Sent: 2012-05-20 17:19:46 (PST)
To: newsletter@cheveedodd.com
Subject: Chevee's News - Origins is a Go!

Hey everyone!
I've got some great news to share with you this time around! I hope to be doing more of these as the summer convention season gets under way. I am working on my projects more and more lately and I like sharing. If it gets to be too much, let me know, and I'll go back to only emailing every now and again.


Scallywags @ Origins Game Fair -
Origins is a go!
Saturday June 2nd at 2:00PM I will be debuting Scallywags with a Learn to Play tournament! The publisher is going to overnight me copies of the game as soon as they receive them to make this even happen! Top prizes will be copies of the game, so this will be your chance to get the game before it hits store shelves! If you aren't going to Origins, but know someone who is, be sure to encourage them to attend the event! Also be sure to let everyone on your social media of choice know about it!

You can find the event in the Tabletop grid or by searching the Event Selection app for Event # 4527

See my Scallywags page for more info:
http://www.cheveedodd.com/scallywags.html



Scallywags Release -
As you have already read, Scallywags will not be in stores by Origins. The game is due in at the publisher sometime near the end of the month which means it could be in stores by the end of June. We will not have a solid release date until there is stock, but I'll be sure to let everyone know when that is!



Project Dead End -
I took some time off from Dead End and design as a whole due to some personal reasons. After almost eight weeks, however, we are back at it. I have put up two posts since my last report:

Dead End part 7 - Design and Graphic layout
http://www.cheveedodd.com/thoughts-deadend7.html
In this post I talk about some graphic design work my good friend DT Butchino did for Dead End. While I was taking time off, I asked him to start working on preliminary layouts for the cards and he has done some awesome work!

Dead End part 8 - Why We Playtest
http://www.cheveedodd.com/thoughts-deadend8.html
This post skips a lot of details and talks about the playtesting process more than it does the game. That's okay though, there were some great thoughts from this past weeks session that will be put into the next version of the game and I'll be writing about it soon!



Website Update -
http://www.cheveedodd.com
I have tweaked a few things on the website again. I reduced the size of the logo to reduce some of the unused space at the top and added a "back to top" button in the lower left for the longer pages. Give it a try and tell me if it needs changing.

As always, please be sure to share my pages on Facebook, Twitter, Google +, or whatever your social media of choice. Click the links at the bottom of each page or make your own posts to share. I love hearing from everyone and having more people reading means more communication!

Thanks for reading!
- Chevee