Expect Awesome

So, at some point in the next 5 months, I’m going to be done selling Ribbon Drive as a deluxe game&cd set. I’m going to be publishing it as a simple, sexy book. The text is going to be updated and expanded somewhat, to address some questions and concerns that people have brought up since the game was first published.

The exciting bit is that there’s going to be several hacks of Ribbon Drive included in the back of the book, in the B SIDES section. One is Radion-Accelerator Drive, my homage to Firefly.

This is one of the pieces of art that Andy Henderson is doing for that B SIDE. I think it’s titled, “Wishing I Was Offworld.” So good!

Andy first inspired that Firefly hack, at Gencon ’09. Something to this effect: “Joe, you gotta know – I love Ribbon Drive, I love its quiet moments, its understated elegance… but the moment I get my hands on it, me and my friends are going to use it to tell stories about rocket ships and dinosaurs and cowboys.” And, that boyish sincerity… it was kinda exciting. And now he’s illustrating the game borne of his inspiration. How awesome.