Whatever happened to the System Spotlight?

[Derren]

Some time ago there was the announcement of weekly System Spotlights (although the Shadowrun one lasted a lot longer than a week). Whatever happened to that idea?
Also, has the Shadowrun Spotlight been archived somewhere?

 

[Umbran]

The original System Spotlight stuff was done in collaboration with publishers - Catalyst Games was involved in the Shadowrun spotlight, for instance.

Making that collaboration happen on a regular basis can be a little difficult, and if the publisher isn't interested, then there's nobody sure to *drive* that spotlight.

 

[Derren]

I didn't know that the publisher is involved (and I also didn't really notice much of an involvement).
Has it been archived somewhere (at least all the forum discussions)?

 

[Umbran]

If I recall correctly, those various threads were brought into the relevant forums, rather than archived specifically - so they're back there in the depths somewhere.

 

[Morrus]

Yeah, the idea was to extract threads for a while and then merge them back. SHADOWRUN was fun. I agree, we should do it again. Any ideas on who you'd like to see?

 

[Umbran]

Well, Evil Hat games did just win something pretty spiffy for FATE Core, and did just put out the Atomic Robo game*...

Monte Cook, similarly, had a nice win for Numenera that you could capitalize upon.

Pelgrane might be called in to cover 13th Age...

Pinnacle just put out Deadlands Noir, which is perhaps a bit more niche, but hey...




*"Action! Science! Robots! Punching! More Science!"

 

[Morrus]

Let's try one in a week! Start with this year's ENnies winners - Numenera and FATE.