The Fiasco PDF is out the door and available for purchase! There’s a pre-order bundle, so you can get the PDF and the book later for the price of the book. Or just get the PDF. Still some regular printing hoops to jump through but I feel like a weight has been lifted. And it’s a great game.
More or less to see if they would fit, I condensed the rules for Cowboys With Big Hearts onto a single double-sided letter page, just right for folding up in a tuck box. They fit and I didn’t lose much color, although it pains me. Can you read this or is it an exercise in tiny type futility? That’s 8-point Garamond, which seems cruel.
Nathan Paoletta has this contest where two people write a game with different constraints but the same title. My game is called The Plant and my constraint is “suitable for solo play”. The game I designed mandates solo play. Right now it is a little emo but I intend to re-write the fiction pieces – I think the mechanical pieces are just fine.
Please give it a try and let me know what you think.
It should play in twenty minutes or so. Basically this uses the Mountain Witch trick on you in a programmatic sort of way. My friend Remi pointed out that the really cool piece of the trick is the reincorporation by the GM of your input, and this cannot do that (I think it could, actually, but it doesn’t). I am enjoying Nathan’s thought-provoking exercise.
I had a wonderful time and some very dedicated, gracious hosts. Big thanks for Flavio, Renato, and Guilia, who treated Autumn and I with a generosity and kindness I hope we can someday repay. I feel like I made some friends.
The Janus team really impressed me and I am now certain that working with them for Italian translations of our games (and hopefully other projects) is the right move, for sure. They have a collegial relationship with Narrativa, but as a quasi not-for-profit I think Janus’ attitude and interests align with ours very well. Here’s Flavio with some of the games in his garage (both Janus and Narrativa). Here’s the Italian version of the Jeepform game Doubt, the awesome packaging and opened up.
They set up a game day in Chivasso, a cute little town near Turin with its own Facebook page and a kick-ass gaming club, the Revelsh Blind Beholders. Here’s One Cool Thing I Saw In Chivasso. At Chivasso somebody had an ebook reader with a certain PDF on board.
And finally, so you don’t think we didn’t soak up some culture, here are some lascivious marionettes from Munich’s Stadtmuseum.
I’m out for a couple of weeks, tramping around and hanging out with my friends in Associazione Culturale Janus. See you when I get back.
