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Intrigued to give this a spin - looks like page four of the English version is in Portuguese?

"As the paper burns, think about how words can also burn" - I consider myself seen.  Thank you.

Thank you for your thoughtful feedback.  I hadn't really noted the imbalance between the players (except, maybe I did with the "swap and play again" instruction?)

I also would have caught the typo . . .

*sigh*

Thank you for this inspiring framework.  It inspired me to devolve it into a two-player innuendo-fest, At the Video Store:
https://nycavri.itch.io/at-the-video-store

Of course, thank you.

I keep an ongoing list of SRDs to Explore, for anyone interested.

You had me at the tagline . . .

The difficulty to achieve *anything*, being utterly at the whims of the dice, provide so much opportunity for fun roleplaying.  Feels a little like the games of Toon I GMd back in the day. 

An impressive amount of background and lore here, supporting a detailed game engine.  Serious mix of theme and crunch.

Delightful LARP, makes me sad I no longer work in a central office with my coworkers.

A whole lot of game here for such a short jam.  I'm a little in awe.  Great use of theme - I can feel the land saying, "you're not supposed to be here" with every roll.

Slick presentation, with a whole lot of moving parts here.

This feels like one of those Disney / Nickelodeon / Netflix animated shows of the last decade or so that my teen daughter loves - kawaii on the surface, teeth and heart underneath.

This is magnificently fleshed out for such a time limited jam.  So many details that make the world and game both feel playable, from character beats to scenario suggestions to the built in game timer driving towards failure.  

Can't decide which of the three fey types I'd most like to play! 

Yes!  The guided meditation comparison was the one my mind was flailing around for.  Thank you!

I love the framework built into this one, the guardrails of explicit prompts that nevertheless allow wide exploration.  I can see the "you're not supposed to be here" reveal being a powerful moment in the narrative.  Great stuff.

This one took me back!  I can practically *smell* KB Toys . . .

Clever mechanic reminiscent of the Carta System (which I love!), evocative prompt, great "night in a museum" style use of the theme.  Wonderful.

(Just a personal preference, but I like to print out my downloads, so I prefer pages to spreads.   This lets me print half-letter booklet style with the pages in the right order.  I try to offer both in my releases.)

You noticed the font!  I was looking to echo the Clerks logo . . .

"Bunch of savages in this town."

Amazing!  Thanks for playing.

(I skipped the standard "Why did you stop writing?" prompt because these shifts always lasted *way* more than 5 minutes . . .)

Yup, that's the guy.

A quick search will show pages of his work - he's a comic book artist who works in the horror / kaiju genres (especially Gozilla), and has designed the artwork for some pinball machines (including the Alice Cooper machine).

. . . is the artist known as "Zornow Must Be Destroyed".  He's the expert on all things Japanese Horror Comic Pinball.  

I like to be surprised by a prompt.  I need that shock to the system to kickstart my creative juices.

As for a favorite Jam, it was the last Ludum Praxis.  I hadn't completed a single design in years until the LP prompt inspired me.  (I've released six more games since then . . .)

I leaned through my years of “competing” in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) that writing a novel can be a shared experience.

I also learned that "noveling" is a verb – something you actively do.

Noveling, the 48-word RPG, is a distillation of those two discoveries.

Wonderful - thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the Jam.  I'd been noodling with some 5-min-e hacks, and as soon as I saw it I knew I had to submit.

Thank you so much for this gift to the gaming / design world. 

I've been trying to hack a summer camp version (Never Alone), but in the meantime have come up with a club culture game:  https://nycavri.itch.io/alone-among-the-beautiful-people

This.  Is.  Hilarious!  The simple system fits so much setting and chrome into its single page.  Wonderful.

Thank you.  (I created a dedicated deck for my first Descended From the Queen game, as part of a Kickstarter campaign that allowed me to pay a layout specialist.)

I, Caric, Bard of Highton, vibrant and alive as only a young bard can be, was traveling the high road to perform at the sun fair.  A pack of wild beasts waylaid me on the road at dawn.  The old chestnut about music soothing notwithstanding, I ran rather than sang, hid rather than fought.  The beasts, like none I had seen before, passed me by, but left me confused and uncertain.  What use my voice and strings if I cannot protect myself.  And what strange creatures are abroad in daylight, so close to civilization?

But the fair awaits, and I must prepare myself to bring good cheer, despite the misgivings in my heart.

I love this, and I'm waiting with baited breath for the Beyonce expansion.

Welp, I got about halfway through the required prompts for my Descended From the Queen hack of Camus' The Outsider before I ran out of time.  Hopefully I'll get back to it and release it somewhere down the line.

When I first discovered the Second Guess System four years ago I thought, "I need to use this to create a Voight Kampff test."  

Then lockdown ended, I went back to work, and game design hit the backburner. 

Until now:

RUAI

Hi, all.  I'm Avri, and I love playing in other people's solo-able and GM-less SRD sandboxes.  

After many years of playing OSR games, and even more years of not having time to play but reading most everything that came along, I started designing my own weird and (hopefully) wonderful games.

I've designed Carta and Second Guess games, and games Descended From the Queen, and I'm currently working on an Alone Among the Stars hack.  

*blush*  Thank you.  I think I might be . . .

Perfect!

The rules are explicit about Physical Games / Zines being eligible.  Anyone else going that route?

One of those theme sentences triggered an idea in me, and now I think I have to see it through . . .

Seriously.  Dev Developer Jam . . .

This is the second submission in this Jam that I quite desperately want another Jam for (this time a Jam full of games created with your 4 SRD - you *are* creating a 4 SRD, right?). That's some thematic adherence to the theme!