As a game designer and player who has writing skills, a background in graphic design, and no drawing ability, I’ve constantly dealt with the fact that I can’t produce artistic elements to complement my work. Most of the figures I …
Using Midjourney for Character Portraits, Part 1: Setup Read more »
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. …
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 …
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 …
Carrion Birds Update #3 and the May Microgame Collection Read more »
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 …
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 …
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 …
Firebird Worlds Out Now, Announcing Carrion Birds, and a Status Update Read more »
I don’t have a progress update on games, unfortunately. I’ve had some health issues, and while I don’t want to blow them out of proportion—they’re unpleasant, not life-threatening (at least, that’s the going theory)—they make it a lot more difficult …
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands: A Game Designer’s First Impressions Read more »
Now that Consoles and Controllers is out, I’m back to just Cybrine Dreams and Kenoma again. There are still some visual updates to make for Consoles and Controllers, but I haven’t yet figured out exactly what I want to do. …
Consoles and Controllers has been out a couple days now and I’ve already given it its first update to give the interior a little more polish and text. Normally I like to give updates as I’m working on games, but …