Monthly Video – June 2020

OK so when I started recording I didn’t know it was going to take me an hour to talk about everything, but you should know before watching:

I talk for an hour about everything.

Timestamps so you can skip stuff you don’t care about:

• 0:00 – Intro, Improved dice models & customisation
• 3:42 – New dice shapes, and tangents about geometry and dice fairness
• 17:25 – Short RPG Dev / The Chamber
• 20:00 – Sitcom
• 25:05 – Assault on the Frozen Fortress
• 28:35 – Divination with Polyhedral Dice
• 30:50 – Echoes of Fargil’s Golabic Technic
• 41:20 – DreamSent
• 52:00 – Short talk about PS1-style RPG before going back to DreamSent

Honestly I didn’t know how much stuff I’d worked on and released this month until I listed everything for the video, but it’s a good reminder (to me) of how I work – some months I can’t get much done, other months I just make so much stuff I can’t even keep track of all it lol. Which is another reason I’m really grateful for is your support – knowing that I have income even when I’m not being as productive means I can go a little easier on myself during my less productive periods and recharge my energy for the next sprint.

Anyway that’s probably all from me for this month so I’ll say thanks for your support, and wish you well in these shitty times. Because you’re awesome and I love you <3

Divination with Polyhedral Dice

Hey, wanna become an astralagomancer?

The attached pdf explains the dice divination method I came up with, and I’m also attaching a zip file containing compatible dice that you can roll using my dice app.

This project was something I started quite a while ago but never got round to finishing up until now. It’s nice to take an old project off the shelf sometimes and see it to completion 🙂

I hope you’re well!

Adventure Gamebook Stuff

I spent the last couple of days working on a new version of my festive/gruesome gamebook Assault on the Frozen Fortress, which now has a pdf version (attached below).

This version includes the extra classes for my gamebook system that I posted a few months ago, has more clarified intro and how-to-play stuff, and it’s been proof-read a couple more times fixing some issues, spelling, and awkward writing. Also it has way better layout.

In other news, I’m hosting an Adventure Gamebook jam on itch.io through July, so if you’re interested then join in 🙂

Dice Work and new RPG stuff

Hey so I’m trying to keep you updated more frequently again so here’s what the past week has mostly been about for me:

DICE!

I’ve been working on an update for Sophie’s Dice, I finally replaced ALL of the dice models and their old system so that they look better, have sharp-edged versions, and don’t cause the app size to be quite so humongous (I got rid of 150+ HD normal maps!)

I also implemented new dice surface controls so dice can be customised even further! There are a bunch more things I’m hoping to include but I’m not expecting any major show-stopping additions besides perhaps adding more dice shapes.

DreamSent

I realised that the setting for DreamSent was leaning heaviliy on tropes that reinforce colonial and xenophobic attitudes so I pretty much scrapped it! The setting that is, I think the game is worth saving so I’ve been writing a new setting! Instead of brave strong heroes who march into weird/insideous alien places and kill stuff – it’s about people who live in a future Earth after a magical universe collided with our own, triggering a few disasters and conflicts, but the tl;dr is humans and faries teamed up, pushed out the assholes, and turned the planet into an anarchist utopia with dragons and internet and stuff. tbh the setting rewrite is a lot of work so I don’t really have a pdf that is stable enough to even share as a WIP rn.

Echoes of Fargil’s Golabic Technic

I also started writing another RPG! The WIP pdf attached to this post!

It’s basically a horror RPG with a format that is an existential crisis. Also it has a lot of made-up words. I started writing it when I had A LOT of manic energy and unlike most of the things that start that way, I think this has a lot of potential!

It’s not got a seperate combat system, your stats are literally just which dice you place on your character sheet, and it is built around largely random travel – roll a d100 and see which scenario is next. Also, as well as numbered scenarios, items are numbered too, and I can group them to say “You find item [d20+60]” and know it’s pulling from some specific part of the list.

I dunno how but I lucked out and randomly came up with something that is interesting to me mechanically and thematically, and is also relatively straightforward.

The non-tabletop RPG

OK so I’m not gonna lie, work has 100% stalled on that. The next thing I need to do for it is just a load of writing, and I have no motivation to do it right now. Which is weird because I’ve started writing FOUR RPGs since I started procrastinating writing for that one. For the time being I’m just going to follow my passion and see where I end up. There’s a good chance that whilst I’m milling about writing other RPG settings I’ll see *the one*, you know? But only time is going to tell. I really want to make this game but there is absolutely no point if I don’t have a story/setting/characters combo that I am interested in.

Normal Bowling

Hey, so today marks 1 year since I started this patreon page, I began making a kind of “year in review” post a week ago and saw I had made 9 games since then. Now, 9 games is good sure, but I figured double figures would be better. Then I got the idea for a very normal bowling game.

It’s not quite… “perfect” yet (scoring in the final frame isn’t set up, also the camera is a bit eh, and there are no replays) but it is solid and playable, I hope you enjoy it!