I'm starting work on a new game, and I've posted about it, with a question, over on my journal:

http://gmskarka.livejournal.com/286949.html

The question is this:  Should I produce a dedicated design journal, or simply add the design entries to my regular journal, tagged as appropriate?

Same journal, if you have to juggle projects or hit a creative blank spot for a bit you still have content, not people discussing if the game has tanked because you haven't updated for a week while you were on holiday.

I know that sounds cynical, but I can so easily imagine you say having to take a break for a fortnight while doing another gig or leaving an idea to brew for a bit before coming back to it and then getting internet rumours which were completely unfounded.

I would say put it in the same journal.  Makes it easier for people to keep track of it without having to juggle multiple links in their bookmarks and remember to check back.

Just my two cents.

You could always just post on your regular blog, and then repost all game-related posts to a big thread on this very forum!

RPGPundit

Post it at the same journal, I don't want to have to read two of your blogs when I can just read the one that I do now.

So, like Deadlands only not sucky and gutless?

No, like Steampunk Musha, only in Dodge City!

Post in same journal. You can always remove them later.

First design journal entry is up.

I've created a tag, so you can go specifically to the design entries, rather than just reading my general journal stuff:

http://gmskarka.livejournal.com/tag/farwest

You can get an RSS feed of the design journal entries here:

http://gmskarka.livejournal.com/data/rss?tag=farwest

This is a great idea Gareth. I love when publishers mix genre to create something new and interesting. Good luck with this one.

Second journal entry is now up.

This stuff looks really interesting, so I guess your can consider me hooked. I look forward to your future entries.

Another entry up:  http://gmskarka.livejournal.com/tag/farwest

...and a new entry added, this time going into more detail about the setting of Far West:

http://gmskarka.livejournal.com/296762.html

Hi Gareth: first of all, very interesting.

Second, however, I've received a few complaints from people who feel that you just posting the links here to your blog entries amounts to self-advertising without actually doing anything in this site. I'm not totally convinced by that argument myself, but I do think it would be easier for the membership here (and help to silence those complaints) if instead of just posting the links here on this thread, you were to actually cut-and-paste the entries you were linking to.  Feel free to continue providing the actual link itself if you want to, either on your sig or in the post itself.

Doing this might even be good for you; in my own experience what I've found is that a lot of people won't bother to click a link, but if you actually have the text on the thread they will read it and reply. So if what you're looking for is actual feedback, this might be a way to end up doubling it.

RPGPundit