The cheer of the season will find me...

Very, very occasionally, I miss game design. Today is one of those occasions, when I got this email:

Hi there! My name is Josh, and I just wanted to drop you a line to let you know that my girlfriend, our friends, and I had an absolutely wonderful time yesterday playing The Secret Lives of Gingerbread Men. Since our group involved a number of pagans and no kids, the story ended up being about saving Christmas from Fundamentalists, and Santa Claus with huge stag's antlers. Much fun was had by all.

If you'd like to see the photoset, it's here. Awesome game, and thanks for writing it!

I feel all warm and squishy.

Another email mentioned someone being sad that I had left game design, as he had just discovered my work recently. Internally I went through a list of half developed game ideas, wondering what could become of them all.

Now I can either do some drawing to remind myself (besides being physically disconnected from the community) why I left it behind... or I can play a little Warcraft and be nostalgic...