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. I've started a part-time job to help manage my expenses while Loreshaper Games gets up to

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 gives players the tool to create

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'm working on. So this overview

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, please buy my stuff, thanks in advance) and someone

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. Anyone who wants to be creative should think about the effects of

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 of collecting content. A

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. I'm working on my system reference document.

Why Make a System Reference Document? There are a few different reasons you might want an SRD. First, it's a handy core of resources that you can use when developing your game. It also serves this role

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 frustration and success. Prompt

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 elements to complement my

I wrote 32 games in as part of an experiment I'm calling Game a Day May. The shortest games were 200 words long. I designed these to fit on a business card. The longest was more than 8000 words long. I

Loreshaper Games is having its best month ever. If you've been following us for a while, you may have noticed that Carrion Birds and Kenoma haven't released. Carrion Birds is 95% finished. It will come

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 lot of them need a little

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. I just want to add some more setting stuff that I was

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

I’ve been incommunicado for a while working on stuff, but I now have a few updates related to games. First, I have a new game out (images after the break). It’s small, just a 24-hour (really 12-hour) project

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 viewpoint on the main characters

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-threatening (at least, that’s the

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't yet figured out exactly

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. Normally I like to give updates as I'm working on