Instant Game is copyright © 2007 by Animalball Partners. All rights reserved. Users may print and copy this document for personal use only.The Instant Game document was created entirely with Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat. All graphics used herein areeither clipart used under the MS Office terms of usage or else are believed by the document’s publishers to be within the public domain in the United States.Authors: Animalball PartnersSupplemental writing: Cazmonster, DMDarcs, Eliahad, FlameBlade,Jeff Hauze, Konsaki, Nicephorus, Thorn, Threadbare, Todd Zircher Editing Assistance: FlameBlade, Nicephorus, Thorn, Todd Zircher Playtesters: Brasky, Cazmonster, Eliahad, FlameBlade, Kai, Mike,Pdyx, Reika, Roblogic, Serious Paul, Silverwolf, Tahlvin, & Thorn.And special Thanks to Caz Granberg for having the brass ones to run a“Random Zombie Game.”If you like Instant Game (or if you don’t), please provide feedback, either at our forums:http://www.animalball.com/forums or by email atinstantgame@animalball.com. We’re not doing it for the money, but we do appreciate the attention. Thanks.
A note on cultural bias
Instant Game is intended as a tool with which to build whole worlds and stories on very short notice. As such, it relies heavily on specific genre conventions,cultural archetypes, and a pool of “common knowledge” that we hope gives all of our players a common frame of reference to start from. In order to pack inall the information we want, we often take rather glib shortcuts in our descriptions, trusting that the gentle reader will divine our intent from context, and wecertainly don’t sacrifice conciseness and expediency for the sake of political correctness.For example, in the example of the glossary entry for “Ocean going ships,” we describe them from a specifically Western and European viewpoint in thecontext of when double-masted caravels came into use. We fully recognize that other cultures also traversed oceanic distances in more primitive craft.However, to explain such a concept within the confines of a glossary entry would entail far more effort than we, the lazy partners at Animalball, are willingto invest. So just take everything with a grain of salt. And enjoy.
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