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3/24/2009 Wordman: A good time for a contest?
I have an idea for a one-shot game contest I'd like to sponsor (with a prize and everything), but I notice that Game Chef is coming up, so now might…
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Participants: Wordman, Vulpinoid, David Artman, preludetotheend, whiteknife, Dyson Logos.

2/27/2009 First Oni: Apocalypse Prevention, Inc. March Demon Contest
[url=http://www.thirdeyegames.net]Third Eye Games[/url] is throwing our first writing contest for new and interesting races to add to the world of [b]Apocalypse Prevention, Inc.[/b] This contest comes on the heels of…
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Participants: First Oni, Ron Edwards.

2/11/2009 Calithena: Announcing the Erol Otus Art Challenge!
[img]http://www.otherworld.me.uk/images/shared/omlogo.jpg[/img] and [IMG]http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d164/Calithena/greenlogo.png[/img] present the [IMG]http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d164/Calithena/eo3a.png[/img] [size=7][color=Maroon]Art Challenge![/color][/size] Judged by Erol Otus and shown in the pages of [i]Fight On![/i] All artists are invited to submit a picture on one…
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Participants: Calithena, Ron Edwards, greyorm, MacLeod, GozerTC.

2/1/2009 Vulpinoid: Game Mechani(sm) of the Week
Inspired by Philippe Tromeur's work last year, I've decided to do something similar this year. I'm dedicating a single weekly entry my blog to a series that I'm calling the…
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Participants: Vulpinoid, mjbauer, Ron Edwards, Noon.

1/29/2009 Ron Edwards: Color-first character, part 3: ready for action
Hello! Here's the relevant image: http://www.bloodredcomics.com/Frostlick-inkedcolored.jpg Here are the starting threads: Color-first character creation project Color-first character, part 2: Getting this far And Vincent is also maintaining the page of…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, oliof, Eero Tuovinen, Wolfen, Darcy Burgess, Kobayashi, Ben Lehman, wunderllama, tonyd, Frank Tarcikowski, Melinglor, Brimshack.

1/28/2009 Sergon: old west rpg.
  Hi gang,     New member here. For the past 3 years I've been working on an old west themed role playing system that combines technology and esoteric means.…
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Participants: Sergon, chance.thirteen.

1/7/2009 Ron Edwards: Color-first character, part 2: Getting this far
Amazing. Thank you so much for all this great work. Here she is again, but … http://www.bloodredcomics.com/Frostlick-inkedcolored.jpg … now we know her name! The Solar System: Eleta the Jungle Girl,…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, jasonm, jrs, Christopher Kubasik, Graham Walmsley, ejh, lumpley, Eero Tuovinen, Clinton R. Nixon, Vulpinoid, Kobayashi, davidberg, greyorm, Wolfen, KCassidy, Antoine F, ghashsnaga, tonyd, Darcy Burgess, Melinglor, Frank Tarcikowski, Jared A. Sorensen, Ben Lehman, sirogit, Paul Czege, Peter Nordstrand.

12/30/2008 Ron Edwards: Color-first character creation project
As moderator, I officially waive the no-images policy for purposes of this post. I’d like to do a little discussion project here. It won’t be any fun unless a bunch…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, jasonm, Vulpinoid, Rod Anderson, Peter Nordstrand, tonyd, Paul Czege, Graham Walmsley, Kobayashi, wunderllama, Melinglor, lilomar, Rafu, KCassidy, ghashsnaga, sirogit, greyorm, davidberg, Jared A. Sorensen, Wolfen, Christopher Kubasik, lumpley, Willow, Frank Tarcikowski, Darcy Burgess, jrs, ejh, Ben Lehman, cthulahoops, Meguey, Clinton R. Nixon, Antoine F, bluegargantua.

12/15/2008 jburneko: [Play Challenge] Movies That Didn't Get Made
So earlier this year the idea of creating "play challenges" rather than "design challenges" got floated around on Story Games. That resulted in the rather awesome setting/system cross over play…
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Participants: jburneko.

12/15/2008 Nev the Deranged: Dice result charts or calculators?
I'm working on a chart of the percentage chance of meeting or beating target numbers on various kinds of dice. I know this sort of thing has been done countless…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, causticbuddhist, greyorm, Erudite.

11/30/2008 JoyWriter: Positive Game Design Challenge follow-up (split)
It's an old thread, but are you teaching alienated labour here? Striving to do something new; challenge, is not only an end in itself. In the army people train to…
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Participants: JoyWriter, Ron Edwards.

10/18/2008 reaction: [Grindhouse Game Contest] Horror/Exploitation Games
[size=16pt]Grindhouse Game Contest[/size] Ok, I'm starting a new game design contest. Write a game based on a category of exploitation or grindhouse movies in (about) the next two weeks. Entries…
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Participants: reaction, Vulpinoid.

10/5/2008 fjj: Fastaval 2009: Invitation to contribute
You are hereby invited to submit a game or scenario for Fastaval 2009, April 8 – 12, Århus, Denmark. Contributions should be instructions for a game session for one or…
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Participants: fjj.

9/6/2008 Vulpinoid: [GAS: Investigation] Clue
I've considered two options for this challenge and I haven't been able to fully decide between them. At this stage I'm seeing both options to have merit, and both warrant…
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Participants: Vulpinoid, imago.

9/6/2008 Vulpinoid: [GAS: Investigation] The Pieces
I've considered two options for this challenge and I haven't been able to fully decide between them. At this stage I'm seeing both options to have merit, and both warrant…
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Participants: Vulpinoid, imago.

9/6/2008 imago: [GAS: Investigation] Stages of Mystery
[b]Stages of Mystery[/b] is my idea for a subsystem that deals with investigation. The main problem that I've found is to define the kind of process that the system is…
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Participants: imago, Vulpinoid.

8/31/2008 Vulpinoid: Investigation Project (split from GAS)
I had a great idea for a direction to progress with this contest, based on something that I haven't really seen done very well in a lot of games... ..Investigation.…
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Participants: Vulpinoid, jasonm, imago.

8/1/2008 Vulpinoid: The GAS Project
I was first lured to the Forge by the contests, but lately there hasn't been too much of that happening. So I've decided to see if there is any interest…
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Participants: Vulpinoid, jasonm, LordKiwi, madunkieg, Paul Czege.

5/29/2008 David Artman: Game Chef 2008 Layout Competition
The Game Chef 2008 Layout Competition is ON and the <a href="http://game-chef.com/af2008/comments.php?DiscussionID=663">Game Chef site</a>. Thanks in advance for your participation!
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Participants: David Artman.

5/28/2008 Eliarhiman6: The 2008 Indie Awards?
Hi! I noticed that the deadline for the presentation of the games for the 2008 Indie Awards expire in 3 days (http://www.rpg-awards.com/dates.shtml), but at this time there are only 4…
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Participants: Eliarhiman6.

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4/8/2009 Nev the Deranged: Escapist's Terra Libris Project
Not sure if anyone's posted about this already, but The Escapist web magazine has put together a pretty cool project to try and get RPGs into America's libraries. I happen…
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Participants: Nev the Deranged, RabbitHoleGames.

5/9/2009 mjbauer: Design Theory Reading List
I'm wondering if there is some kind of unofficial (or, perhaps, official) canon of RPG Design Theory. Things that every RPG designer should read before trying to create a game.…
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Participants: mjbauer, Eero Tuovinen, Lance D. Allen, ShallowThoughts, JoyWriter, Graham Walmsley, Tomas HVM.

6/1/2009 Matt Snyder: Layout design contest for June 2009!
Announcing the 2009 layout design contest. Luke Crane, Keith Senkowski, and Matt Snyder challenge you to create an amazing book layout during the month of June, 2009. Each participant who…
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Participants: Matt Snyder, greyorm.

6/5/2009 jasonm: The BPG Aeromachine Challenge
[b]ANNOUNCING THE BULLY PULPIT GAMES AEROMACHINE CHALLENGE[/b] Take a look at [url=http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/projects/aeromachine/aeromachine.jpg]this illustration[/url] and then write a game about it. Your game must: [list] [li] Incorporate the content of the…
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Participants: jasonm.

6/18/2009 Marshall Burns: [Challenge: Play This!] Rebellion in the Mushroom Kingdom
This is a contest. There won't be a prize, because I can't afford to put one up, but it's still a contest. It's a play contest, you dig? THIS IS…
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Participants: Marshall Burns, Eero Tuovinen, Melinglor.

7/19/2009 Andy Kitkowski: Iron Game Chef: Anyone want to run it? A contest for The Contest
Heya all, I was realizing the other day that this year marks the 4th (?) year of me running Iron Game Chef. ( www.game-chef.com ). I think it's been a…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Eero Tuovinen, Shreyas Sampat.

7/28/2009 mjbauer: Game Design Conference
Is there such a conference? Should there be?
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Participants: mjbauer, Vulpinoid, Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

7/29/2009 mjbauer: Make Something Playable ASAP (Open to All)
[b]THE INSPIRATION[/b] While browsing through the forums I came across this bit of advice: [quote author=Alex Abate Biral link=topic=28395.msg267038#msg267038 date=1248721592] I do have one piece of advice: prototype! Thinking about…
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Participants: mjbauer, Thor, Ctrlphreak, M. Burrell, Paul Czege, noahtrammell, Ayyavazi, Bret Gillan.

8/20/2009 Jonathan Walton: Help Me Find the Roots of Game Chef!
Hey there, In preparation for this year's Game Chef design challenge, I'm trying to find information about the contest that Jared Sorensen and Clinton Nixon ran in 2001 on the…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton.

8/21/2009 Jonathan Walton: [Game Chef 2009] Mark Your Calendars for Aug 31
Game Chef 2009 will start on Monday, Aug 31.  This should allow folks to finish and submit whatever they're doing for Jake's contest. The weekend before, Aug 29-30, I will…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, Frank Tarcikowski, Tark, Paul Czege, David Artman.

8/25/2009 Matt Snyder: 2009 Layout Contest winners announced
I'm happy to report finally that José Jiménez walks away the winner of the 2009 Layout Contest. Congrats José! Check out the winners' announcement for some samples of the participants…
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Participants: Matt Snyder.

9/25/2009 Vulpinoid: [The Stockade] An Australian Design Collective
After the high of Gencon Oz last week, a number of Australian Game designers have gathered together to form a design collective known as "The Stockade". This group is designed…
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Participants: Vulpinoid.

10/6/2009 Nathan P.: Two Games One Name
Hey there, I'm running a game design challenge thingy. It's called Two Games One Name, and the idea is that folks submit potential names for a game, and then pairs…
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Participants: Nathan P..

10/15/2009 Seamus: NH Game Demo at the Game Castle
Bedrock Games will demo it's counter terrorism RPG, Terror Network, at the Game Castle in Londonderry NH. The event will be held 1-5 pm at the following address: The Game…
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Participants: Seamus.

10/15/2009 Ben Lehman: The Free Games by Mail project
Hi all, this has it's genesis on Story Games but I thought it would be of interest to people on the Forge. I'm organizing a project (short term -- about…
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Participants: Ben Lehman.

10/30/2009 preludetotheend: Serial Design challenge
So over at story game we had a discussion on the webcomic business model and how it might be applicable to the role playing industry. I decided it might be…
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Participants: preludetotheend.

12/11/2009 Dirk: d10 Design Contest 2010
Last year our little game company hosted a d6 design contest. This year we are doing it again but in honor of 2010 and of course the d10, this years…
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Participants: Dirk, Tomas.

12/20/2009 AzgrymnThePale: RPG Competition on VTT Recruiting Echo Crew
If anyone is interested in joining I am recruiting Echo Crew to play through the upcoming release Pray for Dawn module for Chaos 6010 A.D. Make characters using the program…
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Participants: AzgrymnThePale.

1/18/2010 Ben Lehman: Game Design Contest
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -- MLK I'm holding a game design contest. The contest…
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Participants: Ben Lehman, noahtrammell, Simon C.

2/23/2010 Vulpinoid: Games for Goblins
I've been inspired by a couple of things lately. 1. TA storygames thread about <a href="http://story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=11519&page=1#Item_40">games you'd like other people to design</a>. 2. The gaming anthology <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/norwegian-style/5140294">"Norwegian Style"</a> 3.…
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Participants: Vulpinoid, Telarus, KSC.

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