With the second annual New Year, New Game challenge over, and all 20 new game ideas and 12 blog posts about new games archived, it’s time to shut off the lights for another 10-11 months.

The site won’t go anywhere, of course. It exists as a hub for the idea of NYNG, and to provide inspiration to GMs in search of new game ideas. But I’ll be working on other stuff — Gnome Stew, Engine Publishing, making my way through the 100-book Appendix N reading list, and, of course, gaming my ass off.

Here’s to new games, games in general, and a good 2013. See you in December. –Martin Ralya

The second annual NYNG challenge has ended, which means we have a bevy of blog posts about running new games to share with you!

We had 12 posts this year, and a wide range of topics under the new game umbrella were covered. Thank you to all of the bloggers who wrote a post for this carnival, and I hope we’ll see you all again in 2014.

Blog Posts about Running New Games

You’ll find inspiration, tips, and clever ideas in these dozen posts:

Babil Kulesi

In Yeni Yıl, Yeni Oyunculuk (rough English version), Turkish blog Babil Kulesi looks at responsibilities and roles at the gaming table, and managing to work both Robin Laws’ Hillfolk and Marsellus Wallace into the same post.

The Black Campbell

RPG Blog Carnival: New Year, New Game is about losing one’s gaming group, finding a new one, and trying new things.

The DM from Outremer

In Gnome Stew New Year, New Game (NYNG) Carnival 2013 , The DM from Outremer blogs about what became the second place winner in the contest side of NYNG 2013, his “Abandoned Heroes” game pitch.

Eric’s Gaming Pulse

Eric wrote not one but two posts for this carnival, Do Encounters, about swapping Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple for D&D Encounters, and A Penny for My Thoughts: 11th Hour Memories, which is about exploring memories in the RPG A Penny for My Thoughts.

Harbinger of Doom

New Games in the New Year is a detailed look at campaign history and adventuring companies, and a useful framework to consider when starting your own new campaign.

Hiirivartiosto-EN

New game cubed! is about moving to a new city, making new friends, and introducing them to new games — which is pretty damned fantastic.

Hit on Crit

In Building a Story Driven World, you’ll learn about how to use Story World Cards to craft campaigns and one-shots alike. This feels like a Gnome Stew article, which is neat!

The Iron Taven

New Year, New Game 2013 is The Iron Tavern’s look back at NYNG 2012 and look ahead at NYNG 2013 and the new games on the horizon this year.

Tabletop Diversions

Another Attempt at a Social RPG Game is about using USR to run post-apocalyptic science-fantasy, pulling bits and pieces from other sources.

UK Roleplayers

New Year, Old Game is a great example of why “new game” needn’t mean new game: a look at returning to old games with new eyes.

Violent Media

In Perspective, Violent Media sums up NYNG in one sentence: “NEW GAMES YIELD NEW EXPERIENCES YIELD NEW PERSPECTIVES.” Well said!

I hope you enjoyed these articles, and NYNG 2013, and here’s to new games!

The 2013 New Year, New Game challenge is now officially over. Twenty-four GMs entered their game ideas in the contest, and 11 bloggers submitted a total of 12 posts for the blog carnival.

I’ll be putting together the carnival roundup post shortly, and the gnomes of Gnome Stew are currently reading and evaluating all challenge entries to determine the winners of the contest. Stay tuned!

Just in the nick of time, Aaron from Hiirivartiosto-EN has submitted New game cubed! for the 2013 NYNG blog carnival. Thanks, Aaron!

In what might be our last NYNG 2013 blog carnival post — as tomorrow is the final day of this year’s NYNG challenge — Turkish blog Babil Kulesi has posted Yeni Yıl, Yeni Oyunculuk.

Assuming this link works, here’s the Google Translate version of the post in English.

Today brings the 9th and 10th posts in our NYNG 2013 blog carnival:

• Tabletop Diversions: Another Attempt at a Social RPG Game
• UK Roleplayers: New Year, Old Game

Thanks, Danjou’s Hand and Dave McAlister!

Eric Paquette, who previously wrote Do Encounters for our 2013 blog carnival, has written a second blog post:

• Eric’s Gaming Pulse: A Penny for My Thoughts: 11th Hour Memories

Thanks again, Eric!

Three more bloggers have thrown their hats into the ring for the 2013 NYNG blog carnival:

• Violent Media posted Perspective, the core of which is this statement from Edward: “New Games yield New Experiences yield New Perspectives.“
• The Iron Tavern shared New Year, New Game 2013, a look back at what Jeffrey played for NYNG 2012 and ahead to 2013.
• Harbinger of Doom posted New Games in the New Year, a detailed look at how Brandes approaches new games.

Thanks, Edward, Jeffrey, and Brandes!

Over at Hit on Crit, Brad Bound has posted about Building a Story Driven World. In it, Brad talks about using a Tarot-style card deck in collaboration with your players to create a story framework; it sounds awesome.

Three bloggers have already joined the 2013 NYNG blog carnival! Here they are:

• Gnome Stew New Year, New Game (NYNG) Carnival 2013 on the The DM from Outremer
• Do Encounters on Eric’s Gaming Pulse
• RPG Blog Carnival: New Year, New Game on The Black Campbell

All three are excellent posts, and quite different from each other. “New games” is such a broad topic that there are a lot of ways you can slice it. Thanks for contributing your posts to the carnival!