Commander Blas Rodano peered at the maps arrayed before him and smoothed his beard with his hand.
“So the bridge is destroyed then?” He didn’t look at Valeria, who stood at attention at the other side of the table.
“Yes, Commander.” Valeria watched as he scratched at old scars beneath his beard and along his neck and collarbone. Blas, despite being Commander o...
2020-01-19 22:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I read through a role playing game and want to get an understanding of the rules I usually do a short solo session. I roll up my own characters, and use something like Roll20 to perform the die rolls, keep notes, and store character sheets.
These usually end up looking something like short stories, so when I recently ...
2020-01-18 22:09:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey cyberpunks!
A new version of Neon Black is available! This version adds the Star playbook, a charismatic artist. Also a few new factions like the Prime News Network, Corporate Management Board, and the City Council.
Folks pledging $10+ will have access to the new version through itch.io like usual. You can see the 2020-01-13 02:33:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks,
Over the last month or so I participated in the 2019 Three Forged game jam on itch. In this jam every participant makes a basic tabletop RPG, and then your game is sent to another participant for them to edit or change whatever they like, and then that draft is sent to a third participant to edit and ad...
2019-12-28 03:30:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey holiday makers,
I've been cleaning up and redesigning all my tabletop games lately to prepare them for a sale! For the next 14 dales I'll be participating in itch's holiday sale. All of my games will be available for 50% off each. Hell of a gift for the RPG lover in your life.
I've recently m...
2019-12-18 20:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I just updated my first tabletop RPG, One Trillion years. This was mostly to make the rule book look pretty and all science-fictiony. The itch page looks a lot nicer now too.
There are also some edits to the text, making the game a bit more concise, and easier to play for a single player.
You can read the full change log 2019-12-15 23:03:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey familia,
I've been spending time updating my various games on itch. World Speed: Space Family, my ridiculous action movie RPG, got a significant makeover, with gear shift style tables and clearer rules text.
Also a few of my games are part of bundles on itch right now.
Hey hackers,
I've posted a new version of Neon Black, my cyberpunk RPG where you steal from the rich and try to survive.
This version includes some of the last big mechanical deviations from the source material, Blades in the Dark. It includes Credit Burn, a rule where ch...
2019-11-29 06:06:22 +0000 UTC View PostHey rioters,
So for the last month or so I've been making a game called Riot in the Stars. It's an RPG where you play as members of an alien resistance fighting against a colonizing human empire. I was trying to get this finished by the end of the month but pretty much since I started I had a voice in my head saying,
"You shouldn't be doing this."
That voice is right. I'm not ...
2019-11-27 00:07:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey Rebels,
Today I finished the prototype of Riot in the Stars, my alien resistance single-player RPG where you fight against human colonizers. Players take on the role of a resistance movement in the Centauri Sector, a group of planetary systems recently invaded and settled by the Sol Federation. It's up to you to guide the brewing revolution, make friends, defeat enemies, all before th...
2019-11-14 00:26:49 +0000 UTC View PostAttached to this post is the prototype version of my submission to the Three-Forged jam. This will act as a seed for two other developers in the jam to edit and add on as they see fit. It may look completely different at the end, which will be made available on itch at the end of December.
You'll notice that this ...
2019-11-09 20:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostHello Patrons!
Just wanted to share what I have been working on with your lovely support.
I just updated my game Spooky Action at a Distance with some new art and some freshly edited text. I wanted to make the game a bit more concise and to-the-point. I also included a plain text version of...
2019-11-05 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello hackers!
I finished a new version of my cyberpunk solitaire game last night. MATR1X 0VERL0AD: CYBERMANCY uses a deck of tarot cards instead of playing cards. The basic game remains the same, but there's a few additional game modes including a short narrative campaign that slowly introduces new mechanic...
2019-10-27 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I finished a short script called Nikola. I started working on this 3 years ago with a friend of mine. We were planning on writing a small comic together, inspired by the life and legends of Nikola Tesla. But that project fell apart.
Earlier this year I started playing around with the script again, and decided to give it a proper format and rewrite. I'm proud of the result. It's just...
2019-10-23 03:19:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Hackers,
My cyberpunk solitaire game MATR1X 0VERL0AD is now live on my itch.io store! Unlike my previous physical games this game is 100% free so whether or not you're a patron you can grab yourself a copy right now.
Many thanks to Tom Francis for the original idea and making his solitaire game <...
2019-10-15 00:20:23 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised, here is the prototype of my cyberpunk solitaire game Matrix Overload, based on Gridcannon by Tom Francis. You need only a deck of cards to play. I've tested this version of the game pretty extensively, and I'm pretty happy with it. The difference ...
2019-10-10 20:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patrons!
Just over a week into October and quite a lot has been happening.
I recently posted my latest small RPG, Wild Speed: Space Family, onto my itch.io store. Do check that out if you haven't already, especially if you are a fan of ridiculous action films like the Fast & Furio...
2019-10-09 08:23:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Familia,
My most ridiculous game to date, Wild Speed: Space Family, is now available on itch.io
I't s a love note to one of my favourite over-the-top action film series: The Fast and Furious, and also an experiment in whether or not I could make an RPG that could be completed in less ...
2019-09-30 22:12:26 +0000 UTC View PostIt's! Another! Prototype!
Wild Speed: Space Family is the start of a love letter to the Fast and Furious franchise and ridiculous action films in general. This is a kind of micro mad-libs GM-less tabletop RPG that's meant to be real short and sweet. Players are guided through the archetypal tropes of an action film in it's N+9th iteration where things have just gotten buck wild ridiculous...
2019-09-07 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks,
A Few Degrees of Warming, my climate change map making game is now available for $5 on itch.io.
I was going to submit this to the Hot Horror Game Jam but I misread the deadline and didn't submit it in time. Regardless, I'm proud of this game and the design work I did. I think it cap...
2019-08-31 22:53:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe latest version of Neon Black, version 5.0, is now live on itch.io.
This is a pretty significant update, removing and adding some mechanics as well as renaming and modifying old ones.
The next few updates won't be quite so major, and will mostly focus on adding new playbooks or refining these...
2019-08-30 03:36:57 +0000 UTC View PostHey patrons,
Woof, been a while huh? Sorry about that. I've been hard at work testing Neon Black and finishing my submission for the Hot Horror Game Jam. That game is now called A Few Degrees of Warming and will be finished and available for patrons by the end of the month.
A Few Degrees of Warming took me a wh...
2019-08-23 00:42:53 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks!
A few days ago I released the latest update of Neon Black, 4.2. You can check out the change log on the itch.io site, it's mostly small rules clarifications and edits. I'm in the midst of testing the game right now and there will be more updates in the future. 2019-07-27 04:36:40 +0000 UTC View Post
World Maker, a singe player ttrpg about making your own setting, is now live on itch!
This is me sort of putting my foot down on what makes good story telling in rpgs. It's not about the GM coming up with a world for the group of players to explore, it's a conversation where everyone defines the setting an...
2019-07-10 01:28:26 +0000 UTC View PostAfter finishing the latest version of Neon Black I wanted to make something small and simple. Another game jam on itch.io caught my eye, so I'm making a game about building a fictional world.
At first I was thinking of designing a game that would give random details about a world, like how it was created, what sort ...
2019-07-05 06:52:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey punks,
Neon Black, my cyberpunk rpg based on Blades in the Dark is now in early access on itch.io
My $10 and up backers will be receiving their free download code shortly. You'll also have access to updated versions automatically through itch... I think. I haven't tried that out yet. If not I can ...
2019-06-27 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks,
Sorry for the weeks of radio silence. I've been working on getting a new version of Neon Black completed and it's taking me a lot longer than anticipated. I'm aiming to have that finished sometime in June, then I'll be turning my attention to more smaller RPGs and possibly some other writing (maybe even comic or film scripts!)
So stay tuned and as always thanks for keepin...
2019-05-31 09:33:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Spooky Action is live now on my itch.io page. I'm really proud of this game. I love stories about first contact and I've put together a simple system that can tell a variety of those types of science fiction stores.
$5+ patrons will be receiving their free download code soon, otherwise it's $5 on...
2019-04-22 23:59:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya folks,
Welp, finished my submission for the Mapemounde2019 game jam. I present to you One Trillion Years, a game about humanity's survival in the far future. It's live now on itch.io for $5.
In a few million years our solar system will be uninhabitable. Earth will have suffere... 2019-04-16 22:32:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the prototype rules document and map for One Trillion Years, a game about humanity's long term survival. The game uses a standard deck of playing cards (including the jokers).
I should have the full version of the game with everything you need to play available in a couple of days. I'm in the midst of testing the game and putting everything together to submit it for the Mapem...
2019-04-16 03:51:17 +0000 UTC View Post