Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Kickstarter is Gamer Heaven

Ever since Erik Bauer's very successful foray using Kickstarter to fund a Gaming Paper project, it seems that each day brings a new worthy project.  Kickstarter really seems to be where the action is for the prospective game designer/start-up company.  Given my plans for the next couple years, I hope that this trend continues.

Here are two current projects in the midst of their funding processes that caught my eye.  Each one has its own appeal, but if you only had $50 with which to fund projects how would you distribute your hard earned money?

First up is Technoir, a game of high-tech, hard-boiled roleplaying.



Next up is a game that may be too "original" for its own good. I like the underlying concept -- I've mentioned before that I am looking forward to Mike Elliot and Eric Lang's "Quarriors" game -- but the wild variety of the dice in Dice Age might be more a disadvantage in the market than an advantage. What are your thoughts?


Tuesday, February 05, 2008

A Call for Writers

Despite the fact that I have been pretty lax in my posts the past few weeks, this is not a post soliciting writers for this blog. I have enough co-writers, who don't do enough co-writing, at this time.

What this is is a call for writers who want to write for a new online magazine designed to support the Geekerati webcast radio show my co-hosts and I air each week. Essentially, I am looking for writers who are willing to work for no-pay now, hopefully pay in the future, who will write quality articles about some area of geek culture which will be published in a Monthly online magazine via the Issuu service. Here's what I'm looking for.

  1. A reliable illustrator or two: b/w line art is dandy as is someone who can do cover designs.
  2. A video game reviewer: we'll need 2 to 3 video games reviewed each month.
  3. 2 to 3 book reviewers of various genres: do you want to write about mystery, fantasy, children's lit, comic books?
  4. A television reviewer: Shawna...I'm looking at you. We need 2-3 television show reviews a month.
  5. Games reviews: We need someone who can write 1 or 2 table top game reviews a month.
  6. A film reviewer: (David Chute and LYT, I'm looking at you guys) Are your reviews not published in enough places? Try our magazine
  7. A tech writer who knows a thing or two about the gadgets out there.


Any writers/illustrators will be invited to participate in our online radio show on a fairly regular basis.

As I wrote earlier, these positions will be unpaid until we can build an advertiser base, but when/if we do that we will pay a fair rate.