People seek our advice bc of our large #playtesting pool. Real #IndieGameDev talk? It was PURE LUCK. We have no special advice. Me (Liv) and Jim went to school in the States. One of our classmates knew the Rev from LGBT and adult sex ed presentations. #TTRPG #indie #TRPG (1/4)
We three ran a #LARP Rev Casey wrote. He ran a game in his home city. 2 other cities ran LARPs too. Plus a gaggle of "LARPletops". By the end, we had over 200 people who played the game. The Dallas and Boston ppl especially stuck around, *starting* us with 60+ ppl. #TTRPG (2/4)
The Rev is... prolific. Non-stop idea machine. Endless notes & brainstorms. Piles of material, from fragmentary concept notes to full drafts. 1/2 the original testers (around 30) stuck around and built tables. Jim and I kept at it as #playtest leads. #TTRPG #indiedev #RPGs (3/4)
That's it. No secret sauce. Lucked out w/ game timing & social network. Then several years of private testing & slow growth. Yeah, hard work for me and Jim keeping a playtest program spinning and the Rev churning out material. But really still just pure luck. (4/4) #TTRPG #indie
Honestly wish we could bottle it up and pass it along. But we can't. Dumb luck that the Rev had a personal fan. Who was also our classmate. And a gaming geek. And that both me and Jim would be struck by the concept, play a tabletop of it, then run a LARP for a few years? (PS 1/3)
That at the same time games run other places. That a chunk of our crew and chunk of another went in for playing more of the Rev's games. That me, Jim, and a couple others would get into it enough to run playtesting. That a big chunk would stick around and make tables. (PS 2/3)
It's a big series of highly improbable events with no clear trend or logic. All we can offer is keep trying. Keep making connections. Keep reaching out. The more chances you take, the better the chance you will find your audiences. (PS 3/3)
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