Postcards from the Front is a Wargame Design Jam.

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What will not be tolerated? 

Game components with symbols of hate. 

Games about genocide, slavery or human trafficking (examples).

Abusive behavior towards other members of the community or their designs.

This is a community centric Game Design Jam.  This is a Jam NOT a Contest.

Collaborations, sharing, community playtesting and feedback are all encouraged. 

Play nice with everyone. PERIOD.

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Rules | Guidelines

Games must fit on a 5" x 7" postcard (or metric equivalent) , both front and back can be used.

Game must be a Wargame. 

What is a wargame? That question has cause a few civil wars unto itself...lol. I will use a very loose interpretation of what is a Wargame. One of the goals of the Jam is to encourage exploring that boundary. 

Dice, 52 card decks, Coins may be part of the design and not included on the postcard.  

Counters, Cubes, Player markers MUST be included on the postcard. (The spirit of a postcard game is that a postcard game is complete and self reliant, sans dice or 52 card decks or coins)

Submission Limit : No Limit, if you have the time and energy, share all of your designs. 

*** FREE GAMES ***

All playable games will be made available for FREE to the general public. I will create a publisher page on BGG and upload all of the games there. 

*** Ok, this jam is getting much larger than I ever Imaged, so printing all the games looks like it's going to go well beyond my budget. I'll see what I can do, but no promise i will be able to all the games printed. =( *** 

My intention is to print 500 copies of every playable game and  send each designer 100 copies of their game and I will hand out the others (for FREE) at game nights, conventions and make copies available to whoever wants me to send them a printed copy of the games. This will be costly and may take me time to get all the games printed. =) 

*** Game Play Videos and Interviews ***

I plan to create game play videos of every playable game and include in each video a short interview with each of you. Not required and you can opt out of the Interview. The videos will be made available on the Hissy Cat Studio YouTube Channel.

*** GRAPHIC MAKOVER ***

Nils Johansson has made a very generous offer to provide his amazing artistic talents and provide one game a graphic makeover.  In an effort to be fair, I will randomly select one FINISHED, SUBMITTED, PLAYABLE game to award this gift. If you are not interest in having a graphical makeover, please let me know and I will exclude you from the selection process. I have already seen a few very nice looking games. =)

*** Sponsors ***

If any game publisher is interested in sponsoring  the Inaugural Postcards from the Front - Wargame Game Jam. Your company logo and name will be printed on the back of the tee shirts. Please contact me for details. 

*** IMPORTANT ***

The Games will always be made available for free, I will never sell the games. Period

Any monies collected from tee shirt sales or sponsorships will be put back into this years Wargame Jam as well as future Postcards from the Front - Wargame Game Jams.

Based on the early excitement and positive feedback already received for this years Postcards from the Front - Wargame Game Jam, I plan to run it annually.