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Now, it’s time for some contests.
We’re going to have a blog carnival. Here’s the trick, the whole thing is going to be in-character. If you don’t have a copy of Maschine Zeit, you can download the timeline and basic history Timeline and Blog Entries. That should be enough to get you started. The blogs should [...]

The year is 2110. In 2105, over a tenth of the world’s population died when a number of space stations orbiting Earth went dead. The radiation that killed them had an unexpected side effect: The victims now haunt the halls, possessing machinery and threatening anyone that dares travel inside.
Maschine Zeit is a sci-fi/horror RPG from [...]

“Dude, that game of Maschine Zeit was so badass, it slowly walked away from an explosion, never looking back.”
Tell me that’s not the best quote ever? It makes me wish I hadn’t already submitted the cover. There’s always room for a second edition.
That would be the reaction Jared Axelrod had. He’s the writer of this [...]

Sorry for the lack of updates. Things have been busy. So I thought I’d give you a bunch of new info to make up for it.
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Maschine Zeit is a game about ghost stories on space stations. A Perfect Wasteland isn’t. Or at least, not exactly.
A Perfect Wasteland offers new angles on Maschine Zeit’s universe. From [...]

First, here’s our daughter with our new convention banner:

You’ll notice the artwork of the wonderful Ruth Lampi on our wall as well. Now we’ve addressed that…
The Kickstarter hit $2,000. That’s awesome. In fact, it’s at $2,105 right now. This means that the contributors will soon be deciding on an exclusive supplement for the game. The [...]

I ran a demo last Friday at Showcase Comics in Bryn Mawr PA. One of the players just recently started a Vlog, and did a pretty thorough review of it. You can check that out here. The degree of attention he pays is great. He had one sort of gripe, and a completely cool and [...]

Our friends over at Alltern8.com featured Maschine Zeit after playing one of our demos. Read it. Love it. Rock the fuck out.

I know I give a bit of shit to Apple.
But here’s a little thing for Maschine Zeit’s Apple users. It’s a Maschine Zeit screensaver. To install it, just drop it in your Library/Screensavers directory. I’m told it should definitely work on any OS X 10.6+ machine, it may work on 10.5 or earlier, but we [...]

Here’s the Maschine Zeit character sheet, courtesy of Chris “Mr Gone” Leland and AK “Drake Noble” Whipple.