Our Weekly Gaming Night

I just got done reading Joshua Newman’s Shock. I’m telling you, Orange is the new Pink. He’s so right when he compares himself and his fellow Forgites to the Beat Poets. In fact, you might say they “beat poets” any day of the week! Ha ha!

I went over to Professor Curtis’ house tonight for our weekly gaming session. Right now it’s just the two of us, since a lot of our gaming community around here is mired in “traditional gaming”. I can’t believe I used to play that sort of thing, but I guess anything will sell to the masses if it’s “mainstream” enough.

Anyhow, I’m helping him playtest his game Limbo Fever, which is all about the choices contestants in a dance competition face; basically, it all comes down to the question “how low can you go?”. We’re also using it to explore some heavy personal stuff. There was a moment where my Venezuelan limbo king dealt with his alternative sexuality, which was really a powerful moment at our table. I didn’t see the game going that way, but the Professor threw it in there. That’s the great thing about our Forge and indie games—unlike some other systems I can think of that are extremely popular and have over 60% of the market share, we can introduce and explore different “themes” to our games any time we want!