Ten Days Left to Enter the Thousand-Year Game Design Challenge

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Only a Few Days Left to Enter Thousand-Year Game Design Challenge
Ambitious Contest Challenges Designers to Create Games to Last Lifetimes

On New Year's Eve 2010, game designer Daniel Solis issued a challenge to the entire game community: Design a game that people will still play in the year 3011. And he offered $1,000 of his own money, just to make it interesting.

Since then, the Thousand-Year Game Design Challenge attracted new game designers from all over the world, as well as industry stalwarts Greg Stolze and James Ernest.

"I entered the contest because I liked the idea of designing games that aren't intended for sale." Ernest said. "We tend to identify game design as product design, but they are really two disciplines. Unfortunately, if it can't be sold, it typically never gets made. So this was a great chance to do that."

The Challenge has also drawn praise from games scholar and Gameful co-founder Jane McGonigal. She tweeted it "gets people designing beautiful ambitious games." Even the Long Now Foundation, builders of the epic Ten-Thousand-Year Clock, helped spread the word to their longevity-minded community.

Now there are only ten days left for game designers to submit their creations to the Thousand-Year Game Design Challenge. This contest awards $1,000 to the creator of a game that will still be played in a thousand years. The deadline for entries is August 31st.

ABOUT DANIEL SOLIS
Daniel Solis is an award-winning game designer of Happy Birthday, Robot! and Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple, both co-operative storytelling games directed at young players. By day, he is Associate Creative Director at Third Degree Advertising.

Deadline Extended for the Thousand-Year Game Design Challenge [RELEASE]

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The Thousand-Year Game Design Challenge deadline for entry is now extended by one month, to August 31st. The reason? Challenge founder Daniel Solis will speak as a guest of honor at Gen Con!

Solis will devote an hour to discussing the Challenge and its current entrants. The deadline for entries is extended to allow Gen Con attendees just learning about the challenge to develop and submit their game.

Look for SEM1128728 in the events listings. Bring your prototypes and pitches!

The Thousand-Year Game Design Challenge offers a $1,000 reward to a game designer who can create a game that will still be played by people a thousand years from now. For more information, visit www.ThousandYearGame.com

Gen Con: The Best Four Days in Gaming! is a consumer and trade experience dedicated to gaming culture and community. For more information, visit www.gencon.com or register at www.genconreg.com

Evil Hat Taking Pledges to Publish Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple

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Evil Hat Taking Pledges to Publish Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple
New storytelling game for YA and family gamers, set in new fantasy universe

Evil Hat Productions is excited to announce the start of a new fundraising campaign via Kickstarter to publish Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple.

Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple is a storytelling game about helping people and getting into trouble, for 3-5 players, ages 12 and up. Players tell the story of young travelers who help people, but spend most of their time getting into trouble. They use creativity and strategy to create a humorous coming-of-age adventure in a universe of endless skies and tiny planets.

Do is the latest release by game designer Daniel Solis, creator of Happy Birthday, Robot!, a storytelling game designed for children and families. In Do, he continues blurring the lines between Euro-style board games and role-playing games to create fun, light-hearted games that easily build stories. This time, the game is designed for a young adult audience.

“I was inspired by Nickelodeon’s Avatar: the Last Airbender, The Little Prince, and the Kino's Journey anime series.” Solis says. “I combined those influences into a new storytelling game set in a weird new universe. I’m happy to say Do consistently produces a funny, creatively engaging and strategically interesting experience.”

Evil Hat Productions, publishers of The Dresden Files Role-Playing Game, has a long history of fostering independent game design. Now, Evil Hat is partnering with Daniel Solis to help bring Do into production by raising funds on Kickstarter, a crowdsource fundraising site commonly used to fund artistic endeavors like film production, novel publication and game development.

The goal is to raise $4,000 in 45 days. Kickstarter allows people to pledge whatever amount they wish, but no money is deducted until the $4,000 goal is reached, so it’s a no-risk way to help small-press games enter the market.

Relevant Links:
Fundraising Page: http://kck.st/fwk4DD
Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com
Evil Hat: http://www.evilhat.com
Daniel Solis: http://www.danielsolis.com
More about Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple

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UPDATE: We're over 100% funded! Here's the next phase of the campaign.