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Thoughts: Game Publishing Octathalon

posted by [personal profile] benlehman at 03:48pm on 23/03/2008
Running Game Chef is making me think about game design contests. Here's one:
Design
Write
Playtest
Revise
Illustrate
Layout
Print
and Distribute (sell or otherwise spread)

a role-playing game within, say, a week.

That'd be fun.
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posted by [identity profile] drivingblind.livejournal.com at 12:29am on 24/03/2008
Possibly too grueling for one week -- the game chef notion of two weeks = 3 weekends might be better for it. Still, I like its urgency. Though the folks who complain about games not being finished enough before they go to publication might shriek about the "and Distribute" part. :)
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posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 12:37am on 24/03/2008
Yeah, I know. Part of me totally wants to make them shriek.

I would not encourage people to sell for over, say, $2, or over, say, 10 copies. The point is not to be like "this game is totally fine" but just to cram all parts of the production together and see what good stuff comes out. I'm worried with three weeks there'd be time to dwaddle and get mired down.

yrs--
--Ben
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posted by [identity profile] drivingblind.livejournal.com at 12:38am on 24/03/2008
Deliberately framing the last step as "you have an ashcan. distribute!" might do the trick. :)
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posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 12:40am on 24/03/2008
Oh, absolutely, yeah.

The inspiration for this is my XXXXtreme luge game, for which I almost did all that within 24 hours, but lost some steam near the end and have yet to recover it.

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posted by [identity profile] matt-rah.livejournal.com at 12:53am on 24/03/2008
For the record, I would love to playtest the XXXXtreme Luge game!

Matt
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posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 12:56am on 24/03/2008
Please do!

Do you want a laid-out version for printing?

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posted by [identity profile] matt-rah.livejournal.com at 01:01am on 24/03/2008
Yes!

BTW, I can't promise to playtest it super-soon, but soon-ish--say by the end of the summer.

Matt
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posted by [identity profile] sirogit.livejournal.com at 11:10pm on 24/03/2008
I'd be totally down for this. Perhaps you should offer some distribution ideas, such as:

1) Putting in magazine piles in doctor offices/restrooms.

2) Putting inside pages of similarly themed books at libraries.

3) Running demos at game-stores, and selling copies there.
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