Blog Categories - Elite Encounters

LaveCon, Kickstarter Comic and Progress!

Where Questions are asked and answers are given -- 03 Jul 2013 -- Comments: 1

Well, hi everyone! A good bit of progress this month, but again epic fail on the update schedule. Maybe I just need to accept that I'm going to default to monthly for the rest of the year and stop worrying about it. As long as the work is getting done - which is, after all, the important bit. Outside of the Work thing, the most important thing that's happened this month is LaveCon - the Lave Radio bods put on a FANTASTIC event on the 29th, and everyone who was there REALLY enjoyed ... Read More

Categories Kickstarter

May Update - Fragmentation, Forums and Fluff

A month of wild progress, from back stories to how laser armour works... -- 03 Jun 2013

Hello, Elite RPG fans! The end of the month beckons and the latest in what has become the Monthly Kickstarter Update is beaming your way! Fan News: #LAVECON 1 The biggest news, and the definite headliner for this month is LAVECON! The splendid and gentlemanly chaps at Lave Radio (http://laveradio.com) have organised a convention to celebrate Elite Dangerous and the assorted media project around it. It's happening on Saturday 29th June from 6pm til late at the Thistle Hotel, Cheltenham. Most ... Read More

Categories Kickstarter, General

Rollercoaster Tycoon meets Elite Dangerous

A miasma of random distracted...stuff! -- 29 Apr 2013 -- Comments: 2

Hi everyone. This month has been a rollercoaster. Not the up and downy kind, but more the going round in circles and running sideways kind. Forward progress on the actual book content has been kind of slow, especially in the last couple of weeks. Another thousand or so words of sample adventure has resulted in a rewrite of that adventure's scope. The original intent was to have the three adventures all set in the Morten-Marte system with different scope - one in the system space, one on ... Read More

Categories Kickstarter

Forums and Combat

Battling with php and working out how to battle? -- 04 Apr 2013 -- Comments: 2

Hi everyone, and welcome to a quick interim update . The main point of the update is to note that I've done some work on the forum and website this week, specifically fixing some problems with the forum and adding some more up-to-date content to the website. As regards the forum, I have now FINALLY successfully removed the need for post approval and fixed the email notifications. Apologies to Bifford and Ozoli, whose posts needed approval and the email to notify me of such didn't arrive. ... Read More

Categories Kickstarter

Progress Update - March 2013

Models, dice, character generation and bits and bobs -- 27 Mar 2013 -- Comments: 1

It's been a month since the last web site status update, so it was about time this place got some love. As such, the main status update for the Encounters project will be here this month. Oh, a similar one will be posted to the Kickstarter site, but the main one will be here. So what have I been doing the last month? As I mentioned in the previous Kickstarter updates I have scribbled page upon page of notes, both on paper and more recently on tablet. Most of those notes have been around ... Read More

Categories Kickstarter

It's happening... What will the site need?

Got the funding, now I need to think about fulfillment... -- 27 Feb 2013

Only four days to go until the Kickstarter finishes, but we've achieved the target! The RPG rulebook looks like it will be funded. I have a fantastic and fun-filled year ahead of me and I'm looking forward to it greatly. During the Kickstarter I've been using the updates and comments there to post blog type stuff, so this website has been sadly neglected after the initial push to get it launched. After the Kickstarter I'll probably follow the same model as Drew and publish ... Read More

Categories Kickstarter

Have you contacted me about printing?

If so, I need your email address -- 12 Feb 2013

I got an email today, originating from this site, from a very kind and generous person offering to print the book once it's complete. Unfortunately my email form didn't retain their email address and as such I have no way of getting back in touch. If you are still out there and reading this, can you please use the contact form again and send me your email address so we can have a chat about your proposal? Thanks! Anyway. The KS is still going strong. "Slow" is apparently ... Read More

Categories Kickstarter

Progress Reports

Two-thirds already??? -- 05 Feb 2013

It's only three and a half days into the campaign and the project has been two-thirds funded! £3,500 in the pot and climbing - that's 66% of the target. That's more that I could ever have hoped. Time to start refining and publishing the stretch goals, I think. The support has been immense. Even outside the actual campaign, I'm getting contacted about lots of different aspects of the project that I hadn't thought would be brought up as soon - marketing companies, ... Read More

Categories Kickstarter

We have lift off!

Kickstarter...AWAY! -- 01 Feb 2013 -- Comments: 1

The Kickstarter launched at 10:24pm. Nerves, I have them. I posted earlier on one of the forums I use that this has been kind of a dream of mine, and it's true. I'm just realising, hard on the heels of the surreality of being asked to help with the official Elite: Dangerous writer's bible, that this is another Elite-related thing I've wanted to do for decades. I first put together a roleplaying game for Elite when I was at university in 1993, so that's nearly 20 years ... Read More

Categories Kickstarter

Waiting for confirmation

Lady of fate we implore you... -- 31 Jan 2013

Well, that's the Kickstarter campaign submitted. Just waiting for either approval or rejection now. Fingers crossed... I think I've done a good enough job of putting together a campaign, I just have to hope now that I will be able to post good enough updates. I have no doubt about my ability to put together a roleplaying game, but everything hangs off the Kickstarter - if that fails, then the rest of it doesn't matter. So. Site's ready. Kickstarter is awaiting approval. ... Read More

Categories Kickstarter

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