#sleepy September

[stolligaseptember]

if i get up off the couch i can actually go to sleep in my actual bed, but god, what a cost

[sk3tchisworld]

Dreamscape Update!

The name is now SLEEPING WILLOW.

I was doing my due diligence and researching the original game name: Dreamscape. While the other game with the same name was released in 2004 (on rpggeek) I decided to play it safe. I changed it to Dreamcraft. This game was done in 2020. Too close to home. So now the current name I have chosen points to a major part of the setting and still has a dreamy feel to it.

NEXT

I have settled on three main mechanics: Blackjack, Five Card Poker, and Card Dueling.

Blackjack is the main mechanic to have a conversation with a Dreamer and to craft dreams.

Five Card Poker covers the ‘Town Social Play’ a mode in which you experience events throughout the town of Dreamscape.

Card Dueling is used against Nightmares. I’ve considered removing this mechanic . It’s one I’m making up and requires a lot of explanation to understand although the actual gameplay is simple and has some tension.

Removing Card Dueling means I may be able to ignore a different concept for ‘Nightmares Severity’ and ‘NPC Complexity’. I want to be as focused and streamlined as possible.

NEXT

I am working on the oracles. Hearts as Emotions, Diamonds as Materials, Clubs as Challenges, and Spades as Dangers are safe bets. Unfortunately, the last two things felt confusing to me. There is a gray area between danger and challenge depending on who you’re talking to. I also didn’t want to get too dark and lose the cozy feel. So…

Themes for Suits:

Heart - Time

Diamonds - Mystery

Clubs - Connections

Spades - Mystical (name pending)

And I have a theme for each kind of card Ace, Face Card, and Numbered. I want to keep the Jokers in, but that may have to come with a later update. That may be hard if I want to join the next months Jam!

LAST

My remaining tasks are at least:

Complete Oracle (Just a universal one for now)

Layout (it's just a mess of material right now)

Art & Design (Procreate Doodles and Game Icons)

Grammar/Spelling/Word Choice (So much will slip by)

Setting Description (Enough to set a mood and with literal room for expansion)

Brief Lore (To ground players and create a mindset)

Example Gameplay (Technically me playtesting)

Anyway! This is my game so far (without getting too in-depth). It's due in 9 days, but I’m trying to make it 8 and use 9 to fix anything if I find it last minute.

[orpheus-s-lyre]

ITS THAT TIME OF YEAR

[spookyfallseason]

Only 88 days until Fall🍁🍂

@spookyfallseason

[i-lavabean]

Listen Aloy sleeps in the wild so much how do we know she doesn't snore? It's not like the thunderjaws are going to tell her

[meegan420]

little wee Kali holding her Blanky

[why-the-heck-not]

19.09.23, tuesday

tired !! but nOT SLEEPY damnit

things done today:

2h lecture

4h of coding

[rosalie-starfall]

Headers

September 2024

Miranda Richardson - Sleepy Hollow

Catherine O'Hara - Beetlejuice

Jenna Ortega & Catherine O'Hara - Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Agatha Harkness - Wandavision

Kathryn Hahn & Aubrey Plaza - Agatha All Along

Kathryn Hahn - Agatha All Along

[cfffrk]

[sk3tchisworld]

Well, this aged like cow manure. That is to say, that I have shit to show for it, but I made something I can grow good stuff in.

Metaphors aside, I didn't realize the deadline was at midnight of September 30th instead of noon or even midnight of October. Haha, well that went as well as expected.

Sleepy September, my monthly game jam, is here!

Welcome to the 7th monthly game jam that will be hosted on my itch.io page!

In this game jam, your objective is to create a game where rest and coziness are the focus! But what are some examples?

Well, you could create a game where the main focus is to actually catalogue the players sleep so they maintain a solid schedule, or it could be about a super cozy town with a comfy inn and you're the innkeeper, or it could be a game about farming or tending to animals! All that needs to be present are some comfy, cozy vibes!

Your games can be tabletop games OR digital games. Anything that gets your mind in the realm of game design is all that matters to me! 

IMPORTANT: All games made at any point in time are allowed, but it is HIGHLY encouraged to make games only while this game jam is active. This is a chance to exercise your creative skills AND get your game out there, not just one or the other!

ALSO IMPORTANT: Under no circumstances are people who submit games with bigoted tones, ideologies, or dogwhistles allowed in this game jam. If your work is bigoted in any way, it can and will be rejected for submission. You have no place in my community, and please do not play my games at your tables. Also, please no NSFW submissions (you know what I mean by that).  

(This is part of a game jam series where, every month, I will host a game jam focused on a theme that begins with the same letter as the month. Please feel free, even after the game jam ends, to make your game if you didn’t meet the deadline. I believe in you!)

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This jam runs through the end of the month, so get in your games while you can! Happy making!

[stolligaseptember]

don't wanna get up to go brush my teeth because i'm too tired but i can't go to bed before i brush my teeth but i don't wanna get up to go brush my teeth because i'm too tired and do you see my problem

[sk3tchisworld]

Finding the Light

So far, I have enjoyed my time making Sleeping Willow, including the parts people say they hate the most. In this instance, I mean trimming the fat or for me, finding the spark of inspiration that started it all. I don't have enough time to embellish the details in this game. I have to be concise. Which did something wonderful.

It helped me focus on what I really wanted to experience.

I've spent enough time on r/RPGDesign and r/Solo_Roleplaying to see how people want so much and are trying to cram it all end and inevitably get tied up in their own ideas. So many stats, resources, and minuscule rules for uncommon or rare scenarios. But I do empathize with where it all stems from.

The Broken GM.

Like the forever GM, the broken GM has seen it all, but it snapped something in us. We've seen the strangest ideas that only humans can invent and make work. Well, they worked because there was no rule or reason it shouldn't work. While we knew the rule of cool, we were watching this one idea unravel our plans like a frayed tapestry in the hands of a toddler.

A harmless roadside encounter leads them to rescue and awaken a bunny. Now they must find the fabled Beast Folk village hidden in the fae wilds so it can be with more of its own kind. They'll never meet the Eldritch Dragon Lord at this rate! You lash out with riotous rebels, toppled towns, and doomed damsels all to urge them back to your story. They double down. This world is too unsafe for Bunster, their Bunny Knight, and they must ferry him to his people as soon as possible.

this totally didn't happen to me.

So, with our own games, we're fighting that one player, the slew of misadventures the party went on that threw off your entire scripted campaign. We're making the rule that keeps them on the tracks. Making the consequences for not following our story.

But.

We're also giving them the options we all sat around and brainstormed, homebrewed, and ultimately used to decimate the balance. The challenge went out of the window.

We're making the adventures that our favorite games just couldn't accommodate. Building our own castles in the sky and empires under the sea. We forget where we started and only see the next destination.

But when does it become too much? When do we look back at all we've made and say, "Oh wow. What was I even going for?"

That's trimming the fat. That 'Oh' moment. Not the AHAs. We have a thousand lightbulbs along the way, some even crossing old paths and making some ideas seem so much brighter, and more important. It's the 'Oh' when you can't find the way back to where it all began.

It's when you start turning off the black lights, LEDs, neons, and spotlights that you see the faded blinking one. Still there.

That is today for me. Trimming the fat. Turning off the bright flashing neon lights. Getting back to the spark.

[sleepysak]

WAIT I CAN FINALLY SHOW OFF THIS CROCHET BLANKET I MADE FOR @cantodelcolibri & @halohampster !!!!!

im VERY proud of it and im SO happy i got to give them such a gift 💕

[icewindandboringhorror]

sneepy cozy time....

[sleep-nurse]

lore meme that literally nobody else will get it except me and my brother

[author-a-holmes]

33? Babe. You're young yet, haven't even crested your mountain. Maybe your knees are rolling down the other side but that's it.

Bwahahaha I kept this a whole year just to say; I'm 34 now. Does it count as old yet? ;-) <3