Playtesters Wanted

Game enthusiasts, we need your help.

CPG has been working on a drinking game (appropriately named "Drink!") and is gearing up to launch a crowdfunding campaign. Playtesting is an essential part of game development and something we place the highest value upon. If you have a critical mind and a unquenchable thirst, help us test Drink!

Contact alex@cherrypickedgames.com and we will send you a prototype.

(Also, FAQ answer #1: You don't need to play Drink! with alcohol. We don't believe in shaming water drinkers.)

We also need playtesters for our final backer-sponsored Catalyst campaign, "Civil Unrest". This story is set during the Human-Demon War after the United States has fragmented into new nation-states. The North American Coalition and the Southern Federation do not see eye-to-eye and compete in a subversive power struggle. The players, mercenaries in Washington D.C., find themselves pulled between these two factions and forced to decide America's fate against the demon horde.

If you want to help out CPG, come drink or roll dice with us. Or both.

Back from the Tour

The CPG crew just wrapped up a couple crazy weeks of demoing Catalyst. Game stores across Washington and Oregon housed the "Cascadia militia" for an evening and let us sell our role-playing game. The public response was wonderful. Thanks to everyone who listened to our pitches and rolled some dice. We're always psyched to see people genuinely happy while playing Catalyst.

We'll probably do another tour soon and hit the places we missed last time (Bellingham, Olympia, Redmond, Vancouver). We've still got a second demo at Meeples Games on the 22nd. If you missed the first round, swing by. And if we missed your favorite game store, let us know. We'll go anywhere we can get an audience.

In the meantime, we're wrapping up the Catalyst stuff from the KS campaign, We just published "Fourth World", a backer-sponsored campaign set in Northern Arizona. Flagstaff is an amazing town and lends itself to an RPG shockingly well. Between the glorious terrain, railroads, Anasazi ruins, and Skydome (the best dueling arena), "Fourth World" takes full advantage of the high desert haven. Two more campaigns are being worked on now. Our conspiracy-influenced "Shadow Parliament" is going through playtesting and will likely be done within the month.

The player app is nearly ready for completion. I realize it's been on the precipice of completion for a while. Basically, when we didn't make our KS stretch goal to hire a developer, we made the decision to continue to make a complete app. This meant we have a part-time developer making a fleshed out, extremely robust and helpful app, instead of a bare-bones version.

Our next game, Drink!, should be ready for crowdfunding support by the end of summer. If you enjoy tasty beverages and want to help us playtest, contact CPG through Twitter, Facebook, or in the comments.

That's it, aside from a secret announcement pending some legal stuff. Thanks for the love Cascadia and beyond. 

--Alex