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.
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One Day Left to Support Human Contact!
November 5, 2010 – 11:01 am
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. I’ve got a whole lot of writing to do and will only be posting abstractly and distractedly as I generate drafts and get sketches from Alex.
If you want to keep up with the project, donate at any of the listed levels and you’ll get project updates as they come, including playable drafts, early sketches, and probably a few extras. I’ll be putting out a call for playtests to backers and, if you want to collide some cultures before March of next year, this is the way to do it.
I also have to get on making those Kodrek boards. I was expecting to have to make two. Instead, I have to make 14. That interest has made me start to think about publishing it as its own thing in the future. Boardgame publishing is hard, but I’ve seen some real successes among my indie peers and I think I can make it happen.
Back from Lucca
November 4, 2010 – 5:27 pm
I can’t express the deeply wonderful time I had at Lucca with The Morningstar and the folks from Janus. Thank you so much, everyone.
Hi, io9!
October 23, 2010 – 11:02 pm
You might want to follow me on Twitter @JoshuaACNewman. You’ll see all sorts of news about Human Contact as it goes up there!
OK, This Is The Point Where Things Get Weird
October 15, 2010 – 3:28 pm
This is a Playstation game that uses your actual environment as a place to hide digital game pieces. You interact with them by doing stuff in the real world.
The Shock:Shirts I just had printed do a little bit of this in the opposite direction: they give a URL to your phone via QR code, which means all sorts of stuff can happen at the relevant page. Figuring out what that is, exactly, is going to be ongoing fun for me.
I’m working with a painter on an art project that will use a combination of QR codes and Foursquare to give metadata about a piece you’re looking at right at this moment — a piece that could be anywhere in the world, but is connected to both its inspirations and protegés. Check out the site.
Now, technology: GET IN MY GLASSES.
OK, Seriously, NOW It’s The Future.
October 13, 2010 – 11:11 am
That’s right. Robots guarding nuclear waste. What is this, the Future?
(Thanks Renato and Vasco!)
Augmenting Reality To Make It Less Commercial
October 8, 2010 – 3:12 pm
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!
Buoy Launcher
October 7, 2010 – 12:33 pm
Man, that’s cool. I wonder what else useful you can launch?
Kickstart Update: Human Contact is funded in its first day!
October 7, 2010 – 8:48 am
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 Contact on the front of the Discover page at Kickstarter, under Most Popular! As of this writing, at 8:00 this morning, Human Contact the sixth most popular project! (I imagine that’s a measure of something like “backings per hour”.) The projects ahead of it on that list are really amazing, and they’ve got great videos, so moving up will be hard, but I’d like to be in sight of that cool iPhone tripod mount and that amazing comic for a good while. And I think maybe we can pass the “I’m Not A Hipster” book that’s ahead of us to take spot #5. To be frank, the number of people wanting to prove that they’re not hipsters is very high, so it could be a fight. Plus, the graphic design is good.
So, OK! Objective #1 achieved! Thank you all! Objective #2 is next: a posting on a major geek blog. I can’t do that — the biggest geek blog I post on is my own — but maybe you can! So far, most of my backers are only one social network hop away (we used to call those “friends” and “relatives”), with a few people over the horizon another step away who got in early because they were excited about something their node-neighbors were excited about. But I’d love it if you could help spread the word further.
$2400 buys the project a shoestring. Help me get it some stout, sea-worthy cable!