March Update: Offseason, Yazeba's, etc.
Added 2020-04-09 01:12:55 +0000 UTCGood evening everyone! I've stopped apologizing for not posting frequently here, and that's okay! It's been a long month for me, just as I'm sure it's been a long month for you. It's been interesting - my work hasn't been interrupted by conventional forces (after all, I do still work from home), but the pressures of quarantine and the distance of my friends has been weighing on me. As the fine scholars AJR said, one hundred bad days makes for one hundred good stories, and one hundred good stories makes me write interesting games. So here's a rundown of what I've been working on, what I released last month, and what my plans are for the future:
This month I've released:
- Letters In Springtime, an epistolary game about writing letters to the friends you miss.
- Offseason, a supplement for Sleepaway with wisdom on how to play the game online. It also includes a new Strangeness, additional rituals, and a thematic respite.
- Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast V0.1, a fascinating massive game (of which this is only a fragment) which is going to go up momentarily in a followup post to this one for all of my patrons at 3$ or more.
Both Letters in Springtime and Offseason are available for PWYW on Itch, and will be for as long as COVID-19 is happening!
I'm currently working on:
- Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, a game with M Veselak about a magical bed & breakfast. It's kinda like Stewpot meets Belonging Outside Belonging, with a healthy helping of Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends on the side. I've been talking about wanting to write a Moomins game forever, and I think this is it.
- Basilica: City of the Bound Gods, the early-release version already available on my Patreon. A game about rescuing your god, that I'm writing with Sadia Bies.
- [untitled 1], a bizarrely depressing belonging-outside-belonging game about teens fighting wolves.
- Dinner Games, a commissioned project, of a collection of small games you can play with your friends around a dinner table!
- Whispers: The Flower Court Expansion, an expansion to the Flower Court about secret roles and information.
- Unnamed G4TM&F Volume 6, which I just always have on the backburner, and come back to periodically.
- Assorted stretch goal work...
I'm also:
- Writing the final set of rules for Venture & Dungeon with Riley Rethal, which will go to the editor soon!
- The project manager for an upcoming Kickstarter! The game is Wickedness by M Veselak, and I'm so deeply excited for it.