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Cross-posting from the KS thread, but I've just launched a new Kickstarter and I'd like your money please.I posted:Hello, time for me to self-promote!
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# ? Oct 20, 2020 13:43 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 09:26 |
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I'm writing one of the entries for the thing above and i would also like your money
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# ? Oct 20, 2020 19:42 |
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Good luck! I meant to send something in for that, but didn't have the time.
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# ? Oct 28, 2020 11:01 |
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I know I'm supposed to be running a Kickstarter at the moment but because I've had some time I wrote a whole other game as well. Guardian Mecha Generations is built on the bones of Quest -- which I know isn't too popular around here, but w/e I like it -- and borrows heavily from Pendragon in that it's meant for long-term dynasty play, and that your values are both a source of strength and a source of conflict with society at large. Also you get a giant robot. It's barely formatted and completely untested, but it's ~45000 words, feature-complete, and wholly playable. Now to take a break from my giant robot game by watching some giant robot anime (or maybe listening to a giant robot podcast) while building a small plastic giant robot.
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# ? Nov 1, 2020 20:54 |
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After ....almost a year, my first game, based on Jesse Ross' TROPHY Gold is soon coming out. I'm...wow. This was a wild ride. Testing, writing, checking it back. It's only going to be available in german for now, but drat if it doesn't...it's ....its so weird, seeing the message from the printer telling me my package with the printed books is underway... This was mostly a passion project for me...but I suppose, I'll have to look into real marketing now, don't I? drat. So, I've had to self-publish, with Corona and everything, but what's a good way to go on about this?
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# ? Nov 2, 2020 21:58 |
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In terms of easy online publishing, your four options are probably:
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# ? Nov 2, 2020 23:12 |
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tknyarlathotep/granny-for-mork-borg I made a GRIEVOUS loving ERROR and accidentally launched my Kickstarter weeks before I meant to. This vexes me deeply and egregiously, but my loss is your gain! Witness now, GRANNY: A Southern Gothic monstrosity based on a dream for MORK BORG. eta: relevant tweet https://twitter.com/TheEldritchTomb/status/1328209510788435968
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# ? Nov 16, 2020 06:47 |
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My publisher released the first color artwork for my game! I'm so excited and this is the first tangable moment that feels like it's really happening. https://twitter.com/SapphireParlor/status/1328394248404787200 Frozen Peach fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Nov 17, 2020 |
# ? Nov 17, 2020 04:32 |
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Is Evil Molly inspired by Stephen King's dog?
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# ? Nov 17, 2020 11:41 |
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Cross-post from TG chat:UnCO3 posted:For a couple weeks I've been running a co-op bundle with another designer and there's ~24 hours left. It's called the Sea Changes Bundle and it's a set of 3 map-games (plus 1 extension) about the near and far fates of humanity and the slow changes that get us there:
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# ? Nov 17, 2020 11:57 |
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TK_Nyarlathotep posted:Is Evil Molly inspired by Stephen King's dog? Yes, yes she is. And Mops is Marie Antoinette's pug.
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# ? Nov 17, 2020 18:53 |
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Frozen Peach posted:Yes, yes she is. And Mops is Marie Antoinette's pug. Love ittt
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# ? Nov 18, 2020 12:35 |
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Some people here may be interested in Spear Witch, which is a new-ish US-based curated indie games store (a bunch of SWORDDREAM stuff but also things further afield). They mainly sell physical products (and do wholesale purchases from publishers), but can also sell digital. I'm in the process of getting one of my upcoming products on there for the US market, and depending how it goes I might go for more. With the whole IPR thing I think there's been a surge of interest in starting up new small-scale distributors. We might see more in the near future.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 15:16 |
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Now that is a website that needs an 'about' page.
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 17:33 |
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I can also recommend Exalted Funeral, who do a ton of distribution for OSR and other goth esoterica - I recently submitted copies of grimDARK for distribution, should be going up around Black Friday
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 20:15 |
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UnCO3 posted:Some people here may be interested in Spear Witch, which is a new-ish US-based curated indie games store (a bunch of SWORDDREAM stuff but also things further afield). They mainly sell physical products (and do wholesale purchases from publishers), but can also sell digital. I'm in the process of getting one of my upcoming products on there for the US market, and depending how it goes I might go for more. Cheers for the heads up. Been meaning to hit them up, just sent a few copies of Disposable Heroes to them!
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# ? Nov 20, 2020 20:15 |
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potatocubed posted:Now that is a website that needs an 'about' page. - Is anyone here interested in running a bundle to pay for marginalised creators with low incomes to get Affinity Publisher licenses? I'm looking into whether it's possible to bulk-buy, too, since I know that someone did a similar sale early this/late last year, but the alternative would just be paying people directly from bundle income.
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# ? Nov 21, 2020 09:59 |
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UnCO3 posted:I know what you mean. I think they're relying on word of mouth and the fact that the people behind it have high-3/low-4-figure twitter followings (dunno about elsewhere), so they can explain things on social media. I'm not sure how much traffic they're expecting from google etc. rather than directly through links they post and talk about. Yeah, but who are 'they'? I mean, the tabletop RPG scene is so riddled with bad actors that creating a storefront which doesn't identify the people involved feels like a huge trap. quote:Is anyone here interested in running a bundle to pay for marginalised creators with low incomes to get Affinity Publisher licenses? I'm looking into whether it's possible to bulk-buy, too, since I know that someone did a similar sale early this/late last year, but the alternative would just be paying people directly from bundle income. I kind of want to, but I only have one product worth putting on sale right now (Pigsmoke) and I already have plans to put that on sale in the Black Friday event because I could do with some money. So I guess it depends on the timing?
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# ? Nov 21, 2020 12:55 |
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UnCO3 posted:Is anyone here interested in running a bundle to pay for marginalised creators with low incomes to get Affinity Publisher licenses? I'm looking into whether it's possible to bulk-buy, too, since I know that someone did a similar sale early this/late last year, but the alternative would just be paying people directly from bundle income. I'd contribute copies of grimDARK!
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# ? Nov 21, 2020 14:36 |
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potatocubed posted:Yeah, but who are 'they'? - TK_Nyarlathotep posted:I'd contribute copies of grimDARK! potatocubed posted:I kind of want to, but I only have one product worth putting on sale right now (Pigsmoke) and I already have plans to put that on sale in the Black Friday event because I could do with some money. So I guess it depends on the timing? UnCO3 fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Nov 21, 2020 |
# ? Nov 21, 2020 15:08 |
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Thanks for the info! And yes, I find Jared Sinclair very annoying on Twitter so I muted him ages ago.UnCO3 posted:Nice! The timing's flexible. Early-mid January? That'd give people a break after Black Friday (I've also got a lot of stuff I need to do before the end of the year). Next year, I can do. Probably.
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# ? Nov 21, 2020 17:29 |
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Okay well it turns out Affinity's also putting its whole suite and a bunch of other stuff on sale right now, 30% off: https://twitter.com/affinitybyserif/status/1330826107071787011 (affinity store) It's a pretty good deal for people who want a solid and affordable non-SaaS publisher (and the other apps are decent too).
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# ? Nov 23, 2020 13:38 |
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Two more good doggos for the doggo pile!!!!
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# ? Nov 30, 2020 14:31 |
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Update on Budding Heroes, over 1.5 tons of cardboard, paper, and plastic are officially incoming!Sentient Data posted:
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# ? Dec 7, 2020 16:03 |
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Sentient Data posted:Update on Budding Heroes, over 1.5 tons of cardboard, paper, and plastic are officially incoming! Oh wow that's super exciting! Hopefully it doesn't end up in the middle of the ocean somewhere like what happened with Asmadi games this past week. https://twitter.com/AsmadiGames/status/1334620059168350214 In less terrifying news, I now have 6 doggos to share! All currently playable doggos have been given colorful life! My artist is amazing and I love her.
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# ? Dec 10, 2020 05:56 |
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There's been some talk on the forum about trying to design/write/produce trad game books in ways that are accessible and relatively format agnostic, ie not just producing in a book format but also being able to produce them as a wiki page or in ebook formats, etc. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this, guides for how to set it up, or best practices if you want to add on other formats later?
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# ? Dec 17, 2020 05:26 |
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Off the top of my head: Do all your writing in some very basic format, like Markdown or XML, then keep that as a master version of the rules somewhere. Then you create a process for every format you're going to be publishing in, by which your master rules are transformed into something that can be read as a web page, fed into an e-reader, inscribed on stone tablets, whatever. Then every time you change the rules, you also follow every process to ensure that your book, your SRD, and your skywriting edition match up. It's a lot of setup, but in theory once you've got that framework in place you should be able to reuse it for every game with minimal fuss. Caveat: This is based on the process we have for updating documentation at work, so I know it functions under the right circumstances, but I've never tried applying it to an RPG.
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# ? Dec 17, 2020 09:29 |
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UnCO3 posted:Nice! The timing's flexible. Early-mid January? That'd give people a break after Black Friday (I've also got a lot of stuff I need to do before the end of the year). Can do! Also ironically enough, Spear Witch ALSO just got some physical copies of grimDARK.
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# ? Dec 17, 2020 16:33 |
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potatocubed posted:Off the top of my head: Do all your writing in some very basic format, like Markdown or XML, then keep that as a master version of the rules somewhere. Then you create a process for every format you're going to be publishing in, by which your master rules are transformed into something that can be read as a web page, fed into an e-reader, inscribed on stone tablets, whatever. Then every time you change the rules, you also follow every process to ensure that your book, your SRD, and your skywriting edition match up. This is a great idea aaaaaaaaaaaand none of my writing applications or style works for it so nevermind. Thanks anyway!
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# ? Dec 17, 2020 22:46 |
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Updated my TTS mod with the color art and such. All placeholder card templates, but the dog art is final. Sans Cerberus who was shamefully stolen from Hades until we get their art from my artist. It's so exciting seeing it coming together like this. I can't wait to get a real prototype copy printed with the final art and templates.
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# ? Dec 29, 2020 09:38 |
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Something people might find interesting, or get some use from: I did a write-up about my ttrpg income in 2020. Here're the key points: quote:PART 1: TOTAL INCOME ($2,417.95)
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# ? Jan 13, 2021 06:17 |
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There's another 50% sale on the Affinity suite (and it's a single payment, not a subscription like e.g. Adobe):
https://twitter.com/affinitybyserif/status/1351476287886553089
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# ? Jan 19, 2021 14:35 |
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Does anyone know what's happening with Zinequest this year?
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# ? Jan 20, 2021 15:34 |
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It's on! ...but other than that, I don't know anything.
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# ? Jan 20, 2021 17:45 |
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potatocubed posted:It's on! There's nothing on the site, no dates or anything?
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# ? Jan 20, 2021 19:16 |
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Angrymog posted:There's nothing on the site, no dates or anything? It's just a February thing. I think if you contact Kickstarter directly they'll inform you and send you the promotional images, I've seen a few people post the previews of their campaigns - the guy behind Planet28 is doing a fantasy version of it. A number of creators have been complaining about the opaqueness of the whole thing. Edit: Here's the page for Zine Quest...? It's mostly ones from last year, but there's one that has 35 days to go... LashLightning fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Jan 20, 2021 |
# ? Jan 20, 2021 20:28 |
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I mean, it was completely opaque last year as well. I think you're supposed to find out how to do it from somebody who already knows what's up.
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# ? Jan 21, 2021 00:05 |
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The cover art for my game!!! I love her so much!
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# ? Jan 21, 2021 02:02 |
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That's loving awesome.
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# ? Jan 21, 2021 03:40 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 09:26 |
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Followed open_sketchbook's advice and hammered out something in an afternoon. I've never used Affinity Publisher before, but I made this pocketmod setting in an infinite Madison Square Garden for a Troika Jam on itch. It's little and full of public domain art but I feel good about it.
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