Revenge of the Blog
Hey everyone, happy New Year. Hope you and yours entered 2008 happily and safely.
After a long winter's "break" (which actually involved not only the holidays but a major purge/cleaning of our house, rewiring of my basement, and gutting and reconstruction of our bathroom), I'm back in the saddle and working away at a number of projects, including FantasyCraft (finally!).
First up is Cloak & Dagger, the fantasy espionage setting, which is actually coming along pretty well. It's fun to do a mishmash setting of some of my favorite ancient cultures in a genre that's both familiar and has plenty of room to play in. Espionage fantasy has been a subgenre that's largely virgin territory in nearly all media, so I'm hoping this grabs people where they live. There seems to be a fair amount of excitement from some of the diehards, so I'm hoping we can set it off :) If you haven't seen anything about C&D yet, click here for the teaser.
Aside from that and bathroom repairs, work is finally progressing on a board game I'm working on with a friend alongside my Crafty stuff. The first test went pretty well, with the game system holding up - now to add some more zip. Our playtest group was big enough to accomodate 2 tables and lots of good feedback, so it was a lot of fun seeing things running at the table. It's been a fun project to tinker with, and I'm glad to see my Spycraft-honed design chops are portable outside the box.
Speaking of which, World on Fire and 2.0 SP have *finally* hit the stands locally, but the good news seems to be retailers can't keep them in stock. I'm hoping that doesn't mean they stop stocking it, though :) Sales appear to be good, if the PDF and reports from the field are any realistic indication, and I think Mongoose's distribution machine is finally hitting its stride.
Well, I think that's it for my requisite "signs of life" post. Keep on coming back here or over in the Crafty blog for more info as we move forward...cheers lads.
Hey everyone, happy New Year. Hope you and yours entered 2008 happily and safely.
After a long winter's "break" (which actually involved not only the holidays but a major purge/cleaning of our house, rewiring of my basement, and gutting and reconstruction of our bathroom), I'm back in the saddle and working away at a number of projects, including FantasyCraft (finally!).
First up is Cloak & Dagger, the fantasy espionage setting, which is actually coming along pretty well. It's fun to do a mishmash setting of some of my favorite ancient cultures in a genre that's both familiar and has plenty of room to play in. Espionage fantasy has been a subgenre that's largely virgin territory in nearly all media, so I'm hoping this grabs people where they live. There seems to be a fair amount of excitement from some of the diehards, so I'm hoping we can set it off :) If you haven't seen anything about C&D yet, click here for the teaser.
Aside from that and bathroom repairs, work is finally progressing on a board game I'm working on with a friend alongside my Crafty stuff. The first test went pretty well, with the game system holding up - now to add some more zip. Our playtest group was big enough to accomodate 2 tables and lots of good feedback, so it was a lot of fun seeing things running at the table. It's been a fun project to tinker with, and I'm glad to see my Spycraft-honed design chops are portable outside the box.
Speaking of which, World on Fire and 2.0 SP have *finally* hit the stands locally, but the good news seems to be retailers can't keep them in stock. I'm hoping that doesn't mean they stop stocking it, though :) Sales appear to be good, if the PDF and reports from the field are any realistic indication, and I think Mongoose's distribution machine is finally hitting its stride.
Well, I think that's it for my requisite "signs of life" post. Keep on coming back here or over in the Crafty blog for more info as we move forward...cheers lads.
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