Previous Topics 6/14/2006 Jasper: Need artist who does cities
I need a cover piece for my game City of Birds.
I'm not planning on any figures, so I need an artist who's comfortable with landscapes and ancient cities. I…
In Connections
Participants: Jasper, devilbunny.
5/28/2006 Jasper: City of Birds on the Foundry
Last night I was very happy to playtest City of Birds on the Foundry (which I only recently discovered). Commiserations over the lack of Dr. Who led to a several-hour…
In Playtesting
Participants: Jasper, TonyLB.
2/14/2006 Jasper: [Me and the Rat] Good cheese with a few holes
A few weeks ago I played my Ronnie submission Me and the Rat with a few friends. The game had changed only a little from contest submission, with some points…
In Playtesting
Participants: Jasper.
10/17/2005 Jasper: [Geomancer] Conflict Resolution as Negotiation
I first posted about Geomancer in this thread. Now I'm doing a major rework of the conflict resolution system, so that's what this thread is about.
First a recap of…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jasper, Vaxalon, SPDuke, Bill Masek, Nogusielkt, TonyLB, Everspinner, Shreyas Sampat, Ben Lehman.
10/4/2005 Jasper: Number of threads displayed
There's been so much activity in Indie Design lately that even recent, active posts get scrolled off the front page. Is there a way to allow more threads to be…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Jasper, Ron Edwards.
8/25/2005 Jasper: [Geomancy] Money and Rewards
Indie Design is really booming now (which is great to see) so I'll try to keep this question as focused as possible.
I'm pretty well into designing a game about…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jasper, Dumirik, Greg Sewell, lumpley.
7/29/2005 Jasper: Trials of the Grail: WWII
Last night my summer game group started prepping for a Trials of the Grail game. In the last couple of months we've played Dogs in the Vineyard, Pantheon, and a…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jasper, Bob Goat, Ethos.
7/28/2005 Jasper: Demo versions
I'm planning to do a new demo version for Trials of the Grail. I get a fair number of hits on the current demo, so I want to improve it.…
In Publishing
Participants: Jasper, matthijs, daMoose_Neo, TonyLB, Jake Richmond.
5/18/2005 Jasper: [Charlatan Fencers] Dueling system
This thread is specifically for discussing the combat system in my 'Charlatan Fencing Masters' game, which was introduced in this thread -- it deals with more overarching aspects of the…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jasper, Hereward The Wake, BrennaLaRosa.
5/13/2005 Jasper: Charlatan Fencing Masters Dueling for Business
[quote][i]Young knight learn, to love God and revere women, so that your honor grows. Practice knighthood and learn the Art that dignifies you, bringing honor in wars.
...So should you…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jasper, Ron Edwards, daMoose_Neo, xenopulse, Sydney Freedberg, Latigo, Hereward The Wake, TonyLB, Bill Masek.
5/4/2005 Jasper: An interview with Tony
Hi,
Tony hasn't posted this yet, so I guess I will.
Tony was kind enough to do an interview with me, regarding game design, role-playing and our little hobby. It's…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: Jasper.
4/19/2005 Jasper: Pro bono layout
Several people have recently asked for help on layout over in Publishing. And I just read a comment by a designer at RPG.net who, acknowledging a reviewer's somewhat harsh words,…
In Connections
Participants: Jasper.
4/7/2005 Jasper: [Trials Distilled] Describing credibility
I'm still hacking away at the text of Trials of the Grail: Distilled (go to the link in my sig if you want to read about it) and I'd appreciate…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jasper, Garbanzo.
2/25/2005 Jasper: [TotG: Distilled] Comments wanted on a text
Howdy,
I'm working on a rewrite of Trials of the Grail, which I'm calling Distilled (for now). The original version's text was wordy and stuffy, and I'd like to rectify…
In Publishing
Participants: Jasper, Bardsandsages.
2/21/2005 Jasper: My Cos Review
More attention for CoS. I wrote a review, which is posted at RPG.net. Read it!
http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/11/11073.phtml
In Bob Goat Press
Participants: Jasper.
1/30/2005 Jasper: Group-centric Fantasy
So I'm finally getting 'round to the "make your own fantasy heart-breaker" project (though I don't think the results of such projects can really be heart-breakers per se) and I'd…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jasper, jerry, John Burdick, Ron Edwards.
1/1/2005 Jasper: [Loqi] A sysem of competing narrations
I've just posted the preliminary version of the rules for a new game system, which I call Loqi.
You can find it here in HTML: http://primevalpress.com/games/loqi/
I'd appreciate general feedback…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jasper, xenopulse.
10/7/2004 Jasper: Watching your readers
Spawned from the thread on web-based presentation of game texts.
In web-page design (and elsewhere) there's always the desire to watch someone while they're using a page to see how…
In Publishing
Participants: Jasper, Matt, jdagna, abzu, Ed Cha.
10/6/2004 Jasper: Alternate (web-based) Presentations of Game Texts
I was just musing about alternate ways to present a game text. I'm working towards POD with my own project, Graal, so I've been thinking about book size and that…
In Publishing
Participants: Jasper, jerry, Bob Goat, Walt Freitag, Tav_Behemoth, ivan23.
8/31/2004 Jasper: [Graal] Redux: tighter rules, more risk
Hi,
I'm in the process of revising Graal, my game about moral questing ala classic Arthurian Romances. In addition to a new layout, fixing typos, and so on, I'm considering…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jasper.
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