You can tell I’m busy when I don’t get around to updating the blog for, um– Wow, has it been five weeks? It was a crazy five weeks. We started our eldest at high school and the quads at middle school. I spent a week in China working on a couple upcoming iOS games for Ubisoft Shanghai. And just last …
It’s a Dangerous Games Fiasco
As part of the Kickstarter I ran for my Dangerous Games novels, I promised to create a playset for Fiasco based on the novels. For those who don’t know, Fiasco is a fantastic tabletop roleplaying game created by Jason Morningstar, which won the Diana Jones Award a few years back. It’s a fantastic game, although very different from your standard “kick down the door, …
My Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books Schedule
This weekend, I’ll be zipping up to Waukesha to take part in the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books for the first time. I’ve heard lots of great things about it over the years, and this time around the ever-kind John Klima (of Electric Velocipede fame) invited me to take part in the Science Fiction Writers of America‘s slate of programming. …
Battle Isle: Threshold Run Kickstarter Launched
As you might recall, I’ve been writing an online comic for an upcoming video game from Stratotainment called Battle Isle: Threshold Run. (Start here and take a quick read. We have four episodes up so far with more on the way soon.) Yesterday, Stratotainment launched a Kickstarter for the game. It’s a turn-based strategy game that fans of the strategy genre, board …
The Dangerous Games on Sale Day!
Dangerous Games: How to Win – the third in my trilogy of thrillers set at Gen Con – goes on sale today. You can buy it at Amazon, Smashwords, DriveThruFiction, or right here. Better yet, both How to Cheat (Book 2) and How to Win are on sale today in print-on-demand editions as well, which means you can get the whole set in both hardcover …
The Dangerous Games: How to Win Roll Call
Dangerous Games: How to Win debuts today! As with the previous two Dangerous Games novels – How to Play and How to Cheat – How to Win is packed full of real-life people, mostly game designers I know and hang out with when I can. This time around, a big chunk part of the novel takes place in the Writer’s Symposium at Gen Con, so a large number …
How to Play Only 99¢
To celebrate Gen Con starting this week – and the release of Dangerous Games: How to Win tomorrow – I’ve put Dangerous Games: How to Play on sale for only 99¢. You should be able to find it at the following places for this bargain price: Amazon Barnes & Noble DriveThruFiction.com Right here at Forbeck.com Please share the love and tell your friends and …
Stretching for the Red Aegis RPG
My pal Matt James (founder of Loremaster.org) and his brother Brian James launched a Kickstarter drive earlier this month for their brand-new roleplaying game Red Aegis. It’s a game about sweeping epics, in which you play not just a character but a familial line. Besides Matt and Brian – both excellent, proven designers in their own right – they’ve lined up help …
The Battle Isle: Threshold Run Comic
I’m working with the fine folks at Stratotainment on some material for their upcoming video game, Battle Isle: Threshold Run. Although the game’s not ready yet, you can already start to enjoy some of it in the form of a series of short online comics I’m writing for them. For those who don’t remember, Battle Isle was a hit series …
Star Trek Catan at Gen Con (and Me)
My friends at Mayfair Games are running a huge event at Gen Con based around their game Star Trek Catan, and they’ve invited me to be a part of it. They’re taking over Georgia Street, which runs east out of the convention center (it was the place with all the food trucks last year), and they’re hosting a free block party …