#Adventure time eternal mind lock series

She plays the factions against each other, just like in the comics, but when she’s loose, you better run. Where we’ve ended up leaves me breathless, like Hester hanging from the tree. She also couldn’t upset the balance of the two-player game, but she had to be a real threat. Shad: Hester was a must, but she couldn’t be there at the start. And as I understand it, Hester Beck has a big impact on the way the game’s played too. That’s really cool the way you use the mechanics to reflect character. I bet I sneered at the devilish ways players could use her against Emmy and the Family. I thought of specific tricks she’d played in the comic. I remember the first time we played Kammi with the deduction mechanics around the doll and all the tricks you could play. She just screamed for something mischievous and deceitful, which we knew would be a blast. We’d always played with two factions until that point, but Kammi gave a different flavor to the comic. When we read “Harrow County,” it was immediately apparent from the first volume that the comic was rich with material for asymmetry. Shad: We always wanted lots of ways to play the game that felt unique. Whether that meeting was reality or a fever dream, I’m glad we’re able to work together now to bring this Harrow County game into the world. I know I met Jay at a GenCon at some point, but these days things just seem to run together. I’m probably remembering this ALL wrong, but I want to say Jay and I spoke several (several!) years ago, before Off the Page was a thing, about an adaptation of “The Sixth Gun.” Early stage conversations. I thought, “Wow, that’s just a great thing to have to happen in the world,” and now that I’m part of it and seeing it in action, I couldn’t feel more passionately about that mission or more excited to get to work with amazing people like Tyler and Cullen.Ĭullen Bunn: I’m a big board game fan, and I’ve long wanted to see some of my comics adapted to that format. Jay had told me about his idea to become a publisher who championed creator-owned comics and made games for them.

All of that finally culminated in a meeting with Tyler and Cullen, where I experienced feeling star-struck for only the second time in my life. The next thing I knew, I was having an extraordinary adventure pitching Skirmishes at Essen, trailing Jay, and meeting some fantastic game designers. Shad Miller: I remember that it started with a text about Castle Hunting in Switzerland. Tyler Crook: Aw, wow! I actually didn’t know that Schweizer pointed you at us! That guy is the best! The game immediately became asymmetric and it even allowed us to go from a two player-only game up to a four player game! We spent the next two years re-envisioning the game so that it felt like it belonged in Harrow County. Maybe it was because of the success of MIND MGMT-or at least how much care and passion we had for the source material-but they said yes! We set up a meeting with Cullen and Tyler and pitched what we had then, and asked them to imagine more “Harrow County” goodness draped all over it.

#Adventure time eternal mind lock series

I hadn’t read it yet, so I quickly devoured the entire series and Shad and I could definitely see it working in that world. He was the one who thought of the connection to Harrow County. He liked the game but admitted he was swamped with work already.

I actually pitched it to Chris Schweizer, since I adore his art, and thought maybe he would be interested in writing a new comic based on this universe of Skirmishes. So now we had to find a comic that could fit within the concept of the game! Now I had to figure out what will follow that? I thought Skirmishes was interesting and had potential, but I identified my company, Off the Page Games, as a publisher that makes games based on creator-owned comic books. Then I became a publisher with the MIND MGMT board game and it did quite well. It was quite symmetrical at the time and the theme was mostly pasted on. We pitched it to a few publishers and got some interest, but no bites. Jay Cormier: Shad and I designed a game called Skirmishes that we quite enjoyed.