Here's one of the Prompt background spreads. Last week I knocked out fifty spreads. These'll need some adjustment after the text is on 'em to make sure the relevant bits ar...
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Tim Hutchings
5 months ago
Trudging along, a low-productivity month
Hi folks,
This is the abbreviated update:
Slowed down for the holidays, speeding back up in the New Year. Still looking for a printer but have one promising-yet-expensive o...
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Tim Hutchings
6 months ago
An update, a 10% off coupon. Things are going smoothly...
...maybe too smoothly.
So You've Met A Thousand Year Old Vampire got playtested at ...
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Tim Hutchings
8 months ago
Been working up art and messing around with layout
I've worked up at least ninetween new pieces of illustration for the game and messed around with layout over the past week or two. I've been -super- productive and feeling ...
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Tim Hutchings
8 months ago
Success! Thanks
The project funded and is done, thank you all!
Over the next few months I'll need to keep you all updated on the game's progress. I don't know whether to do that here or in the...
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Tim Hutchings
9 months ago
Obligatory "woo-hoo we did it" update
Hi folks!
Eye-rolling subject-line aside, I am very, very appreciate of all the support this project has gotten. Thank you all.
I held off on writing this Backerkit update (e...
I got the PDF of TYOV. I had also ordered a print version. Will the physical two games be shipping together? Just want to know what to expect. Sorry if it was stated somewhere - can't find it if so.
Here's one of the Prompt background spreads. Last week I knocked out fifty spreads. These'll need some adjustment after the text is on 'em to make sure the relevant bits are visible between the denser blocks of text.
Prompts in SYMA are almost chatty. Each of the top two Prompt tiers have a block of text describing a situation and then two options. Page real estate isn't Manhattan-precious but neither is there much to spare.
I got into more depth about this stuff in the newsletter. You can sign up for it at the bottom of thousandyearoldvampire.com. Folks seem to mostly like it. If you've signed up for the newsletter and didn't get a copy of it emailed to you today, Feb 26, let me know. The Shopify email marketing system is kind of shitty about people who just sign up for the newsletter without buying stuff–knowing when it is failing someone is a useful bit of data.
Slowed down for the holidays, speeding back up in the New Year. Still looking for a printer but have one promising-yet-expensive option. I'm pulling the rules apart and rebuilding them better.
I'm sending this update and the regular newsletter out around the same time, so apologies if you are getting a double-whammy. This update is the minor wham, the newsletter is the proper wham.
If you aren't on the newsletter list and want to read the whole newsletter I just sent you can find a PDF here. If you want to sign up for the TYOV-related newsletter you can do so at the bottom of thousandyearoldvampire.com.
Here's a non-final digital collage for the book that I talk a little about in the newsletter.
sample art of a WWI guy in front of a statue
So You've Met A Thousand Year Old Vampire got playtested at two cons over the last month and there were no surprises discovered. I intend to get the rules to an editor next week and get a pass back.
I'm still struggling to get the Prompts into proper shape. I know I'm overthinking it, but I'll ride this misery wave a little longer.
Honestly, I thought I'd be more done by now. I got too enmeshed in making illustrations, I think.
A sample of art. Have I shown this already?
Also, the game Five Hundred Year Old Vampire by Jason Cox is available over on my website. It's pricey, but here's a 10% off $100 or more coupon: https://thousandyearoldvampire.com/discount/IAmAshamedThatThisDiscountIsLiningUpWithBlackFriday
While you are there consider signing up for the regular newsletter at the bottom of the page. Folks seem to mostly like it.
