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 […]

I already talked about the Follow Rebellion where we (luckily) failed to awaken the elder god Kanaguk and destroy the world. I played another Rebellion at Story Games Seattle just a few days later with a totally different group, half of whom had never played Follow before. Playing two Rebellions in a row was chance, […]

The Follow Kickstarter is live! Our quest: get Follow into the hands of gamers everywhere. Spread the word! Immense thanks to all the wonderful players who have already taken Follow for a spin, faced their quests, and then screamed in joyous agony when the stones came up red/red! You are the best.

I played two games of Follow last week and by tooooootal coincidence we picked the Rebellion both times. When I’m playtesting, I often sit back and see what quest the other players choose, because: playtesting. What quests people choose or reject can be very informative. The same quest, twice in a row? Boring, right? Nope, […]

“That moment in Follow where everyone holds their breath as you draw the stones… and then everyone screams. Priceless.” Game designers make the games they want to play. We’re selfish like that. But it’s a good thing, because it means we want our games to work (selfish) and we love what we make. But for […]

My third game of Follow at Go Play NW. The very last slot of the con. The slot that has no lunch break before it. Traditionally that means people will be a little logy, a little tired, or maybe if you’re lucky, laid back and serene. That was our first real life “what makes your […]

On Sunday a bunch of the Go Play NW staff retreated to an undisclosed location to end the con with some gaming glee. True fact: con organizers are often too exhausted making fun for others to enjoy themselves and play all the games. It’s a crime but there it is. So when Brandon suggested we […]

Go Play oh glorious Go Play! How we miss thee! Yeah, it’s only been a few weeks, but around the country hearts are breaking because we are separated from our dear comrades in creative-arms. We weep, we sleep, and we weep again. I got to play some lovely sessions of Follow. I scheduled one for […]

I dropped four new quests on Team Follow: the Booty, the Candidate, the Colony and the Gods. If you are in the playtest and didn’t get the email, let me know so I can hook you up! The Booty was actually the very first quest we played but it didn’t make the initial cut because […]

Obviously the question of people working together (or not) is a pretty fundamental one which I think makes it great material for examination. As a game designer, that’s something that interests me: looking at core issues or social dynamics that we all deal with. Cooperation is a universal issue. Where it isn’t, it should be. […]