Assembled Remnants

Okay, sure, I've released a number of games early on that aren't exactly "what I'm 'doing' with my craft" anymore. They are complete. They are playable. I recognize how the process of developing them developed me. 

And in recognizing that, I'm willing to make them available. Just ... take me out for brunch first, deal?

Collected here are games and supplemental playbooks I made while I was still finding my voice as a game designer. Many were made before I'd found my name. I've tried to keep revisions limited to correcting my name and any glaring errors in the writing. I've tried to leave their mechanics just the way they were. 

I've tried to carry any inspiration I've gotten while going back over these into new projects. These are what they are: remnants, assembled for your appraisal.

INCLUDED IN THIS COLLECTION

• Browser Games *
  • Confluent Circuit - Keep your fleet together while facing procedural resource allocation challenges. Inspired by Friends at the Table.
• Card Games **
  •  Bizaar - Hidden hand haggling to get The Adventurer's gold
  • Cycles - Simulate hacking together with this hacked together simulation 
  • Tomorrow is My Dancing Day (BETA) - Prototype rules for my first full game Descended From the Queen
• Role Playing Games
  • Die Cast (BETA) - Use a stopwatch to play this ancestor of Die Cast, Descended From The Queen
  • Familiar World: Fastball Edition - Plucky kids and their wondrous companions off to Take Chances, Make Mistakes, and Get Messy
  • Incidental: Chain of Worlds - A 2-page love letter to Interstitial
• Playbooks for Interstitial: Our Hearts Intertwined
  • The Ensemble - the gang's all here!
  • The Makeshift - if it's not bolted down, it's spare parts!
  • The Platformer - things always go right! Right?
  • The Recursion - will you stay trapped by the ways of your world?

* Browser games in this collection are standalone .html files that can be downloaded and opened in any mobile or desktop web browser to play.

** Card games in this collection all require a single Poker Deck with the Joker's included to play.

From time to time, I will use the devLog for this game to reflect on the items in this collection. I hope it's a useful exercise.

Cover Photo by Lars Mai from Pexels.

Confluent Circuit Cover Photo by Jakub Novacek from Pexels.

Adorable drawings of The Frog to commemorate the original releases of Die Cast and Familiar World by Sasha Reneau (www.sashareneau.com).