Sounds of 77 Playlist, 9/25

If you haven’t been to our Spirit of 77 home page, we have a Spotify player on the front page that allows people to hear some selected cuts from 70’s pop music – from funk to country to rock. However, we understand not everybody has access to Spotify due to their location (most notably our friends in Canada), who have … Read More

Spirit of 77 Update – 09.10.14

Our Kickstarter has been live for a week, and it’s been quite a wild ride already! We managed to meet our original goal of $7,777 in nine hours. Wow, you guys are amazing! And since then, it’s been continuing at a steady pace. In one week. We’ve been trying to keep up with our thank you’s, stretch goals, correspondence and … Read More

Spirit of 77 Update – 08.17.14

Wow, is it August already? Seems like we were just talking about the new year only a few months ago. Lots of stuff on the horizon – our Kickstarter campaign, Strategicon’s Gateway 2014 over Labor Day weekend and more.  Trust us, you’re going to dig what we got going on. First let’s talk about Kickstarter…

Spirit of 77 Update – 07.11.14

  Happy National Slurpee Day! Oh we got a LOT to tell you about. First of all we’re very happy about the positive response we’ve been getting from Cruise Ship of the Damned. Reddit loved the download, the good folks at Strategicon had a blast and we even took the game up to EndGame in Oakland for a special game.  … Read More

Spirit of 77 Update – 06.01.14

Strategicon was a success! We couldn’t believe the positive feedback everyone had for Spirit of 77 and the “Cruise Ship of the Damned” adventure, so much so we opted to run a second performance on Sunday. As you can see, the Captain’s hat was a rousing success as well. (Shut up, I thought so.) Saturday’s game was truly amazing – … Read More

All About Cruise Ship of the Damned – The First Spirit of 77 Adventure

Here in the MonkeyFun laboratory, we’re really excited about debuting Cruise Ship of the Damned at Strategicon this Memorial Day Weekend. But here’s what’s really exciting – after the convention, Cruise Ship will be available for download so you can try out the Spirit of 77 framework before our Kickstarter campaign later this year. Here’s what you should know about Cruise … Read More

Spirit of 77 at Gamex 2014 in Downtown LA!

We are confirmed! We will be debuting the standalone  adventure, “Cruise Ship of the Damned” at this year’s Gamex 2014 in downtown Los Angeles. This will include pre-generated characters and a How-to for the adventure. In addition, we will be demonstrating the game on Saturday, May 24th! It’s the perfect introduction to Spirit of 77.

Spirit of ’77 Update – 4.16.14

Two quick updates – First, Friday April 18th is another thrilling online episode of “Jukebox Villains” broadcast live on TwitchTV. To be honest, I couldn’t even tell you what they’re going to do next. People get shot, monkeys get stabbed… it’s chaos. Broadcast starts at 8pm Pacific, I’m sure someone will be shot by 8:30. Check it out at http://www.twitch.tv/spirit_of_77 Second … Read More

Spirit of ’77 Update – 3.26.14

In one game, they stabbed and killed a monkey. In the other, Bigfoot caught on fire. When you do it right, a Spirit of 77 game is never boring. In the aftermath of this past weekend’s two game installments (Jukebox Villains and BEAST: Bound and Down), we received a lot of great feedback from our two playtest groups that have … Read More