Greetings, all. I don't know about the rest of you, but I miss the creative fervor that pretty much filled my days just a few short weeks ago, B.S.B. (Before Summer Break). I'm working on my 491 game this summer, but it just isn't the same without other people around to bounce ideas off of and get excited with. So on Sunday I'm going to have a brainstorming session for Suits, and take the opportunity to have a little mid-summer get-together, as well. What do you say?
Suits is an online negotiation game set in a reverse-spy-genre office building - you play the villain in a James Bond story, and your primary job is to manage employees and resources so that other people can get on with building submersible cities, smuggling nanobot weapons, and holding the sun hostage. It also might be a management sim, a roleplaying game, or a CCG. If you have any interest in any of this - or just want to hang out and talk about game design for a while - come on Sunday. I'd love to get lots of opinions about the game and the directions that it could go. Don't worry if you aren't enrolled in 491. I'm just looking for people to talk to.
I'm thinking that we'll gather at 2:00 at the ZML, if that works for people - let me know if you'd like to come but have a schedule conflict. We can talk about the game for a little bit and then, if you want to stick around, watch a movie or play a tabletop game. I'll bring some Bond films and Dominion (an excellent card game that I discovered recently) and get us a pizza or something. If you have any other suggestions, drop me a line.