Sure thing. What happened to that Yahoo group with last year's games on it? It still around?

--Jeff

Certainly down with this. The trick is for this reply to be some kind of auto-pilot so I don't immediately start thinking of ideas.. which I will then have to discard to comply with the rules. ;)

I'll make no commitments because I really can't - things are too up in the air with real life at the moment... But if I can be involved, I definitely will be.

Hey Phil,
Just to avoid this becoming a chorus of "present and accounted for," can you give us a run-down of the rules for 24-hour games so those on the fence can make a more informed decision?

Also, I encourage you not to try to set a date based on group consensus. That way lies madness. :) Just pick a weekend and go for it.

Let me tell you what personally bothers me in this challenge: nobody seems to acknowledge the difference between going into it with a readymade inspiration as opposed to a complete blank. I find the former almost trivial (I frequently write a first draft of a game in half that time when inspired) while the latter is altogether another matter.

I seem to remember that last time these were done people tended to wait around until they got an idea and started their designing (and the clock) then. Of course it's no skin off my nose, but I'd find that distasteful myself; the exercise is supposed to be about forced creativity, not forced typing. Anyway, it seems that I've too much gamesmanship in me to really like something this vague. Or I'm just too confident in my ability to get my blood to boil for this.

Hey, this sounds pretty cool.

Did you really mean the bit about the game being 24 pages long? I've never written much that long.

I don't think anyone actually made the full 24 pages. Yee Olde West was 9, Vespertine was 19, Sunrise was 16, Pace was 18, Criminal Element was 12... hell, I think Vs. Monsters might have been the longest. And it was certainly the prettiest.

This year I'll be formatting mine for A5. That should help. :D
--Jeff