Tie-In Writers Site Up

The brand-new International Association of Media Tie-In Writers (IAMTW) has a brand-new website designed to help promote tie-in fiction and its writers. If you browse through some of the articles on the website, you’ll see my comments peppered through a few of them. Tie-ins, for those unfamiliar with the term, are works of licensed fiction based on TV, films, games, …

Take Jeff Grubb’s Game and Money (For a Good Cause)

My good friend and fellow Alliterate Jeff Grubb is hoping you’ll make him a poorer man on behalf of victims of Hurricane Katrina. If you e-mail Steve Miller, Steve will send you a copy of Jeff’s new roleplaying game Dyvil. Jeff wrote it in 30 minutes and edited it in another 30, so it’s short, sweet, and to the point. …

High Stakes Drifter Cover

High Stakes Drifter made the cover of this month’s Game Trade Magazine. This issue also features a short article on the game by fellow Alliterate Jason Mical.

High Stakes Drifter Site Update

The fine folks at WizKids have updated the High Stakes Drifter website. This includes full details on starters and boosters, details on how a Dude card works, and a sneak peek at Doc Holliday.

Katrina Relief Project

In my last rambling post, I mentioned a gaming industry charity project devoted to raising funds to help the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. The website for this effort, known as Beyond the Storm, is up. It’s a bit bare bones at the moment but should have more details soon. If you’re a gaming professional interested in contributing to the effort, …

I Love New Orleans

I haven’t written anything about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, mostly because I’ve been reading about it, sitting in front of my computer, stunned by it all. It destroys me to spend too much time thinking about it. I’ve donated to the Red Cross and had the great people at DealMac.com match my donation. I’ve signed on to contribute something …

Gen Con Report

I’ve been trying to get to this for days, and I realized I just need to take a flying dive at it right now rather than wait for the right moment to tackle it. So, here goes.

Fuddrucker’d

I don’t normally post links to this kind of stuff, but since it involves a game designer getting ripped off by a large corporation, I just can’t help it. Apparently whoever programs the Fuddruckers website hotlinked to a Flash-based version of a game called Burgertime hosted on the author’s own website. They didn’t even bother to swipe the code, just …

Frankenstein’s Children on My Doorstep

My author’s copies of Frankenstein’s Children arrived in today’s mail. It was the last project I worked on for Human Head Studios, which means I haven’t anything to do with it since the end of last September. Jason Blair took over on the game after I left, and he seems to have done a fine job with it. The coolest …