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Latest 10 posts
This Week
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This is my second post about The Demons of Volinn, a new and in-progress game I started for Minimalist Jam V! Part 1 is here. Equipment # All of the things I want to talk about...
Last Week
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What if I actually told people about the 19,000 word game that I dropped a week ago? Would that be cool or what? Going into Minimalist Jam, I was floating a few ideas as to...
Earlier
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At the end of the first post in this (intermittent, barely-started) series, I mentioned I wanted to talk about weapons (or specifically armaments), systems, and enemies. All of...
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In case you missed my possibly too subtle footnote in Five Years in the Apocalypse, APOCALYPSE FRAME 2nd Edition is in the works.1 When envisioning what this would look like, I...
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On August 11th, 2021, I uploaded version 0.1.0 of APOCALYPSE FRAME to itch.io. I had been working on a fully different game when someone tipped me off to LUMEN (in no small...
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This post is written for Prismatic Wasteland’s Random Blogwagon. I rolled an 18 on the first table (post on June 18th), a 4 on the second (one plain paragraph, no frills), and...Linked by the ring
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Hi there! Did you know that not only is NULL_SPACE out, not only is it out in physical form, and not only does it have a printed job packet…it has its first official...
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The Binary Star Promise is that I will get a great idea for a prototype, start something, and put it on the backburner for a bit if it’s something I don’t owe people and would...
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What is the intended vibe of NULL_SPACE? “Cyberpunk-esque” # Shannon at The Novel Gamemaster described NULL_SPACE on bluesky as having “a low-powered mothership feel but...Linked by the ring
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Hi there! It’s once again that time of the year. Every year I take stock of what I accomplished, go through my numbers, chart what I did and how well it did, and try to draw...