Hey cats.
Just added Z-Ward and Z-Ward-X to the online store, as well as the skully patch (available for a limited time only!).
Happy New Year and see you at PAX-EAST April (and possibly at MAGfest in January).
- Jared
Conventions
Dirty Secrets of Game Design – SEM1120296
Learn five dirty secrets that the game industry doesn’t want you to know. Use them to make your games better. Designers Luke and Jared share their jaded, sometimes humorous view, of the world of game design. Jared will do this entire seminar in a character voice!
Thu 4pm – 1 Hr – Marriott Indiana C
Game Design Is Mind Control – SEM1120297
Games compel people to make irrational decisions that they would not otherwise undertake. Come and watch Luke and Jared make fools of themselves as they try to prove this point. We promise; we will control your minds!
Fri 2pm – 1 Hr – Marriott Indiana B
Action Castle – SEM1120298
Relive the days of yore when the command line was king! GO WEST and LIGHT LAMP in a live-action text adventure with a few hundred of your closest friends.
Fri 3pm – 1 Hr – Marriott Indiana E
InSpectres The Movie: Behind the Scenes – FLM1127763
We will be talking about the process of making InSpectres and showing a short sneak peak from the film. Yes, it’s real.
Fri 6pm – 1 Hr – Westin Capitol III
Return to Action Castle – SEM1120299
Return to a land of action, a land of castles, RETURN TO…ACTION CASTLE! Many years have passed since a new king was crowned…find out what happens next in this massively multiplayer live action text adventure game!
Sat 2PM – 1 Hr – Marriott Indiana E
Heading off to Hartford tomorrow with Luke to attend Connecticon, an anime con we’ve attended for the past few years. We’ll be doing panels with the Front Row Crew guys Rym and Scott for Geek Nights, and I’ll throw down with some Parsely.
Three RPGs and two board games vie for hobby gaming’s most exclusive trophy
The committee of the Diana Jones Award is happy to announce the shortlist for its 2011 award. Boiled down from a longlist of 22 nominees, this year the list contains five candidates that in the opinion of the committee exemplify the very best that hobby-gaming has produced in the last twelve months. In alphabetical order, they are:
- Catacombs, a board game from Sands of Time Games, by Ryan Amos, Marc Kelsy, and Aron West
- The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game from Evil Hat Productions, by Leonard Balsera, Jim Butcher, Genevieve Cogman, Rob Donaghue, Fred Hicks, Kenneth Hite, Ryan Macklin, Chad Underkoffler, and Clark Valentine
- Escape from the Aliens in Outer Space, a board game from Santa Ragione and Cranio Creations, by Mario Porpora, Pietro Righi Riva, Luca Francesco Rossi, and Nicolò Tedeschi
- Fiasco, a roleplaying game from Bully Pulpit Games, by Jason Morningstar
- Freemarket, a roleplaying game from Sorencrane MRCZ, by Luke Crane and Jared Sorensen
The winner of the 2011 Award will be announced on Wednesday 3rd August, at the annual Diana Jones Award and Freelancer Party in Indianapolis, the unofficial start of the Gen Con Indy convention.
It’s official! Sorensen/Crane will be in Denmark this April as guests at Fastaval.
We’re also planning to visit Gothenberg and Stockholm so let us know if you want us to stop by your friendly neighborhood game store!
Action Castle made it to MTV Geek’s Top 10 Hottest Tabletop Games at Pax East.
At the moment it looks like Sorensen/Crane will be
flying to Denmark for its annual small-press RPG
convention, Fastaval!
SPOILERS!
It was a great convention. People were coming up to me to thank me for running games and writing them, so I felt pretty great by the end of the show (albeit incredibly tired). Sorry for the gamers I turned away from demos on Saturday afternoon — my voice needed a rest!
The PAX Enforcers are amazing, helpful and friendly. Kudos to all of them!
The Burning Wheel/Memento Mori/SorenCrane booth
I ran ACTION CASTLE for 470 people on Friday. Also did some pick up games with people waiting in the many lines at the show.
Luke and I had to turn away a hundred or so for Game Design is Mind Control. We made around $7 by the panel’s end.
Running FreeMarket for some gamers on Saturday. “Can I summon a jaguar spirit?” “Umm…no, but you can print a pet jaguar!”
Friday, March 11 at 3:30 PM
Location: Merman Theatre
Description: “You are in a cottage. There is a fishing pole here. Exits are: Out.” With these words, a gaming phenomenon was born! Travel back in time to 1985 when Marty McFly was driving a Delorean and I was hammering out two-word commands on an Apple II version of Wishbringer. This is a live-action text adventure game in the Parsely series. No experience necessary… everyone who comes to the game gets to play!
Sign up HERE for a chance to win all six Parsely games at the convention!