Meet our Artist at ComicCon!

Richard Dufault will be photographing cosplayers at ComicCon again this year. He does a fantastic job, you should head on over to his website and check out the amazing photography.

This is a sample, a photo he did of me at PopExpo.

We have also purchased digital rights to some sample art from another artist we hope to have help us. I'll post a sample or two soon. Just need to work them into our cards.

Richard, meanwhile, is working on creating and awesome back for our cards.

Second Round of Filming Done

We had a great Dungeon World session Tuesday night. It is the first time I've been in the player seat. I am just so used to running the game that I didn't realize I hadn't had a chance to have the player's experience. It was so much fun. I played a dashing hero, leaping around with my rapier whipping the baddies. It was also the second play test of our CanGames scenario, Richard ran the game and deliberately took it in an unexpected direction using the encounter and trap cards to create an exciting (and sometimes disturbing) scenario. Elves, gnolls, necromancers, and a half-gnoll half-human? baby! Yikes.

I'm hoping that Richard will get a chance to print up the latest cards, we'll round the edges and take some pictures for you all. We are still hoping to launch this month - we have lots to do to get ready. I'm also teaching again this semester, a compressed course which means I lecture twice a week. That will also keep my quite busy. But I'm really looking forward to getting the campaign launched.

Just a bit of a teaser. Following the lead of the hugely successful Combat Description Cards, I've asked some developer friends to help me accurately price out doing an app version of our cards. We'll have it as a stretch goal to be added after we meet some of our initial stretch goals. Our intention is a web-app (I can do that myself if needed) and a stand-alone app for the iOS and Android platforms.

More Pics of us Playing Dungeon World

These shots are from two different nights, but it is my regular Friday night crowd. We'll have some of the Monday night group soon.

What We are Working On This Week

Friday we shot lots of video, Tuesday night we will shoot a lot more. Then Richard will edit, edit, edit. We want to put together an entertaining and informative campaign video, and have fun doing it. We'll definitely have to do an out-take on my buddy Jay trying to roll double 6s. That was hilarious. It was so crazy that when he finally did the roar in the room was quite authentic!

Thanks to all who came out to play Dungeon World and let us take video footage.

Oh and Richard, sorry about your eye - but the orc shaman did find it delicious!

New Format for Trap and Item Cards

From the feedback on the Useful Item and Trap cards, we've decided to run a pilot where the bottom of the card is inverted, so that you grab two cards, use a top and bottom and they can be laid down so that it is easy to see just the information you want! This is the Spyglass card from the new layout.

Each of the Item cards will be illustrated, and we have illustrations on almost all of them now.

This change was a lot of work as previously all the cards were paired with a descriptor (bottom) that went naturally with the item (top). The new cards pair an item with a descriptor that was an unlikely match for the item on top.

Confused? We'll have a demo video of the Item cards up soon. We are trying to line up a couple of actual Dungeon World sessions for our promo video. I'm playing this Friday, so hopefully we'll have some cameras rolling.

PS. Sorry for the delay, we ended up planning a lot more Easter activity than I expected.

Release the Kraken!

It's been busy here as I try to clean my workload plate in preparation for our launch. We now have art from three different artists! We might add a fourth as well. This means a big improvement in the quality of art we can produce over the course of our production cycle. we are also feeling quite inspired by other campaigns we've been following and will be tweaking the layout and design elements of our cards to match the quality we see in other decks. The colour scheme will remain. Also we have all our initial playtesting decks in the hands of players. In my own regular game the cards have been an amazing help whenever I need something quick and don't want to fall back to my old standby items, traps, and encounters.

I'll post something fun on Friday.

Very Cool Companion Project

I just wanted to let you all know about the Combat Description Cards currently campaigning on KickStarter. These cards look fantastic. They will be the same size as our Encounter Deck cards, which means storing them all together is a no-brainer. A complete press pack for these cards can be found here.

UPDATE: Wow, they had an amazingly successful campaign! If you missed it then you can get in on the fun via this link.