I've been to this site a couple times over the last year, to check in and take a look around. I'm glad Smiley Productions has a home again, even if it's mostly dark and no one's really around to feed the cat.
I've been working on game development for the last couple years, working with the d20 system and tabletop games. Still haven't made any money in game design business (even though I got close by writing an ebook for D&D), but at least now I've got a job and I have all the free time I need to work on game design.
How's everyone else doing? I rarely see anyone anymore, but then, I also tend to do the e-mail and Skype thing rather than AIM (work allows Skype but dislikes AIM).
Yeah, this place can be pretty slow most of the time, but at least it's here. I keep hoping that one day we will have some big Smiley Productions resurrection, but that will probably only happen if it gets turned into a real business, with money and stuff.
Making a living in game design is pretty hard these days, especially tabletop/dice games... I know a couple of people who made a bunch of money working for White Wolf, but they are the exception. Good luck to you though.
We've had a few projects, from Two Sorcerers and Invade Earth to the massive Bonesaw. I bet when Bonesaw is complete we'll get some publicity on the klik sites.
Publicity would be nice. I'm working on some stuff, but I wouldn't bother telling anyone or producing a demo unless I thought it was actually going to go ahead. In the meantime, I've got my d20 project.
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"We're not so much a cult as a maniacal group of fanatical blade-wielding zealots."
--Varimathras, The Frozen Throne
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BTW, website for my current d20 system project is at:
deepsekh.pbwiki.com