Hi. I recently purchased this game. I wanted to print out some of the playbills but the link that is listed in the back of the booklet does not work. ("Link does not exist"). Any idea if there is another link to get the Playbills?
Thanks for picking up Jukebox and sorry about that (and the extra work of finding me here on itch!). Go ahead and send me an email at jarofeyesgames@gmail.com and I'll get you a download link!
Longer story: The link is a short link and the issue is usually something to do with missing part of the address or what web browser you're using (it works reliably on Chrome and Safari, I just double checked, but I believe someone was once using IE and it didn't work) So if you wanted to do this the long way, you should be able to copy paste this exact link in Google Chrome and get it to work: go.jarofeyes.com/JukeboxPlaybills
I really wanted to print the Blank Playbill for the one-shot I'm running in a few hours, but I have no idea how to, given the way the PDF file is formatted. Are there any printing instructions somewhere?
The playbill PDF has four pages (though it looks a bit confusing because each page has two playbill pages). You should print on two sheets of paper, front and back, with the largest print area your printer allows. Then you fold those sheets of paper down the middle and put one inside the other (see the pictures above or in the Jukebox rulebook).
Hey, thanks for the reply! So the problem was actually that the blank playbill PDF isn't four pages, but rather 3, with the middle 2 being merged into one long page.
I managed to get around it by screenshotting each half of the long page, but I think the file needs updating.
Hello! I played this with my brother a few months ago and absolutely adore it! I did hack the game to add another act 2 since it was just me and him but that worked surprisingly well. We played with the Twisted Fairy-tales preset and I expected a story that really got to poke a tropes. And while we kind of did that, We ended up making a buddy musical about two background characters in another person's story trying to make their own adventure for themselves. It had betrayals, twists, an excellent villain, and tons of characterization. I'd super recommend the game to anyone that loves making stories and definitely to fans and actors of theater.
My Play-through Summary:
One, a selfish and nice but socially closed off (in making close friends) bartender named Al C'haul, and the other a fox that makes plans to convoluted to ever be seen as competent or powerful named Vixen. The two started of hating each other. But after, Vixen tricks and convinces Al to join him to get the wishing star. Secretly though, he wants to use Al to get the star himself so Vixen can wish to never get caught. And the two set off.
Although Vixen finds out earlier that the king is actively being overthrown by the jester, Fantouche. The two get captured on their way to where the star will appear (above the castle) but get found by Fantouche and sent to the dungeon. They break out by using Pinocchio's nose (since he was also sent to the dungeon). Al sees that multiple citizens got captured. He even recognizes a bunch of them since they frequent his bar. But some let slip on Vixen's plan to trick Al. Al turns on vixen and marches up to Fantouche with the freed townsfolk to knock Fantouche off the throne.
But in the process, the king dies by the jester's hands. So Al gets a bit power hungry and demands a reward. The townsfolk, now a crowd, cheer on Al and see him as more worthy to care for the lower-class people, being an average Joe. Vixen gets kicked out of the kingdom by Al for what he calls treason. Though secretly, vixen is able to sneak to the star...but I don't remember what he wished for. I'll update this comment if I can ask my brother what it was. Sorry to leave on a cliffhanger.
This game was honestly so fire, its structure led to some really good development, and we ended up making a musical that was more serious than I thought we would make. Very fun, would play again.
Thank you for taking the time to write this! Comments and play through stories like these seriously make my day and it's cool to hear y'all did a serious musical!
I haven't actually played the game yet (hopefully soon) but I bought a physical copy from a local-ish game store, and I just want to say that I adore the concept of combining karaoke/music with RPGs <3
I'm so glad to hear you found it (somewhat) locally and thank so much for the comment! Jukebox is the culmination of a few years of working and playtesting that concept, and I hope you enjoy it!
I have gotten to play it once since my initial comment and let me tell you: I loved it! I REALLY like how generally unrelated bits of music can spark such a fun and still coherent story with a bit of imagination. (Our opening number was Gimme Gimme Gimme by ABBA, our group goal was to "find the man after midnight", and while the story progressed, one character turned out to be more genderfluid than expected thanks to a song from the Mulan (the animated Disney movie), a kraken (literally) crashed a fancy ballroom party we were invited to, and in the end all main characters and the man we were looking for kind of ended up in a polycule because of a surprisingly fitting combination of songs and cards in Act 3)
Hi, I'm Jack from MS Edizioni, an Italian RPG publisher. I was wondering if you might be interested in discussing a possible Italian localization of Juke Box.
I just got my copy of Jukebox in the mail, and I'm so excited, I love everything about this! I did want to ask, is there a policy or any way you'd prefer people making/releasing or selling their own Playsets for Jukebox (with clear attribution, of course)? I'd love to try to make a Mountain Goats themed one!
The short answer is YES, absolutely make playsets. Also when I got ping'd about this comment, I was right next to two friends who are huge Mountain Goats fans :)!
It's on my TODO to eventually have a license similar to the "Powered by Lesbians" license for Thirsty Sword Lesbians: https://poweredbylesbians.com/license/ - Basically, please provide attribution back to this itch.io page (and I can work to come up with language for that), but otherwise feel free to publish or even sell your own playsets.
I might even be able to help you get it into the official template; if that's of interest, reach out to jarofeyesgames@gmail.com.
Hello. I just purchased a physical+digital bundle of this game from Plus One EXP and was kind of dismayed that it didn't include PDFs for any of the playbills (and the PDF of the game seems to be a layout pass?) Is there anyway I can access these without making a second purchase
Hi Pikliz - thank you for grabbing Jukebox and sorry about the dismay - please send me an email at jarofeyesgames@gmail.com and I'll get you sorted out with the playbill pdfs. I'm working out what's going on with the playbills with Plus One Exp!
Hi Antidiss! Your comment and purchase got me to do an update I intended to do a few weeks ago, which was to share what's complete of version 2 with itch customers.
That's a long way of saying yes! If you purchased version 1 or Kickstarted version 2, you will be getting PDF copies of version 2. There is no need to purchase anything twice. Thank you for buying Jukebox!
played this game at big bad con and had a absolute blast. This was fun dramatic, funny and one of the highlights of my con. Highly recommend this game.
I enjoyed playing this game with two of my friends. I'm not even a seasoned karaoke player, but belting out epic songs in the context of playing a bigger game was really fun! Using songs to demonstrate and solve problems related to the characters we were playing was unique and innovative.
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Hi. I recently purchased this game. I wanted to print out some of the playbills but the link that is listed in the back of the booklet does not work. ("Link does not exist"). Any idea if there is another link to get the Playbills?
Thanks for picking up Jukebox and sorry about that (and the extra work of finding me here on itch!). Go ahead and send me an email at jarofeyesgames@gmail.com and I'll get you a download link!
Longer story: The link is a short link and the issue is usually something to do with missing part of the address or what web browser you're using (it works reliably on Chrome and Safari, I just double checked, but I believe someone was once using IE and it didn't work) So if you wanted to do this the long way, you should be able to copy paste this exact link in Google Chrome and get it to work: go.jarofeyes.com/JukeboxPlaybills
I really wanted to print the Blank Playbill for the one-shot I'm running in a few hours, but I have no idea how to, given the way the PDF file is formatted. Are there any printing instructions somewhere?
Hi Luiz - I hope I'm replying in time. The back of the rulebook has an image that shows how the playbills are printed. I just took a photo of an actual blank playbill so you can see: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eZCIZQnZxbNRlDqso8h_7vxqYFnbqLj1
The playbill PDF has four pages (though it looks a bit confusing because each page has two playbill pages). You should print on two sheets of paper, front and back, with the largest print area your printer allows. Then you fold those sheets of paper down the middle and put one inside the other (see the pictures above or in the Jukebox rulebook).
Hey, thanks for the reply! So the problem was actually that the blank playbill PDF isn't four pages, but rather 3, with the middle 2 being merged into one long page.
I managed to get around it by screenshotting each half of the long page, but I think the file needs updating.
Hello! I played this with my brother a few months ago and absolutely adore it! I did hack the game to add another act 2 since it was just me and him but that worked surprisingly well. We played with the Twisted Fairy-tales preset and I expected a story that really got to poke a tropes. And while we kind of did that, We ended up making a buddy musical about two background characters in another person's story trying to make their own adventure for themselves. It had betrayals, twists, an excellent villain, and tons of characterization. I'd super recommend the game to anyone that loves making stories and definitely to fans and actors of theater.
My Play-through Summary:
One, a selfish and nice but socially closed off (in making close friends) bartender named Al C'haul, and the other a fox that makes plans to convoluted to ever be seen as competent or powerful named Vixen. The two started of hating each other. But after, Vixen tricks and convinces Al to join him to get the wishing star. Secretly though, he wants to use Al to get the star himself so Vixen can wish to never get caught. And the two set off.
Although Vixen finds out earlier that the king is actively being overthrown by the jester, Fantouche. The two get captured on their way to where the star will appear (above the castle) but get found by Fantouche and sent to the dungeon. They break out by using Pinocchio's nose (since he was also sent to the dungeon). Al sees that multiple citizens got captured. He even recognizes a bunch of them since they frequent his bar. But some let slip on Vixen's plan to trick Al. Al turns on vixen and marches up to Fantouche with the freed townsfolk to knock Fantouche off the throne.
But in the process, the king dies by the jester's hands. So Al gets a bit power hungry and demands a reward. The townsfolk, now a crowd, cheer on Al and see him as more worthy to care for the lower-class people, being an average Joe. Vixen gets kicked out of the kingdom by Al for what he calls treason. Though secretly, vixen is able to sneak to the star...but I don't remember what he wished for. I'll update this comment if I can ask my brother what it was. Sorry to leave on a cliffhanger.
This game was honestly so fire, its structure led to some really good development, and we ended up making a musical that was more serious than I thought we would make. Very fun, would play again.
Thank you for taking the time to write this! Comments and play through stories like these seriously make my day and it's cool to hear y'all did a serious musical!
I haven't actually played the game yet (hopefully soon) but I bought a physical copy from a local-ish game store, and I just want to say that I adore the concept of combining karaoke/music with RPGs <3
I'm so glad to hear you found it (somewhat) locally and thank so much for the comment! Jukebox is the culmination of a few years of working and playtesting that concept, and I hope you enjoy it!
I have gotten to play it once since my initial comment and let me tell you: I loved it! I REALLY like how generally unrelated bits of music can spark such a fun and still coherent story with a bit of imagination. (Our opening number was Gimme Gimme Gimme by ABBA, our group goal was to "find the man after midnight", and while the story progressed, one character turned out to be more genderfluid than expected thanks to a song from the Mulan (the animated Disney movie), a kraken (literally) crashed a fancy ballroom party we were invited to, and in the end all main characters and the man we were looking for kind of ended up in a polycule because of a surprisingly fitting combination of songs and cards in Act 3)
<3 that absolutely sounds like a Jukebox game and a blast. I've definitely played a game where "Be a Man" really set the tone :)!
Super cool game, Jar of Eyes team!
Glad you like it and thank you for the note!
Hi, I'm Jack from MS Edizioni, an Italian RPG publisher.
I was wondering if you might be interested in discussing a possible Italian localization of Juke Box.
I just got my copy of Jukebox in the mail, and I'm so excited, I love everything about this! I did want to ask, is there a policy or any way you'd prefer people making/releasing or selling their own Playsets for Jukebox (with clear attribution, of course)? I'd love to try to make a Mountain Goats themed one!
The short answer is YES, absolutely make playsets. Also when I got ping'd about this comment, I was right next to two friends who are huge Mountain Goats fans :)!
It's on my TODO to eventually have a license similar to the "Powered by Lesbians" license for Thirsty Sword Lesbians: https://poweredbylesbians.com/license/ - Basically, please provide attribution back to this itch.io page (and I can work to come up with language for that), but otherwise feel free to publish or even sell your own playsets.
I might even be able to help you get it into the official template; if that's of interest, reach out to jarofeyesgames@gmail.com.
Amazing, thanks so much!! Very excited to throw this together!
Hello. I just purchased a physical+digital bundle of this game from Plus One EXP and was kind of dismayed that it didn't include PDFs for any of the playbills (and the PDF of the game seems to be a layout pass?) Is there anyway I can access these without making a second purchase
Hi Pikliz - thank you for grabbing Jukebox and sorry about the dismay - please send me an email at jarofeyesgames@gmail.com and I'll get you sorted out with the playbill pdfs. I'm working out what's going on with the playbills with Plus One Exp!
hi, will version 2 of the game be available to people who purchase the current version or will it be a separate purchase?
Hi Antidiss! Your comment and purchase got me to do an update I intended to do a few weeks ago, which was to share what's complete of version 2 with itch customers.
That's a long way of saying yes! If you purchased version 1 or Kickstarted version 2, you will be getting PDF copies of version 2. There is no need to purchase anything twice. Thank you for buying Jukebox!
played this game at big bad con and had a absolute blast. This was fun dramatic, funny and one of the highlights of my con. Highly recommend this game.
I enjoyed playing this game with two of my friends. I'm not even a seasoned karaoke player, but belting out epic songs in the context of playing a bigger game was really fun! Using songs to demonstrate and solve problems related to the characters we were playing was unique and innovative.