scope creep game jam

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A meditative, slightly melancholy improvisation that kind of explores new space. I really liked how this turned out today. I thought maybe it was too sad, but I think that's all of us these days. Enjoy and take care. #originalmusic #classical #piano #improvisation #musiciansky #musicsky #meditation

When I type 80% of a reply and discard it, that's me hitting the blue button.

Fastest way to turn me off from an AP is if there's like 5 seconds of hemming and hawing between roll, number, and outcome every single time.

favorite moment from last night's Cosmic Century Knights Zad: I've done 11 damage and he's already wounded so if I go high on control I don't need much impact, sorry about metagaming so much. Me: it's a shonen anime game, if you were a shonen protagonist that would be your inner monologue

Haha man we just ran the first character vignette for Cosmic Century Knights and it is quite sad

Maybe I missed a phase in the bullet points conversation, but why have I only seen examples like this involving room descriptions? Where is the side-by-side on how say a mechanical structure like combat or spellcasting works in prose vs bulleted?

Making a custom potion in Fantasy No 1 requires roughly 20 steps, like 6 tables, a tarot deck, a bunch of dice, and an alchemical circle. But it works.

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, first you must invent the universe. - Carl Sagan I am being devoured by this project.

When @zadkielingreen.bsky.social is like "why not make it so alchemical recipes work like a zodiac wheel". So this is how Fantasy No. 1 is going.

I need someone to volunteer to send me daily posts like this between 7-8 cst because those are my peak design hours and every time I see something like this it actually forces me to keep writing. Spite is an unhealthy creative motivator but baby it's all I got.

I need everyone to know that my wife took me to a murder mystery dinner and I fuckin got his ass.

Good news! It's a twofer! Bad news! One of them is a 6 minute recap of what we lost from last week's episode. That's a wrap on the Fell Knights, next week we start in on the Blight Labrynth! cms.megaphone.fm/channel/OSPN...

When the three hour gig has a chair

I know exactly how many cats are in my house. I keep it at a consistent value. Moths and spiders, no idea. Mystery number. They come and go through little doors I don't even know about

Well it happened, I learned a valuable lesson in the precarious nature of audio data on Audacity and lost this week's episode. It's just gone. Fortunately we (by we I mean @robbrolling.bsky.social) take good notes so next week we will summarize what was missed and drive on!

Chat is this anything?

Chat is this anything?

I am going to write a game in the absolute music tradition. It will be stripped of programmatic elements, it will be titled "Fantasy for Four players and Game Master", it will contain not one bit of expository text if possible. It will be raw mechanics whose interpretation is left up to the players.

I got my start in a space like this. At 13 and on mIRC (don't do this) I stumbled in a wild creator space with dozens of channels each trying to emulate some dimension of popular media (I landed on DBZRPG) through clunky mechanics with bot assistance.

*gandalf looking around gif* Bullet points?

Actual @gamewoven.bsky.social lore:

Me to my dog: hello my biggest dumbest baby you are incapable of sin Me to my cat: get off the table the economy is in shambles and it's your fault

How can I possibly go to work when there's a whole ass spire sitting there unslain

The thing about Cosmic Century Knights having you make antagonists together is your table will collectively come up with something way more fucked up than you ever could have on your own. Thanks @oneshotrpg.bsky.social !

slay the spire 2

SECOND run

ilu fuzzy wurm crawler fuzzy warm crawler ilu

You cannot have a meaningful Dungeon Meshi campaign if strict rations records are not kept.

[to the tune of Eleanor Rigby] Eleanor Rigby

I'm the type of goon that shows up after an extremely difficult boss fight when the player's resources are depleted only to be swarmed by the Zerg-like third party faction as a way to introduce them. This leads to a chase sequence and balance patches made them too easy after release.

They should combine all the stardew-likes: stardew, moonlighter, tavern keeper, potion permit, etc into one megagame where everyone gets a different shop to run and you fight monsters for stuff for your shops and also they have the same fishing minigame

My tactical fantasy PBTA roleplaying game is out now with new art and a new name. Presenting Cleave! Cleave is about bonds that both tie us together and rip us apart. Download now to navigate a world of politics and magic and try to keep your principles in tact. thedevteam.itch.io/cleave-rpg

Raffi cover GY!BE

At Gamewoven we love game design. We enjoy good design and janky design often. This is supported by a quote from @callmethey.bsky.social in our most recent episode who states "I love good design!" In reference to a good design choice in Cosmic Century Knights that they had never seen.

the secret to game design is that as much as players may claim otherwise they all love choosing one out of three things

We're back! And we're neither better nor worse than ever we have changed not a thing. This week we continue talking about the Undying Empire using the antagonist-building system from Cosmic Century Knights! Next week? The Fell Knights. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/OSPN...

Shrike Publishing's Forthcoming Rose System dares to ask: What if Savage Worlds was written by communists?

I totally missed yesterday's episode which is silly because we're getting into one of the coolest parts of Cosmic Century Knights: building the antagonists together!! We're starting with the Empire and will get further from established lore as we go! cms.megaphone.fm/channel/OSPN...

There are jazz jams like this and it's so important to protect those "no gatekeeping" spaces even if they're occasionally painful. You gotta let people suck in public or they'll never kick ass in public.

This is how we're talking about TTRPG game design from now on

I love trying to play games as written. Part of the joy of exploring so many systems is seeing what makes them tick. On this very show one of our main pillars is trying to play the games as close to the text as possible (which gets harder and harder as we go, but alas).

*Necromancer to his apprentice* Please consult the chart

8 of cups into 3 of cups yesterday Star into 3 of cups today Deck is literally just counting the days til Friday. Coworker small talk readings. Watercooler divination

Accidentally started a work cult. There are multiple people at my job that do daily tarot pulls and we discuss our pulls as if they were authentic workplace concerns.

Rise, Wizards! is a dice-stacking, map-making, worldbuilding game of wizard hubris. Our team: @captainkrail.bsky.social - Writer/Designer @helenacore.bsky.social - Illustrator @strautmaskreplica.bsky.social - Layout