Just a reminder that I’ll be at OddCon for a short while this weekend. I’m scheduled for a seminar on Saturday at 2:30 PM. It’s called “Game Fiction,” and it features Monica Valentinelli, Matt McElroy, Pat Rothfuss, and me.
I’ll likely have to take off in the early evening to get back home, so it’ll be a short trip for me. If you’re going to be at the show, be sure to track me down and say hi!
Ed Healy and Rone Barton of the Atomic Array podcast interviewed both director Simon Hunter and myself this week for a special edition Mutant Chronicles edition of their regular show. I had the pleasure of meeting Simon and his son at the premiere on Tuesday night (about which I’ll write more soon), and it’s a thrill to hear him hold forth on the film for the podcast.
By the way, if you want to see the Mutant Chronicles film in a theater, you’ll have to move fast. I understand it’s showing only for a single dayopening for its wider run—tomorrow, April 24—in a limited number of cities.
By happy coincidence, the Blu-Ray/DVD release is scheduled for my birthday, August 4. I already have my pre-order in.
A couple of things I contributed to have finally been announced, so now I can mention them here. Both of them are “celebrity jam” books to which many of the top names in the tabletop gaming industry are contributing.
First, there’s Family Games: The 100 Best. This is the sequel to Hobby Games: The 100 Best, and it focuses on games that are theoretically more accessible to the wider market. Once again, my friend Jim Lowder brings us all together for one of the best “best list” books around. The book features a foreword by the ever awesome Mike Gray, plus an afterword by the always incredible Wil Wheaton.
After that, look for Descent: Journeys in the Dark: Quest Compendium, Volume One. (Which is several mouthfuls for a title.) The inestimable Will Hindmarch gathers the designers for this one, which features an introduction by board game guru Alan Moon. If you play the game, don’t miss out on this.
With luck, both should be out this summer, and I cannot (but sadly must) wait to see them both.
Way back in 2006, I wrote about the many losses game designer and filmmaker Todd Downing had suffered in the previous year. I’m glad to say that things are looking up for Todd and his family, and you can read all about it in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. I wouldn’t say the story has a happy ending, because it’s clearly far from over. However, it’s great to see that good people can survive horrible years and have better ones ahead.
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