Mike Young

Newsbox

November 2012: At this point, I probably should make it official. I am no longer doing a monthly download from this site. I was pretty good for the many years I did it, but nothing lasts forever. There will still be downloads, but they will be much less often. That being said, the November download is Choices, a set of new encounters for Atrkham Horror. You can get it here.

August 2012: Dread the LARP by Mike Young and John Swann is now available. It's a 2-4 hour horror LARP for 8 players and 1-2 GMs. Enjoy! Special thanks to The Impossible Dream for their game, Dread.

July 2012: Well, I had hoped to have Dread: The LARP up this month, but the stars failed to align. Hopefully soon though. Instead, I have updated Slash, the LARP to give it a good set of monster badges and also the Power Grid: New Power Plants document to make it more in line with the official bonus cards AND added the hydro locations suggested by Jonathan Madison.

May 2012: A new game is available at The Game Crafter. Can you Escape From Pirate Island?

April 2012: A LARP Thought Experiment! Helga & Tamuz is a five minute LARP, or rather two five-minute LARPs that make you wonder where the bounds between LARP and scripted improv fall.

March 2012: Another fan expansion for Dominion? Can it really be? Yes. Dominon needs more cards that cost Potions and I am here to provide. Get The Scrolls of Power, in our Card/Board game section.

Feburary 2012: The February addition to the Interactivities Ink page is up, really. I know, it's the beginning of the month and everything. This month, we present Meteor, a cooperative, real-time, non-turn based, resource management card game for 1-6 players. It has been in development for years and is an amazingly fun game. You can buy it at The Game Crafter.

January 2012: Happy New Year! Jim MacDougal's The Final Voyage of the Mary Celeste is available for download. Get it here, or by going to the in the free 2-4 LARPs page!

December 2011: Finally, after long last, I have Improved Farming & Disasters, a sort of duel linked fan expansion to Agricola. It adds a bunch of new cards, as well as new tiles to the game and disasters. You can get it here.

October 2011: As promised, a LARP. It's called Triple Blind and it ran to great acclaim at Intercon Mid-Atlantic. It is only one hour and requires exactly 9 players and no runtime GMs. Really.

September 2011: I entered a game design contest at The Game Crafter and the results are now for sale! Vehicles is a simple, quick worker placement game. It's a lot of fun and plays in about half the time as the more complex worker placement games like Agricola or Caylus. Next month, a larp. Promise!

August 2011: I've been going through the archives and have a new set of free downloadable cards to expand a game. The game in question is Apples to Apples and the card set is called LARPers to LARPers. The cards were made years and years ago, so they may be a little bit dated. Click on the cardset name or go here to download.

July 2011: It's update month at Interactivities Ink. I've updated Tempus Frangit and Marin County to correct a couple of errors and I've updated the two free Dominion fan expansions to change the names of some of the cards. Enjoy!

June 2011: Finally! At long last, Jim MacDougal's Marin County New Age Society Cocktail Party is available for download. Get it here, or by going to the in the free 2-4 LARPs page!

April 2011 redux: Stars aligned yesterday and the deluxe version of the Code Monkey card game is now available for sale at The Game Crafter. It comes printed on real playing card stock and comes with a make-your-own tuckbox! Enjoy!

April 2011: Several years ago back when I was regularly going to game industry trade shows I created a collectible business card game as a sort of advertisement effort. However, I created it too late and never actually used it. But thanks to my strategy of never throwing anything out, I can finally share it with you. Corporate Ladder can be downloaded from the Free Card/Board Game page or by clicking here.

March 2011: The March update is a new take on an old Mechanic. I have prettified the MENKS cards and made them available at The Game Crafter. See them in use in Colonel Sebastian T. Rawhide's Circus of the Spectacular or Phil Kelly's Other Other All Batman Game. You can buy them at the Game Crafter! Next month is up in the air. Maybe a new card game. Maybe new cards for an existing game. Maybe a LARP. You could e-mail me opinions if you want, but only the Shadow knows.

February 2011: The February download is an entirely new LARP, well sort of. It was written by Aaron Vanek and submitted to the Belarus Larpwriter Challenge. But it is an extension of my LARP, The Roand Not Taken. The Vanek Version contains 12 new scenarios and can be mixed with the orginial or played as a standalone game. You can get the pdf right here! Next month is a modern improvement to an old LARP mechanic.

January 2011: Happy New Year! The January download is an update to my print and play expansion for Power Grid. You can get the pdf right here! Thanks to Rick Weckermann for the city placement for Canada.

December 2010: The December download is another print and play expansion for the totally excellent card game Dominion. It's called Royal Court. It contains 17 new kingdom cards. You can get the cards all in one document or as individual jpgs, and you can also get a set of printable dividers! Next month we have another board game update and then in February, a LARP. Really. Having a backlog of stuff ready to go is so totally cool!

November 2010: Hey, remember back when I used to do a monthly download for Interactivities Ink? Then Lullaby of Broadway hit fast and hard and I've only just recovered. So for November we have a new game available at The Game Crafter. It's called The Aristocrats and it is lewd and disgusting and less than $10!

July 2010: The July download from II is a set of dividers for The Books of Magic, a fan set of cards I made for Dominion. You can get it from the download page for The Books of Magic.

June 2010: Alejandro García Montoro has translated Humans vs. Monsters to Spanish (and illustrated it too). You can read his article about it at: his web site (pops to a new window). You can download the translated game here (pops to a new window). You can get the game in its original English by clicking this link!

May 2010: Yes, this note is a touch late. But the May download was an update to The Books of Magic (see below) to avoid potential conflicts with Dominion: Alchemy. You can get it in the Cardgames section.

April 2010: The April download from Interactivities Ink is The MY Deck, new cards for Agricola. Check it out in the Cardgames section.

March 2010: The March download from Interactivities Ink is Slash, the winner of the 2010 LARPA Small Games Contest. Check it out in the LARPs section.

February 2010: This month's free download is something I have been meaning to post for quite some time. It is Humans vs. Monsters: Diplomacy, a game from the venerable old Book of LARP. It's fun! Check it out.

January 2010: We are resuming monthly free downloads now that I have a backlog again. Sorry about missing a few months. I was working on Lullaby of Broadway. This month's free download is a fan made expansion to Dominion called The Books of Magic. Look for it in the Free Card Games Section.

December 2009: Hamlet: A Game in Five Acts second edition is now available at The Game Crafter. Buy it now!

August 2009: Still working hard on Lullaby of Broadway: However, Qwijit is now available in a "deluxe" version at The Game Crafters.

July 2009: Two files available for Lullaby of Broadway: The Rules and Welcome to The Windy Apple. Also, Yukk! is now available in a "deluxe" version at The Game Crafters.

May 2009: This month we have an update to the Power Grid explansion in the Free Card Games Section. Now there is info for Germany and Benelux

April 2009: Hah! We have a new LARP game mechanic, but it's an April Fool's prank...

March 2009: New in the Flash Section: Lullaby of Broadway Conga Plug.... Conga!

January 2009: New in its own section, Doorways to WTF?, a card game that uses the internet. For 2-6+ players.