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9/19/2006 redivider: Joy Division: monkey-moms, pocket universes & corn-of-life
Joy Division is a near-future role playing game of technological horror. Characters are agents of the Joy Division, a small but well-funded transnational espionage agency set up to neutralize major…
In Playtesting
Participants: redivider, David Artman, Miskatonic, Ron Edwards, Joshua BishopRoby.

6/24/2006 redivider: [Heads of State] Sic Semper Tyrannus + Crimes against Humanity
the tyrant has left the building... I'm very happy to have tests of all nine games complete, and grateful to the folks who have played these games & all the…
In Playtesting
Participants: redivider.

6/18/2006 redivider: [heads of state] Coup d'Etat
Josh, Judson & I playtested Coup d'Etat, the 7th of my 9 Short Games about Tyrants to get a try-out. Players each control a member of a junta of military…
In Playtesting
Participants: redivider.

6/7/2006 redivider: Heads of State: editing great leader Kim Jong Il
Judson, Joshua & I played New Edition, one of my 9 short games about tyrants. The dictator has died, and players are members of a committee of high-ranking regime officials…
In Playtesting
Participants: redivider.

5/7/2006 redivider: Heads of State: Palace Gates & As I Lay Dying
Last weekend Alex, Josh & I played two Heads of State games in succession, using the same dictator (Alex's Star of Freedom). A small milestone in passing the half-way point…
In Playtesting
Participants: redivider, alejandro.

3/25/2006 redivider: Cage of Reason: 1st playtest
Three of us from our lagames group (Judson, Joshua & me) plus in-town-for-a-few-days Jason Morningstar tried out Cage of Reason, a game I wrote for the 06 game chef contest.…
In Playtesting
Participants: redivider, Joshua BishopRoby, jasonm, Noon.

3/9/2006 redivider: Heads of State: Subversive Words
Last weekend Josh, Judson and I playtested Subversive Words. Pasting from the summary paragraph of my draft: “Subversive words is two games in one, linking a dissident writer and the…
In Playtesting
Participants: redivider, contracycle, Joshua BishopRoby.

1/28/2006 redivider: [Heads of State: rest & relaxation] first play test
Summary: the table was strewn with a week’s worth of the L.A. Times, a pop-psyche pyramid graced the white board, the players were engaged & entertained (I think) but left…
In Actual Play
Participants: redivider, Joshua BishopRoby, Christopher Kubasik.

1/3/2006 redivider: In-person game writing group, Los Angeles region
I'm interested in setting up an in-person writing group focusing on rpgs. The goal would be to hold monthly meetings in the L.A. area to provide feedback on game drafts,…
In Connections
Participants: redivider, Joshua BishopRoby, Ron Edwards.

12/12/2005 redivider: [wine dark sea] mortality & wanderlust
This is the 3rd posting of draft ideas for Wine Dark Sea: the final voyage of Odysseus design goals for the game at: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17850.0 These fate rules, now split into…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: redivider.

12/12/2005 redivider: [wine dark sea] characters and conflicts
This is the second posting on my game-in-progress The Wine Dark Sea: the final voyage of Odysseus. A previous post dealt with  my design goals and the combat rules. http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17850.0…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: redivider, Valamir, Ice Cream Emperor.

12/3/2005 redivider: [Wine Dark Sea]: inspirations + design goals + 'homeric' combat
Wine Dark Sea: the final voyage of Odysseus This posting discusses the background of a game I’m working on, my design principles, and includes a draft of combat rules. I…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: redivider, Troy_Costisick, TonyLB, Sean, Ice Cream Emperor.

10/12/2004 redivider: [Heads of State] draft of all nine games
I’ve posted a draft of my game Heads of State: nine short games about Tyrants in pdf form at: http://home.earthlink.net/~markvalli To quote from the intro, “Presidents for Life. Coups. Cults…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: redivider.

5/19/2004 redivider: Tyrants 2: New Edition
I'm posting draft rules for the first three games in the overall Tyrants game I'm working on. If administrators think that posting three 5-6 page posts the same night is…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: redivider.

5/19/2004 redivider: tyrants 3: the Palace Gates
I'm posting draft rules for the first three games in the overall Tyrants game I'm working on. If administrators think that posting three 5-6 page posts the same night is…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: redivider.

5/19/2004 redivider: tyrants 1: Crimes against Humanity
I'm posting draft rules for the first three games in the overall Tyrants game I'm working on. If administrators think that posting three 5-6 page posts the same night is…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: redivider.

5/18/2004 redivider: [Nine Games about Tyrants]: design notes & game summarie
[b]Nine Games About Tyrants[/b] [b]Design Notes:[/b]  I'm writing a game about tyrants. I wanted to explore the psychology and pathology of despots, the corruption inherent in absolute power, and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: redivider, hanschristianandersen, ethan_greer, Sydney Freedberg, JamesSterrett, contracycle, Mike Holmes, Paul Czege.

12/11/2003 redivider: 26 Ways: the Game of Alphabetic Action (looking for feedback
Hi, I’m posting a 2 page summary of a game I’m working on. The 12 page pdf with all the rules and more examples is available on line at http://home.earthlink.net/~markvalli…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: redivider, Emily Care, MachMoth, Paul Czege.

7/10/2003 redivider: Paper Worlds- long and short versions of concept
Hi, I'm posting short and long versions of a concept for a game framework. (Not a specific game and not a universal system; more of an approach and rules for…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: redivider, WDFlores, Mike Holmes, Hunter Logan, Jeph, talysman, Kester Pelagius.

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12/27/2006 redivider: [Wine Dark Sea]: first playtest , Odysseus vs. the fly demon
First playtest of wine dark sea Jim, Judson, and I (mark) played a short test run of Wine Dark Sea, my game of the final voyage of Odysseus. We played…
In Playtesting
Participants: redivider.

2/2/2007 redivider: [Heads of State] playtest call for Feb-March 07
Hi, I have posted playtest files http://www.headsofstate.net/?page_id=6 of the games from my series Heads of State: nine short games about tyrants. The game files, plus an intro to the series,…
In Connections
Participants: redivider.

2/21/2007 redivider: Disappeared (heads of state) at Orccon
I ran a pick-up/playtest game of Disappeared, one of the nine games in my Heads of State series, at orccon late Saturday night. Disappeared is a gm-less game but since…
In Playtesting
Participants: redivider.

2/21/2007 redivider: [lacuna] Lost Angeles: a L.A.cuna mod at orccon
Lost Angeles: L.A.cuna at orccon I ran a 6 player convention game of lacuna on Sunday. The concept was that it had stopped raining in the blue city and that…
In Actual Play
Participants: redivider.

2/28/2007 redivider: [satanic mills] - 'all is under the sway of inhuman power' k.marx
Satanic Mills was a game I wrote for the 2-page techno horror game challenge last year. It is a game about alienation set in a 19th century factory town and…
In Playtesting
Participants: redivider, jim pinto.

3/9/2007 redivider: [heads of state] art and death in jakarta
Joshua, Judson, Stacy and I conducted the third playtest of Palace Gates earlier this week. That same night we played Subversive Words for the second time, with Jim taking Stacy’s…
In Playtesting
Participants: redivider, jim pinto.

5/3/2007 redivider: {Coup d'etat} Tony Blair: watch your back!
Tony Blair- watch your back! Coup’d’etat playtest set in contemporary Britain Two weeks ago Judson, Joshua & I played Coup d’Etat, one of the nine games in my Heads of…
In Playtesting
Participants: redivider.

7/19/2007 redivider: [Short History of Decay]: pandas, pollution, population
Colin, Jim, Joshua & I tried A Short History of Decay, my mini-game about the decline and fall of practically anything. I wrote this game for a very informal challenge…
In Playtesting
Participants: redivider.

11/11/2008 redivider: indie rpg playtest & design group in Los Angeles
Hi, We have a gaming group in Los Angeles that's primarily dedicated to design & play-testing of indie rpgs. We have 3 regular participants and looking for one or a…
In Connections
Participants: redivider.

11/17/2008 redivider: [teen sex game]
So hard to beat: Josh, Judson and play-tested so hard to beat, a game about teen sex that I wrote based on a song that Graham Walmsley had assigned me…
In Playtesting
Participants: redivider, Ron Edwards.

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.

12/9/2011 redivider: thawing out heads of state with a game R&R set in bermuda
Since I'm trying to fund a kickstarter for Heads of State, my collection of 9 short games about tyrants, I'm doing more playtesting on a few of the games that…
In Game Development
Participants: redivider.

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