The gallery is down, for now...

So the gallery software we use to host the archive stopped working.  Fortunately we were already most of the way toward a replacement method when the collapse happened, so it's not a disaster.  What this means, though, is that we aren't going to fix the old software but let the image hosting sit idle until the new stuff is installed. 

Sorry!  But, onwards to the future!  And sorry.

The Complete The Oracle

We have a Kickstarter going for The Complete The Oracle, a reprint of a nearly lost 1980s AD&D fanzine.  Funded completely in the first 24 hours, jump on board this limited edition book before it's gone!  See the first issue for free HERE.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/timh/the-complete-the-oracleadandd-fanzine-reprint-1982

REVERSE Book Sale

We are raising funds to send PlaGMaDA director Tim Hutchings to present a game studies workshop at a conference in the U.K.  This means a reverse sale on the two PlaGMaDA publications:  Everything is Dolphins and The Habitition of the Stone Giant Lord.  

A reverse sale? That means we are giving you the chance to pay MORE for these books, knowing the funds are earmarked for a good cause.  These will be fulfilled directly by the archive, and can be signed or drawn in as per the contributor's wish.

Go here for the reverse sale:

indiegogo.com/projects/teaching-rpgs-to-futurists-in-the-uk/x/10161137

Tuesday Deadline for Game Studies Fundraiser!

I have been invited to travel to Newcastle in the UK to present a workshop at the "In the Regions of Utopia" conference organized by the Imaginaries of the Future group.  We will be exploring how to use roleplaying games to test imagined social systems, and as a means of creative speculation in their own right.  

I was awarded the largest travel stipend possible, but the $1500 grant doesn't cover the entire cost of the trip.  Here I am, hat in hand, trying to scrape together funds to cover the difference and not lose that amazingly generous travel grant.

An additional one thousand dollars is needed to fund the trip.  Five hundred of that has to be raised by this coming Tuesday, March 31st!  That's soon.  Tuesday is the withdrawal deadline, if I don't have at least half of the funds in place by then I'll need to decline participation.

HERE'S THE LINK: http://igg.me/at/GLqlbmV7Xxg/x/10161137

It's important to push games into scholarly spaces, it legitimizes projects like this archive and brings attention to game studies as a whole.  This in turn makes it easier to get grants and funds which let us do more and better things.

Help me make my Tuesday deadline!  This is a chance to pick up copies of the archive's two publications signed and drawn in by me, or you can just donate a dollar.

Thanks so much,

Tim Hutchings

Director, Play Generated Map and Document Archive

Shop down

Our in-house shop is down while our distributor reconfigures their business model. Things should be up and doing by the end of March.