[UA] Increasing the Visibility of UA and UA Cards/CRPG

[Bryant Durrell]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 08:37:10AM -0700, Chad Underkoffler wrote:
> Does anyone have any thoughts about how to increase the
> visibility of UNKNOWN ARMIES among gamers and game-store owners?

Yeah, actually.

Go to all your local conventions and run two or three UA games at each
one.  Give 'em gunbunny exciting descriptions to pull in the people who
don't know much about the game.  You'll get the other UA players in the
area, but you'll also get a couple of newbies at each game with any luck.

Don't do anything too weird but make the weirdness potential clear.  You
don't want to confuse new players, you want to excite them.

Do all the cool things that make people excited that have nothing to do
with the game.  The more props the better; they'll associate the fun of
the props with UA.  Print out full color pictures of your PCs -- don't
just pass out a character sheet, pass out a dossier!  Have pictures of
key NPCs, too.  Physical artifacts are great tools.

Make sure you give everyone a one page sheet with the key rules explained
with examples.  You want to make this very easy and clear for the new
players.

There's no better channel for evangelizing a game than giving people the
chance to play it.

> * Would it be possible to create a UA CRPG? I'm actually
> thinking Infocom-style text adventure, but there's a certain
> appeal in a first-person shooter (with no God mode, but maybe a
> Godwalker mode) where the action is just BRUTAL. But I'd prefer
> a really huge text-based thingy, given my druthers.

As it so happens, yes.  The interpreter used by all Infocom games has
been reverse engineered and a compiler for said interpreter has been
written.  There are interpreters for every platform under the sun.

Check out:

http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/inform.html
http://ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive.html

-- 
  Bryant Durrell [] durrell at innocence.com [] http://www.innocence.com/~durrell
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