tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646170664297170994.post7742518687322464901..comments2023-06-18T07:57:53.243-07:00Comments on Something I Learned Today: First timer, first design memoryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646170664297170994.post-68918936302522063972012-11-09T00:28:55.367-08:002012-11-09T00:28:55.367-08:00I did a lot of light stuff, like coming up with ru...I did a lot of light stuff, like coming up with rules for a game where me and my bother would try to name all the states, letter by letter. You started with A and then took turns naming states until the other person couldn't think of one. If you could think of another state that started with A after they had given up, you got extra points.<br /><br />The first game that I got serious about was on the bus in Junior High. I wrote the rules to a game we called Death Race after the movie. You were theoretically running people over, but in reality just spotting them from the bus. I wrote up a whole set of rules and then a very politically incorrect list of point values. The rarer the target and the harder they would be to hit, the higher the point value.Joseph B. Hewitt IVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01952817145873886177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646170664297170994.post-8201731755517698112011-06-15T06:15:38.490-07:002011-06-15T06:15:38.490-07:00My parents were really scared of D&D when I wa...My parents were really scared of D&D when I was a kid...they thought I'd kill myself or something. So I wrote my own RPG in junior high called "The Blood Wood" and wrote a whole backstory to the world. <br /><br />Over the next few years I wrote two revisions of it, and eventually it spread out from this one forest to a whole continent. My friends and i played a few adventures in the world. I still remember some of the lore, but much of it is lost on old 3.5" disks for a Brother Word Processor.Joshua WIsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15827111785216325021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1646170664297170994.post-49372590618019846532011-03-02T14:32:57.075-08:002011-03-02T14:32:57.075-08:00I was around five and had been given a set of &quo...I was around five and had been given a set of "giant" tinker toys. The "long" pieces were in the neighborhood of a meter in length. This had the distinct advantage of allowing a kid my size to create things of equal size to myself. <br /><br />With this realization, the tinker toys became less a pile of things and more a heap of potential. I recall my first design being a trebuchet of some kind, but my brother would insist it was a prison cell. Either way, awesome.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00072612074891787462noreply@blogger.com