Discovered this on G+: http://nagademon.com/

The National Game Development Month.  

Running concurrently to National Novel Writing Month, these folks are attempting to organize a month of game designing instead.

I am sort of participating accidentally, as I've starting writing a new game for a small crowdfunding project to go live at the start of next month, so I'll probably add my name to the rolls for shits and giggles.

Anyone else in for it?

I have a couple of card game ideas I'll be fiddling with, yeah.  One is a racing game about monsters in tiny hot rods zooming around dungeon geomorphs; the other is essentially a rummy variant themed around a line of dwarven thanes and the comical ways they died.

I've begun writing Heaven's Shadow already, a Mini Six powered "novella game" about Agencies of faith-driven assassins hunting the ancient demonic Nephilim.  

It's been pretty fun so far.  I'll have the IndieGoGo campaign up to start taking pre-orders by Halloween, hopefully.

Do they allow teams or small groups?  I am way too lazy to go read about it.  

Quote from: StormBringer;595558Do they allow teams or small groups?  I am way too lazy to go read about it.  

It's not exactly heavy on the rules and regulations, I highly doubt anyone would mind a group effort.

Quote from: J Arcane;595559It's not exactly heavy on the rules and regulations, I highly doubt anyone would mind a group effort.

That gives me four days to get a couple of folks together and get that 'public domain/open source' project up and running!

Some stupid game has been in development for 20+ years.

Quote from: LordVreeg;595629Some stupid game has been in development for 20+ years.

I'm pretty sure 'in development' for 20+ years really means it has been gathering dust for 19+ years.  

Quote from: StormBringer;595631I'm pretty sure 'in development' for 20+ years really means it has been gathering dust for 19+ years.  

In development, Strorm, playtest has been constant.

First of all, loved the name.

Second, I can hardly scrounge the time to prep a campaign, let alone a full-on game. But if I had the time, here's what I'd like to do:

Transhuman D6 Space. Using D6 Space and Bill Coffin's Septimus as the base for something like Traveller meets Eclipse Phase, i.e. balls-out space opera with hard SF and transhuman stuff thrown in. Maybe throw in a dash of Rogue Trader so PCs can be inhuman, immortal star traders like Revelation Space's Ultras, peddling bizarre tech to a dispersed, far-flung spacefaring humanity.

Sword & Sorcery AD&D 2e. Take AD&D 2e as a base and write a sword-and-sorcery treatment of it that reads like a gritty B&W Conan pastiche S&S comic. Some classes will need major surgery or deletion (Ranger, Bard), others will require reconstruction using 1e as a template (Assassin), and others still should be a matter of reskinning (persistent idea of mine: reskin Al-Qadim's genie-binding Sha'ir as a Warlock, substituting genies for demons and devils). Most are fine as is.

Modern-Day Spy Thriller D&D. Take some iteration of the TSR-era D&D engine and use it to play a spy thriller game. Throw in rules for hacking, gadgetry and martial arts. Leave supernatural stuff as an option. I wouldn't even know where to start but it'd be kick-ass.

Neither of which is an original game, natch, but for someone who's never written a game from the ground up, a variant is probably the best place to start.

Quote from: LordVreeg;595632In development, Strorm, playtest has been constant.

Is there a Wiki for it or something?

I've officially started on this, and what's more, I'm asking for help paying me to write it.  Check it out: http://www.indiegogo.com/heavensshadow?a=805122