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Inside

Incursion

Designers Notes and

Things YouNever Imagined

A Special Collectionfrom Tri Tac Games

by Rich Tucholka



Inside Incursion © 2001 by Rich TucholkaNo Part of this may be transmitted by any manner whatsoever.

Tri Tac Games

235 West Fairmount AvePontiac. MI

48340TriTacGames.com



This was the early cover design with my favorite Muzz

villans. This was just before we went to color covers and alarger format that was perfect bound.



Rough design for the color cover by Rich Tucholka

who is not an artist.



This is the same rough with a title drop

over for rough placement.



The Robin Wood CoverThe lady here is actually Pam Spurlock.Gamers and friends tend to appear in Tri Tac Artat an Alarming Rate.



EARLYVERSIONS/NOTES

or I got an Idea and you think it ..

Is GreatNot So GreatSo SoWill Never Sell

Sucks

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When you start to scribble in Notebooks while at workyou know you are in trouble or it’s inspiration.Usually both.



A Few Pages of Notes and plot. INCURSION was going tobe a Rogue 417 module but the idea grew. This materialwas created around 86 or so when we were still using anApple II



This was a fragmentof one of the old large14 inch columnsheets we usedbefore Electronic

Publishing and LaserPrinters made this

kind of work obsolete.We’d have to createcolumns, pastetogether and reduce

to 8.5 x 1.

After we pasted themaster we’d use a

type machine tocreate the heavy

titles and pastethose in.

Note the GAMA* logofor the Game Manu-

facturers Association.

*You pay several hundreddollars a year to put their logoon your product. We never quitefigured out why other then it wasa toll to exhibit at Origins andlater Gencon.



Old Style Page Example

With Lasers came easy to create pagesas long as the Fonts worked and the computer didn’tdefault to Portuguese.



With lasers you get a perfect page.Except for Editing



Rough Section Design. What the pages could look likeand how to balance the art and graphics.



Ship Design Pages with prototype ship art.



STARSHIP EARLYVERSIONS/NOTES

or Lets Create Something Different

NiftyNot So Niftyok?Will Never Fly

What the Hell isThat?

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ALIENS EARLYVERSIONS/NOTES

or Lets Populate a Galaxy

WowGreatGenericGoofyYou’ve Got to beKidding

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WaltMoorePrototypes



Tri Tac Holds the record for the Long-est continuous piece of art in an

RPG. The aliens section by JeffSteenson covers 85 inches in width

and shows a Market Scene.

There are things tucked in the back-ground.

Find thea Alien

b Orkanc Klingon



More Steenson Rough Designs

for the market



All through Incursion is a galactic script. It was actuallycreated by Brian Roe to replace the Babylonian like messthat I created. A few gamers have realized there was a

pattern to the art and translated some of it. What was

created was phonetic. Each Sound in the EnglishLanguage has a symbol.

Some of the artists had far too much fun.



During several playtest sessions we up to 24 people playing

and having a great time. I finally ended to campaign so Icould get some work done on the book This is a Character

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