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In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010

9/12/2010 hardcoremoose: The Siege of Maddenhafen
So Mr. and Mrs. Czege were over for dinner and movies last night (pot roast good, Machine Girl not so much), and they reminded me that Game Chef still existed! …
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: hardcoremoose, masqueradeball, enderbean, Vulpinoid, baxil.

9/12/2010 Gorgoo: Gorgoo's Game Thread
Hi. I'm new here, but I figured I'd post since I'm going to be trying to write something for Game Chef this year for the first time. I'm thinking that…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Gorgoo, Vulpinoid.

9/12/2010 redivider: redivider's game thread: 'the city is a battlesuit for surviving the future'
I might make a game inspired by this >> http://io9.com/5362912/the-city-is-a-battlesuit-for-surviving-the-future which was the slogan of an urbanomancer char I played in a short unknown armies campaign. here taken literally: a…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: redivider, Vulpinoid, Jason Pitre, jasonm.

9/11/2010 Sebastian: Sebastian's Game Thread
One idea is to use “skin” (as in a tanned hide) to chronicle a war, in which the main character is the war itself, shaped by the recorded actions of…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Sebastian, Jason Pitre, masqueradeball.

9/11/2010 baxil: Baxil's Game Thread
Hi, everyone!  Another newbie to The Forge ... I'm a gamer and writer (aren't we all?), maintaining a shared urban-fantasy setting for myself and other authors.  Long story short, there's…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: baxil, masqueradeball, Jonathan Walton, Jason Pitre, Darla Shockley, devlin1.

9/11/2010 Dan Maruschak: Dan's Game Thread
I don't have a strong idea yet, but last year I found the process of articulating my thoughts in words helped me develop them further, so I'm going to post…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Dan Maruschak, Darla Shockley, Jason Pitre, masqueradeball.

9/11/2010 ShaneM: Not One Step Backwards
Hi folks, I'm new here, and new to practical game design (though I have had an observers interest in game design for ages and have had an adventure published ages…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: ShaneM, Jonathan Walton, jasonm, Saint Erebus, Jason Pitre, Gregor Hutton.

9/11/2010 jdfristrom: Jamie's game thread: road trip movie game
Cities and deserts and journeys make me think: *The Sure Thing*, *LIttle Miss Sunshine*, *Easy Rider*, *Thelma & Louise*, *Priscilla: Queen of the Desert*, *Fanboys*, maybe, sorta, *The Wizard of…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: jdfristrom, Darla Shockley, Jonathan Walton, Jason Pitre.

9/11/2010 Darla Shockley: Darla & David's Game Thread
AKA D&D's Game Thread. Anyway. My partner and I are working on a distributed game, where each session is played by two players.  Every player has a Traveller character, and…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Darla Shockley, enderbean, Ben Lehman, Jason Pitre, dmckenna, hardcoremoose, PeterBB, dindenver.

9/11/2010 R00kie: Declan's Gamne Thread - Memoir
Hi guys, I've been fiddling with the Ingredients most of the day - I've got 6 pages of hand written notes and I'm now fairly sure of the shape my…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: R00kie, Jason Pitre, Frank Tarcikowski.

9/11/2010 Codexier: Battle's Game Thread
The Oasis Club Alternate reality 40’s club like Casablanca (Belize).  Explorers, adventurers, etc all come through this club.  Maybe this is something like part story-game, part time management game. People…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Codexier, masqueradeball, enderbean, Jason Pitre, Darla Shockley.

9/11/2010 Elizabeth: Elizabeth's game thread
So Shreyas and I have been talking FOR YEARS about how to make a sweeping, emotionally-resonant two-player game about the hero's journey that anchors in the players' real sense memories.…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Elizabeth, masqueradeball, jdfristrom, Ben Lehman, Jason Pitre, Lance D. Allen.

9/11/2010 il mietitore: il mietitore's Game Thread
Yay, even if i am in the old continent i'll try this one. I just hope i'll be able to write something understandable. Ingredients: City, Desert, Skin Premise: The game…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: il mietitore, masqueradeball, baxil, Jason Pitre.

9/11/2010 Frank Tarcikowski: Frank‘s Game Thread: And then Columbus arrived at the Edge of the World
Damn. I‘ve got an exam coming up on 5 October, a tough one at that. And so I thought, next year. And then I thought, edge, edge. What if you…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Frank Tarcikowski, Jason Pitre, PeterBB, Kevin Allen Jr.

9/11/2010 hansel: Hans's game thread
City-Desert-Skin. I want to make a game about uninhabited, left-behind, broken parts of a city. Like Detroit. Also it's 1-player and involves city-management (like, the city is your character, not…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: hansel, baxil, Jason Pitre.

9/11/2010 Saint Erebus: Brendan C.'s Game Thread
I am entirely inexperienced in the realm of game design, but what the hell, I have hubris enough to believe I have a shot at making some horrible, mottled monstrosity…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Saint Erebus, masqueradeball, Jason Pitre.

9/11/2010 masqueradeball: Nolan's Game Thread
[b]Journey [/b] You are trying to get from here to there. There's a pool of dice in the middle of the table called “How Far Have we Come.” The goal…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: masqueradeball, Saint Erebus, Jason Pitre, Vulpinoid, Bullbar, davidberg, dindenver, Tomas HVM, JeffR.

9/11/2010 Vulpinoid: Vulpinoid's Game Thread
Awesome list. I'm really tempted to do something along the lines of Dark Sun, but a lot of people have already suggested this as a possible inspiration. Mechanically, since hacks…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Vulpinoid, masqueradeball, Saint Erebus, Jason Pitre, Gryffudd, davidberg, dindenver, baxil.

9/11/2010 Jay Loomis: One Way Ticket
You've got a one way ticket to the city. Will you find what you're looking for there, or will the journey be what changes your life?
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Jay Loomis, masqueradeball, Jonathan Walton, Jason Pitre.

9/11/2010 Ben Lehman: Ben's Game Thread
What if we had a game which was focused on socialization, but gamist in the way that Moldvay D&D was gamist (half martialling your system resources, half creativity. Classes: Dancer…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Ben Lehman, masqueradeball, Saint Erebus, Jason Pitre, davidberg.

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9/12/2010 Gryffudd: Gryffudd's Game Thread
Well, looks like lots of interest this year. Lots of neat ideas I see. Figured I should put up one of my own while I have a moment before sleep.…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Gryffudd, Vulpinoid.

9/12/2010 lumpley: Vincent's game thread
Membrane urban horror You haven't been married long, and now she hasn't come home. Can you go to her? Can she come back to you?
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: lumpley.

9/12/2010 Shreyas Sampat: The Perfect Tool
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Af4g2fDbqFhYZGNrOTVqZDRfMjJmazV0eGpkNA&hl=en&authkey=CInOsbcK Inspirations: - DRYH - That crappy Aeon Flux movie - Burn Notice - Mission: Impossible
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Jonathan Walton, Bryan Hansel, baxil, dindenver.

9/12/2010 B4GD: Society: The Advising
Hello, Thought I would throw this out there for the contest as I needed some different ways to think for a few days. For this contest, I chose: • City…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: B4GD, davidberg.

9/12/2010 jasonm: Jason's Game Thread
My game's coming along. Here's the introduction: A rag-tag group of would-be heroes are thrown together on a harrowing journey of survival - and self-discovery! Danger Mountain! is a game…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: jasonm, Bryan Hansel, Kevin Allen Jr.

9/12/2010 Bryan Hansel: Bryan's Game Thread
At the crossroads, a pile of broken water-rich rock marked the road west; the north road bore a sign marked 'To New Askja.' Those who could read went north. You…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Bryan Hansel, jasonm, Frank Tarcikowski, Jonathan Walton, Kevin Allen Jr, baxil.

9/13/2010 Kevin Allen Jr: Kevin's Game Thread
So my first steps where whipping up an introduction and a mood board, we'll see where this goes: "560 horses rage across the scrub plain, belching fire, kicking rocks and…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Kevin Allen Jr, Frank Tarcikowski, jasonm.

9/13/2010 PeterBB: Peter's Game Thread
I reserve the right to throw out everything and start completely fresh, if this doesn't pan out. That said, here are my thoughts so far: This year's ingredients have gotten…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: PeterBB, Vulpinoid.

9/13/2010 vattnig_socka: Search for Haven
Hi. I'm new to the forge. Failed to deliver in a "dogma contest" earlier this summer (at a Swedish rpg forum), hoping to reclaim my honour with this competition. I'll…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: vattnig_socka, Jonathan Walton.

9/13/2010 dindenver: [Edge of Mystery] Dave's Game thread
All,   My game is inspired by Harry Potter and other such magical fantasies. You can see my working Draft here: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1EsslLQ4dSs8CwzH6bkV9XJg0W5nFDlqM8cUm5Wv4naY I am finishing up the first draft tonight…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: dindenver, masqueradeball, Darla Shockley, Vulpinoid, Shreyas Sampat.

9/13/2010 lumpley: Putting Games to Faces
Games to names, really. In this thread, please say your name, say the title or working title of your game, say a quick sentence or two about your game, and…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: lumpley, B4GD, il mietitore, Bryan Hansel, hardcoremoose, Ben Lehman, merlin, Frank Tarcikowski, Jay Loomis, Gryffudd, ekb, PeterBB, Vulpinoid, ShaneM, wildduck, Jason Pitre, devlin1, aryus, baxil, davide.losito, jasonm, JeffR, masqueradeball, Sebastian, Revontuli.

9/13/2010 merlin: Vegas baby, Yeah!
I've just started on my game idea. It's called "Vegas baby, Yeah!" and it's a game about excess and it's consequences set in Sin City, Nevada. Here's the premise: Vegas,…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: merlin, wildduck.

9/13/2010 JeffR: A Trick of the Light
The Central Idea: A small game about a small group of people who meet in an abandoned city in the middle of a desert. Mostly told in flashbacks about how…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: JeffR, Gorgoo.

9/14/2010 DavidEBest: [The End of All Things] David's Game Thread
Hey everyone, My name is Dave, and this is my first attempt at a Game Chef game. Bear with me, please. I've been tossing around game concepts since the contest…
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Participants: DavidEBest.

9/14/2010 ekb: EKB's Game Thread
another fun word in there - soujourn: to reside briefly in a place Crunch: a 10-place scale between "Desert of the real" and "City-as-simulacrum" with some sort of token/mark-off system…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: ekb.

9/14/2010 wildduck: Sean Nittner's Game Thread
What grabbed me about the contest, was the theme: Journey.  I was instantly reminded of the Ribbon Drive game I played with Joe, Justin and Zach last year at Gen…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: wildduck, buffaloraven.

9/14/2010 buffaloraven: Travis's Game
Working Title: The Fall of Granada. Pitch: In 1492, Castillians and other Europeans destroyed the last of the Berber Muslim kingdoms on the Iberian Peninsula, Granada.  The ‘great’ Reconquista of…
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Participants: buffaloraven, wildduck.

9/15/2010 devlin1: Mike's Game Thread (Title Pending)
I don't really have anything to post here right now, but I said I'd start a thread, so... here it is. I guess I can post some thoughts on a…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: devlin1.

9/15/2010 Thor: [The Twelve Battles of Arthur Nobel] thor's game
Not a good time, not the game I should be working on, yadda yadda..... TBoAN is a Western Set on the Mars of Edger Rice Burroughs and recapitulating the twelve…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Thor, jasonm.

9/15/2010 aryus: Martin's Game Thread
Almost forgot about this. First time doing the Game Chef. Love all the cool game ideas. Anyway, here's what I'm working on: Necropolis, The Journey from Death to the Afterlife.…
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Participants: aryus, baxil.

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