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The Walking Eye & The Walking Dead

Sage LaTorra — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:33:09 +0000

Our friends at The Walking Eye podcast are having a fundraiser to keep new episodes coming, fund an upcoming con, and help produce new episodes from con. If you help out you get a special Dungeon World mini-class, The Walking Dead. Sometimes when you come back from Death’s Black Gates you come back… changed.

Of course if you’re in the Adventurer’s Guild you can check out The Walking Dead from the downloads page right now. Helping out The Walking Eye is still a great idea, they’re one of the best gaming podcasts around.

State of the Dungeon World

Sage LaTorra — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:53:25 +0000

How was 2011 for Dungeon World? Very good, in fact.

Total sales between the PDF and hardcopy were 555. That does not include the app, which has sold 134 in a shorter timeframe (just over a month). Overall it’s been a ridiculously succesful first year for us. 2012 is looking even better.

It’s A Search Entirely About Walking

Sage LaTorra — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:25:38 +0000

Legends and Lore 2011 Wrapup

Sage LaTorra — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:05:52 +0000

Monte’s Legends and Lore post this week is a wrapup of all the Legends and Lore posts this year. You can find a similar list of all my Indies and More posts here.

Triple Post

Sage LaTorra — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:55:44 +0000

Today I finally caught up with Monte Cook’s Legends & Lore posts covering A Different Way to Slice the Pie, What Can You Do?, and The Temperature of the Rules. There’s good stuff in all of them, but I feel like the Temperature of the Rules post, on defaults and judgement calls, is particularly interesting.

Apps Are Go

Sage LaTorra — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:36:56 +0000

The Dungeon World Basic and Powers for Good Issue #0 apps are both live. Both feature full game texts in a format designed for mobile devices that puts the entire game at your fingertips. Dungeon World Basic includes audio examples from The Walking Eye while Powers for Good has developer commentary throughout the text.

Both of these apps will continue to grow and evolve in the digital format, so you can expect more cool features as the technology grows.

Delayed (Again)

Sage LaTorra — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:39:31 +0000

I know people are probably tired of hearing excuses, and I’m tired of giving them, but the Powers For Good app was finally rejected on the ground of its icon, of all things. Since I want to launch the apps side by side that means another delay. Damn!

One Cool Thing I Saw At Go Play Northwest

Sage LaTorra — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:51:18 +0000

I know this is ridiculously late, but I wanted to share one cool thing I saw at Go Play Northwest: Story Games Portrait Cards. The basic idea is: not everyone can draw their character. So this handy deck of CC-licensed portraits is a handy way to show everyone what your character looks like. They’re especially good for con games where you can stand up a card showing your character’s look to everyone else. The included images cover a variety of genres, enough to be useful to most games. It’s a great idea that I’m a huge fan of.

The Latest

Sage LaTorra — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:54:13 +0000

The latest in the ongoing app approval saga: yesterday Dungeon World Basic was approved! Unfortunately, I immediately went to download it and found a bug that I just can’t let slide. My day job is software testing and I can’t believe I let this slip.

Since I’m blazing a new trail here, I want the first RPG/app things to be awesome, so I pulled DW from sale and submitted a new version. Based on past experience, that means next week some time.

No status changes on PfG Issue 0, yet. I’m making sure to do a fresh round of testing now, just to make sure.

“Waiting for Review”

Sage LaTorra — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:14:55 +0000

Based on the current status of the Dungeon World Basic and Powers for Good: Issue 0 apps, they may not make Monday’s planned launch. I’ll post here as things develop, but it looks like turnaround is slow right now.