Welcome to Loreshaper Games
We’re a company that makes games.
We blend the elegant rules-driven simplicity of old-school games with the storytelling focus of more contemporary titles.
The result? Games that anyone can play. There’s stuff in our catalogue for hard-core players who like crunchy games, but we keep things accessible enough that everyone can find something to play.
You can find our stuff on the following marketplaces:
Game A Day May Post-Mortem Part 1
I wrote 32 games in as part of an experiment I’m calling Game a Day May. The shortest games were 200 words long. I designed these to fit on a business card. The longest was more than 8000 words long. …
Updates on the May Game Collection (Part 1)
Loreshaper Games is having its best month ever. If you’ve been following us for a while, you may have noticed that Carrion Birds and Kenoma haven’t released. Carrion Birds is 95% finished. It will come out in early June because …
Carrion Birds Update #3 and the May Microgame Collection
I’ve been making progress on Carrion Birds, but I underestimated how much remained to do. The editing process goes more smoothly when the rules are written intelligibly, and a lot of them need a little elbow grease. Fortunately, I think …
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Carrion Birds Update #2
I was hoping to have Carrion Birds out by today, but it looks like it’ll probably need a couple more days of work. It’s not that far from being done. I just want to add some more setting stuff that …
Carrion Birds Update #1
Let’s talk for a moment about Carrion Birds. It’s been a long time since I developed velotha’s flock. From what I can see I wrote it back in 2018, and I probably wrote about it back then but it’s been …
Firebird Worlds Out Now, Announcing Carrion Birds, and a Status Update
I’ve been incommunicado for a while working on stuff, but I now have a few updates related to games. First, I have a new game out (images after the break). It’s small, just a 24-hour (really 12-hour) project that I …
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