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…
Every year World Anvil does “Adventure April,” where you write an adventure. I was kinda sorta thinking about maybe doing something for Million Colored Sun (coming soon!) this year, but it was a still a “might be fun” sort of thing. Today I saw this post about something called the Gygax 75 Challenge, and how…
For the last several years, a number of Hex contributors have been participating in Zine Month and ZineQuest. In addition to QAGS supplements about fantasy taverns and magical Elvises, we’ve released supplements for Dungeon Crawl Classics, Old School Essentials, and Troika. This year is no exception and we’ve got three zines competing for your shekels on Kickstarter this month. Collect them all!
Leighton and I are releasing a QAGS System Reference Document under a Creative Commons License so people can use the QAGS system for their own game. This page contains basic info and a link to the SRD. Facebook Twitter Reddit Tumblr Email
