Free RPG Promotion (and associated technical headaches)
This week, we’re running a promotion at work giving away lots of free RPGs. For those interested in such things:
A selection of products each day, until Friday. Last weekend, I got the fun of setting up 6 new download servers in preparation for this. While I was at it, I also spent some of my personal time tweaking a publisher tool for sending out mails, which was received with praise along the likes of, “Shouldn’t you be doing something more important than this?” and, “I hates it! Make it like it was!!! Change is BAD!!!!” The second of which is expected (and somewhat deserved, since the page didn’t work so well when the email list was in the thousands), since every time we do anything, various small publishers invariably liked things better how they were before.
If we’re to believe them, then apparently RPGNow in 2005 was the pinnacle of perfection.
In other news, we finally got a Wii. I thought it might be useful to have since we’re having the housewarming party this Saturday. Which you’re invited to, if you’re reading this. Yes, you too. But please RSVP if you are coming, so we know how much pizza/beer/etc. we need to get.
But I digress. The Wii is as fun as the hype claims, though the boxing game is very hard to control. I perform the exact same motion 5 times, and I end up with a jab-jab-hook-nothing-jab. Cary bought Zelda, and has been spending lots of time with that — except at the moment, since he’s currently at the White Wolf company retreat and no doubt seeing just how many beers it takes to damage the liver. Kirstie has been having lots of fun with Rayman, which is a fairly insane game composed of tons of mini-games which involve you (a duck) abusing bunnies.
Don’t worry, these aren’t cute bunnies. These are bunnies that you’d see in a Roman Dirge or Jhonen Vasquez comic.
All right, back to whipping the servers into submission.
13 Nov 2007 Mike
Huh. So do you actually recommend any of these games, or are they just free? I think I’ve heard of Thrilling Tales ….
Also, I didn’t see Monday on the drop-down menu.
Ironically, I’ve sort of been out of touch with the RPG world at large ever since I got this job — I mostly do Exalted and D&D these days (the latter not really by personal preference).
However, there are some things that I think look neat on there. There’s an MP3 today (I think most games could do with a little background music during fight scenes). As far as games themselves, depends on what strikes your fancy. Since you mostly play Exalted (and M&M these days too?), I don’t think there’s a lot on there that would be useful to you.
There do seem to be some cool things Thursday, like the Open Core Quick book, which I’d been meaning to check out anyway, a White Wolf SAS product (I wish they’d come out with Exalted or Scion SAS products!), and the Fading Suns Players Companion (the guys at Holistic always seem to put out pretty good stuff).
Regarding Monday, it’s past, so we didn’t want to confuse people by putting the stuff that was free yesterday up. Though if the server holds together well enough throughout the promotion, it’s possible that on Saturday we’ll do a bonus where all items from the entire promotional period are free for 1 day.