A system reference document covers a portion of a game’s content and collects it for future use. I will use four system reference document types to describe various strategies of collecting content. A SRD’s type informs the designer’s approach to …
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Let’s take a moment to talk about the uses and value of a system reference document to a game designer. This post will focus on system reference document licensing. I’m working on my system reference document. I’ve also made a …
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Why Make a System Reference Document? There are a few different reasons you might want an SRD. First, it’s a handy core of resources that you can use when developing your game. It also serves this role for others, which …
Midjourney is an AI-powered image generation tool that uses a text-based prompt. The quality of a prompt, especially character portrait prompts, can be the difference between frustration and success. Prompt and output relate to each other in ways that aren’t …
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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 …
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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 …
Been a while because I’ve mostly been working on setting stuff. Cybrine Dreams is now to a point where the setting is 80-90% done. Given my rate of progress, now it’s just constant grinding away on the gameplay elements until they’re …