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Rising Action
Available here on itch! Rising Action is a roleplaying game for two players where you play a pair of rivals having an ever-escalating battle where their past and passions collide. Inspired by action anime and JRPG cutscenes, it is designed to produce dramatic encounters that can be played in 1-2 hours from character creation to…
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The Retrieval Process
“If you are reading this document you are currently in possession of an archive containing The Open Internet, a database of all human knowledge that has been corrupted by massive amounts of AI generated noise. This document details procedures for successful human-centric extraction of genuine and meaningful data from this archive.” The Retrieval Process is…
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A Look at Dethroners
In which we discuss Dethroners, a game ostensibly about narrative control, and consider the relationship between mechanics and narrative within Dethroners is a game that involves the players tearing pages out of its rulebook to signify narrative control being wrested from the GM. The GM plays the Divinity, who is attempting to solidify their rule…
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Character Asymmetry in The Wolf King’s Son
In which I talk about how the differences between how each character in The Wolf King’s Son is designed and the plays they have access to frame what the game is about as well as the kinds of stories and character arcs that are set up to be explored during play At the heart of…
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Final Fantasy 7: Remake – a written commentary
An Introduction This work is in my eyes 95% complete, but that is as far as it’s going to get. The two glaring faults are the lack of a summary-type conclusion and the fact that chapter 3 remains as it was from my first draft of this essay. I made the mistake that everyone warns…
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