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Ron Edwards
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[RONNIES 2011] February round begins
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February 03, 2011, 06:05:07 AM »
Submission period: either one week from today at the time of this posting,
or
24 hours from when I announce the ninth submission here.
1. Pick two (and only two) of the four terms to be central concepts for your game. This is a big deal. You can’t win a Ronny unless I think they really matter. Make sure to exclude the other two terms, conceptually.
2. Write the game during a single 24-hour period. Remember, this is an alpha design and will be assessed as such.
3. Submit it in PDF to the
24 Hour RPG
site
and<
My best design advice
Free associate off the two terms to find more terms of your own to include, but remember, the original two do have to be central in some way.
Make something you like, and present both the Color and the Reward to help the reader understand why.
Some minor points
It's OK to write something more traditional and/or long-term. Not everything has to be formally turn-based and rife with endgames and full of emotional mechanics.
Feel free to do a little bit of document design to spice up the reading. Nothing major – a font, or layout device, or some quickie illustrations or images … I promise not to use such things as criteria for Ronnies judgment, but they do make the whole thing more fun for everyone. (See the 2005 entries
January’s Frost
,
Left Coast
, and
Bylina & Bogatyr
, for instance.)
And finally, the terms for this round:
whisper wings murder morning
Vroom vroom!
See the sticky thread leading this forum and
Questions, concerns, befuddlements
for various nuances and details. If you’re still curious or confused about something, ask it here in this thread.
Best, Ron
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Ron Edwards
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Re: [RONNIES 2011] February round begins
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Reply #1 on:
February 04, 2011, 10:03:26 AM »
And the first entry is! Nathan Paoletta's
The Cycle of the Seasons
, using
morning
and
whisper
.
Best, Ron
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Ron Edwards
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Re: [RONNIES 2011] February round begins
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Reply #2 on:
February 05, 2011, 12:00:04 PM »
Second entry is Gregor Hutton's
Realization Dawning
, using
morning
and
wings
.
Let's see what the weekend brings us ...
Best, Ron
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Ron Edwards
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Re: [RONNIES 2011] February round begins
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Reply #3 on:
February 06, 2011, 01:47:49 PM »
So far:
wings murder
They Became Flesh
by Elizabeth Sampat
Anathema
by Devon Oratz
wings morning
Realization Dawning
by Gregor Hutton
The Moral Dawn
by Eigil Rischel
morning whisper
The Cycle of Seasons
by Nathan Paoletta
whisper murder
Haunted
by Jesse Burneko
Nothing yet for
morning murder
or
wings whisper
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Gryffudd
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Just another designer
Re: [RONNIES 2011] February round begins
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Reply #4 on:
February 06, 2011, 08:26:39 PM »
Hi Ron. About to start work on an idea for this one (Using wings and whisper, oddly enough) and I had an inexperience-based question. Would 'author's comments' in the book (or at the end) be useful or detrimental? On one hand in bad sections they might aid in showing where I went wrong. On the other hand the game should be able to stand on it's own and my thoughts can be brought in during the discussion/rewriting phase.
Thanks muchly for providing a reason for me to get off my butt and get back to active game design.
Pat
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Ron Edwards
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Re: [RONNIES 2011] February round begins
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Reply #5 on:
February 07, 2011, 04:33:34 AM »
Hi Pat,
Author's comments sections are a lot of fun for me to read. As far as I can tell, looking at the results of past rounds, they don't hurt or help one's chances for a Ronny.
Best, Ron
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Ron Edwards
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Re: [RONNIES 2011] February round begins
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February 07, 2011, 01:03:04 PM »
Only one more as yet.
wings murder
They Became Flesh
by Elizabeth Sampat
Anathema
by Devon Oratz
Deathbird Black
by Baxil
wings morning
Realization Dawning
by Gregor Hutton
The Moral Dawn
by Eigil Rischel
morning whisper
The Cycle of Seasons
by Nathan Paoletta
whisper murder
Haunted
by Jesse Burneko
morning murder
/
wings whisper
: still lonely.
I don't know which entries are more disturbing, the funny ones or the goth ones. You are a bunch of morbid sonofabitches out there, I tell you. It serves me right for including "skull" in the previous round and "murder" in this one. I know! The next terms will include, let's see, "atrocity." No, "torture." Oh, obviously: "death," that'll cheer things up.
Two more, then I'll call the 24-hour signal.
Best, Ron
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Ron Edwards
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Re: [RONNIES 2011] February round begins
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Reply #7 on:
February 07, 2011, 01:05:56 PM »
Oh yeah! All of the entries so far are now available at the 24-Hour RPG site (see link in this thread's first post). You can see what I'm talking about for yourself.
Best, Ron
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Ron Edwards
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Re: [RONNIES 2011] February round begins
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Reply #8 on:
February 07, 2011, 07:54:33 PM »
The bell tolls nine! 24 hours remain from the time of this post, which is just before 10 PM Central Standard Time (U.S.). The titles so far:
wings murder
They Became Flesh
by Elizabeth Sampat
Anathema
by Devon Oratz
Deathbird Black
by Baxil
Wings of Blood
by Paolo Davolio
wings morning
Realization Dawning
by Gregor Hutton
Moral Dawn
by Eigil Rischel
morning whisper
The Cycle of Seasons
by Nathan Paoletta
whisper murder
Haunted
by Jesse Burneko
Uncle Louis
by Steve Mathers
morning murder
/
wings whisper
: no entries yet
Best, Ron
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Ron Edwards
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Re: [RONNIES 2011] February round begins
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February 08, 2011, 07:14:40 AM »
Between ten and twelve hours left. The recent entries have significantly expanded the conceptual range.
wings murder
They Became Flesh
by Elizabeth Sampat,
Anathema
by Devon Oratz,
Deathbird Black
by Baxil,
Wings of Blood
by Paolo Davolio,
Murderwing
by Joe J. Prince
wings morning
Realization Dawning
by Gregor Hutton,
Moral Dawn
by Eigil Rischel
morning whisper
The Cycle of Seasons
by Nathan Paoletta
whisper murder
Haunted
by Jesse Burneko,
Uncle Louis
by Steve Mathers
whisper wings
The Volume of Secrets
by J. P. Mullen
morning murder
no entries yet
Best, Ron
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Ron Edwards
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Re: [RONNIES 2011] February round begins
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Reply #10 on:
February 08, 2011, 08:27:17 PM »
Annnnnd ... closed! Clocking in at 14 games.
wings murder
They Became Flesh
by Elizabeth Sampat,
Anathema
by Devon Oratz,
Deathbird Black
by Baxil,
Wings of Blood
by Paolo Davolio,
Murderwing
by Joe J. Prince
wings morning
Realization Dawning
by Gregor Hutton,
Moral Dawn
by Eigil Rischel
morning whisper
The Cycle of Seasons
by Nathan Paoletta,
Memory Quest
by David Berg
whisper murder
Haunted
by Jesse Burneko,
Uncle Louis
by Steve Mathers
whisper wings
The Volume of Secrets
by J. P. Mullen,
Air Patrol
by Pat Gamblin
morning murder
(at last!)
The Secret Lives of Serial Killers
by Willow Palecek
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Vulpinoid
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Re: [RONNIES 2011] February round begins
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Reply #11 on:
February 08, 2011, 10:08:11 PM »
Darn...just missed the cut off.
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The Eighth Sea now available for as a
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Ron Edwards
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Re: [RONNIES 2011] February round begins
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Reply #12 on:
February 09, 2011, 04:46:21 AM »
"Just" is close enough in this case, I say. So
wings murder
gets one more title,
Murder: A Game About Crows
, by Michael Wenman.
Best, Ron
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stefoid
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Re: [RONNIES 2011] February round begins
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Reply #13 on:
February 09, 2011, 02:48:06 PM »
Its amazing the effect that two words can have as the seed of an imaginative idea.
Its like you need some little thing just to be the seed, but the less specific the seed, the more powerful the effect on the imagination.
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Ron Edwards
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Re: [RONNIES 2011] February round begins
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Reply #14 on:
February 09, 2011, 05:25:32 PM »
I think it has a lot to do with triangulation. That's why I insist on fully excluding the two terms that aren't used and remind people to free-associate new terms.
More than any other round of the Ronnies, it pleases me to imagine some kind of boxed cover that holds books spine-out, containing all the entries for this round in one glorious collection of separate volumes, once each is brought to conceptual fruition. The games are diverse in all sorts of ways, yet there is some kind of shadowy, aerial, ethereal, gore-spattered unity to them which no single title fully encompasses. The strong motifs across them - angels most obviously - only contribute to the unity rather than define it. Even the comedy in some of them is weird and dark in a way which contributes as well.
Best, Ron
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