Dealings in Dungeons – Complete!

So this one took a while longer than I planned, but it is probably one of my better games!

I will be looking into getting sets of cards properly printed, but for the time-being it should work fine as a print-and-play game, as well as in a web browser >> over here <<.

If you’re in the extra-stuff tier, you can grab HD versions of ALL of the card illustrations in this post.

Update: I added a zip containing the web version, so you can play it offline, and also have a bunch of smaller jpgs of all the cards if that is something you want 🙂

Vampire Queen of Evenmere – week 3

OK so first up: This week I’ve had a HUGE writer’s block. I only managed a few hundred words for quite a few days.

But thanks to a bunch of energy at the start, and a little I seem to be regaining now – I still have ~something~ to show for it. For one, there is a reading/playthrough I streamed as an attempt to break my block (VOD above). I play up to entering the castle before needing to stop. And I’m back to writing now so that’s as far as I play for now 🙂

Anyway, stats: we’re at 260+ passages, the so as you can tell we’re WAY down from writing ~100 per week. Also I’ve only just hit a wordcount of 25k – a week late.

The plus side is I have a much better idea of where I’m going with everything, and the stuff in the castle has been getting filled in nicely – there’s ghosts, lore, puzzles, ability challenges, and of course monsters (which I still haven’t made yet. Wow I should have worked on them whilst I had writer’s block huh? fuck, next time!)

Anyway if you want to play this version: this is the link!

Sophie’s Safecracking Simulator

So for the past tenish days I’ve been working on this thing for the jamulator game jam.

You can see my progress in the twitter thread here if you want, I also chatted about it a fair bit in my discord server so you can see some more WIP stuff there if you’re interested.

Anyway about the thing itself:

• It has fully simulated group 2(ish) mechanical safe locks!
• Real-life safecracking techniques will work on the sim
• There are a bunch of tools (Spectrogram, gyroscope, zoom camera, x-ray) you can use to help you crack the combination – but if you know what you’re doing you won’t need ANY of them!

I’m going to be honest with you: I went WAY deeper into this than I ever had to, and I think it is way cooler for it. Normally I think I’d fail at the attempt but this week I had the perfect amount of energy and focus and here it is! I’m really happy with it, especially for a jam game!

Downloads are below 🙂

Oh and if you don’t know how to crack a safe, this video playlist is one I found very helpful!

Vampire Queen of Evenmere – Week 4

So it’s the end of the WriMo, aaaaaand, the gamebook is not finished. This isn’t much of a surprise to be honest, but it’s not a dissapointment either, I’m really psyched by how much I did manage to write, and I’m excited to finish the book.

Though I will be taking a little break from it being my main focus as I plan to work on some small updates to my cubes and my dice this month, as well as plan where I’m going with this gamebook a bit better.

Thanks for your support allowing me to do something like this, it has meant a lot and I really appreciate it <3

Anyway if you want to play the gamebook as it is now, > here is the link <

Sophie’s Safecracking Simulator v1.1

I’ve spent another week making this better!

Short version of the changelog is:

• Tutorials! Learn how the locks work and how to crack them!
• Prettier! (ambient occlusion, motion blur)
• Turn the dial with the mouse!
• Win screen!
• Stopwatch!
• WAY better models/animation!
• Better “Gentle Turning” control!
• Fixed bugs!

I’m hoping to have one more update for this (mostly to add a settings menu and a couple more lock options) and then to release it on steam – and be 100% done with it never to have to return. I am happy with it but also sick of working on it!