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Author Archives: joshua
The Most Important Advance in Robots of the 21st Century
(I was sending what might be the final text of Human Contact to Thor at the moment this came in from Jeff Hobbs. But even publishing deadlines must wait for news as important as this.)
The RPG Crossroads
Troy Costisick’s started a really neat thing over at the RPG Crossroads. In addition to hosting designer forums the way the Forge did for years (now closed), we’re also looking to start up a really focused forum to plant garlic as the Forge enters its Winter phase. I’m curious to see what will happen when [...]
Some Fine Gentlemen Play A Friendly Game
Alex Drummond just sent me this sketch of some fine, respectable gentlemen playing a friendly game of Kodrek. He also sent me some earlier roughs: Gotta say, I’m pretty excited. I’m doing preliminary flows of the text of the game into an InDesign file right now. I sure wish style importing was more smarter.
Good Morning Cyboys and Cybergirls!
Augmented reality promises to become the greatest, and perhaps most intellectually perilous, information technology ever.
Human Contact draft 2 is Done
I’m excited to say that Human Contact Draft 2 is now up for download on the playtester’s forum! If you’ve playtested Human Contact before or backed the project at Kickstarter, I’d love to have you in the playtester group! I’ll be looking for feedback on the readability and playability of the text by January 1st, [...]
Gioconomicon interviews me through Giullina at Lucca
From the beginning of the article: Joshua A.C. Newman is a real character, committed to the strangest and most diverse things (what relationship do you see between sculpture, the construction of aerial drones, and ancient poetry, to name a few?) You can read the English translation of the summary article here. Thanks to Giullina for [...]
Fighting Trousers
I’m always so happy to see one of my people* doing what we do best. (Courtesy Judd.) * According to my wife, the following people are “my people”: Jews, Geeks, Lesbians (?), Punks.
One Day Left to Support Human Contact!
The Human Contact Kickstarter has just one day left. Thanks to you 200+ funders (and special thanks to the first hundred, to whom I really owe a debt of gratitude for getting the ball so dramatically rolling), it’s over 300% funded. Human Contact will now go into submarine mode, taking onboard only the project’s backers. [...]


