Survival of the Able Now Available

Four characters sit around a campfire, unaware of the zombies lurking in the background. Title text reads "Survival of the Able."After a couple Kickstarter attempts and a few short delays, Survival of the Able is now officially available. It’s the game that just won’t die.

What is Survival of the Able?

In case you’ve been hiding away from society (and after the last few years, we wouldn’t blame you), Survival of the Able is a survival horror RPG built using the Fudge™ System. You’ll play as someone with a disability living in the Middle Ages, a time when people like you were cast aside and destined to live off the charity of …
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Survival of the Able at Everyone Games 2022

 

 

Friday, September 30th, 2022

Survival of the Able is going to be back at Everyone Games this year, and we’d like you to tune in.

On Friday, September 30th, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. Eastern, we’ll be streaming the game via the Everyone Games Twitch channel. It’ll be a three hour event, so it’s perfectly bite-sized (that’s a little zombie humor).

Everyone Games is an awareness and charity fundraising event. We’ll be raising money for two charities: Stack Up (a US-based charity helping disabled vets) and Everyone Can (a UK-based charity serving disabled gamers). If you have the means, we would love for you to donate.

Visit http://www.everyone-games.com for more information about the event and to find links to the channel.

Also at Everyone Games

I’ll be in two other events, in addition to Survival of the Able.

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Organizing Your Files to Send to Layout

This entry is part 17 of 18 in the seriesTutorials

Introduction

“Dude, this is way more prepped than I am used to. It’ll definitely speed the process up and allow us more time to get particular with all the details.”

This is the response I received from Todd Crapper, the production designer behind Survival of the Able, after sending him the files for the book. If you had read any of my past posts about laying out a PDF, or perhaps this guest post from Ruben Smith-Zempel, then you may have an understanding of what a big process it can be. Anything a designer can do to make the process run smoother is a huge boon.

What did I do that elicited such a response?

Let’s talk about how I organized my files to prepare to send them to layout.

Manuscript

The entire manuscript for Survival of the Able is only about 38,000 words long. As complete RPGs go, I’d say that’s on the low to middle …
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Survival of the Able at Everyone-Games

This weekend, Friday and Saturday, I’ll be participating in an online event to raise awareness for gamers with disabilities. Donations will go to support two important charities, Able Gamers and Special Effect.
The event, called Everyone-Games, is going to be streamed on the Everyone-Games Twitch channel. Over the two days, there will be several panels and live game sessions, some of which will be run by incredible celebrity talent.
I’ll be moderating an Accessible Game Design panel and running a session of Survival of the Able. If you’d like to get a peak at what the game is like and haven’t already checked out one of the actual plays or interviews, now would be a great chance.

Survival of the Able has Risen Again on Kickstarter

Four characters sit by a campfire, unaware of the zombies lurking behind them. A title reads "Survival of the Able."They’re coming.

They’re hungry.

But they have no idea who they’re messing with.

 

Survival of the Able, the game about disabled people working together to overcome a zombie plague, is now infecting Kickstarter.

Join us at if you want to survive.

About Survival of the Able

In Survival of the Able, you’re a disabled person living in a European almshouse when the Black Death comes to your town. Little is known about where the plague originated or how to stop it, but those who die from it are rising again—and they’re hungry …
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Rising Soon – Survival of the Able

This entry is part 10 of 10 in the seriesSurvival of the Able Updates

 

On Kickstarter September 28th through November 1st, 2021

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Coming Soon – Survival of the Able Kickstarter

This entry is part 9 of 10 in the seriesSurvival of the Able Updates

Four characters sit by a campfire, unaware of the zombies lurking behind them. A title reads "Survival of the Able."

Survival of the Able is returning from the dead to invade Kickstarter.

Todd Crapper (Broken Ruler Games) and I are teaming up to re-launch the campaign at the end of September. It will run through the month of October and finish on the Day of the Dead, November 1st.

You may remember Survival of the Able from the interviews, podcasts, and articles I have post about the game before. In short, it’s a game about people with disabilities working together to overcome a zombie plague.

You will play as …
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Vision Layers Kickstarter is Upgrading Popular RPGs

If you have checked out Survival of the Able or Accessible Gaming Quarterly, you may have noticed an icon indicating these PDFs are Vision Layers-enabled. You may have even experimented with Vision Layers a bit and played around with the different readability options these products offer.

Vision Layers were invented by our good friend Todd Crapper, whose name you  may recognize if you have been following Accessible Games for a while. He designed Killshot, High Plains Samurai, and ScreenPlay, and he has provided his talented layout services for Survival of the Able and Accessible Gaming Quarterly. He also works for our friends over at Third Eye Games.

Todd recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring Vision Layers to additional RPGs. He is raising money to launch an educational website about Vision Layers so other publishers can use them in their own products (without royalty), and he is …
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Fudge Bundle of Holding

Anyone who has been following Accessible Games for a while knows how much we love the Fudge RPG. It is by far one of the most accessible games to grace the tabletop industry, with no special adaptations required.

Many of our own games are built using the Fudge System, and two of them are being featured in the Fudge Bundle of Holding. Starting September 7th at 2 p.m. ET and running through September 28th at 11 p.m. ET, you can get Psi-punk and the Survival of the Able Ashcan, along with several other games from fellow Fudge publishers, for one low price. Even better, when you buy these games through this bundle, you’ll also be supporting Direct Relief, a charity that is supporting first responders during the COVID19 crisis.

Games you purchase through the bundle will be automatically added to your DriveThruRPG library. That means when Survival of …
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Survival of the Able Ashcan Now Available at DTRPG

This entry is part 8 of 10 in the seriesSurvival of the Able Updates

Four characters sit by a campfire, unaware of the zombies lurking behind them. A title reads "Survival of the Able." The long-awaited ashcan edition of Survival of the Able is now available on DriveThruRPG. You can get it here.

We didn’t let a little thing like a global pandemic stop us from getting this to you, even if we were moving like a shambling zombie. After some COVID19-related print delays, we finally received our proof copy of the book and it looks great. Now we’ve made it available for you to get a copy of your own.

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