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Fan Expo 2010 – Robin D. Laws Interview

September 13, 2010September 20, 2010 Doug Groves crowd sourcing, Fan Expo, Fan Expo 2010, game design, Hamlets Hit Points, interview, Korad, Over The Edge, Robin Laws, role playing games, RPG, Show6 Comments

One of Peter’s main quests during this years Fan Expo was to seek out writer and game designer Robin Laws. In the midst of the fire marshal declaring the building over capacity, they found the time to have a lengthy discussion on gaming. In particular, Robin discusses the Hamlet’s Hit Points project, which analyzes other forms of storytelling, with the objective of taking those dramatic beats, and adapting them to a role-playing environment. You can catch part two of the interview after the break…

Crowd sourced funding and distribution brings Pioneer One TV series to life

June 17, 2010June 17, 2010 Doug Groves bit torrent, crowd sourcing, Kickstarter, P2P, Pioneer One, torrent, VODO, vodo.net4 Comments

It was just yesterday at NXNEi that we were talking with Perry Chen, one of the founders of Kickstarter about how the site has really helped facilitate crowd sourcing funding for creative projects, and how it can really help independent creators off the ground. Even as we were talking to him, a Kickstarter funded TV project called Pioneer One saw the premiere of it’s pilot episode (includes .torrent link), via crowd sourced distribution network VODO.net. Pioneer One, which is political thriller with a science fiction element as it’s jumping off…