Hi everyone!
Anyone who knows me directly knows that I’m a bit introverted and often struggle to reach out to people proactively – I can talk about my work when prompted, but I have difficulty starting things off.
So I’ve had uncertainty about what these posts should look like for as long as I can remember.
“Keep your Social Media active!” say all the marketing people. “Keep up your marketing and reaching out to the world.” I’m pretty sure they are right, but, as I said, it doesn’t come easily to me. I’ve tried a few things – having reminders to write something, having my friend Amy (“The Oracle”) write posts to make people excited…
But in the end, we’ve reached a point where, despite the fact I am working as hard as ever on producing amazing books, games and more, the website looks like it’s not had any activity since November. Actually, the two are likely related – the more time I spend focusing on creation, the less time I have for marketing and reminding people I still exist.
So what to do?
I’m not sure, but I’m sure that I need to do something, so I’m going to start posting here weekly again.
It’s likely to be whatever thoughts I have about current projects, a few details about things I’m working on and any other various thoughts about game design or the industry that I have.
Potential topics right now include:
My progress on Era: The Consortium 10th Anniversary
The Era Zone
Our next card game, Adapt (due on Kickstarter soon!)
AI in Tabletop RPGs and how I’ve come across it recently
Thoughts about marketing (like this one!)
Having recently looked for interviewers and found shut down websites, I think it’s important that everyone knows that I’m still here, still working and still care about everything I’m doing, including what you can see of it.
I’m going to also say the same thing I always do: join us on Discord (https://discord.gg/fWnH7z7Jbu). I think that any questions or uncertainty you have, you can find answers there – the community is relatively quiet when unprompted, but they are fantastic at answering anything that people want to know!
So, I’m going to say goodbye until next week… but also that you should expect to hear from me next week!
– Ed
