Previous Topics 8/5/2009 TonyLB: Misery Bubblegum: My New Game
So, some folks know that I've been working over three years now on my next game. It's called Misery Bubblegum. It's about sad, strong, vulnerable, glorious people trying to find…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Paul Czege, jrs, Paka, SaintandSinner.
9/10/2008 TonyLB: Misery Bubblegum Playtesters wanted
I've got two decks of Misery Bubblegum cards out there in the world, doing their business. Two sets of playtesters have had first crack at them, and when I sent…
In Connections
Participants: TonyLB, hix.
8/19/2008 TonyLB: Misery Bubblegum Playtesters Wanted
I'm going to be trying "Playtest by Chain-letter" to get some blind-playtest mojo going. Basically, this isn't a game that I can (or would) distribute to you electronically: I gotta…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Myrmidon.
8/19/2008 TonyLB: GenCon: Misery Bubblegum 1/7
#1 of 7 games played at GenCon:
I started out the weekend with a nice, small game with two other players. I'm pretty dang sure that I know their names,…
In Playtesting
Participants: TonyLB, Ron Edwards, Marshall Burns, Paka, Landon Darkwood.
7/28/2008 TonyLB: My project for GenCon: A Capes Scenario
Yeah, it's a little crazy to be doing final assembly this close to a convention, but what the hey ... all my other preparations were done, and I've had this…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, hix, 5niper9.
7/16/2008 TonyLB: Misery Bubblegum: Could use some help
So, as some folks know, I'm in (hopefully) the late phases of design on my next game, Misery Bubblegum. It's going to be about sad, sweet, tear-jerking shoujo manga and…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, 1of3, Filip Luszczyk.
9/25/2007 TonyLB: Playing Card Puzzles
Okay, I'm looking to make a puzzle that is played out with playing cards, during the course of a game. So this is not a directly competitive "You both play…
In First Thoughts
Participants: TonyLB, dindenver, Eero Tuovinen, David Artman, Noon.
8/6/2007 TonyLB: Go-Play, Go-Play ... gone!
I made Go-Play keychains, a while back. Green means "Go," the sideways triangle means "Play". Go Play!
They've sold ... alright. Not great, but alright. That having been said, I've…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, oreso, Nev the Deranged, Gaerik.
1/11/2007 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] Talking about other characters
I spent a longer time than I should trying to "deduce" a formula for how to make a character appealing (at least to me) from first principles. All of the…
In Playtesting
Participants: TonyLB, Danny_K, Noon, Simon C, cdr, Filip Luszczyk, Emily Care, Jasper Flick.
1/7/2007 TonyLB: Who will work for a sneak-peek at upcoming product?
Within the next day or so I will (barring substantial derailing ... excuse me while I go off and make some quick backups ... okay, back!) have the first draft…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Eero Tuovinen.
10/25/2006 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] Character before conflict
So over on Story Games I had a discussion about the way that conflict structures a character ... more specifically, the pieces of a character which are not dependent upon…
In Playtesting
Participants: TonyLB, Bill_White, Narf the Mouse, WhiteRat, Danny_K, Dumirik, Steven Stewart.
10/12/2006 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] More people makes things tricky
So Misery Bubblegum has this system where you give each other your dice, and then people can use dice from other players to represent each having emotional influence over them.…
In Playtesting
Participants: TonyLB.
10/3/2006 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] K. I. S. S.
So, three weeks ago I had a game where you wrote down recurring conflicts on 3x5 cards, and hoped that they'd gel together, then you traded those 3x5 cards back…
In Playtesting
Participants: TonyLB, andrew_kenrick, marknau.
9/14/2006 TonyLB: My Next Game System
In case there are folks here who are fans of me, to the extent that they think my next game will probably be cool too, I've just posted the first…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, Bret Gillan.
9/14/2006 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum]
Alright! Finally a playtest of Misery Bubblegum that didn't explode on contact, strafing everyone nearby with hot, jagged, rules-system shrapnel. Eric and I got together for a night of games. …
In Playtesting
Participants: TonyLB, Hans, Gaerik, TheCzech.
9/6/2006 TonyLB: Will someone playtest "Roxie Racoon and the $@^*'d-Up Pancakes"?
Here's a mini-game, as best I've got it figured out. It looks (to me) like it would run to completion in about ten to twenty minutes. I'd love it if…
In Connections
Participants: TonyLB.
8/25/2006 TonyLB: Be good!
Okay, I'm probably not going to have net access until about Labor day.
That means that if something goes wildfire out of control it better be the cool kind of…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB.
8/25/2006 TonyLB: A worthwhile exercise
Check out this AP thread and then maybe this one and this one. You know what they had in common? They all started from a common ground of strong preparation,…
In Muse of Fire Games
Participants: TonyLB, oreso, Gaerik, Technocrat13, Hans.
8/24/2006 TonyLB: [GenCon Capes] Family under a magnifying glass
At GenCon I gladly succumbed to requests that I play in a Capes game (I do not accept the notion that I "run" such events, for the obvious reasons). So,…
In Actual Play
Participants: TonyLB, Jasper the Mimbo, Lxndr.
8/23/2006 TonyLB: [Dreamation] The Indie Passport
This idea has been bandied about for years, and now the time has come. It's a fun little invented reward for people to come hang around the booth ... and…
In Conventions
Participants: TonyLB, iago, Rob Donoghue, Ben Lehman, RobNJ, Technocrat13, Andrew Morris, Shawn De Arment, andrew_kenrick.
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