¦ dialling in from Sky Bunker ¦
23:28 GMT, Wednesday 1st July 2009. Absolutely melting here. Sitting beneath black sky visible through glass canopy above my head; portal kept shut despite desire for coolish breeze from outside due to likely invasion by moths and other bugs attracted by lights here. Deep red lava lamp and several small 40w lamps casting mellow pools of tarnished glow. I'm playing Afterhours by "Outcast", probably not the Outcast you're thinking of... this group has haunting female vocals, comes from album OUT OF TUNE, released some time around 1996 or 1997: memories of Michelle Gordon and the months following the end of writing God Seed.
I've just got back from Hagen's pad. A 30 minute drive away, heading from the outer East edge of the city, weaving in and out to near the outer North edge... not a pleasant drive in this heat but there was an ice cold can of beer waiting for me, and Hagen's set up some garden furniture on the cracked and scaberous concrete patch outside the door of his place... tucked away from the main street within a curious little yard. We play-tested Killer Kloo Doo and the Advanced Rules for Cluedo: simple enough concept. Take your existing Cluedo board game, add in a pack of ordinary playing card, and use all the existing peice but with new rules, hey presto, you've got a brand new game.
The play test went very well. The new rules give it some nail-biting tension in places. Very pleased, despite being murdered by Hagen. He laughed and said, "Well you can't complain, you wrote the rules that let me do that to you."
Pah.
Anyhow, I've discovered a couple points that need to be refined so hopefully get Version 3.0 up on the site by Friday.
I'm back into using Twitter. Love hash-tags and finding lots of interesting people to follow.
http://twitter.com/davidjrodger I'm having thoughts about a possible next step for Yellow Dawn. I don't feel I have enough people playing it to create any sort of solid fan base; there's no critical mass. I'm thinking about releasing the rulebook as a PDF download, no charge, possibly scaled down, Yellow Dawn Lite sort of thing. Not sure. I put so much bloody effort into creating Yellow Dawn part of me feels giving it away is the wrong move: but, if it results in more people playing it... getting into the world? I'm talking with the play-test group and my publicist in the States... bouncing a few ideas around. Watch this space.
Djr