Comments on: Smaller World Every Day https://www.forbeck.com/2007/12/26/smaller-world-every-day/ Award-winning & New York Times-bestselling author and game designer Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:19:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Brian L Bird https://www.forbeck.com/2007/12/26/smaller-world-every-day/#comment-43879 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:19:58 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/2007/12/26/smaller-world-every-day/#comment-43879 Nano world it is. Drop my name to Evan, would be interesting to see if he remembers me and our intitial conversations concerning “Realms of the Moon.”

We’ll call our game connect the dots game:

“The d6 Chart”

Chart your personal connection through game designers and the projects they’ve worked on, in 6 rolls/roles or less.

Brian Bird to Matt Forbeck

Roll 1. I codesigned “Pirates & Plunder” (Carcassonne spinoff) with Rich Rowan
Roll 2. Rich worked with Wolfgang Baur on “The Gryphons Legacy”
Roll 3. Wolfgang worked with…

]]> By: Brian L Bird https://www.forbeck.com/2007/12/26/smaller-world-every-day/#comment-50511 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:19:00 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/2007/12/26/smaller-world-every-day/#comment-50511 Nano world it is. Drop my name to Evan, would be interesting to see if he remembers me and our intitial conversations concerning “Realms of the Moon.”

We’ll call our game connect the dots game:

“The d6 Chart”

Chart your personal connection through game designers and the projects they’ve worked on, in 6 rolls/roles or less.

Brian Bird to Matt Forbeck

Roll 1. I codesigned “Pirates & Plunder” (Carcassonne spinoff) with Rich Rowan
Roll 2. Rich worked with Wolfgang Baur on “The Gryphons Legacy”
Roll 3. Wolfgang worked with…

]]> By: Matt Forbeck https://www.forbeck.com/2007/12/26/smaller-world-every-day/#comment-43877 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:49:30 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/2007/12/26/smaller-world-every-day/#comment-43877 That could be fun, combined with something like the RPG Database at Pen & Paper. Again, though, it wouldn’t be much of a challenge to get too close. Of those you mention, I know Evan, Nicole, and Wolf.

The funny part would be figuring out who we’ve all worked with. Often freelancers don’t know or even e-mail with their partners on any given project. That’s all under the developer or editor’s auspice.

]]> By: Matt Forbeck https://www.forbeck.com/2007/12/26/smaller-world-every-day/#comment-50510 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:49:00 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/2007/12/26/smaller-world-every-day/#comment-50510 That could be fun, combined with something like the RPG Database at Pen & Paper. Again, though, it wouldn’t be much of a challenge to get too close. Of those you mention, I know Evan, Nicole, and Wolf.

The funny part would be figuring out who we’ve all worked with. Often freelancers don’t know or even e-mail with their partners on any given project. That’s all under the developer or editor’s auspice.

]]> By: Brian L. Bird https://www.forbeck.com/2007/12/26/smaller-world-every-day/#comment-43876 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:15:49 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/2007/12/26/smaller-world-every-day/#comment-43876 True on both counts. Jesses currently over at Green Ronin, I believe. Evan Sass is over there too as is Nicole Lindroos all of whom worked on Everway. Jesse is Rich Rowans twin brother, Rich works at Microsoft and currently owns the rights to Everway and has worked with Wolfgang Baur on a d0 miodule from Gaslight Press.

Hmm..perhaps a 6 degrees of Games could be done to connect people who have worked on games together.

]]> By: Brian L. Bird https://www.forbeck.com/2007/12/26/smaller-world-every-day/#comment-50509 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:15:00 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/2007/12/26/smaller-world-every-day/#comment-50509 True on both counts. Jesses currently over at Green Ronin, I believe. Evan Sass is over there too as is Nicole Lindroos all of whom worked on Everway. Jesse is Rich Rowans twin brother, Rich works at Microsoft and currently owns the rights to Everway and has worked with Wolfgang Baur on a d0 miodule from Gaslight Press.

Hmm..perhaps a 6 degrees of Games could be done to connect people who have worked on games together.

]]> By: Matt Forbeck https://www.forbeck.com/2007/12/26/smaller-world-every-day/#comment-43875 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:06:35 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/2007/12/26/smaller-world-every-day/#comment-43875 The gaming industry isn’t all that large. When you’ve been poking around it as a freelancer as long as I have, you get to know most everybody else. (Although I don’t know Rich and Jesse, for instance.) Any 6° game in the gaming industry would rarely make it past 2°, I’d think. 🙂

]]> By: Matt Forbeck https://www.forbeck.com/2007/12/26/smaller-world-every-day/#comment-50508 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:06:00 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/2007/12/26/smaller-world-every-day/#comment-50508 The gaming industry isn’t all that large. When you’ve been poking around it as a freelancer as long as I have, you get to know most everybody else. (Although I don’t know Rich and Jesse, for instance.) Any 6° game in the gaming industry would rarely make it past 2°, I’d think. 🙂

]]> By: Brian Bird https://www.forbeck.com/2007/12/26/smaller-world-every-day/#comment-43874 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:13:40 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/2007/12/26/smaller-world-every-day/#comment-43874 Man, to swim in your circles. I only know Rich Rowan, Jesse McGatha, and some people from Antarctic Press.

Not to mention Stan! via a roundabout Alliterates and Upper Deck route in reference to our Dead Space anthology. Which is currently on hiatus.

Guess its a nanoworld here to.

I wonder of one could play 6 Degrees of Matt Forbeck?

]]> By: Brian Bird https://www.forbeck.com/2007/12/26/smaller-world-every-day/#comment-50507 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:13:00 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/2007/12/26/smaller-world-every-day/#comment-50507 Man, to swim in your circles. I only know Rich Rowan, Jesse McGatha, and some people from Antarctic Press.

Not to mention Stan! via a roundabout Alliterates and Upper Deck route in reference to our Dead Space anthology. Which is currently on hiatus.

Guess its a nanoworld here to.

I wonder of one could play 6 Degrees of Matt Forbeck?

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