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angorwhosebabyisthis · 11 months ago

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update:

meant to do barebones summary

went into a fugue state and wrote several thousand words

got down most of what i have planned thus far, and it is super unpolished but all functional except one mechanic i'm still tweaking at. (extra bit for people who want a little more guidance from the mechanics re: modifiers and when to use them)

taking a break for now to rest and Crimmus, and am looking forward to coming back to get the rest drafted out and the writing edited. \o/

I am opening my mouth like a baby bird for the barebones offline version of the rpgsolo stuff .. excited to see :3

i hope you enjoy it when it goes up, anon!! my main issue so far is trying to figure out how tf to format the percentage tables over text on a tumblr post. i could just post screenshots of it, because as it is it formats terribly onto here, but it's critical for it to be screen-reader accessible. i might go ahead and put it in a pastebin to link along with the screenshots; i'd like to get it down in multiple formats and mirrors in case something happens to one version, i Do Not Trust hosting sites these days, but i think that's probably a good start.

#whosebaby talks #whosebaby makes things #whosebaby does game dev #ttrpg tag #on the upside i've improved a lot at managing scale creep! like on the one hand scale creep is a great way to come up with ideas #it's really fun taking the same bones and coming at it from the angle of 'alright what if the focus was on a Completely different aspect'#i've got systems and hacks that have like 5+ different drafts and most of them are games/hacks in their own right #and it's a great way to develop sense for modularity and compatibility of different mechanics; and what they're Aiming For #but also my fucking god once i get going i have such a hard time staying on task and not ballooning it out in every direction #before i can get it actually functioning properly #and it's really gratifying that the Unexpected Length this draft was in the explanations; not 'oh you know what ELSE would be really cool--#and i also caught scale creep on another non-hack game i've got almost finished!#the simplified version of it anyway; still trying to keep scale creep under control with the more extensive system but i do want to make it #also there's no way i'm getting this shit in screenshots oops lmao i am definitely putting it on pastebin or something #after this one i think i'm gonna try to tackle the rest of the pokemon polyhedral hack #as well as aforementioned project which is pretty much just Ask Ghosts What the Hell #and then my lich-building hack of bones by junk food games #anyway time to chrysler

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