What would it be like if a half dozen aspiring publishers got together and spent a few months in intense product development?

I signed a contract with Blue Sky Factory today, engaging them to be my ESP. This doesn’t mean I’ll be hooking up to electrodes and guessing at Zener cards. Not that kind of ESP. Blue Sky Factory is an Email Service Provider.

The ENnie Awards turn 10 years old next year. Right now, they’re running a series of interviews on the ENnie Awards blog, and were gracious enough to ask to speak with me.

Steve Garfield wrote a short post today about The Future of Video. One of the products he linked to is a wearable camcorder from Looxcie. You can check out some early reviews on Amazon.com (aff).

Vincent Baker posed an interesting question on Twitter today:
“Hey, fellow RPG publishers, I’m thinking about PDF pricing. How do you price your PDFs compared to your books, and why?”

When picking up a new roleplaying game, I have two related questions in mind:
(1) Why is this game fun?
(2) What can I do in this game?

Both unity and uniformity can be used to describe a unified group of people. The terms are not the same; they bespeak two differing types of unification. In particular, they address the mechanism by which unification occurs.

On Friday, I wrote about some of the analytics tools I’m building so that hobby game publishers and retailers can learn more about what products are selling, where, and to whom.

The RPG Countdown podcast would not be possible without sales statistics. You can’t rate products without knowing how many copies are being sold, right?

I’ve managed the banner advertisements on a number of great hobby gaming websites for the last two years. What started with the Kobold Quarterly home page has expanded into a network of sites visited by over 750,000 gamers and comic book enthusiasts each month.