Author Archives: WJ MacGuffin

Panda Gaming Grove? Yes.

A fine website called Panda Gaming Grove has posted a page of current Kickstarter rpgs, including the Outlive Outdead Companion. My favorite part? “The author, WJ MacGuffin, is a pretty awesome guy ….” I’d like to think so! Perhaps more importantly, the author had some nice things to say about our Kickstarter. There you have

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Going Fast!

Yesterday, we launched our Kickstarter campaign for the Outlive Outdead Companion. Today, one of our rewards is half gone already! For those who didn’t read yesterday’s announcement, the Outlive Outdead Companion is a collection of five adventures for the Outlive Outdead rpg, each set in its own time period: Stone Age, Arthurian England, Jacobean Scotland,

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Outlive Outdead Companion now a Kickstarter!

We are at it again. Back in July, 2012, we ran a Kickstarter campaign to produce Outlive Outdead, our cinematic zombie roleplaying game. That was so successful, and fun, that we’re running another Kickstarter campaign for the Outlive Outdead Companion. This new book features five adventures, each with its own time period and rule modifications:

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Great Outlive Outdead review

We will be releasing Outlive Outdead for sale in October. Should you buy a copy if you didn’t get one through our Kickstarter campaign? Yes! But don’t take our word for it–read a review! G*M*S Magazine has posted a review of Outlive Outdead. The verdict? “Three very well deserved stars and a hearty recommendation for

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Hola Espanol, Bon Jour Francaise!

As we announced earlier, Happy Bishop Games is working on translating our games. Now, we can announce some details. Outlive Outdead, our Kickstarter-funded zombie roleplaying game, will be translated into French. We are excited to share our cinematic zombie game with the French-speaking world. And Personality Chess, our chaotic version of chess, will be translated into Spanish.

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HBG Announces Two New Projects

Now that the Outlive Outdead kickstarter is finally complete, Happy Bishop Games is moving forward with not one but two projects! The first is the HBG Translation Project. We are working with gamers who are fluent in a non-English language to translate our games (Outlive Outdead, Personality Chess, and Triune) into other languages. This won’t be a

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Kickstarter Lessons 3: Shipping

You did it. Your Kickstarter campaign is successful and your product is finished. You won! But now, you have to get your product into your customer’s hands. Good luck. As I said earlier, a Kickstarter campaign is a business transaction. You are the business and the backers are your customers. When the product is complete

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Kickstarter Lessons 2: Picking Rewards

You simply cannot do a Kickstarter campaign with just a product. You also need rewards. You MUST include stuff beyond the product/service that you’re offering. With Outlive Outdead‘s kickstarter, I offered the following: customized adventures, zombified pics, stickers, test tubes filled with “zombie blood”, PDFs, paperbacks, hardcovers, dice, and battle mats. That’s a lot, but that’s

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