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[ltmurnau]

I spent the latter half of Sunday in a creative frenzy, designing a new game. New type of game for me too: this one is kind of abstract but still has a compelling theme, partly (or should be, when required) a frustrating brain-burner too.

Rules half-written but completely conceptualized, counters made but not yet mounted. There is no map and there are no dice!

What could it be?

Here's a hint:

Comments

[infanttyrone.livejournal.com]

Um, I think you need a game tester. And I think I know a guy. It would be a WASTE not to use him.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

I knew this would drag you out of the woodwork! I'm sorry to hear you are so ill.

The game is not about Pynchon per se, but the rules start with a quote from Gravity's Rainbow. It is about conspiracies, secrets etc.

I need to finish writing up the rules and test it once or twice in its basic form, then it would be ready for some blind-testing.

You would need to play it with someone else, preferably more than one other person, and you would need to do it during the next few weeks: this one is going into a game designing contest (I seem to need these things to get my brain in gear, even though there are no prizes or other inducements besides a tiny bit of notoriety) and entries are due no later than November 1.

[infanttyrone.livejournal.com]

I think I would be a suitable tester-- paranoid, secretive, plotting, etc. And I know I could find a few people to test it with, given a little time. Let me know what I can do and when, and I'll be on the case.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

I have to whack the rules into shape and try it out myself first. I will make it up into a PDF document and send it to you, you can print it out and snag some folks into playing it. Any questions, clarifications or game-breaking moves, just let me know. That's about it, a-and you'll be in the credits!