So, after about 70 hours, I’d fallen through the world. Diving in radioactive waters on my 30th or so planet, I had found the near impossible; a procedural generated glitch. I was in nothing space, on the literal other side of the looking glass. I could see the landscape I had just been exploring but …
One of the many reasons Jason and I get on as well as we do is the attitude we share towards influences. Pop culture is a puzzle that we never stop solving and that never stops solving us and there are good chunks of After The War that only exist because something else expressed an …
I did NaNoWriMo for the first time in close to a decade this year. I won too! Yay! It’s been fun and weird and massively vindicating. Fun because the act of getting this story out of my head and onto the page is a deeply enjoyable one. Weird because I am BAD at outlining or, …
How great is this?! As part of After The War, Jason commissioned the amazing Claudia Cangini for art, including in-game portraits of the lead creators! So, this is Belter me, all set to go out onto the surface of Polvo and get some stuff DONE. Massive thanks to Claudia for bringing this world to life …
Horror is a good portion of my day job. As the host of PseudoPod, one of the first original genre fiction podcasts, every week my job is simple; get on stage, introduce a nightmare and then once its done talk about why and how it works. Its a little like Tony Stark’s amazing holographic work …
After the War, the tabletop RPG I’ve been developing for the last couple of years with the amazing Jason Pitre, is crowdfunding as we speak/read/type! As part of the project, I’ll be posting regular essays about the background and design over the next month. Starfleet’s Worst Day Let’s plot some cultural compass points and let’s …
This blogpost was so nearly called I MADE A GAME WITH AN AWESOME CO-CREATOR! It may yet be part of a series called that. Because I did. Want to play it? After The War is a game of memetic science fiction horror. It’s Bravestarr in a minor key, Starfleet’s day after their worst day ever. …
This was massive fun to do, and goes into a lot of detail about my secret origins. Here’s my published work so far. If you want to talk to me about a project you’re hiring for, get in touch. Alternately, come say hi on Twitter and I’ll see you back here tomorrow.
In RPG terms, very little, which I’d love to change. Dissecting Worlds remains my favorite show for exploring narrative architecture and social science stuff(And we will get that Ian McShane Knight Rider made somehow, damn it!). I’d also recommend The Magnus Archives from The Rusty Quill (Especially episode 100 for…reasons) in general and their RPG show in …
Fun. For Everyone. That’s the most basic way I can describe it; your job is to be a transmission vector for fun. You have to take everything you know players will try and do, including the stupid game breaking bullshit, and work out how to tell a story that threads through all that to ensure …