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July 25, 2013 | Sohmer

A Novel?

After many moons of silence, I can finally come clean about a project. A few months ago, I signed on the dotted line, and joined 47 North, Amazon’s Scifi/Fantasy imprint as one of their authors. I’ve been signed on to
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July 21, 2013 | Sohmer

Thank You

I’m sitting at Gate 93, in the international terminal of the San Francisco airport, willing time to move forward, so that I can sooner get on another plane, and get my oh-so-tired ass home. SDCC, as usual, was an exhausting
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July 17, 2013 | Sohmer

2 Days and a San Diego Comicon

2 Days left on The Fork of Truth, and will a miracle happen? Will we get to make this game? The choice is yours. As I type this, Lar and I are in San Diego, where we’ll be at Booth
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July 10, 2013 | Sohmer

HEEEEEEEeeeeeeeelp?

It’s crunch time, folks, and I need your help. I can’t stress enough just how much we want to make this game. We’ve been working on LFG & The Fork of Truth for many months now, and we all want
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July 9, 2013 | Sohmer

A Little Hope

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us this afternoon for the live Q&A. It was a ridiculous amount of fun, and leads nicely into this next piece of news- Dickathon of Hope. This Friday, beginning at 12pm EST, we will
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July 9, 2013 | Sohmer

Fork of Truth Q&A Over.

And here we go! And the link to the Kickstarter is here. -Because I Can

 
 
July 8, 2013 | Sohmer

11 Days…

11 Days left, and things are starting to get interesting. Even more interesting, that is. First up, Derk(head of Paladdin studios) and I will be doing a live Q&A at 2pm EST tomorrow, Tuesday July 9th. We’ll be discussing everything
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July 3, 2013 | Sohmer

A Few Updates

14 Days into the campaign, and we’ve made a significant dent. Still, quite a long ways to go, but I have faith. I know alot of you like to wait to the very last minute to back kickstarters (Hell, I
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June 26, 2013 | Sohmer

Get Excited…

If this new trailer doesn’t get you pumped up for LFG & The Fork of Truth, I don’t know what else I can do for you. http://youtu.be/K7WTzNVD9FE We’re on our way, folks, let’s make this happen. Please grab yourself a
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June 25, 2013 | Sohmer

Transparency

As we’re neck deep in a new Kickstarter, I thought it was a good time to go over the last and only other LFG Kickstarter we’ve done to date, LFG: This is War. The purpose of that KS was to
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June 19, 2013 | Sohmer

LFG & The Fork of Truth, Now on Kickstarter

Today is the day, folks, today is the day where you get to decide whether or not we spend the next year making a video game. LFG & The Fork of Truth is now on Kickstarter. It’s a huge undertaking
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June 19, 2013 | Sohmer

Fork of Truth, K-1

Welp, tomorrow’s the day. Tomorrow’s the day we see if we can raise $600,000 to make this (and yes, that is 4 people playing multiplayer mode): http://youtu.be/mxAtyDw67wk I really, really hope we do. LFG & The Fork of Truth Kickstarter
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June 18, 2013 | Sohmer

Fork of Truth, K-2

2 days, folks, 2 days until we start the next part of this video game journey. Today, I thought you’d enjoy seeing where all the action of LFG & The Fork of Truth will take place, the wonderful continent of
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June 17, 2013 | Sohmer

Fork of Truth, K-3

This is the week, folks, the week where we launch the Fork of Truth Kickstarter and see if we can raise a great deal of money to finish the massive undertaking that is this game. The boys over at Paladin
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June 14, 2013 | Sohmer

Fork of Truth, K-6

Oh man, we’re getting close, aren’t we? The level of anticipation and nerves around here is pretty intense, but we’re almost there, about to launch our biggest and most ambitious project to date. For today’s little tease, we thought we’d
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June 13, 2013 | Sohmer

Fork of Truth, K-7

One of the many fun things about creating a video game is spotting a bug during one of the many play testing sessions of the various builds. The boys at Paladin started to record some of their favorites, and I
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June 12, 2013 | Sohmer

Fork of Truth, K-8

We’ve got a fun teaser for you folks today, this time of the audio variety. Take a listen, it’s filled with sound bites taken directly from the game, starring Richard, Cale, Benny and Krunch. Your browser doesn’t support the audio
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June 11, 2013 | Sohmer

Fork of Truth, K-9

Another day, another teaser for LFG & The Fork of Truth. We’ve got a big treat for you today though, a screenscap from the most recent in-progress (and very early) build of the game: For today’s info, I picked 5
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June 10, 2013 | Sohmer

Fork of Truth, K-10

On Friday, I showed you a sketch of what Cale was going to look like in the game. I thought for today, we’d up the ante a little bit and show you a render of everyone’s favorite warlock: Of course,
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June 7, 2013 | Sohmer

Fork of Truth, K-13

One of my biggest intial concerns with doing a video game was purely esthetic. How would the game look? What would Richard look like? Would we be using Lar’s style of character and background design? How would that even translate
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June 6, 2013 | Sohmer

Fork of Truth, K-14

For the last 6 months, we here at Blind Ferret, hand in hand with the guys at Paladin Studios have been working ridiculously hard on a brand new project. And now, we’re finally ready to talk about it. Every weekday,
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June 3, 2013 | Sohmer

Final 48 Hours of The Bear…

This is it, folks, the last 48 hours on The Bear Volume 2 Kickstarter. Now would be the time to grab yourself a copy, or perhaps more than one?   As always, we appreciate the support! -Because I Can.  

 
 
May 28, 2013 | Sohmer

LFG & Me

Been far too long since I made a blog post, and for that I apologize. To make up for my silence, allow me to run through several LFG-related projects and give you updates on where they stand. The Sohmer Family
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May 8, 2013 | Sohmer

The Bear, Volume 2?

In September, Becky Dreisdadt and I launched a project called ‘The Bear’, a series of stand alone images and anecdotes about being a first time parent, a first time dad. It went well, exceptionally well. The book came out, you
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