{"id":38539,"date":"2025-03-29T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=38539"},"modified":"2025-03-26T13:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:19:54","slug":"move-forward-even-just-a-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2025\/03\/move-forward-even-just-a-little\/","title":{"rendered":"Move forward, even just a little"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another holiday rears its ugly head today, serving as a reminder for those things that you’ve been putting off: Make Noticeable Progress on a Project Day<\/strong>. That’s right, pull that thing out of the box and try to make it work again, go out to the garage\/yard and bang on the car some more, actually stir up the paint before the masking tape become a permanent part of the walls, and so on. We all have projects of this nature that sit, neglected, and should be cuddled again and assured that they matter.<\/p>\n

I am deep in the throes of this myself, since Dan Palmer and I are currently at Unpub 25<\/a>, a festival coordinated by the Unpublished Games Network to feature and playtest new, unpublished games (ah, that’s<\/em> where the name came from!) among many other game enthusiasts. We had a table on Friday and are manning another today to demonstrate the Gnonom Deck<\/a> and various games designed for it;<\/strong> in fact, I spent the past week or so getting things together for this endeavor, including a play-through video. Dan, meanwhile, has been working on this off and on for the past few months, rewriting rules for clarity and consistency and making his own play-through video. The Gnomon Deck website<\/a> has been updated for a few months now and we add things periodically, so it’s actually starting to flesh out a bit.<\/p>\n

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This is not Unpub 25, but the previous demo opportunity at the family day of Bridges 2024 last year<\/figcaption><\/figure>
It should be fun and informative, but I haven’t attended before so beyond that, I don’t know what to expect (can you tell I wrote this three days ahead of time?) Dan’s been to one other, but doesn’t know the behind-the-scenes stuff like how beneficial it was overall and how many people got their games noticed and into production. So, we’ll see\/we’re seeing.<\/p>\n

Feel free to check out the GnomonDeck.com<\/a> site – it describes the deck, has several initial games with a couple of videos, and has a mailing list to sign up for further news. I may be back later on and let you know how it all went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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