Let's talk about how match length works in Fast Action Wrestling. Since FAW is a quick play system that doesn't concern itself with the move-by-move moments of...

I am in the process of re-editing the game so that you only write in one book, allowing for easier printed play. In working on the illustrations for the project...

Development debrief and future plans: https://viridianscroll.blogspot.com/2019/09/lords-of-mars-debrief.html ...

"Why make this game now?" is a question I think most designers should ask themselves while they're creating a game. In my case, when I saw Tropes Jam, I figured...

We Forest Three took a lot of work, and I playtested it quite a few times to make sure it ran as intended. Seeing other people play this game really helped me s...

Crisis is my take on the storygame format. Inspired by Jim Pinto's Protocol series and Jason Morningstar's Fiasco , this game is my take on telling a story up a...

I'm so happy with the reception Tea With Demons has received. It was my second best selling game at Session Zero, and I could see how the themes of gentle self-...

Hello! REINCARNATION REDUX: Our Requiem has a new zine version! Some slight changes were made to address typos or streamline the language a little bit too. This...

This game has a really special place in my heart. I've seen players sigh, gasp, and cry while playing this game. I've seen beautiful worlds built effortlessly a...

Recently, I wrapped up running and observing several playtests of the Game Jam Edition of Planet Kamra. It was exciting to see many of the aspects working well...

I'm happy to announce that my first game jam baby is now all grown up! Become One is still a small scale game, and plays best in one session. But it's incredibl...

Hey folx! So it's been over half a year since I wrote Life in the Machine, the very first game I had ever designed. Since then, I've designed 4 more TTRPGs, wit...

Last month I promised myself I'd start using the devlog feature as a way to share my thoughts on design 7 tabletop gaming, as a companion to twitter threads. A...

v2_8-24-2019 - Restructured the game's setup process to put the characters and their history more front-and-center in the design. This is, after all, a game abo...

Hey Kids! I'm new to this devlog stuff, but I wanted to share a couple bits about the state of Mall Kids with you all. First, we have a Mall Kids Discord ! If y...

Now you can understand a bit of the mechanics of the game. We have very simple rules so it's easy to spread the Dogo Dash's words around! This is the diagram wi...

After the first playtest in June, I immediately started another month-long series on the Gauntlet. My players this time were Tom , Scot , Patrick, Adam, Will...

I was planning to talk about the playbooks of Hello, World today but as I was thinking about what I would say, I realized that before I did that I first needed...

So this is something I still haven't done, and I feel bad about it because this game feels kind of incomplete without it, but I need to provide at least one exa...

By June, I had an actual complete draft of the module, and I decided to playtest it on the Gauntlet , a gaming community I've been playing with for a while. I w...

Thinking about rules changes for future updates. Here's something I'm thinking about for FIGHT and SPECIAL to make them more distinct and changing the dynamics...

As you can see from the preview image, hello, world integrates several Blades gameplay loops into a single system. One of my favorite things about Blades in t...

I wanted to do something a bit different for the Factions in hello, world . Factions are very fluid in World. It’s a hyper-mobile digital environment ruled...

Hey everyone! I was talking about the game I wanted to create for the Never Alone Game jam. Here is a draft numeric version of this one. Just in time for the ga...

Illustrations added on the cards sheet and inside the rules booklet. You can download illustrations, and use it according to the CC-BY-NC-SA license. Ajout...

Week 1 - Overview This devlog series will track the progress I make on the project each week until its release. Here you can see everything I did in the order i...

The problem with playtesting a mystery module is that you have to keep getting new people to play it, which meant that sooner or later I was going to have to GM...

Development of Moth-Light continues! Expect even more refinement as my local play-test gets underway. Notable changes in 0.5 of the Alpha. Rules edits and corre...

I recently finished the third ever playtest of Stuck in Jawbone , and it was doubly successful: the players seemed to enjoy it, and I found a few gaps I'd over...

This game was a bit of a challenge to write, if only because I found myself blushing from what I was implying in text. Waiting for feedback to see if it needs...

This game was a bit harder to make than A Touch of Glamour , odd considering that it's only 5-pages. Then again, I wrote most of Touch at the hospital, where...

Initially I thought I'd create lore for this---until I realised that it's a bit of a fraught endeavour for me, and explain so in the last few pages of the PDF...

Quick update about the next... update. It will mostly be fleshing out the lore of the Izyan Conflict setting, including examples of Regions at the urban, provin...

Hi there! So, here is the first finalised draft of the Character sheet for Micro Blades . The Specific Sheets will come soon (Sellsword/Rogue/Sage etc.). Backs...

Hi acolyths, the Micro Blades are coming soon. At the moment I am still figuring out the detailed Special Abilities for the Character Cards. This Design is heav...

Hi everyone! Tower of Arcana has received an update. What's new? - A revision of the text was made to make sure that everyone feels included while reading it...

As someone who runs and reads a variety of different games, I often fill in missing pieces when comprehending a new ruleset. This game is no exception. So I'm l...

Hello, everyone! Thank you for taking the time to check my game out. Formatting and layout of In A Week took about 5 hours, although the concept took me much lo...

First posted on official blog on 22 March 2019. Here is a small report about the Titans. The tests were positive and informative, and I am now working on the te...

Well, after some project reorganization and some late-night thinking, I've decided that the development process I originally had in mind is going to change quit...

I'm happy to officially be kicking off our move to the Itch platform with the release of Drive·10 -- specifically Revision 1.1 Folks who've been following th...

Updated to version 0.3! Biggest changes: Fleshed our chapters on safety and tone. Added guidance on how to have a satisfying session zero. Much more work to do...

Translated from Twitter: It's time for a Moth-Light design thread! This time I want to talk about a core emotional conceits of the game, one I'd love to see mor...

The first release of Antipode, my entry into the /gdg/ necromancy jam. The premise for the jam was to choose an old idea and finish it up. This was a vague id...

Today I made a cute background for the game page by overlaying a pixel avatar over colored pages of the game. I also want to keep making more adoptables. Howeve...

Hey guys, more updates on the game. My new pens came in. I promised myself I wasn't gonna buy anything to make this game but I caved and bought some pens, as w...

Hey all, I'm making a game for the ace jam and wanted to use this place as a space to write down stuff that I'm working on. It's a dev log, but more than that...

I'm getting more work done on A Silence in Heaven , having put a respectable number of words into the various Spheres, the Elements they're composed of, and the...