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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…
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Participants: Kevin Allen Jr, Frank Tarcikowski, jasonm.

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…
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Participants: Bryan Hansel, jasonm, Frank Tarcikowski, Jonathan Walton, Kevin Allen Jr, baxil.

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…
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Participants: jasonm, Bryan Hansel, Kevin Allen Jr.

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…
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Participants: B4GD, davidberg.

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
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Participants: Shreyas Sampat, Jonathan Walton, Bryan Hansel, baxil, dindenver.

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?
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Participants: lumpley.

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.…
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Participants: Gryffudd, Vulpinoid.

9/12/2010 dmckenna: In Between - Another GF2010 Thread
I spent a good portion of time today brainstorming ideas. I thought about working with Skin, maybe doing a game revolving around shape changers and politics. Then I started thinking…
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Participants: dmckenna, enderbean.

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! …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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Participants: Elizabeth, masqueradeball, jdfristrom, Ben Lehman, Jason Pitre, Lance D. Allen.

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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.

9/16/2010 davidberg: David Berg's game
[b]Core mechanic idea: Secret tribunal.[/b] 1. Each player leaves the room, while the other players (in character) briefly discuss them. - 1a) If they disobeyed the last vote, assign them…
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Participants: davidberg, Frank Tarcikowski.

9/16/2010 davide.losito: Davide Losito's game - Finders.
I was extremely inspired by this year theme and ingredients and I got an epiphany. This is the result. Finders. This game is about telling the story of the…
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Participants: davide.losito, jasonm, devlin1, Ron Edwards.

9/18/2010 Vulpinoid: The game(s) I'm looking forward to...
I've been working pretty heavily on my own game over the last couple of days and haven't had the chance to offer the feedback I'd like. But I'm taking a…
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Participants: Vulpinoid, buffaloraven, il mietitore.

9/20/2010 Gryffudd: Now for the long wait
Well, it's done. Things kinda fell apart in the middle of the week, so I spent a few days rethinking things and had to do all the writing over this…
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Participants: Gryffudd, Vulpinoid, devlin1, baxil, solarom.

9/20/2010 Revontuli: The Hand of Gulliver the Man-Mountain by Mike Pohjola
Hey y'all! I wrote a game based on Gulliver's Travels, where your finger represents your character, and you move it on the Game Master's hand exploring the manifold secrets of…
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Participants: Revontuli.

9/20/2010 Shinobicow: Edge of Annihilation - The Last City
Woot! My game is complete. I have been going at it non-stop since I started this project like last Wednesday. It is done as of now and submitted, but I…
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Participants: Shinobicow.

9/20/2010 R00kie: Submission Time has Passed but
Moments after submitting my game for this year I had a great idea for an entirely different take on the ingredients. The first game was fun to write so I'm…
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Participants: R00kie, Vulpinoid.

9/21/2010 dindenver: [City in Darkness] aka Edge of Mystery
Hi!   I found a new name that better highlights the themes of my game.   Basically, the game is about graduating from a school of magic in a Harry…
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Participants: dindenver.

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