German-speaking Follow players, today is your lucky day. Plotbunny Games, who did the translation of Follow, have released a bunch of brand new quests. Are these destined to be released in English too? I have it on good authority that they just might. And if that is something you’d like to see, let Plotbunny know […]
Plotbunny has translated Follow into German and the crowdfunding launch is underway right now! Andrea Rick is managing the project, and I’ve been very impressed with her attention to detail and her desire to make sure the translation captures the experience of the original game. It’s nearly half-funded, so if you’re a German-speaker who wants […]
Want to play Follow with your German-speaking friends? The good news is a translation is in the works, courtesy of Plotbunny Games. Nächstes Crowdfunding: Follow von Ben Robbins! Work on the translation has already been underway and there’s going to be a crowdfunding campaign, so if you’re interested keep an eye on their website!
They said this old house was haunted, but we didn’t listen. Now we have to escape. Our flashlights are flickering, there’s no coverage, the floorboards are creaking, and the wind is howling through the trees… The Haunting is a spooky Halloween quest for Follow, ready for you to download and play right now: We took […]
It’s the spooky season, so I’ve been taking a break from other projects to put together a fittingly Halloween quest for Follow: Escape the Haunted House! They told us the old Harker Manor was haunted, but we didn’t listen. Now our flashlights are flickering, the floorboards are creaking and… what was that noise?!?? Probably just […]
Did you know Follow was popular in Spain? I did not! El Refugio is absolutely knocking it out of the park promoting their new Spanish translation of Follow. As an added bonus, I give you the most adorable animated intro to Follow I’ve ever seen: I don’t even know what the narrator is saying and […]
You know how some ideas sound terrible on paper, but in the moment they work perfectly? Amazingly, even? That was this game. Our original game plan fell through, so Andy, Marc, Caroline and I switched to an off-the-cuff game of Follow. Marc had been wanting to play ghosts driving people out of their haunted house. […]
Follow fakes you out by looking super light and chill. You just free-play scenes and everything is great! So easy! But the teeth hide in the challenge resolution. The odds of succeeding at each challenge is based on two entirely separate things: whether the characters are happy about what the fellowship is doing and whether […]
Print-conscious players have asked me why Follow quests take up two pages. Couldn’t I have jammed all that stuff onto a single sheet? First off: no, it’s pretty dense as it is. But more importantly, I wouldn’t even if I could. Quests are intentionally laid out so that you have to hide the first section […]
Intense game of Follow at Story Games Seattle. We played the Rebellion question, but our fellowship was nowhere near equipped to overthrow the new nobles, House Jakab, that had ousted our traditional rulers, the beloved House of Antal. Character creation led to a wonderfully complex interpersonal web: “My mother was a nanny for the nobles, […]
What am I doing this weekend? Here’s a hint: Books are here. Shipping has begun. There’s always something magical about holding a finished product in your hand. Magical, but not quite as magical as hearing about people having a great time playing the game. That is still the best.
I am happy to report that Follow is done and released into the wild. If you’re a backer or pre-ordererer you should have already received your new download link. Everyone else: you can buy the PDF right now. Do you love that cover? I love that cover. It’s the gorgeous work of Al Lukehart. She […]
We’re on the verge of a breakthrough that will change society. We’ve deciphered the genetic code and can bend it to our will. But… the only genetic trait we’ve mastered is beauty. Physical beauty. We can’t make you smarter or healthier, just more attractive. We’ve isolated beauty to a mathematical equation and can engineer facial […]
If you backed Follow, today is your lucky day, because the early access release is ready for you to download and play it. My original plan was to just do some minor cleanup on the latest playtest draft so that backers could start tackling quests as soon as possible, but once I started digging into […]
The Follow Kickstarter is closing as we speak! I dug into a lot more detail about how the game works in the updates, so here they are in case you missed them: Making Your Fellowship — You get two characters! Did you know that? Good, because you’ll probably lose some people along the way… Picking […]