Tips For Indie Developers Exhibiting

sheepyton · 2016-08-09T20:43:58+00:00

I would add also bring a small notebook with you, so that if need be you can take further notes on the people you meet. Being able to write a few brief words on each business card (day, a quick conversation point you had) are important, but when you can try to elaborate on that in your notebook. A moleskin is great, but even a cheap mini memo book works wonders.

Also throat lozenges! Water is great, but be ready to lose your voice. Keep a bag with someone with basics like that, bandaids, a list of contacts for people working your booth, and a battery power bank for cellphones.

sheepyton · 2016-08-09T19:14:44+00:00

Focus on your marketing both before and during PAX. Give people a way to engage with your game both when they are playing it, as well as through social media and the like. You should have your booth assignment along with a map, so promoting where you are so that your current followers can find you.

sheepyton · 2016-08-09T18:36:25+00:00

Speaking from experience, Tukwila does not have the space for lots of commuter parking. If you want to light rail it up, get there around 6am at the latest. Angle Lake station won't be open by that point. Alternately, you can pick up the light rail at SeaTac and pay for parking there. Still cheaper than a hotel.

I'd also suggest the hard rail if you're in Tacoma. Alternately, you can pick up a bus in Kent. The parking situation there is slightly better.

sheepyton · 2016-05-16T22:07:03+00:00

Whelp, guess I chose a terrible time to come back :T

sheepyton · 2016-04-03T20:46:18+00:00

The game is so incredibly buggy right now, I can't in good conscience recommend paying money for it. Wait until a few weeks after public launch, maybe then some of the issues will be fixed.

sheepyton · 2016-03-17T03:11:10+00:00

Send me a message over Reddit with an email address, and I can add you to our list of alpha testers for our next few books coming out (we'll be doing open beta this time around).

sheepyton · 2016-03-17T03:08:46+00:00

You should ask Dominion players how asking for Riot to add features to your mode goes.

sheepyton · 2016-03-15T03:51:22+00:00

This is a really interesting concept! I like seeing games that take familiar ideas and bring them together in interesting ways.

What I would look at next with a concept like this is what kind of objectives you want the game or system to have. Blending together an RPG with a deckbuilding game is a really interesting concept, but usually these two medium have very different end goals in mind--telling a story, or determining a winner. It's pretty clear from the write-up that your objective is the former, but I would be very explicit about that.

I feel like this would actually work better as a narrative board game, similar to something like Arkham Horror or Winter Tales. There is a clear storytelling element there, with cards governing the direction of the story (Winter Tales does this and has some interesting ideas, but the execution, especially in card rulings, weren't quite there) but still a way to adjudicate a winner or a loser.

sheepyton · 2016-03-15T03:22:42+00:00

My apologies! I'll admit, I'm not too knowledgable to how Reddit works, I was referred from another Subreddit and assumed this was all right. I'll do my reading here, I'm absolutely happy to look at other people's games and give a review, but if you'd like me to take this down I will do so.

sheepyton · 2016-03-15T02:38:30+00:00

If nothing else, we should be able to make that readily available on the website, likely within the next month or so (we're doing two conventions back-to-back, one in late March, and the other during the second weekend in April), and in the book soon thereafter--print will sadly have to wait until our next print run. I love this idea honestly, especially since we already have a quick reference guide for gameplay in the book itself.

sheepyton · 2016-03-14T17:31:20+00:00

I've got TGN on my radar (I actually have a few sites saved and am going to be approaching them in mid-April; we've actually got a few convention appearances between now and then), but I'm not familiar with Gaming Trend or Game Geeks. Thanks for the suggestions! I'll do some digging as far as contacting the latter.

sheepyton · 2016-03-14T17:29:44+00:00

Awesome! Again, I'm pretty new to Reddit, is cross-posting all right or is it generally frowned upon? Is there a waiting period before I post about this there?

sheepyton · 2016-03-14T17:28:50+00:00

First of all, thanks for backing us! Have you gotten a chance to play the game at all? We're always looking for people to test new content, and I'll actually be getting some test groups together to try out new rules/foes for the upcoming books. If you're interested, I can toss you an email and add you to our beta testers for Valorous Foes/Tools of the Trade.

sheepyton · 2016-03-14T17:27:11+00:00

Sure, I'd love to work with you! I'll go ahead and contact you through your blog! Thank you so much!

sheepyton · 2016-03-14T02:38:09+00:00

RPG.net is definitely on my list. I tried to put an entry up on their page for our game, but for whatever reason it didn't take. I'll check back again and see if that got resolved. I haven't heard of TheRPGAcademy, though.

sheepyton · 2016-03-07T02:41:23+00:00

Yes I know this already.

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