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I just delcared Fluxx to be Alpha. Despite its possessing some display bugs, I can play games against myself without killing anything. Now I want to see if other people can play it without getting confused or frustrated. Feeling confident from meeting this more recent deadline, I hereby predict that we'll be able to get the game out to beta testers by the end of next week.

You will like this. It is good. A big thank-you to al the testers so far, especially those of you who signed on expecting Fluxx, didn't see it, and dutifully tested the rest of the system anyway. You rock. (BTW, if I have neglected to get any beta-test invitations from me, and I know who you are, please drop me a note and I'll set you up.)

After that, and aside from reacting to testers' critiques, I'm retiring from making Volity games and going to attack the volity.net website (which has been waiting patiently for years (literally) for me to bless it with content) and cultivate the business. I've been taking care of the earthy stuff in the meantime, but distracted enough to do sort of a half-assed job of it. I succeeded in opening us a bank account, for example, but failed to get a debit card for it so we could actually, y'know, buy things, and now nearly a week's gone by with me forgetting to drop in and amend this. La.

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Mystery Hunt this weekend, oh boy oh boy. Two potential stress sources, though:

* The invitation requested formal attire. I have some reasonably suave-looking clothes (which I used to wear a lot) but nothing you'd call formal, and I sure as hell ain't rentin no tux for the Hunt, not on my budget. Of course, this being the Hunt, I'm sure the invitation was made fully expecting some creative responses. rikchik has heroically offered to lead a group-dive into the Garment District to find things that are "formal" according to at least one person in some time period that did or might later exist. This is great but even that is making me wobbly because I haaaate clothes shopping. Well, we'll see how it goes.

* I have to split early Sunday afternoon to do the Chicken Heart show at Arisia. Doh... I originally thought that it was scheduled for Saturday. So of course I'm racked with worry that not only will our team make it up to the final runaround, but they will do so right at 1pm, just when I have to toddle off to Boston. Aiee!

That said, if you're slumming at Arisia at 2pm on Sunday, you should come see CHICKEN HEART and hear my offensive Bronx accent.

Comments

[cnoocy]

I wouldn't stress about the formal attire.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I have tails that you can borrow, if you like (also top hat, cummerbund, and bow tie).

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Definitely don't stress about the formal attire. I'll be wearing a tux jacket I already own, a tux shirt and bow tie if I can find those at GD for less than 10$, and my usual jeans and chunky walking shoes. I think anything you show up in will be fine. (Esp. if you take magid up on her offer of tails and top hat. With white gloves and black shades you'd be a sharp dressed man.)

[jordanwillow.livejournal.com]

pretend you're a lifeguard, and then as long as you wear clothes you'll be formally attired.

either that, or dress up as a superhero.

[kahuna-burger.livejournal.com]

dude, Garment District isn't "clothes shopping" really... especially if you go to dollar a pound.... But I'd take the tails... and a white bow tie.

[jtroutman.livejournal.com]

I did a foray into The Garment District with kyroraz back in October. The place is the very definition of funky. You can find a lot of really cool and unique things, if you have the time to really look around and paw through the racks. There are also many examples of unspeakable evil and fashion police incarceration worthy garments. Don't stare too hard, you will hurt your eyeballs.

You may actually do very well looking at old suites and so forth. I was not able to really find anything that I could wear, due to my size being larger than average.

I am still disappointed that I was not able to get kyroraz to buy the yellow t-shirt with the giant Twinkie on it, nor manage to get a picture of him next to it.