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3/16/2011 Jonathan Walton: Fantastic New Printing Option: Scoutbooks.com
So I've been watching the awesome folks at <a href="http://www.pinballpublishing.com/">Pinball Publishing</a> for a long time.  They're an eco-friendly print shop based in Portland and do really amazing work with 100%…
In Publishing
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen, Jason Pitre, Airafice, Vulpinoid, CSBone.

11/29/2010 Jonathan Walton: [Call for Papers & Games] "Magic Missile" for GoPlayNW 2011
And now for an announcement... <a href="http://thouandone.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/magicmissile31.jpg"><img src="http://thouandone.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/magicmissile31.jpg" alt="" title="magicmissile3" width="380" height="263" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1689" /></a> The Basics 
 Ryan Macklin and Jonathan Walton are organizing a short anthology on…
In Endeavor
Participants: Jonathan Walton.

11/17/2010 Jonathan Walton: 2010 Game Chef Playoffs: Vote with Your Play!
Hey Everyone, Now that all my initial reviews are in, it's time to get serious about the 2010 Game Chef Playoffs. Out of 59 solid games that were submitted to…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Jonathan Walton.

8/30/2010 Jonathan Walton: Game Chef 2010: Sept 11th-19th
Mark your calendars! 10th anniversary this year. What will that mean?  A return to the classic format? Most definitely.  A great theme and ingredients? You bet.  Unexpected twists? Always. Reviews…
In Endeavor
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Vulpinoid.

8/21/2009 Jonathan Walton: [Game Chef 2009] Mark Your Calendars for Aug 31
Game Chef 2009 will start on Monday, Aug 31.  This should allow folks to finish and submit whatever they're doing for Jake's contest. The weekend before, Aug 29-30, I will…
In Endeavor
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, Frank Tarcikowski, Tark, Paul Czege, David Artman.

8/20/2009 Jonathan Walton: Help Me Find the Roots of Game Chef!
Hey there, In preparation for this year's Game Chef design challenge, I'm trying to find information about the contest that Jared Sorensen and Clinton Nixon ran in 2001 on the…
In Endeavor
Participants: Jonathan Walton.

5/1/2008 Jonathan Walton: [IAWA] Prerequisites Shared Understanding
Hey Vincent, Sorry to have emoted all over that last thread.  I've just been really frustrated both times I've tried to play IAWA and have further frustrated by not being…
In lumpley games
Participants: Jonathan Walton, lumpley, John Harper, Valamir, Brand_Robins, Valvorik.

12/13/2007 Jonathan Walton: Indie Games Relationship Map Project
Hey Cats, I posted companion threads about this on Story Games and Knife Fight: http://www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=5050 http://www.i-would-knife-fight-a-man.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=2862 I'm attempting to make a relationship map of game design influences, which I think…
In Connections
Participants: Jonathan Walton, guildofblades, M. J. Young, GreatWolf, Eero Tuovinen, Peter Nordstrand, David Artman, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, lumpley, Nev the Deranged, matthijs.

3/15/2007 Jonathan Walton: [Afraid] The Mistress of Erich Zann
I ran Afraid Arkham-style for the SGBoston crew this week. When I first read Afraid, the monster-creation guidelines reminded me of a number of Lovecraft stories, especially Pickman's Model and…
In lumpley games
Participants: Jonathan Walton, lumpley, Valvorik, Meej.

11/27/2006 Jonathan Walton: Proposal Guidelines for Push 2
I just posted <a href="http://thou-and-one.blogspot.com/2006/11/push-2-proposal-guidelines.html">proposal guidelines</a> for <i>Push</i> volume 2 on my blog. Those of you who have been thinking about (or just now started thinking about) writing for it…
In Endeavor
Participants: Jonathan Walton.

8/28/2006 Jonathan Walton: Push Sales: Our First Month
In case anyone's interested in what sales figures might look like for a new product with a reasonable amount of hype, I've posted a summery of our first month's sales…
In Publishing
Participants: Jonathan Walton.

7/25/2006 Jonathan Walton: Push is for sale, baby!
I am very pleased to announce (having just recieved the final, beautiful copies from the UPS man) that Push vol 1 is now available.  Copies can be purchase from the…
In Publishing
Participants: Jonathan Walton, jasonm.

11/30/2005 Jonathan Walton: [Burning Wheel] Inheritance - MACE 2005 (long)
I told Luke I was going to write this session up, but I've been thinking heavily about it, trying to figure out where my frustrations came from.  All in all,…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Clinton R. Nixon, abzu, Brand_Robins, Thor Olavsrud, Adam Dray, lampros, Iskander, Librisia.

9/28/2005 Jonathan Walton: SIS: Beyond the Glossary (Help!)
[b]Emergancy theory help needed![/b] I'm in the middle of finishing the first draft of an article called [i]Negotiated Narratives: Roleplaying and the Aesthetics of the Middle Ground[/i], which is a…
In RPG Theory
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Valamir, talysman, Ron Edwards, Silmenume, Joshua BishopRoby, John Kim, Artanis, pekkok, contracycle, C. Edwards, Alan.

7/31/2005 Jonathan Walton: How to Sell Out
So I was talking with Rich Forest today (since I'm currently in Hong Kong) and halfway through the conversation I realized some very important things about myself and my goals…
In Publishing
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Michael S. Miller, TonyLB, guildofblades, Ron Edwards, Ben Lehman, Andrew Morris, Miskatonic.

4/21/2005 Jonathan Walton: Scene Framing Workshop (IRC)
So, this morning, I was pondering the simple beauty of some of the pick-up games I've played in IRC over the past few months. It happens like this: a bunch…
In Connections
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Mike Holmes.

4/16/2005 Jonathan Walton: [Improv] Past Glories: Adventures in Ritual Lang.
So I got up this morning with a real hankering to play something, so I log on to IRC and try to recruit some folks for a pick-up game. I…
In Actual Play
Participants: Jonathan Walton, TonyLB, Paganini, Selene Tan.

4/11/2005 Jonathan Walton: [FINAL] Arthouse Wuxia
Here's Part 1 of my final draft. Hopefully I can get Part 2 done by the end of this week. I'm going to try to step up and get my…
In Push Editorial Board
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Eero Tuovinen.

4/8/2005 Jonathan Walton: What Should I Do With These?
So, I have these amazing pictures that I did for a game concept called We Regret to Inform You the Gamemaster is Dead, which was going to be a kind…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Paka, daMoose_Neo.

4/6/2005 Jonathan Walton: The View From Here: 3 Years Hence
Time to wish and prophesai :) 1. Where do you see low-tech* roleplaying in 3 years? 2. Where do you see indie roleplaying in 3 years? *I know that technological…
In Forge Birthday Forum
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Andy Kitkowski, Eero Tuovinen, Ben Lehman, Doug Ruff, Scripty, timfire, Shreyas Sampat, xenopulse, Bankuei, komradebob.

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4/2/2012 Jonathan Walton: Welcome to Game Chef 2012
Hey Folks, We're super psyched to bring you Game Chef one final time on the Forge. Our team this year, aside from me, includes Mike "Original Master Chef" Holmes and…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: Jonathan Walton, MrLax, Sp4m, UserClone, devlin1, Gandalf Jones, jackvice, Gryffudd, Mike Holmes, jakevettori, gtroc, davidberg, Eero Tuovinen, mrteapot, Thomas Lawrence, Stan, PeterBB, Troy_Costisick.

4/4/2012 Jonathan Walton: Tap-in Thread
So back in the day we always had a "tap-in" thread for Game Chef, where prospective chefs declared their intention to participate.  Let's see how many folks are game this…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Nathan P., AsthmaticHamster, Sp4m, David Artman, gtroc, dindenver, Rishi, Gandalf Jones, Gryffudd, CajunNate, devlin1, davidberg, jackvice, MrLax, anders_larsen, baxil, Fractal Advocate, dkadera, ThoughtCheck, Aniventerie, tor, PeterBB, whiteknife, ekb, UserClone, mrteapot, cjbowser, The Engnine, branches, Thomas Lawrence, JeffR, princess_r, mael.rimbault, desiderata, BlazmoIntoWowee, Lavinia, Jason Pitre, Mike Holmes, OrionCanning, Michael S. Miller, Bryant, Stan, jackson_tegu, Jason Petrasko, WPTunes, C. Edwards, Charles Boucher, Tokala, osaka, jjspackle, quad, anansi, Troy_Costisick, Dev, raga, GreatWolf, Snake_Eyes, jscag, Melinglor, dmkdesigns, JTColeman, Teataine, captain.boozer, Mathalus, whduryea.

4/4/2012 Jonathan Walton: Alumni Reports
Our fifth alumni report was posted this morning and we have at last 5 more in various stages of being ready for release. Personally, I think it's been fun to…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: Jonathan Walton, Rishi, Ben Lehman, Nathan P., jackvice.

4/8/2012 Jonathan Walton: [Disorient] A Game About Alienation & Orientalism
I already posted some thoughts on my ingredients on the Game Chef blog. Here's my new pitch: Hong Kong, just before 1900. An aging retiree, "Doctor" Wiley Lam, has organized…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: Jonathan Walton, princess_r, jackson_tegu.

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