Arcanacon 2008: Year Zero
Mar. 2nd, 2007 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morslaIt's been too long since I wrote a tabletop game for a convention. The most recent was Silent Streets at Retrocon 2004. I'll be a ConOrg at Conquest, in Sydney during RetroCon, and in Europe during UniCon this year... so I'm setting a course for Arcanacon 2008.
I like making props for games. Sound clips, newspaper clippings, surveillance photos, newsgroup posts, travel documents... I love making all the minutiae that can add detail to a story. I also like scenarios painted in many different shades of grey - settings where a dozen background factions blindly do what they think is right, based on the biased information they have. Every game plays differently, as the players steer the camera through their personal stories.
I don't know how much of the Year Zero material I'll use directly, but I think it's about time I put together a paranoid conspiracy game. Plus, with almost a year to add detail to it I'll be able to manufacture disinformation to my heart's content...
If you have some spare time, take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(album) and follow a few of the links. The campaign has an impressive scope so far, and it's still unfolding.
I like making props for games. Sound clips, newspaper clippings, surveillance photos, newsgroup posts, travel documents... I love making all the minutiae that can add detail to a story. I also like scenarios painted in many different shades of grey - settings where a dozen background factions blindly do what they think is right, based on the biased information they have. Every game plays differently, as the players steer the camera through their personal stories.
I AM TRYING TO BELIEVESo, when I stumbled across this RPG.net thread about the viral marketing campaign that's slowly unfolding for NIN's next album, I was hooked. Recorded phone messages. 'Lost' USB keys with important files. White noise samples that display as ghostly images on a spectrogram. Strings of code that become IP addresses or phone numbers. Plus, when the album finally comes out I'll have a soundtrack :)
I don't know how much of the Year Zero material I'll use directly, but I think it's about time I put together a paranoid conspiracy game. Plus, with almost a year to add detail to it I'll be able to manufacture disinformation to my heart's content...
If you have some spare time, take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(album) and follow a few of the links. The campaign has an impressive scope so far, and it's still unfolding.
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