Independent game design from beyond the grave
Darkpages was supposed to be out on June 6, 2006. That’s roughly 5 years ago to the day.
In honor of this spectacular failure (resulting from a strange blend of starry-eyed optimism and extreme mental distress), here’s links to all nine of the game’s superhero concepts and their histories.
In 1995 I “published” my first game-related material online. From 1997-2001 I created and distributed gaming material on the web via Memento Mori Theatricks. But Summer 2001 was a milestone: I published SCHISM, a setting sourcebook/supplement for Ron Edward’s Sorcerer, a seminal RPG.
I did not know what I was doing and it shows.
Still, I think there’s some good stuff in there and it’s got some classic Sorensen-style game design decisions within its scant pages. The Sci-Fi Channel (now SyFy) used to have a magazine and they did a review of the game and gave it an A-. Not bad.
Anyway, long story short. 10 years is a long fucking time to be doing this. So as a “thank you” to my fans and supporters, I’m doing this…
[ Download SCHISM PDF — 756K ]
I really need to work on the Next New Game. But I’ll be content to rest on my laurels with a review like this.
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!”
Sign up HERE for a chance to win all six Parsely games at the convention!
Apparently I’m a hot Swede. Who knew?
Listen to it here.