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Finished proofreading today, the draft has been sent to the layout artist. There are a few things left to do but they are very doable. 

I also prepped the stuff I needed to for running my game at PGX, The Pittsburgh Gaming Expo

I got some new notes and worked most of today to implement them. They were all about the adventure I will be including in the back of the book. If anyone would be willing to look through that adventure (About 10 pages) it could benefit from some fresh eyes. 

I am at proofreading. I got a fairly valid  note on my game and am choosing to ignore it. I cannot let the the perfect be the enemy of the good. I am at proofreading and not going back to improve a small part of the game. 

Figured there should be a place here to talk about progress and reach out if you need help with something. 

So, how are people's games going/does anyone need help?

Hi I'm Joe

I am looking to finish my TTRPG Children With Wands

In Children With Wands you paly as children who have just come into their magic, so you are not great at casting spells yet. When you want to cast a spell you roll a d20 to see how strong your spell in not how well you cast it. I started the game mid covid epidemic and last year in December funded it successfully on Kickstarter. I have been working on it but an having trouble getting it finished. The perfect being the enemy of the good plus a full time job that also requires creative energy. 

I wan to finish the game by September so I can have it out to people in October and they can enjoy the pre written adventure "Halloween in Fairhaven" when it is seasonally appropriate. 

What need done, a few spells need rewritten and a bit of work on the adventure, I have kind of hit a wall on these. the spell Bluster, a wind spell, is giving me particular trouble. 

It took me almost all month but I finally finished my game.  Fish Blade - Troubled Waters is a game about uneasy alliances as you take on a quest from the Queen of the Ocean. This is the first game I have manage to finish and I am deeply proud of my self. 

https://jkiewragmailcom.itch.io/fish-blade-troubled-waters

I  may do a simplified  version then. I   have some assets I like  a lot, they are   actually a font  strangely enough 
https://fontmeme.com/fonts/fishing-font/

I will be finishing my submission tomorrow. I will likely only be able to submit the plain text/printer friendly version without a lot of the art assets by that time. The game took longer to make than I thought. Is it acceptable to summit this then later release the more finished version? I am new to jams and am not sure about the etiquette and best practices here. 

What I have so far and what the submission will likely look like with a bit better formatting. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mG9piISwzfKHnbZFI69etYXdAJzVlRutvLVLOdvXP54/...

I am willing to donate some random Steam codes if people want. 

I here what you are saying but I am also pretty far into creating the system. I am for the most part avoiding feature cheap. The part of my game that I really love is a secret objective system. I may just be to close to it, but I just don't know any games that I could hack that system into well enough. So I decided to build the game system that would support that idea. 

There are a few features that I like but are on the back burner for if I have time. 

I was wondering if anyone else is not really close to finishing their games. I am making up my own system for my game and it is difficult.

I freaking love this game!