At the weekend my dear mother had piled up some old issues of Roy of the Rovers from 1980/1981. She asked me what I wanted to do with them... I, of course, put them in my bag and have taken them back to Edinburgh.

These are exactly what I was going to trawl through old cupboards for, but she has done all the hard work for me. I shall put them to good use for inspiration on Up Go The Heads story ideas and art reference. There are a variety of styles in the comic as well as action photos of early 1980s football heroes in dynamic poses (and cheesy photos too).

Great news.

What has been a hectic few months of RL work has seen progress drop drastically on all gaming fronts I'm afraid.

So, the updates are as follows:

Best Friends. This will be the one game in all likelihood that I'll be demoing on the Forge Booth at GenCon Indy. It's also getting some exposure at Indy with the GamerChicks event.

Three Sixteen. Has taken a back seat for a while. My aim is to get a solid updated playtesting document together over the summer and try it out at GenCon Indy. If something comes out of that then I make a run at getting it out at Dragonmeet.

Up Go The Heads. I think I can cobble together something over the summer on this one. I'll set a target of having something to playtest and show to Paul Czege at GenCon.

I got my real simple .txt file of Up Go The Heads, a game about football published as a PDF, by throwing it into InDesign late-last night/early this morning.

Go see it here. It's 81 kB I think and is just two pages.

I think it's a solid start and possibly has players betting for/against each other to prolong/end the game.