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<p>It's been a while since I last posted an update, so I just wanted to drop in and talk about what I'm working on.</p> <p>I've started a part-time job to help manage my expenses w…

<p>Today I'd like to take a moment to talk about the Helion Triptych, a collection of three games. Each can be played as a stand-alone game. However, when combined the triptych giv…

<p>It's been a while since I've officially updated stuff. I often do a lot of stuff with very few public updates, and I'm not even sure that I've officially announced everything I'…

<p>AI and creativity is a hot topic. I like to think that I'm on the bleeding edge of it, since I'm both a professional creative type (at least for now, <a class="keychainify-check…

<p>I'm not a stranger to writing a game every day. Back in May, I did one game per day (and an extra), but not on a perfect daily schedule.</p> <p>Anyone who wants to be creative s…

<p>A system reference document covers a portion of a game's content and collects it for future use. I will use four system reference document types to describe various strategies o…

<p>Let's take a moment to talk about the uses and value of a system reference document to a game designer. This post will focus on system reference document licensing.</p> <p>I'm w…

<h2>Why Make a System Reference Document?</h2> <p>There are a few different reasons you might want an SRD.</p> <p>First, it's a handy core of resources that you can use when develo…

<p>Midjourney is an AI-powered image generation tool that uses a text-based prompt. The quality of a prompt, especially character portrait prompts, can be the difference between fr…

<p>As a game designer and player who has writing skills, a background in graphic design, and no drawing ability, I've constantly dealt with the fact that I can't produce artistic e…

<p>I wrote 32 games in as part of an experiment I'm calling Game a Day May.</p> <p>The shortest games were 200 words long. I designed these to fit on a business card. The longest w…

<p>Loreshaper Games is having its best month ever. </p> <p>If you've been following us for a while, you may have noticed that Carrion Birds and Kenoma haven't released. Carrion Bir…

<p>I've been making progress on Carrion Birds, but I underestimated how much remained to do. The editing process goes more smoothly when the rules are written intelligibly, and a l…

<p>I was hoping to have Carrion Birds out by today, but it looks like it'll probably need a couple more days of work. It's not that far from being done. </p> <p>I just want to add …

<p>Let's talk for a moment about Carrion Birds.</p> <p>It's been a long time since I developed <em>velotha's flock</em>. From what I can see I wrote it back in 2018, and I probably…

<p>I’ve been incommunicado for a while working on stuff, but I now have a few updates related to games.</p> <p>First, I have a new game out (images after the break). It’s small, ju…

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is the most recent installment in the Borderlands franchise. Though nominally a spin-off, it is closer to the Pre-Sequel in its role as an alternate viewpoi…

<p>I don’t have a progress update on games, unfortunately. I’ve had some health issues, and while I don’t want to blow them out of proportion—they’re unpleasant, not life-threateni…

<p>Now that Consoles and Controllers is out, I'm back to just Cybrine Dreams and Kenoma again. There are still some visual updates to make for Consoles and Controllers, but I haven…

<p>Consoles and Controllers has been out a couple days now and I've already given it its first update to give the interior a little more polish and text.</p> <p>Normally I like to …