29 April, 2021

But how many eggs were left out?

I recently spent 566 words of elaborate digressions, studiously not telling you why I think it isn't important how attribute points are allocated.

After that rather irresponsible abuse of verbiage, I thought it might be courteous of me to actually answer the unasked question.

22 April, 2021

2dF down the line

I was a small child when D&D was "roll 3d6 down the line" for your stats.

Technically that was my first experience with character creation, but the practicality of it was a little different.  By the time my friends and I were playing the games properly, it was a 4d6 drop one, or arrange to suit your taste.  Homebrew (and later official) point-allocation systems quickly became the norm with the groups I played with.

17 April, 2021

Not Perfectly Folded Birds

Okay, so in the previous post regarding Paper Birds, I talked a bit about how it worked, and the thoughts behind the design.

This is what didn't work.

15 April, 2021

Origami and Game Jams

February's submission to OMGAM coincided with the Emotional Mecha Jam on itch.io.  

This would be my first submission to a public game jam, so I stepped a bit beyond my normally rough-hewn markdown and cobbled together some free fonts and art in MS Publisher, and put out something that could be printed and played.

Dishes need washing...

Oops, I stopped doing that thing that I started.  The current state of the world and global pandemic not withstanding, it is well past time to get back to it.

I actually did complete one micro-game a month back in 2019, the ones that are in pure markdown are over on github and some that are fully formatted are on my itch.io page with the tag #omgam2019 and I'm indexing blog posts here with a similar tag.

Right now there are not many of those posts, but I'll be making more regularly here until I unpack each of the games.  Some don't need much unpacking, others will get a few more words.

As I go, I will ensure that each game has a markdown formatted outline over on the github repo.  Some of the games that don't currently have a print layout will receive one, at least minimally.  And others might get revisions, updates, and expansions.

All of them will get a few words of explication here, accompanied by meandering tangents.