{"id":1387,"date":"2017-03-30T16:22:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T21:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2017-03-30T16:22:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T21:22:41","slug":"game-designer-workshop-episode-14-upwind-kickstarter-update-and-weird-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/2017\/03\/game-designer-workshop\/game-designer-workshop-episode-14-upwind-kickstarter-update-and-weird-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Designer Workshop Episode 14: Upwind Kickstarter update and Weird Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biohazardgamespublishing.com\/news\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1388\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/2017\/03\/game-designer-workshop\/game-designer-workshop-episode-14-upwind-kickstarter-update-and-weird-trip\/attachment\/upwind-gdw\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/upwind-gdw.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,506\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"upwind-gdw\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/upwind-gdw.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1388\" src=\"http:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/upwind-gdw-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/upwind-gdw-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/upwind-gdw-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slangdesign.com\/rppr\/wp-content\/uploads\/upwind-gdw.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jeff Barber, designer of Blue Planet and Upwind, stopped by recently so we caught up on how Upwind has been progressing. While the main game is done, Jeff is hard at work on the first campaign. Creating a new style for Upwind adventures and getting feedback from playtesters, has been challenging. I&#8217;ve been busy working on a freelance project, but I wrote a micro-game to take a break from it. After I saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/rpg\/comments\/5z7yhu\/honey_heist_is_a_free_onepage_roleplaying_game\/\">Honey Heist<\/a>, I thought I could write a micro-game, so I created Weird Trip I uploaded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/alpha-rules-and-8614449\">alpha rules and the first playtest to the RPPR Patreon<\/a>, but I&#8217;ll eventually release it to the public.<\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Game Designer Workshop Episode 14: Upwind Kickstarter update and Weird Trip\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2017-03-30T16:22:41-05:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT45M15S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Jeff Barber, designer of Blue Planet and Upwind, stopped by recently so we caught up on how Upwind has been progressing. 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