[The Naked City] Prototype using index cards for scene generation

[Caesar_X]

I returned from my honeymoon eager to get moving with The Naked City: a Game of Film Noir.  I've been working on this game off and on for almost a year, and I was looking for a spark to get it going.  And I found that spark in a thread on Story Games that Jason Morningstar started about using index cards to generate scenes (http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=3637&page=1).

This weekend I ran a playtest with Brian, Mark and Robert. I had prototyped something very similar to Jason's idea using my random character generator, which uses regular playing cards and lists of 52 adjectives, jobs, first and last names, and locations.  The motivations and situations were generated at the table by the different players with some collaboration from the rest of the group.   There are no complete rules yet, so I purposefully kept things very

[Caesar_X]

[Osmo Rantala]

Seems like really cool a game. Planning on publishing it sometime in the future?

[Caesar_X]

Thanks, Osmo.  I do have some interest in publishing it, but it still needs a lot of work and testing to be complete.  And I am hoping to wrap a book about Film Noir around it.  Not really a sourcebook, but rather a book on the subject that happens to have a game in it.

Chris B.

[GreatWolf]

And I am hoping to wrap a book about Film Noir around it.  Not really a sourcebook, but rather a book on the subject that happens to have a game in it.

That would be several kinds of cool.  I'll be keeping an eye on this project!