Ghost Dice

This game is for several players, requires three dice, and a recklessness to disturb spirits which have been severed of their mortality.

For various reasons, I can’t release any of the more substantial games I’ve been working on for Halloween, but tonight I came up with this… or was I merely a conduit for the cursed system of morbid divination? I know not.

Monthly Build 2019/08 – New dice stuff!

Sorry for the radio silence most of this month, I’ve been kind-of consumed by dice thoughts and dice work and dice play and diiiiiice omfg so much dice stuff.

So much so that I noticed we were coming up to the end of the month and I was like “Oh shit, I have no work-in-progress build for August” but then I remembered I totally have this project lol, I’d gotten so used to sharing every build AND WIP game builds every month that I’d forgotten now it’s released, it’s kind-of a different thing? kind-of?

OK so look I know it’s not a game, and I really want to get back to working on actual game stuff but like I say, I have been consumed by this stuff. I’m getting the new version ready and also making sure it can go out on iOS too and hopefully then I will be done with it. I talk more abouit this stuff in the video above (warning, 40 minute long video!) but the tldw is “Posessed by dice demon, must dice until there are no more dice to dice, then can make game”

Anyway you can get the win/mac/linux versions here: (I haven’t made an android version right now, but if you really want this version on android let me know 🙂 )

https://sophieh.itch.io/patreon-monthly-builds/patreon-access 

Thanks so much for your support despite my patreon kind-of becoming a dice patreon? Anyway I should have new posts up sometime soon too (I mean, they will be about dice tho) so look out for those 🙂

bye for now, hope you’re well!

Writing Fantasy 1.0.7

So this month I’ve been (foolishly) working on a gamebook for both the Gamebook Jam and NaNoWriMo, and noticed that my gamebook system for twine needed a little attention, so I’ve updated it!

You can now mark a passage as the ending, and it will be the last numbered passage (a fighting fantasy feature I missed. oops!)

Also you can mark passages as front/back matter so you can add introductions, rules, credits etc without having to make them be numbered passages or screwing around with exported html

Anyway, the guide is here (and has been updated), and has the link you need to throw into twine.

Update: I needed new features so 1.0.8 can now:

• Have links which are just a passage number, with no “Turn to XYZ”
• Have passages with fixed (not-shuffled) numbers, so you can have a puzzle where the passage number is the solution
• Use emoji, because I finally specified UTF-8 in the html

Talkthrough of my Dice Project

Sorry for not posting as much as I should lately, all my energy has been getting spent on my dice project but I figured I could at least talk you through it. So if you’re interested in how I dice or how I organise a unity project here’s a video for you 🙂

As an FYI: the monthly build should be up in the next few days, it will be dice again but it is ~so~ close to done I’m psyched 🙂

Thanks so much for your support, it’s a huge help for me and I hope I can do more in return for you soon – with any luck this dice stuff will be finished before long and we can get back to the good old relationship we had where I give you like, games all the time <3

I hope you’re well!

Vampire Queen of Evenmere – Week 1

So as I mentioned earlier, this month I am taking part in NaNoWriMo/Gamebook Jam, but instead of writing a regular novel it’s a gamebook. It is using essentially the same system I made and used for Assault on the Frozen Fortress, so if you can use the same classes from that to play this.

The main things to report are:

It’s about vampires! Also it’s got a kind of a Cumbrian flavour to it which I think I often try to add to projects but it’s yet to make its way into anything I’ve finished. Also there are gonna be LGBTQ+ themes and stuff.

There are already 90 passages, yeah a few still need to be filled in, but that is almost a quarter of a fighting fantasy right there. Considering I’m only about halfway through the first planned act though, I think this will probably be a bigger gamebook than the classics – maybe approaching the scale of some of the modern ones (none of which I’ve gotten around to trying yet lol)

I’m currently behind in terms of wordcount (To be on target I’d need 11.6k words, rn it’s at 9k words), but that isn’t uncommon – I’ve finished NaNoWriMo 3 times before and I always fall behind and catch up as my energy fluctuates. This time I do have the added challenge of things that slow my momentum like branching paths and having to write updates for WritingFantasy, which I’m using again.

Anyway, the first hub area (Evenmere Town) and dungeon (Holy Guild Crypts) are pretty much complete, and I’ve made a start on the Forest of the Fell area, you can get a few passages into that now. You can’t get all the way to the castle yet, but that is going to make up the bulk of the first half of gameplay… when I get around to writing it.

Oh also there is nothing to battle rn, I’m not too fussed about designing battle encounters rn because it is a lot of work for very little wordcount benefit lol.

> You can play the current version here <

Anyway that’s where I’m at. I’d also like to say rn that I’m really sorry I haven’t done any patron videos/streams lately. The truth is it’s because of a combination of low energy, high anxiety, and family and pet stuff happening IRL that all require attention and are super draining. Most of that is behind me now, but what energy I regain I’m spending on writing. Something I wouldn’t be able to do at all without your support, so I’m saying it here since I can’t in video/stream: THANK YOU SO MUCH <3

I hope things are going well for you <3