The Infinity Road: a free setting
I have made up my mind to make The Infinity Road a free setting; free as in free speech and as in free beer. Reasons? A price tag Turns out that selling a game it’s much more than simply hanging a price tag from it. There are increased costs: both monetary and personal. On the monetary, I would have to hire an editor, which can mean a few hundred of dollars, then a cover, another hundred, at the very least, and the interior art. Then there is the advertising, taxes and a plethora of small things. In other words, I would consider myself fortunate to produce They Infinity Road on less...
Read MoreExtry! Extry! Newsies & Bootblacks Primer is out. Read all ’bout it
You know that many retailers offer a free introductory booklet of some new game. That is called a primer and that is exactly what I am offering you today. Newsies & Bootblacks: First Game is 15000 words, 62 pages long, and features basic and simplified rules, and introduction to the setting, a character sheet and a sample adventure, complete with pre-generated characters: Forsaken. In Forsaken, the players play the children of well-to-do family who, after school, find themselves forgotten by friends, family and every other living soul. The characters will have to brave the streets of New...
Read MoreNewsies & Bootblacks final draft is finished
This is how you spend your weekend if you are publishing a role-playing game on your own: correcting typos —and yet knowing it won’t be 100% perfect. And then you wake on Monday at 5:00 AM so you can tell the world you still have work to do. But it is great to have the game finished and complete; or at least the first edition of it. I still need to fix a few issues and add a couple of features, which I hope to have solved soon. Yeah, I say soon, I have learned the hard way that on your first attempt to publish anything you should not promise any deadlines. Basically because you...
Read MoreChanges, more changes
As you can see, I’ve been changing more than a few things around here in MiniM. It’s not that l love change — well I do– but that I’m still trying to discover what’s the best way to implement my dreams. That, and, that I’m keeping the work on Newsies & Bootblacks, of course, but we will speak about that a bit later. Changes to the design of the blog. Since the very start of this game I’ve been struggling to find a compromise between a theme that says “I’m minimalist” and “I make games”, and a design that...
Read MoreDraft Available
As promised, I have began to publish the draft of the Newsies and Bootblacks game on this very blog. You will only to go to header, click on Game Draft and you will be lead to the Table of Contents of our new game, Newsies and Bootblacks. Right now there are not many differences with Newsies and Pickpockets; after all it’s an upgraded version of that game, and I have only uploaded the introduction and a game excerpt which uses only the most basic and common rules. A few things have been updated, however, and with time, as I upload more and more material, you will be able to spot the...
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