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Game Chef Entry: The Wicked World

2013-05-20T13:23:15-07:00

This is my Game Chef entry, for your perusal. It’s called The Wicked World, and it’s a game about angel PIs who hunt down demons and their minions. Feedback is welcome!

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The Wetwork Venn Diagram

2013-04-22T12:39:11-07:00

This is a thing I’ve been thinking about lately. It’s an evolution of the comfort zone mechanic that I came up with a little while ago, but altered to work with a cyberpunk corporate espionage game I’m working on called Wetwork.

The idea is that your character sheet is a Venn diagram. You write things inside each of the sections of the Venn diagram, and those things inform what you’re good at doing. There’s a lot of overlap and bleed between the different sections, which is what you’d expect from a Venn diagram.

Things inside the Venn diagram are your comfort zone; these are the things you’re good at, the things that make you a badass corporate operative. Stuff gets written outside of your comfort zone too, and these are the things that you can do, but you fail at least as often as you succeed.

You grow more when you call upon things outside your comfort zone, but you’re more likely to succeed when you stick to things inside your comfort zone. Throughout play, things move from section to section, and each section has its own implications. Trust, for example, is potentially very powerful when called upon, but it’s also dangerous to trust people because they can betray you to greater effect.

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Becoming: Quest Headers

2013-04-19T08:19:24-07:00

Here are a few of the Quest headers for Becoming. These will give you a better idea of what the art’s like in the game, as well as a glimpse into what kind of content you’ll see.

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Comfort Zone Mechanic

2013-04-14T16:58:50-07:00

Something I’ve been noodling with today.

The things inside the circle represent your comfort zone; the things outside of the circle are things that are outside of your comfort zone. In this case we’ve got a lawyer who’s been forced to do some less-than-legal things lately; maybe she’s on the run from the law after being falsely accused of something.

The idea is that, when you perform actions with the things inside your comfort zone, you’re likelihood of success is very high. Maybe you even auto-succeed; I’m not sure yet. However, the only way your character grows and gains new skills is by trying things outside her comfort zone, things she’ll more than likely fail at when she attempts them. You get a high chance of success or you get growth; you never get both.

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Becoming: Chapter Header Art

2013-04-11T08:06:26-07:00

I got some art from my artist, Christopher H. Barley, last night. Thought I’d share some of it with you fine folks. This is the chapter header for the first chapter in the book.

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