by Jeff Tidball | Jul 30, 2020
Summer without conventions is weird. ¶ Even so, I traveled a bunch in July, spending time socially distanced with distant friends, as well as at a pair of outdoor sports tournaments. ¶ Summer without conventions is...
by Jeff Tidball | Jul 16, 2020
Not everything about the Covid-times is terrible: Tabletop Wire recently launched a new podcast. If you’re a podcast-listening human, check it out. Host Andrew Long and I talk about the pandemic, the history of Atlas Games, the wisdom of financial conservatism in publishing, whether it makes any sense to become a screenwriter, how GAMA’s doing, and...
by Jeff Tidball | Jul 16, 2020
The Dice Miner Kickstarter raised $176,987, coming close to top end of my trio of predictions (where I said $65K would be “adequate,” $100K would be “good,” and $200K would be...
by Jeff Tidball | May 26, 2020
I’ve been working on producing and developing Dice Miner, a truly wonderful dice drafting game with a unique mountain centerpiece, at Atlas Games for more than two years. In May, Dice Miner launched on Kickstarter. ¶ Will and I launched the Gameplaywright Weekly Digest, a short email with two links to things that have caught our attention. Sign up or read a...
by Jeff Tidball | Apr 22, 2020
With my Atlas Games hours furloughed to 20 per week and the Dice Miner Kickstarter pushed back, I made strides on a number of projects that usually wind up back-burnered, including bringing Ruby Hunters onto Tabletop Simulator. ¶ Also? I turned...
