Pirate Jenny

Indie RPG Awards

2010-08-10T08:19:00.000-07:00

The Indie RPG Awards were announced on Friday at GenCon Indy 2010 at the Design Matters booth. Started in 2002, independently published games are nominated each year and voted on by their peers. Pirate Jenny games were well represented for 2009!

Kagematsu won the Indie Game of the Year for 2009. Congratulations to Danielle! Kagetmatsu also placed third for Most Innovative Game (won by Paul Tevis' A Penny for My Thoughts).

Thou Art But a Warrior and RPGirl took second and third place respectively for Best Supplement which was won by The Day after Ragnarok by Ken Hite.

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees!

Kagematsu nominated for Diana Jones Award

2010-07-21T15:28:00.000-07:00

The Diana Jones committee has chosen Danielle Lewon's Kagematsu-the RPG as one of their picks for the shortlist for the 2010 award.

The Diana Jones award, described as "is an annual award created to publicly acknowledge excellence in gaming", is prestigious. It has been won in years past by a wide variety of games, communities and projects such as Grey Ranks by Jason Morningstar, Dominion the card game by Donald Vaccarino, and the Irish game convention charity auctions.

This year, Kagematsu is joined by the convention-busting historical rpg Montsegur 1244, the lively and extremely informative Board Game Geek forums and website, and Chaos in the Old World a very popular board game from Fantasy Flight Games.

Pirate Jenny wishes Danielle and all of the nominees the best of luck! (But maybe a little more for Danielle!)

RPGirl Zine 2010 Open Call

2010-03-17T13:38:00.000-07:00

The call for contributions for the next RPG = Role Playing Girl is out! We're looking for women role playing gamers, designers, researchers and related professionals who want to write an essay for the zine, publicize their projects and/or help make the zine happen!

The theme for the zine is International Update. We'll hear what's happening for women in the US and all over the globe in their game and publishing lives.

For more information visit the blog:

http://rpgirl-zine.blogspot.com/

Emily and Danielle on Atomic Array!

2010-02-23T07:46:00.000-08:00

Ed and Rone of Atomic Array welcomed Emily and Danielle in the latest episode. Danielle discusses the gender balances of Kagematsu and Emily fills the boys in on the finery of RPGirl! Have a listen.

Kagematsu/RPGirl Interview

RPGirl Zine 2009 available

2010-02-04T07:47:00.000-08:00

The RPG = Role Playing Girl zine that debuted at the Pirate Jenny booth in August 2009 is now available in print and pdf formats. The magazine is 48 pages of articles, women in gaming bios and resource pages listing new games coming out, events, web sites, and contact info for skilled women you might want to work with. With articles by Emily, and RPGirl founder and Jenny neighbor, Meguey Baker (author of 1001 Nights), edited by PJ Danielle, and info on all the Jenny games.

Check it out at the RPGirl Zine website:

RPG = Role Playing Girl Zine blog

Finally!

2010-01-29T08:40:00.000-08:00

Hi all Pirates!

Kagematsu is finally for sale! Check out the site for pics of the new cover design.

http://sites.google.com/site/creamaliengames/Home/kagematsu-the-rpg

-Danielle

(whew, I'm exhausted..)

A blogger post about Kagematsu

2009-10-20T11:09:00.000-07:00

Hi Folks,

Paul let me know that a woman who has a blogger blog has posted about Kagematsu. I love the name of it, the 20 Sided Woman Project! I've only read a few entries but she talks about gender and role playing.

-Danielle

Bitch on Play This Thing!

2009-10-06T09:58:00.001-07:00

Greg Costikyan of Manifesto Games posted a review today of Danielle Lewon's micro-game Bitch on his blog Play This Thing! Greg has insightful things to say about the game and comments on how it would fit well into a night of other gaming.

Play This Thing! is a group blog dedicated to reviewing intriguing small-press and independent (mostly free) tabletop and web-playable games. The site allows viewers to suggest and rate games, and create their own blog. Log in to rate Bitch, My Life with Master and other indie games, or suggest your favorite game to be reviewed.

Bitch sold out at GenCon, but contact Danielle to see when more copies of the game may be available.

2009-09-02T07:46:00.000-07:00

Pirate Jenny is still getting great reviews! Here's a follow up GenCon report from the fellas at Canon Puncture. A few other games discussed include: Misery Bubblegum, How We Came to Live Here, Ganakagok, World of Near, Spione and Misspent Youth. Have a listen!

Great Buzz for Pirate Jenny at GenCon

2009-08-19T14:19:00.000-07:00

The booth looked really great this year. I was pleased that we had such a great space - people commented that our booth felt welcoming. It got a bit crowded when both tables were running demos, but that was a good thing!

We were lucky enough to have a lot of buzz at the convention. Ken Hite mentioned us in his article in the program. We can't say thank you enough to the other booths who pointed people in our direction, especially Design Matters, the Forge booth, and the folks over at IPR.

Lastly, Pirate Jenny was the subject of some podcasting buzz! Ryan Macklin actually stopped by the booth at the end of the show for a special live from the dealer's hall edition of This Just In From GenCon. We were also mentioned in many of the other This Just In From GenCon podcasts as well, so be sure to give those a listen!

Thanks again to everyone who helped us be such a success this year. We had some great games, but we couldn't have done this well without the enthusiasm we got from the rest of the community!

GenCon Report

2009-08-18T11:04:00.000-07:00

We did it! The Pirate Jenny booth was a success at GenCon. We sold out of Kagematsu, Tales of the Fisherman's Wife, RPGirl and Sign in Stranger, and did good business for everyone's games. It was a pleasure to set sail underneath her colors.

Heading off to GenCon

2009-08-10T19:36:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow is a travel day for many of us. We'll arrive in Indianapolis on Wednesday and set up the booth. There have been some changes in the line-up. Julia Ellingboe and Elizabeth Shoemaker both cannot make it, but their new games will be there: Homecoming as a free playtest version, and Tales of the Fisherman's Wife in ashcan form.

Anna Kreider will also have some kick-ass posters, with kick-ass women on them, along with her fantastic assortment of art and games. The RPGirl Zine will be there, with articles, and profiles of 25 women in the rpg industry.

And two games long in careful development are now joyfully complete: Kagematsu by Danielle Lewon, and Serial Homicide Unit by Kat and Michael S. Miller will be available and demo'd. I will also have Sign in Stranger. Picking them up tomorrow morning, then heading west!

Hope to see you in Indiana!

Independent Insurgency Podcast

2009-07-19T19:02:00.000-07:00

This past Friday, I sat down to talk with Robert Bohl of the Independent Insurgency. We talked about the games of Pirate Jenny, and the RPGirl zine which will be available at the booth. Go check it out here:

http://independentinsurgency.com/index.php?post_id=504924

Pirate Jenny at Gen Con Indy

2009-07-14T20:48:00.001-07:00

Find your way to Booth 2023 at Gen Con Indy this year, to see the new games of the crew of the good Pirate Jenny. Six game companies have joined forces to bring to you their independently published games.

Pirate Jenny is:

Emily Care Boss of Black and Green Games, with Sign in Stranger, first human colony on an alien world, and RPG = Role Playing Girl, a zine about women and gaming.
Julia Bond Ellingboe of Stone Baby Games, with Tales of the Fisherman's Wife, a game of demons, flirtation and temptation.
Anna Kreider of Tasty Bacon Games, with Thou Art but a Warrrior, a Polaris Mod, and her fantastic original art.
Danielle Lewon of Cream Alien Games, with Kagematsu, a game of samurai, honor, desperation and love.
Kat and Michael S. Miller, of Incarnadine Press, with Serial Homicide Unit, the killer is out on the streets tonight.
Michelle Mishko, expert GM and cat wrangler, kicking ass and taking names.
Terry Hope Romero, long-time gamer and vegan cook extraordinaire, to demo and raise a ruckus.
Elizabeth Shoemaker of Two Scooters Press, with Homecoming, one soldier's story.

We'll see you there!