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The Independent Insurgency
Jul. 14th, 2008
04:45 pm - [Misspent Youth] Reservations! (Don't call it a preorder)
So I'm doing what I'm calling reservations (sort of but not really a preorder) for the Misspent Youth ashcan.
I'm going to be selling the ashcan for $10 at Gen Con. I heard from a few people who want a copy but who won't be able to get to Gen Con. There's an extremely small chance that I'll sell out of copies, so I wanted to set aside copies for those of you who were really excited about the game and won't get to get a copy there. If you want, Paypal me $12 (the cover price + $2 shipping)* at my gmail address, which is at rob dot bohl before I leave for Gen Con (by August 11 at 12 pm Eastern). In the paypal email, include your address. I'll respond to each email I get as soon as possible. Then I'll set aside a copy for you when I get them and mail it as soon as I can.
If you're coming to Gen Con, I'd rather sell it to you there. I don't want to do a huge pre-order thing, I just want to ensure that the people who are enthusiastic about the game aren't going to get screwed because they didn't go to Gen Con.
* Note: If you're not in the continental US, email me at that same address and we'll work out what the cost of shipping will be. I'll just be charging shipping at cost.
03:50 pm - [Misspent Youth] Proof is on its way
"The proof with new files is going out to you today ground. You should receive in a few days."
So sayeth the Publishers' Graphics lady about the proofs for the ashcan version of Misspent Youth.
I am excited.
Jul. 1st, 2008
04:24 pm - Now officially Swine
I now have a Forge board of my very own. This has been a very happy week so far.
Jun. 30th, 2008
11:16 pm - Misspent Youth: front and back covers
Hot off the non-presses, the final versions of the front and back covers for Misspent Youth.
03:39 pm - Me and Misspent Youth on Brilliant Gameologists
The cool folks at Brilliant Gameologists did a snippet about me and Misspent Youth on their latest episode. It was really nice of them. Even if they describe it as the "worst episode ever."
Hopefully I can come to their iteration of JiffyCon in November.
Jun. 23rd, 2008
08:02 pm - [Misspent Youth] Back cover draft: thoughts?
You can see a first-draft of my attempt at a Misspent Youth back cover here. What do you think. Improvements? Suggestions? All are welcome.
Jun. 18th, 2008
05:45 pm - [Misspent Youth] Layout chronicles, Junior High edition
Joshua AC Newman said, of my layout for Misspent Youth, "I'm really happy with it." This is not all he said. There is some work to be done. But I've got this giddy, junior-high, "so-and-so said she likes you" thing going on right now.
12:20 am - [Misspent Youth] First draft layout done?
I believe I have finished the first draft of the layout for Misspent Youth, barring a few (hopefully) small issues.
Jun. 17th, 2008
12:45 am
More Misspent Youth layout info: Scanned a bunch of strips of paper. Time to make them into text boxes (tomorrow). I'm excited about this. More excited than these brief sentences suggest.
Jun. 16th, 2008
09:21 pm - [Misspent Youth] Layout more than halfway done
In laying out Misspent Youth, I'm on word 10000 of about 16000 in the manuscript. Running 12 pages so far. Either I'm doing a super-cramped layout or I'm really good at this. Anyway, I'm more than half way done. Fuckin' A!
Jun. 13th, 2008
08:57 am - [Misspent Youth] And the layout begins....
Laid out page one of Misspent Youth last night, and it looks pretty goddamned good. I'm excited which mostly eclipses The Fear.
Jun. 11th, 2008
01:14 pm
Adobe CS3 arrived today. I am joyful. Let the layoutage begin.
Jun. 9th, 2008
10:47 am - [Misspent Youth] Production Panic!
At Joshua AC Newman’s suggestion, I checked with Publishers’ Graphics on when they’d need to have my PDFs by to have my books to me by August 7. This is going to make my timetable to get the books by Gen Con much tighter. I really need to kick my own ass to get shit done on time now. Shame on me.
I’m grateful to Joshua for thinking to make me ask this question. If the books are at Gen Con, it’s his "fault."
Jun. 2nd, 2008
03:44 pm - [Misspent Youth] New timeline
Here's a production timeline I've mocked up.
Up to June 15: Me editing text furiously, playing around with InDesign.
June 15: Jenn delivers art sketches.
June 15: I start laying out the text with Jenn's sketches.
June 15 - July 1: Jenn, Joshua, and I kibitz over the images.
June 25: First draft of layout to Joshua.
June 25 - July 1: We kibitz over layout.
July 1: Final art from Jenn.
July 1 - July 9: Fiddle with layout, replace sketches with final art.
July 9: Send PDF to Publisher's Graphics.
Between July 14 and July 16: Proof arrives. I review it. I somehow confer with Joshua over it.
Between July 15 and July 17: I OK the proof, printing begins
Between August 4 and August 7: The books arrive.
I should probably push the "fiddle with layout" date back a bit but I want to be pessimistic. If any of these pieces can happen earlier, that will be helpful. In any case, it's a week of wiggle room between when I expect to be done and Gen Con. Not extremely comfy, but good enough.
03:32 pm - [Misspent Youth] Death of the Tag
So I was running the first-ever multi-session game of Misspent Youth this weekend, and I realized that while I can make the Tag* work, I have to work at it, and others probably aren't going to want to. So out it goes.
This was tough for me to do. I kept thinking that there was a magical way I could phrase things to make it work,but in the end I came to realize that it just wasn't going to happen.
In other news, Mickey ran the second-ever never-played-the-game-with-me session of Misspent Youth (she also ran the first) at Go Play Northwest. It sounds like it went mixed, but ok. I'm waiting on actual play, which Mickey says that she can probably provide soon.
* For those who don't follow my game slavishly, the Tag is this thing in the game where you get it when you treat other characters like friends (rely on them, come to their aid, compliment them, etc.). When that happened, you were very lightly in charge in-character, and The Authority would direct its attacks at you.
May. 29th, 2008
04:48 pm - [Misspent Youth] The Shepherd and the Infiltrators
I'm about to start running a series of Misspent Youth. Here's the Story Games thread about the game.
May. 28th, 2008
01:26 pm - Vampire: The Masquerade via Misspent Youth
Daniel Levine, a guy too awesome for words, has posted this incredible hack of Misspent Youth to do a Vampire game. It's super-cool and quite exciting. You play neonates out to break the hold of The Beast on your city.
Witness, and envy the awesomeness of having someone do this kind of thing to your game.
May. 22nd, 2008
07:17 pm - [Misspent Youth] Non-me-there playtest #3
The too-awesome-for-words and new-dad Daniel Levine ran the third=ever session of Misspent Youth that I was not present for. I'm enormously stoked. His LiveJournal post on the playtest includes the perfect playlist for a session of this game, and also the almost-three-hour audio file. If you're interested, head on over and check it out.
Thanks Daniel, you fucking rock.
May. 18th, 2008
01:41 pm - Dreamation 2008 designer's roundtable
The Sons of Kryos's latest episode is the second half of the Dreamation 2008 Game Designer's Roundtable. I talk about Misspent Youth at about the 45 minute mark.
May. 12th, 2008
10:16 am - How I Spent My Camp Nerdly Vacation
I went this weekend to Camp Nerdly 2 in Triangle, VA. It was great, intense, fun. I miss being around so many people who get me so well, and it's been less than 24 hours since it ended.
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