Hurricane Irene really set me back on finishing up Kodrek. But I managed to get a video of play up in time to get it into the Thousand Year game Challenge! Also excitingly, I’ll be printing up booklets and sending out games in the coming week!
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Kodrek rules, version 1.0
The 1.0 rules of Kodrek are complete! I’ll be sending boards out to all the Kodrek-level Kickstarter backers just as soon as printing is complete. The timing means that I’ll also be entering the game in the 1000 Year Game Challenge. It’s got some stiff competition! Kodrek is a game with a funny background. It comes [...]
Aliens Have Edges: The Storm Sailors of Relimeët
When the Contactor Temporary Reduction in Entropy arrived in orbit around Relimeët, its members found themselves in intense debate over the proper location for their elevator. The environment faced them with extreme hostility. Two stable Coriolis storms slowly orbited the equator-spanning ocean of the planet, spinning off unpredictable eddies of smaller hurricanes and ruling out [...]
Everyone is a Person (But That Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Weird)
The colony Efwehasht The subtle axial tilt and mid-habitable zone orbit of Efwehasht (“Arbor”) make for a wide, verdant temperate zone. The three smallest continents cover much of the northern zone, while the southern hemisphere is dominated by vast, rocky deserts. In the temperate zone lives a robust and varied ecosystem. Many subtle niches exist, [...]
First Human Contacts Roll In!
Good news! After two weeks of technical issues, the first copies of Human Contact are in! The technical issues persist, unfortunately, so there’s not quite closure, but I have 60 copies now, should have another 200 or so next week, and another 50ish the week after that. The nature of the technical issue isn’t clear; [...]
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 [...]
Augmenting Reality To Make It Less Commercial
Unlogo Intro from Jeff Crouse on Vimeo. Now, imagine that you’ve got this running in your glasses. Edit: This project is up on Kickstarter!
Kickstart Update: Human Contact is funded in its first day!
At 11:57 last night, the Human Contact Kickstart was fully funded at $2400! That’s 15 hours, and it’s still going strong! I woke up this morning to find a larger list of Kodrek boards to make and several more copies of the book to send out. But I also discovered something else: you’ve put Human [...]
Make Human Contact!
The Human Contact Kickstart is live! For the next 30 days, you can donate to the project to make it happen. If you help me reach my goal of $2400, it means I’ll be able to print the game book with the high production values that allow me to realize my vision for the book, [...]


