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One Hit Kill

The road to becoming a professional artist

July 6, 2015 One Hit Kill, Psych 101, Random Advice

Noah Bradley, who illustrated several of the weapon cards for One Hit Kill, has a great post up about his journey to becoming a full-time professional artist.

The Automatic Gate

June 4, 2015 Genres, One Hit Kill

As a screenwriter, I’m always looking for ticking clocks to increase the tension in a story. One my favorite sub-tropes is the Automatic Gate.

How and why we made the One Hit Kill app

May 25, 2015 Geek Alert, One Hit Kill

Because OHK is designed to grow and change — both with our own expansion packs and user-created variants — we wanted to be able to quickly update and “officialize” rules to reflect the state of the game.

One Hit Kill is now on Kickstarter

May 12, 2015 One Hit Kill

Minutes ago, we launched the Kickstarter for One Hit Kill, our new card game of ridiculously overpowered weapons and monsters and cuddly rabbits.

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