Well hello again. We really have to stop meeting like this—me, in the middle of a Kickstarter after a year of not writing on this blog, you, reading said blog.
I've been working on two decks of Pacific-Northwest-themed playing cards with Seattle illustrator Megan Wyreweden and our Kickstarter is ending in three days! Megan absolutely knocked it out of the (national) park with sketchbook depictions of flora, fauna, and trails like marmots and bears and salmon and orcas and Mount Rainier and Crater Lake and morels and chanterelles.
My wife and I had an amazing first year of our indie publishing company. Fulfilling our first Kickstarter, working conventions and farmers markets, and being featured in the PAX Rising Showcase at PAX Unplugged has been amazing and a ton of work. We are very much looking forward all that the new year will bring, but you might see a retrospective sometime to look back at the year in more detail; I certainly made a bunch of mistakes this year and would love to share my personal buffoonery on the internet.
Thank you, reader, for your continued support. I can't wait to keep making games and sharing them with you (so much so that I'm already working on new ones, but don't tell anyone—I think it's a bad omen or bad PR to say that with a live Kickstarter).
-t
GotW (Games of the Week)
The 7th Continent — I'm not sure this one is for me. I felt it was an interesting adventure/survival/exploration game where the board game part gets in the way. The concept is ambitious and I think it would have been a ton of fun to work on/write/design, but I might prefer it as a point-and-click videogame.
Ransom Notes — A goofy word game where everyone makes poetry out of word magnets. Our group house ruled that the judge would rotate as we thought judging was the least interesting portion and didn't want it to be random.
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