About Us, Our Game, and this Blog!

Introductions

Hello readers! We're Smiling Mythos Games, and this is the Reject Squad Weekly Bulletin, where we detail the week-by-week development of our game, Reject Squad!

What's Reject Squad?

Reject Squad is a storytelling card game where you and your friends create offbeat superheroes and then have to band together to solve a crisis. Creating your heroes is done by combining powers, like "You have super strength" or "You can turn into a truck" with restrictions like "But only with your eyes closed" or "But you're also a dog." The crisis you have to solve is randomly generated, and once it's revealed, everyone has to secretly decide what part of the crisis their hero should solve. If everyone chooses a different crisis, the day is saved. If not, well... There's always next time.

Who are Smiling Mythos Games?

We're a team of two people who have enough free time to meet once a week and work on this funny game idea we had. My name is Jacob, and I'll be writing most of the blog posts. The other half of Smiling Mythos is named Billy. Why "Smiling Mythos Games?" Well, I actually address that in the very next post.

How far along is Reject Squad?

Pretty far along! We've been slowly improving it for almost two years. As you'll see, we'll be starting our blog with our preparations to show off the latest build of the game at GenCon, a large tabletop gaming convention held each year in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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