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According to tweetdeck, one of the trending:worldwide topics on twitter not so long ago was 6 word stories. In the past few months I've asked people to say 6 words about game design, programming, wargames, stories in games, casual games, zombie games, chance/randomness in games, and innovation and plagiarism in games.

This time the challenge is this: say six words about game sequels.

I thought it'd be easy, creating a game, and that solely based on my own need to keep a balance within all the games I currently play.

My major issue right now is getting the different cards made. I have no real artistic skills, and hope someone amongst the friends I've reached out to for help will be willing and able to help.

In the meantime, I need to figure out different elemental creatures, different spells, and, simply, the mana-cost-to-power conversion rate I want to follow.

Update to Piece of Pie

Some artwork to go with the idea along with a change of theme and name.

I'm guessing the playtesting will throw up the need for a few more dice to spice things up. Therefore, the outline now features three dice colours along with three pizza categories and 12 dice in total.

Instead of using lots of expensive dice I propose to include pizza counters that can be used to record each round of rolling. These card tokens should make it easy to keep a visual track of past rolls.

At GenCon I attended several seminars about game publishing and game distribution. I’m not intending to self publish games, though I will self-publish some books, but I am interested in distribution in connection with selecting a publisher for the new edition of Britannia. A designer negotiating contracts needs to know how games are sold. So I’m not an expert about this compared with an experienced publisher. But I think I can tell you enough to make this interesting. I knew most of this before I went to GenCon but still we can call it “what I learned about game distribution and publishing at GenCon”.

After “Seven Years and a Million Dollars” I want to talk about how you, as an aspiring hobby tabletop game publisher, can help yourself to be taken seriously by game publishers. While you’re important to your self, your family, and your friends, to a game publisher you’re no different than hundreds of other people who think they have games worth publishing, most of whom are wrong.