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10/18/2005 Ron Edwards: [Ronnies] October winners
Hello everybody, Yup, the second round's judging of Ronnies is now concluded. The third round will come in November, because I'm really jazzed about the terms combination that's scheduled next,…
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, Troy_Costisick, Eero Tuovinen, Jared A. Sorensen, hix, Arturo G., CSBone, Dantai, greyorm, Ben Lehman, talysman, mrteapot, majcher, Dumirik.

10/7/2005 Ron Edwards: [Regis Furor] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Jacob X's Regis Furor almost got disqualified. For one thing, both "rat" and "hate" are quite weak, little more than labels for game mechanics like "powers." There's room for…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards.

10/7/2005 Ron Edwards: [Fink] Ronnies feedback
Hello, J. Tuomas Harviainen's Fink is a strong partner for Secrets in Suburbia, and as I mention in that thread, I had to read the two games side by side,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, J. Tuomas Harviainen.

10/7/2005 Ron Edwards: [The World Class Rats Handbook] Ronnies feedback
THE WORLD CLASS RATS HANDBOOK, ERIC BAHR Hello, Eric Bahr's The World Class Rats Handbook is very, very ambitious - perhaps too big a chunk to start with. One of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Eric J..

10/7/2005 Ron Edwards: [My Girlfriend is a Slut] Ronnies feedback
Hello, At first, I was delighted to think that Frank Tarcikowski's My Girlfriend's a Slut / My Boyfriend's a Dick had paralleled my long-standing desire to see two different rules-sets…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Frank T.

10/7/2005 Ron Edwards: [Vendetta] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Drew Hart-Shea's Vendetta has one strike against it that Drew doesn't know about - I think John Campbell's "Hero" ideas are at best childish, and at worst abysmally stupid.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, rrr, Hans.

10/6/2005 Ron Edwards: [She's ...] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Nathan Paoletta's She's ... is the most complex and specifically structured entry. My big issue collectively for many of the entries, including Black Widows, I Think My Girlfriend Hates…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Nathan P..

10/6/2005 Ron Edwards: [The Suburban Crucible] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Thomas E.Robertson's The Suburban Crucible wins a Ronny, and it's the only game to do so that treats women protagonists as human beings, without satire (good, just different) or…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, LordSmerf, Ben Lehman, tygertyger.

10/6/2005 Ron Edwards: [Secrets in Suburbia] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Warren Merrifield's Secrets in Surburbia makes such a strong pair with Fink, that I had to read the games side by side in order not to get mixed up…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Warren.

10/6/2005 Ron Edwards: [King Rat] Ronnies feedback
Hello, King Rat has a tremendously strong starting point, and I think it's one of the few primarily resource-driven, primarily narration-resolved entries that could really shine. My first recommendation is…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, PrzeSzkoda, Malcolm.

10/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [Black Widows] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Clinton Nixon's Black Widows is a lot like Best Friends, in that it starts with a burst of inspiration, then sputters, and stops. It has great basics: the Bond…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Adam Dray, Gregor Hutton.

10/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [January's Frost] Ronnies feedback
Jason Petrasko's January's Frost ranks among the best entries regarding treating sexual-partners women as human beings and protagonists, along with Darling Grove and The Suburban Crucible. Ha! Thought I was…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, tygertyger, Jason Petrasko, Graham Walmsley.

10/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [SleepOver] Ronnies feedback
Brandon Parigo's SleepOver makes a nice partner with Best Friends, so I'm posting their results as twin threads. Here are the comments that apply to both. These games feature great…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, inoir.

10/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [Best Friends] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Gregor Hutton's Best Friends makes a nice partner with SleepOver, so I'm posting their results as twin threads. Here are the comments that apply to both. These games…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Gregor Hutton, tygertyger, Malcolm.

10/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [Alien Angels] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Why look, more objectified female bimboids ... I think it's another Ronnies winner!! Michael Walton's Alien Angels is your basic sexy alien RPG, but with actual sex! Funny how…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, tygertyger, Frank T, IMAGinES.

10/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [Me & the Rat] Ronnies feedback
ME & THE RAT, JASPER MCCHESNEY Jasper McChesney's Me & the Rat makes a nice trilogy with Munch-Mausen Tales and The Rat-God's Girlfriend. It'd be a neat thing if all…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jasper, Dumirik, Dantai.

10/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [The Rat-God's Girlfriend] Ronnies feedback
THE RAT-GOD'S GIRLFRIEND, KIRK MITCHELL Kirk Mitchell's The Rat-God's Girlfriend makes a nice trilogy with Munch-Mausen Tales and Me & the Rat . It'd be a neat thing if all…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Graham Walmsley, Joshua BishopRoby, tygertyger, Dumirik.

10/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [Munch-Mausen Tales] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Joe J. Prince's Munch-Mausen Tales makes a nice trilogy with The Rat-God's Girlfriend and Me & the Rat. It'd be a neat thing if all of them became products…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Dantai.

10/4/2005 Ron Edwards: [Ronnies] October contest begins!
Hello, All right! The October Ronnies are among us. Here are the new-ish rules, or rather, the current version. I've discovered that running this things is a lot like a…
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby, Dantai, Paka, Ben Lehman, jasonm, Jared A. Sorensen, Eero Tuovinen, Graham Walmsley, Troy_Costisick, Mark Johnson, Andrew Morris, Matt Wilson, BlU_sKrEEm, majcher, greyorm, Blankshield, Rossum.

10/4/2005 Ron Edwards: [Untitled] Ronnies feedback
Feel like disappearing into a haze of hatred? Feel like a lab rat lately? Then you'll be right at home merely in reading Keith Senkowski's Untitled entry, let alone playing…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Miskatonic, Bob Goat, talysman, Spooky Fanboy.

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10/24/2005 Ron Edwards: [3:16] Ronnies feedback
Hello, This one gets a full Ronny. I'm taking a very different approach from Roger's Roger's analysis and review thread, although it's a fine discussion. My take is emphatically…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Frank T, Ben Lehman, Gregor Hutton.

10/24/2005 Ron Edwards: [Cycle] Ronnies feedback
Hello, Hooray, a Mortal Kombat game! It's pretty strong for only four pages. Player-character creation is very neat, even exciting, with its colors. I really like the variety available in…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards.

10/24/2005 Ron Edwards: [Sphear] Ronnies feedback
Hello, I'll say it again. Jared was robbed, or very nearly robbed, of a Ronny. Even if the game wasn't as good as it is, there's his blatant and accurate…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.

11/2/2005 Ron Edwards: [Red Rain] Ronnies feedback
Hello, All right, let's get this out in the open. "Why doesn't Red Rain get a Ronny? Contenders did." Here's the answer: because Contenders as written is a playable boxing…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Matt Snyder.

11/2/2005 Ron Edwards: [Contenders] Ronnies feedback
Here's one of the top two Ronnies this time, along with 3:16. The key question is whether it's just a MLWM ripoff. Which I suspect is about as far as…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Dantai, Graham Walmsley.

11/2/2005 Ron Edwards: [Escape from Hell!] Ronnies feedback
Hello, OK, this is the no-suicide Dante game. I kind of like the concept of the "little damned" characters, because they seem very easy to identify with.  The game includes…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Clint.

11/2/2005 Ron Edwards: [The Dark Wood] Ronnies feedback
Hello, It was neat to see this one and Escape from Hell show up within a day or so of each other, a little Dante two-pack. It was especially interesting…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, majcher.

11/2/2005 Ron Edwards: [Monotheism] Tony Pace
Hello, This game reminds me a bit of the last scenario in Pantheon, the one that just says, "The cosmos begins, go," or something similar. A pretty good use of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, TonyPace.

11/2/2005 Ron Edwards: [Dirty Fucking Freaks] Ronnies feedback
Hello, My primary question for this entry, which would permit me simply to consider it eligible or not, is whether there is a role-playing experience within the LARP. For those…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, J. Tuomas Harviainen, Graham Walmsley.

11/2/2005 Ron Edwards: [In the Beginning] Ronnies feedback
Hello, This one's a bit like Cosmos. For some reason, this round of Ronnies tended to produce games in pairs - two boxing games, two LARP-ish games, two Dante games,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Tim Alexander.

11/3/2005 Ron Edwards: [Material World] Ronnies feedback
Hello, This entry begins with a fantastic basic context, but halfway through it spins into Shadowrun ops for standard RPG goombahs, rather than corporate, conspiratorial villainy among a self-defined, arrogant…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Joe Zeutenhorst, Sydney Freedberg.

11/4/2005 Ron Edwards: [Starblade Echoes] Ronnies feedback
Hello, I think this entry, of the many space-ranger ones, provides an opportunity to make a pretty harsh point - that composition and content have to integrated. I've said many…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Bankuei.

11/5/2005 Ron Edwards: November Ronnies! Start your engines for the 6th
Hello! Here are the dates for the November Ronnies: 12:00 AM (beginning) of November 6, 12:00 PM (ending) of November 16. I feel bad about the Octobers, because I'm still…
In Publishing
Participants: Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen, Gregor Hutton, talysman, greyorm, JakeVanDam, James Holloway, Rob MacDougall, Remko, TonyPace, Halzebier, Dantai, Tobias, Victor Gijsbers, Dumirik, Sydney Freedberg.

11/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [Whitecollar Punks] Ronnies feedback
Hello, The last four October Ronnies are giving me fits for their writeups. I've been musing over this one, I wanted to use it to talk more about the whole…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Eero Tuovinen.

11/5/2005 Ron Edwards: [Fight Sphere] Ronnies feedback
This is a really difficult game to assess. I'm still not sure whether I've completely missed a brilliant gem, or perhaps am applying standards that shouldn't apply in some way.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, jburneko.

11/6/2005 Ron Edwards: [Disaster!] Ronnies feedback
Hello, With some important changes, this game is completely ready for playtest and development toward publication. It's the strongest of the $25 Ronnies this time around. It shows a lot…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, Arturo G..

11/6/2005 Ron Edwards: [The Drifter's Escape] Ronnies feedback
Hello, I'm liking this game. It is really strong, with brilliant GM distribution, including prep and Director Stance from players. The terms are very weak - I'm not seeing Fighting,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Ron Edwards, talysman, Ben Lehman, Dumirik.

11/18/2005 Ron Edwards: Dresner articles
A number of years ago, Emily Dresner asked to submit a series of publishing articles here at the Forge. Clinton and I said yes, and two articles in a proposed…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ron Edwards, Olorin.

11/28/2005 Ron Edwards: [Contenders] Brief experimental play
Threads to check out first: Ronnies feedback First playtests (and muchos beer) We played Contenders too! Bear in mind, we didn't really get into it in the sense…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, Roger, jrs, Dantai.

11/28/2005 Ron Edwards: [Space Rat] Femme Babes rock, I want one
Threads to check out first: Ronnies feedback Rewards for femme babes Oh my goodness, what a great game. I'll start with the biggest textual stumbling block…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards.

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