Weekend Update

[k8cre8]

This weekend I worked on web-ly things, got a chunk completed, yay! (not as much as I wanted to get done, but, I'm okay with that)

There was Eberron-ing. Yay! No more crazy people! I can't believe I'm relieved just to be dealing with Undead. 

I also got my front lawn (and my neighbors') mowed, and raked again, and re-seeded. 

Today, I've had meetings. And, during one of them, I was working on some Slayerfest stuff, and I had a brain wave.  

I *could* take my trivia game, make it generically a TV trivia game first, and then use some of the monies to buy rights for licensed trivia games. (Not that Fox even bothered to reply to my query).  I figured instead of fighting "The Master" the players could fight TV monsters such as "Low Ratings" or "Sophmore Slumps" even "Circling Sharks" or "the Friday Night Death slot." I could even self-publish this one, and recruit some graphic design help from the talented folks I already know, and "viola!"  A spanking new card game.  Thoughts? Comments?  Flamethrowers?

Comments

[1oldmanfan.livejournal.com]

Please shoot me for not getting back sooner. I've been through a lot of your game cards (my friends are enjoying it) and you have a good grasp of 'degree of difficulty'. I mentioned before that I thought your format (obviously with different questions/monsters) could be modified for a variety of shows. I hope to have more feedback later.

Bob/OMF

[k8cre8.livejournal.com]

No shooting. I know you hit the busy part of your year. I'm just grateful for your input. And, thanks!

I think you're right, the format can work for any show, really, but, you run into licensing with doing a game just on a single show. But, each set can be fully compatible with each other, so that you could have your Buffy deck with your Lost deck, and decide to play against a Level 1 villian from, say, Alias.

This would be a generic game about TV, so, no single source for questions, and the art, well, all original. Players would not be "Buffy," in the generic game, maybe just "red resources."

And, I'm thinking we might even build in collectibility. That is, there are "Rare" cards, and collectors will want to get them all. (A powerful "location" card, or a special "big bad" or something.) And you could sell "boosters" with a smattering of locations, threats, and such.

[arwensouth.livejournal.com]

Okay, this has definite possibilities. Of course, it's a game I'm doomed to lose (since I watch very little TV), but I do like the idea of challenging players with "the Friday Night Death Slot!"

Must have been one of those good, exciting meetings, eh?

[k8cre8.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Worse, it was a meeting I got pulled into last minute, not knowing much about why I was now supposed to go. (And scheduled for while I was on a VLC course, so, they told me to come when it was over). Turned out, not only did I get to come late, there wasn't really a reason for me to be there. *And* it was an Imis meeting, and Imis went down while we were in it.

At least I accomplished something.

[k8cre8.livejournal.com]

Oh, and, really, the game is desgined to be playable by people of all levels. That's the beauty of it. Level 1 questions are 50/50 chance (i.e. Was "Leave it to Beaver an animated show?" or "True or False? CSI stands for Crime Scene Investigators") It's a collaborative game, and so the players pool their resources to beat the game, not each other.

[kessiebabe.livejournal.com]

I like the idea as well.

"the Friday Night Death slot" hehe sounds good

[k8cre8.livejournal.com]

LOL. Thanks! I was chuckling (to myself) in the meeting as I came up with that. I've also added "Sweeps," "counter programming," and "Crowded Timeslot"

[arwensouth.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the dreaded, "On Opposite American Idol Timeslot..."

[toosuto.livejournal.com]

I think this is a brilliant idea. And not even from a completely selfish I-Want-To-Design-It point of view...

[k8cre8.livejournal.com]

LOL. Thanks. I sat there in the meeting, stunned by how simple it really was if you took out the licensing.

One of the things I'm sorta worried about is how distribution will work. Score was interested in publishing it if I had the licensing rights, and I'm wondering if I approaching them about "Generic TV game" to get distribution and market penetration is worth it (not to mention initial cash outlay for print runs), or if it's worth the risk to jump in. Afterall, it's just cards! Richard Garfield basically did this with Magic, right? Oh! and, if it's a collectible game, heck, I only need to sell, in a basic set, the bare minimums needed to play it, they'll have to buy more cards (including questions) to have a better playing experience. (I figure, a basic set is a deck of like 60-70 cards, 75% of which are questions, the rest are the bare minimums of game play. Then they can buy boosters (maybe even special "all question" packs.)

[thedragonweaver.livejournal.com]

And one of your other graphic design friends is interested, so you know. :)

[k8cre8.livejournal.com]

I hoped you might be interested... ;) Thanks!

I figure, there's probably enough work for 2, and if it takes off, well, probably *alot* of work for 2.