thousand suns
Been busy the past few weeks. Working on a number of projects, all of which is for Rogue Games. I will talk about others this weekend, becasue I have been thinking about Stat blocks a lot lately, but I want to talk about Thousand Suns.
First off, as of today (January 30, 2009), we have a writer for a new Thousand Suns book.
The book?
Fighting Ships of the Thousand Suns.
Otherwise known as Big Ships.
The book is in the very early stages right now, but the writer is dead on with the take James and I want to take. Manuscript will be in house later this year, and the plan is to release it around this time next year.
Before you start getting antsy, we have two books for Thousand Suns planed for this year:
1. Transmissions from Piper — March 2009
2. Foundation – August 2009
James and I have picked the winners of the Transmissions from the Foundation contest, I will be contacting them in the next day. We got a lot of good entries, and this book is going to be nice. There is a lot of little things planned for it, and it will be a collection of cool ideas. We also have someone writing rule for creating robots as PCs. This will be in the book as well. We also need to come up with a new title.
Speaking of James, we talked a lot about Thousand Suns yesterday, and James is itching to do more. There will be PDFs appearing with new ideas and additions. No timetable on this, but they will appear.
That is the latest, and for us, this year will see support for Thousand Suns kicked up a notch.
Filed under: Life, Rogue Games | Tags: colonial gothic, projects, Rogue Games, thoughts, thousand suns
Writing like a madman.
I am making final edits to a new Colonial Gothic adventure, which will then be laid out, and go up by month’s end. A new one is being written right now as well, but the manuscript is not in house yet. I decided to do something different with the adventures and that is have freelancers write them. It frees me up, and allows me to work on fewer things.
I am also editing the revised Colonial Gothic Rulebook, which is seeing a lot of new things added to it. This is not going to be a token revision, I am adding in more background and streamlining things.
I am also working on a project with James, which will see release later this year. A quick start-slash-preview will be up in time for GenCon 2009. This project, when we start talking about it, will be fun.
Also getting the next Thousand Suns book ready for layout and printing. This is the first Thousand Suns book I have overseen from start to finish. For those coming in late, yes this is Transmissions from Piper.
I would talk about all the reading I am doing, but I do not have time to explain the number of books I am reading at the same time right now.
