The Collective Endeavour
Between 2006 and 2013, The Collective Endeavour was a group of Indie RPG publishers who aimed to boost the visibility of smallpress games in the UK.
Articles
- One way to run your art department by Jon Hodgson
- Buying art by Jon Hodgson
- Dealing with disaster by Malcolm Craig
- Small Press Publishing - Expected First Year Sales by Malcolm Craig
- Hard lessons from publishing by various
- Top Ten Tips on Selling Your Game by Neil Gow
Archive of the Forums
- Actual Play - [Dark Days][Actual Play]The man that never was
- Games Design - [Okhrana] A New First Draft
- Games Design - [Stitch] Blame and Memories
- Conventions and Events - IMP 2010
- Publisher Fan Support - [Hell 4 Leather] Come In From The Cold
- Publishing Advice - Monthly Micro-publishing
- Publishing Advice - Marketing Irregular Magazine
- Announcements - Irregular Magazine Issue 5 Now avaliable
- Publisher Fan Support - [Hot War] Cheat Sheet, Mk II
- Games Design - [Okhrana] Situation and Character Creation
- Actual Play - [Remember Tomorrow] Somewhere, part 2
- Actual Play - [Hot War] Delta Green Hack - Results
- Actual Play - Short Form Fever
- Announcements - Indie Awards 2009
- Announcements - [Contested Ground] The Hot War Transmission 1, FREE
- Announcements - Monkey now available!
- Games Design - Campaigns or One Shots - Why?
- Actual Play - [Dead of Night] Endangered Species - A Campaign!
- Publishing Advice - [Monthly Micro Publishing] Monster of the Month
- Announcements - Stufff to Watch - July 2010
- Publishing Advice - [Contested Ground] Q2 2010 Sales
- Actual Play - [Campaigns] Rotating the GM
- Announcements - Hell for Leather is available for pre-order!
- Games Design - [Dead of Night]The Mythology of Monsters
- Publishing Advice - [Steampower Publishing] Q2 2010 Sales
- Announcements - [Contested Ground] Hot War Transmission in Print
- Publishing Advice - [Printing] Printers, the 2009/2010 List
- Games Design - [Campaigns] So what should an "indie" campaign book look like?
- Publisher Fan Support - [Cold City] Cheat Sheet
- Announcements - [GenCon] Roving Reporter
- Publishing Advice - Art Ownership
- Announcements - Stuff to Watch, August 2010
- Games Design - [Hot War] Personalising Monsters
- Conventions and Events - Indiecon 2010
- Conventions and Events - GenCon 2010
- Publishing Advice - The Hot War Transmission 1 - First Month Downloads/Sales and a Few Thoughts
- Actual Play - Empire at The Kraken
- Announcements - Malware on Ikosa website?
- Games Design - The Holy Grail - The Ultimate RPG Starter Set
- Games Design - [Way of the Agent] Help with tragedies
- Actual Play - [Hell 4 Leather] Actual Play prelude to a larger campaign
- Publishing Advice - Ye Book of HeroQuest Fantasy.
- Games Design - [Hell for Leather] Monthly PlayKits
- Games Design - [Dead of Night 2] Monstrous Archetypes
- Conventions and Events - The Fixed Stall vs the Magic Stall & Man with a bag - two different con selling experiences
- Announcements - [Hells 4or Leathers] Uber Promo
- Publishing Advice - How to do things better (publishing, marketing and distributing a Magazine)
- Games Design - Race and Gaming, Part 2 - Rise of the Zulu
- Publisher Fan Support - [Remember Tomorrow] Harry Potter skin
- Conventions and Events - Games on Demand?
- Games Design - Hidden Agendas - Broad Classes
- Games Design - Going back to the beginning
- Actual Play - [Sunshine] First Actual Playtest
- Actual Play - [Hell for Leather] Half an Hour to Kidnap George Lucas
- Actual Play - Reel Adventures - The DaVinci Machine
- Conventions and Events - Glasgow Indie Gamers meet-up (30 Aug 10)
- Games Design - [E&E]City District Sheet
- Announcements - [Sunshine] The Development Forum
- Publishing Advice - PDF Print Format
- Actual Play - [A Taste for Murder] Inspecteur Kapel Investigates...
- Site Admin - Missing Posts / Server Downtime
- Announcements - Rick Hersey doing $125 Covers
- Announcements - [Never to Die] Game Chef 2010
- Actual Play - [Dead of Night] Bad Signal
- Publisher Fan Support - Beat to Quarters vs Talk Like a Pirate Day
- Announcements - Carnage Among the Tribes thread on RPGNet
- Announcements - Hot War Transmission - Issue 2 Pre-order
- Publisher Fan Support - Remember Edo
- Site Admin - [My God's Bigger Than Your God ] Game Chef
- Publishing Advice - [Omnihedron] Year Two
- Games Design - [Hell 4 Leather] Hell 4 Dead - zombies, brains & tarot oh my!
- Actual Play - [My God's Bigger Than Your God ] Game Chef 2010 1st Playtest
- Publishing Advice - Renewable Games initiative
- Actual Play - Hot War Audio
- Announcements - [Scottish Indie Gamers podcast] Episode Zero - WTF?
- Announcements - Hot War Transmission issue 2 now available to buy
- Announcements - Joe Prince wins Best Game for the 2G1N competition
- Site Admin - [Stuff to Watch]October 2010
- Actual Play - [Hot War] [AP] Pushing Other Players
- Publishing Advice - Print route for Albion
- Publishing Advice - [Steampower Publishing] Q3 Sales 2010
- Announcements - [Cobweb Games] Results for the 3rd Quarter (my first ever sales report!)
- Conventions and Events - Dragonmeet 2010
- Conventions and Events - Concrete Cow 11 - 19 March 2011, Milton Keynes
- Announcements - Wordplay Basics released
- Announcements - Groundhoggoth Rises!
- Actual Play - [Hot War] Indie Edinburgh
- Publishing Advice - Saving on shipping
- Actual Play - [Diaspora] Welcome to the Cluster
- Announcements - [Chronicles of Skin] Help in November
- Games Design - Archeological Finds and their uses - Old Notes
- Games Design - Cluedo Mash-up
- Announcements - Stuff to Watch November
- Conventions and Events - [Dragonmeet 2010] What I learned about selling & other stuff
- Announcements - [Stuff to Watch] December 2010
- Publishing Advice - Shapeways | Minis on Demand
- Games Design - Presenting Background
- Games Design - [E&E] What's it all about then?
- Games Design - [Swords of the Skull Takers] Solo RPG
- Conventions and Events - Games for charity at Conception
- Games Design - [E&E]Game Prep Stuff & District Design
- Games Design - [Eternal Contenders] First glimpse of cover art!
- Announcements - War of the Bard
- Announcements - [Contenders] Canon Puncture advocacy by Joe Murphy
- Conventions and Events - Regiment of Pick-Up Gamers Wanted! (Scottish Central Belt)
- Conventions and Events - Need a Gamer? (Scottish Central Belt)
- Games Design - [RPG Solitaire Challenge] Feedback
- Conventions and Events - Conpulsion (25-27 March 2011) - Edinburgh
- Conventions and Events - Concrete Cow 10
- Site Admin - Movie mash-up 24hr RPG design challenge
- Games Design - Not So Much Games Design But Useful
- Announcements - [New Zealand] RPGnow/DriveThru RPG bundle to help Red Cross NZ
- Games Design - [E&E]Scenes
- Conventions and Events - Fiasco, Mechaton and Pro-Wrasslin' at Conpulsion
- Announcements - Flight of the Huguenots
- Games Design - Bad Romance
- Announcements - Stuff to watch April
- Conventions and Events - Concrete Cow 11½ - 17 September 2011, Milton Keynes
- Publishing Advice - Custom playing cards & tuck boxes
- Site Admin - Stuff to Watch December 2009
- Announcements - In Flames - a lovely cover from Paul B
- Announcements - Martyrdom of Gaius Flavius
- Site Admin - Gaming Related Fundraising Ideas
- Games Design - The Agency (Reactivated) - playtest and pre-readers needed
- Announcements - ENnie Nominations
- Announcements - Game Chef 2011
- Announcements - Chronicles of Skin LAUNCHED
- Site Admin - GUGS Conflagration
- Publishing Advice - Freelance writer agreements
- Conventions and Events - Concrete Cow 12 - 10 March 2012, Milton Keynes
- Actual Play - [Hell For Leather] Bullet and the Hell Bikers
- Conventions and Events - Some Spiel Numbers
- Publishing Advice - Numbers and Hiatus
- Conventions and Events - Short(ish) demos - do people actually play them?
- Games Design - I hear you might enjoy rolling dice...
- Announcements - Crossroads - The Booth at the End RPG - it's here!
- Conventions and Events - Concrete Cow 12½ - 8 September 2012, Milton Keynes
- Conventions and Events - [UKGE 2012] UK Games Expo (2012) results
- Conventions and Events - Nerd East 2012 (oh yeah, and I'm back...)
- Games Design - Nobel Inventions & Legacy
- Conventions and Events - Con-Quest -The Midlands Show [Image Heavy thread]
- Conventions and Events - Conpulsion 2013 how was it for you?
- Publishing Advice - Forums, blogs and podcasts
- Publishing Advice - Managing the Brand
- Conventions and Events - UK Games Expo 2013
- Announcements - Contested Ground Studios News
- Announcements - [Hell for Leather] Beta & Layout advice
- Games Design - What are you currently working on?
- Conventions and Events - Get in the VAN!
- Publishing Advice - Other People's Stuff
- Games Design - WWID?
- Games Design - Wolfpack
- Games Design - [Hot War] Humanising Monsters, part 2
- Actual Play - [Hell 4 Leather] Django's Fate
- Games Design - Hot a|state City
- Announcements - [Cogs, Cakes and Swordsticks] Free steampunk rpg
- Publishing Advice - [CGS] Q4 2009 and 2009 Total Sales
- Announcements - Ikosa.net interview with Contested Ground Studios
- Actual Play - [Hell 4 Leather] Playtesting
- Games Design - [Covenant] Revolver - a variation
- Conventions and Events - Running a small con
- Site Admin - Stuff to Watch February 2010
- Games Design - Play as you Read
- Conventions and Events - Continuum 2010 [Image Heavy Thread]
- Conventions and Events - [European] RPG Conventions listing
- Announcements - [Hell for Leather] A video tutorial
- Announcements - Stuff to Watch March 2010
- Announcements - [Contested Ground Studios] Pricing Changes
- Games Design - Hot War - the Masquerade
- Publishing Advice - UK/European Short-run Printers
- Announcements - [Contested Ground Studios] Discount Bundles & New Resources
- Announcements - Stuff to watch November 2009
- Actual Play - [Hell 4 Leather] Akira-style - Shin-ichiiiiiiiii!
- Conventions and Events - Concrete Cow 10½ - 11 September 2010
- Games Design - [Between Continents] Part Three of the Cold City/Hot War Trilogy
- Actual Play - [Hammer Falls] Junkie Dystopia
- Actual Play - [Cogs, Cakes and Swordsticks] Conpulsion Play Test Report
- Games Design - [Dead of Night 2] Bad Habits
- Announcements - [Dead of Night 2] Art Preview
- Publisher Fan Support - Omnihedron Games Update
- Announcements - [Contested Ground] Tweet Tweet
- Announcements - [Steampower Publishing] The Return!
- Actual Play - [Dead of Night] Actual play reports
- Publishing Advice - [Hell for Leather] Things You Gotta Do Before Printing (Help!)
- Games Design - Putting People Off Your Game
- Publishing Advice - [Contested Ground] Q1 2010 Sales
- Publishing Advice - [CreateSpace] Help with W8-BEN and publishing
- Conventions and Events - [UKGames Expo]Collective Endeavour Games Schedule
- Publishing Advice - [Art for Ads] Show me your pictures?
- Games Design - [Shipwreck] First thoughts and vague meanderings
- Games Design - [Shipwreck] An Improved Version
- Announcements - [On Mighty Thews] On Mighty Playtests!
- Site Admin - Dead of Night
- Publishing Advice - [Pro-Wrasslin' Battle Royale] Card game Marketing
- Games Design - [Shipwreck] The First Playtest
- Announcements - A Taste For Murder and thanks
- Games Design - [Shipwreck] The Wreck of HMS Aurora
- Publishing Advice - PDF formats for Ipad/Kindle
- Games Design - [Contenders] Magpie Lords & Magpie Ladies
- Announcements - [Dead of Night 2] Gone to Print
- Games Design - Antonymic Trait Pairs
- Announcements - Stuff to Watch May 2010
- Games Design - [Dark Days]My core concept is dumb, please help.
- Conventions and Events - [Games Expo 2010] Collective Endeavour Games
- Announcements - [Contested Ground] New Hot War Quickplay Demo Pack
- Announcements - [Hell 4 Leather] Printed and ready for UK Games Expo
- Announcements - New Releases at Games Expo 2010
- Actual Play - [Remember Tomorrow] Somewhere
- Actual Play - [Hell for Leather] Tramp Licking In Doncaster
- Actual Play - [Cold City] The Facility, a hack
- Actual Play - [Hot War] Victory Girls
- Announcements - Stuff to Watch June 2010
- Announcements - BoxNinja presents Remember Tomorrow
- Actual Play - Reel Adventures - Candy Cane Calamity
- Games Design - Stitch - Back to the Drawing Board
- Announcements - [Hell for Leather] Free Edition
- Publishing Advice - Albion update
- Publisher Fan Support - [BoxNinja] Gregor Hutton on Portugese podcast
- Announcements - [Hell 4 Leather] Roars into print!
- Actual Play - Pro-Wrasslin' Battle Royale
- Games Design - [Between Continents] Some Mechanical Bits
- Publisher Fan Support - [Hot War] Cheat Sheet
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