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Thursday, May 17th, 2007

This month's Looney Academy update, which features a Fluxx Español Lesson plan by Ryan Full

This Week's Looney News LLabs in the News: Pulp Gamer podcast featuring Nanofictionary

sorry, too busy working on 3HOUSE to make a movie this week

I just got this intense deja-vu kind of feeling, by reading a webpage I wrote almost exactly a year ago. It's like everything I said about what was going on in the week of May 25 2006 is happening this week too!

In the first paragraph, I talk about 3HOUSE, and how I'm finally making serious progress on it. (The difference is, last year I was saying it was a bigger job than I'd been expecting, and that there was no way I'd be done with it in time for Origins; whereas this year, I'm hoping we'll be selling it at Origins, since I finally finished the first complete draft just yesterday.)

The main body of the article is about the artwork for the Icehouse Tournament medallions, and I've been dealing with all the same issues as I work on preparing the medals for this year's series of tournaments. (The difference is that last year the new artwork I made wasn't well suited to become a permanent standard and anyway, I was still of a mind to continue the tradition of creating something fresh each year; whereas this year, I've decided that whatever we use will become the artwork we use every year, and needs to be developed with that in mind.)

Then in the final paragraph, I talk about a cool new Icehouse game I'd just invented, which I refuse to reveal any details about but promise to playtest with anyone I encounter in person. (The difference is that last year, it was Martian Coasters, and this year, it's Secret Project 3H-1.)

Amazingly enough, even the Thought Residues from a year ago seem perfectly appropriate for this week; the first two are about social problems I still worry about a lot (and about which nothing has changed), while the third features wonderfully ironic quotes from a movie which is entirely about doing the same thing over and over again at a certain time each year.

Of course, not everything is the same... last year we were getting ready to publish the Holy Fluxx expansions, whereas this year, the new Fluxx thing we're doing is all about zombies. Last year we'd just gotten back from a trip to Canada, and were still thinking about moving up there, whereas now, we've just gotten back from a trip to West Virginia, which is where we're currently thinking of moving to eventually. And lastly, a year ago Laura Marsh (shown above) was just a random fan I'd met once at a convention, but now, she's become a good friend and a regular visitor to our house.