Social Justice Fundraiser PDF sales
almost 4 years ago
– Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 10:10:34 AM
Hi Pals!
Tell your buddies that all Thousand Year Old Vampire PDF sales (along with my other games) collected between June 1 and 8 will be donated to social justice causes. I expect they'll go to the ActBlue bail funds network, to which I've already been able to donate $500.
They need to buy through https://timhutchings.itch.io/tyov
I hope you are all well!
tim h
All Deliveries are Out, Another Kickstarter Coming Up
about 4 years ago
– Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 10:46:10 PM
Hi folks!
I believe all the shipping for Thousand Year Old Vampire is in the mail!* Lookit this glorious list:
It's so good to see! If you don't have your package soon come find me.
Left to do for Thousand Year Old Vampire: Prison issue and an easy-to-read version. I'm also going to make an EU-shipping-friendly version available as Print on Demand.
*Since grabbing that screenshot it has come to my attention that there is ONE known package that is hung up at the warehouse for no good reason. I salute you, MrM, for being so patient and kind about it.
NEXT: I'M LAUNCHING A FOR-THE-PANDEMIC KICKSTARTER THIS WEEK. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FACEBOOK EVENT REMINDER.
I have two games that were going to get a slow, fancy release but are suddenly appropriate for our shelter-at-home pandemic living so I'm rushing them out now by making them available as Print on Demand. "Rush" is a bit of a misnomer because the book layouts have been done for over a year.
Both games are "geosynchronous" (to misuse a noble word) games that are uniquely suited to our shelter-in-place situation. By this I mean that you leave the game book and some crafting tools out in a place where interested parties can get at it all and anyone can play it at any time over days or weeks or months. And we play both of these games by cutting, marking, and mutilating books! Both are suitable for solo or infinite number of players.
Our Vacation is a game about a boring family trip. Using a 'found' (though ethically harvested) vacation photo album as the basis for the game, players cut prompts out of the book itself to add to photographs, then use those prompts to write about that photograph. The prompts are nouns taken from great road novels/films about the United States.
Here's a page spread from a section of the book that's been played a bit.
The other game is Cold War Navy. It also works with a pre-existing photo album but in this case you draw in empty photo frames and write in annotations to change the context of the book as a whole.
This is a worked through version of the book, that fancy house and fountain was drawn in by a player. The empty white frame on the left page is waiting for something to be sketched in.
I'm rushing out 'alpha' versions of these to folks who want them 'for the duration'. If you people like 'em we can do a nice reprint version later. Part of the speedy-delivery trick is that you'll be getting a link that lets you order them directly from DriveThruRPG at cost, my guess is that you can get your goods by mid-May.
Sign up here to keep posted and ask questions: https://www.facebook.com/events/550025739229148/
I'll also announce it here again and email the Thousand Year Old Vampire list!
High fives,
tim h
THURSDAY BOOK RELEASE CANCELLED
about 4 years ago
– Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 01:39:25 AM
I promised not to put up too many updates, especially ones that affect only a few of you, but...
THURSDAY'S BOOK RELEASE IS CANCELLED
Because of the virus and my fear of spreading it further I am canceling the book release party. Contagion is awesome if it is vampires and zombies and crap, but not when real people are involved. I'm bummed out, honestly.
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Also: Thousand Year Old Vampire is now available for wholesale purchase through https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/ and blackbox.cool.
A New York City TYOV release event, THIS THURSDAY
about 4 years ago
– Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 11:39:23 PM
Hi folks,
This Thursday, March 12, there will be a book release event for Thousand Year Old Vampire in New York City. I'd love to meet some of you there! If you can, sign up at the Facebook event page.
It's being hosted at the Skowhegan School of Art offices at 136 W 22nd Street in Manhattan. Things'll open up at 6pm and be over by 9pm.
I don't know what happens at a regular book release party but this one will feature:
1. You coming up to me and saying hello and we say nice things to each other. It might be awkward or it might be awesome. I have no idea. Everyone I know who is coming is nice so you would do well to wander around saying hello to strangers, too.
1a. If you bring your copy of Thousand Year Old Vampire I will draw a picture in it, if that's something you feel strongly about. I like to draw pictures and sully books so this'll be great.
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2. There will be tables and copies of Thousand Year Old Vampire around. You can play the game or bring some other thing to play (maybe try to bring a game that's adjacent to TYOV, a story game or something rather than Yahtzee). The space is all us until 9, so we do what we want.
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3. Let's be contagion-aware! I don't think this qualifies as a big gathering but let's not shake hands or glom onto each other.
So again:
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Thousand Year Old Vampire book release party thing
- 136 W 22nd Street, NYC
- Thursday, March 12, 6-9pm
More information and updates at the Facebook event page, comments on the main page, and my Twitter account.
Other business:
•If things go according to plan there'll be release events in Portland, Chicago and St. Louis. I'd had a Portland space lined up but they had to cancel.
•I'm excited that you are all getting your games soon! If you haven't received a shipping notice from Blackbox or Paypal by next week please check in with me!
•Tell your buddies that the print book and PDF can be bought through Indie Press Revolution or Itch.
New PDF links, photos, shipping, a favor
about 4 years ago
– Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 01:42:52 AM
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