I love how utterly incomprehensible this will be to all but a thousand people

Congrats on the print release! Just ordered it. I've been so impressed with this month-long release and all the thoughtful blogs to come with it

But it *does* feel like a reworking of cyberpunk for the 2020s: a vision of the future not as a unified aesthetic but as this crazed sensory overload, a hundred different stories and worlds fired at you at once, leaping between crassness and warmth, insincerity and sincerity.

Same, honestly nice to hear I'm not alone in that

I've been feeling this too! For me another reason has been how much is going on in the Dream that I don't know about. It's pretty scary stepping into a character who has such a narrow perspective on such a big world

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This has been a year of committing to TTRPGs as my artform of choice. It's helped me to better understand how I look at the world and engage with it. It's taught me that I can be a creative person. Thanks to everyone in the community that I've met so far! (11/11)

My favorite part in this module is my off-trail procedure. If you go off the trail, you stay stuck there encountering random events, until you get lucky and find your way out. There are certain locations and factions that can only be found off the trail. (10/)

The only constant is the accumulation of pollution, represented by an overloaded event table. This world is aimless, but trending towards loss. (9/)

Compared to most modules, this one is intentionally designed to be aimless. There is no map, certain paths dead-end, and sometimes you can only progress by getting lost. This feels right in a module about grief and memories. (8/)

Wetlands fill me with a sense of nostalgia. I grew up fishing and clamming there with my father and grandfather. My great-uncle and sister have both worked in wetland conservation. Thinking of wetlands makes me think of childhood memories now out of reach. I tried to bring that feeling here. (7/)

I tried embracing the moody, narrative tone of Cloud Empress for this module, to create something hopefully as fun to read as it is to play. My goal was a small world charged with grief and coping in different ways. (6/)

I followed that up with Beneath these Grasses Grieving, my attempt at an adventure module for Cloud Empress during the #CloudEmpressWinterJam. I ended up spending somewhere between 40-60 hours working on this one, and it feels nearly like a finished product. (5/)
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This game has a pretty cool safety tool too—a natural open table, enabled by remote play with natural breaks. I'm also pretty happy with my prose, especially this paragraph at the end. (4/)

It's a game about silence and boredom. About how the fear of being alone brings people together. I still think this is ripe ground, as seen by the subsequent #JamInSilence amassing 50 submissions. Consider how else you can wield loneliness as a tool. (3/)

My first game, Resonant Static, was written for the Dice Exploder Pregens Jam. It's not polished, but I think there's some good ideas in there. More importantly, it felt freeing to get a project done. (2/)
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Commercially, it's not optimal. But building a network effect is how communities thrive and grow long term.

What I'd love to see more is game listings that include links to related games by *other* creators that might not be seen otherwise. "Hey, if you liked this game, check out these other three games that do something similar, but you probably missed."