I just wrote a 12-part series providing background for how we got from QAGS 1st Edition to QAGS 2nd Edition and why it’s taken us over 20 years to get around to QAGS 3E. Today, I’m going to go into detail about why I feel like QAGS needs a new edition. Some of the problems…
I’ve spent 11 articles working through the first 5 years of Hex Games. Let’s see if I can condense the next 20 or so into a single article. Once Print on Demand became available and we got over our hang-ups about PDF, we were able to go back more or less to our original plan…
You might think that after the meeting where we discovered that SupaGenius had stolen thousands of dollars from us, we wouldn’t ever talk to him again. Unfortunately, that wasn’t quite the case. For one thing, there was a lot of stuff–bank accounts, web hosting, etc. that we had to make sure we could access and…
We ended 2001 feeling pretty good about ourselves. We’d just released our first full-sized book, we had nationwide distribution, our con games were overflowing with players, and we beat Steve Jackson at TOON!. For 2002, we had even bigger plans, focused on two things: first, we’d go to the GAMA show in March. Then we’d…
We’re at part 6 and don’t even have a book yet, so I’m going to bullet point through some things to keep this from being an 4 million part article. So, after doing Ukon: There was some kind of issue with the printing. I don’t really remember the details, but we ended up with a…
The first convention that Leighton and I went to as (something approaching) legit game designers was UKon, a small convention that the University of Kentucky game club used to run (maybe they still do, I’m not sure). I’m not really sure how many games we ran, but I remember four that I’m reasonably sure we…
So, after about a year of writing, re-writing, editing, and re-editing (while also coming up with distinctive voices for all the recurring Jack Chick characters), Leighton and I had a game book. Now we needed to figure out what to do with it. The first step was combining the text with art in a way…
Once Leighton and I had formed an real, legally recognized company and convinced some people to invest in it, our next step was to write the game that would be the company’s first release, QAGS. During the early stages of planning, Dale French was our third partner, but he was whisked away on a magical…
After the dumb supers game with Hatboy and Greaseball, I actually started to put some rules together for my “play anywhere, anytime” game. Some of them may have even been inspired by that pre-QAGS QAGS game. While I don’t think I had anything written down, I had the basics floating around in my head and…
I posted a while back that I’ve started work on QAGS 3rd Edition. Since I’ve spent the last 10+ years writing, rewriting, and then completely reworking versions of a completely different game system (Cinemechanix), some of you might wonder why I’ve changed course again to work on a new version of QAGS. The short answer…
