Aedifice & Artifice

[parrotwatcher]

Lovecraft Academy Kickstarter!

The Lovecraft Academy Kickstarter just launched! If you like eldritch horror, cute gay romance, or British boarding school settings, please check it out! Please reblog this, or introduce it to people you think would be interested. Thanks!

You can download the demo, and find out more about the game, on itch.io. 

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A friend of mine just launched a Kickstarter campaign! If the blurb sounds like it might be up your alley, I guarantee the game will be a good time.

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Concept: a video game that automatically updates every day. Each daily update only changes a single word or part of an image. Piece by piece, the game transforms into a completely different story.

[catasters]

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You make a compelling argument.

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Ah yes my cat’s superpower Become Round.

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It’s nice to know that the tradition of RPGs poking fun at their own mechanics has a long, healthy history.

[worldhammerer-old]

im gonna keep it false with you chief. im gonna lie to you.

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— Morte from Planescape: Torment (1999)

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I’ve been reading about space lately, about how the vast emptiness of our universe is filled with particle/anti-particle pairs that, as soon as they are formed, destroy each other into nothingness again. The void, which appears so still and unchanging, is filled with activity.

It is like that with our personal lives caught in this quarantine. Looking back across the vast stretches of months, it appears to be empty. Events happened, but without a way to celebrate and mark time, they winked back out of existence. Birthdays, holidays, the shading of spring into summer and summer into fall. This time, which looks so barren, was filled with activity.

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Why isn’t there some adult form of the Scouts? Like, I want a badge for filing my taxes correctly or mending a sweater or making (and sticking to) a healthy meal plan for the week. I’d befriend the person trying for their “grow a vegetable garden” badge for the third time running. We’d have potlucks in an old wood cabin on lazy summer days and cheer on our peers as they ascend the ranks of adult competency.

[tenderpoc]

Have you tried turning your gender on and off again?

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What if my gender isn’t turning on? I left it out in the rain and it’s been on the fritz since.

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When a war breaks out, people say: “It’s too stupid; it can’t last long.” But though a war may well be “too stupid,” that doesn’t prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.

The Plague by Albert Camus, translated by Stuart Gilbert

[lauralot89]

Because I remember disinformation being spread around the last election and I’m sure Russia will bring it back:

YOU CAN’T VOTE ONLINE.

YOU CAN’T VOTE FROM YOUR PHONE.

IN MANY STATES THERE ARE LEGAL CONSEQUENCES FOR PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR BALLOT.

DO NOT WEAR CAMPAIGN GEAR TO THE POLLS.

DO NOT TRY TO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR A CANDIDATE AT THE POLLS.

DO NOT ENGAGE IN ANY KIND OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE AT THE POLLS.

NO ELECTION IS EVER A SURE THING, EVEN IF YOU’RE IN THE BLUEST OR REDDEST OF STATES.  IF SOMEONE TRIES TO TELL YOU THAT YOU CAN SIT THIS ONE OUT, THEY ARE EITHER IGNORANT OR MALICIOUS.

VOTE.

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Concept: a game that encourages quick saving and save scumming. Saving gives you an anchor-point on the timeline. The longer you go without saving, the further off-track you get from any known timeline, and the more distorted things get.

[shera-dnd]

The Wagadu Chronicles - Afrofantasy MMO for role-play

An Afrofantasy world to explore both as an isometric MMO built for in-character roleplay and as a 5E-compatible tabletop setting!

THE KICKSTARTER FOR WAGADU CHRONICLES IS OUT! WITH A FREE D&D 5E ADVENTURE!

COME GET THAT HIGH QUALITY AFRO FANTASY REPRESENTATION!

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Always exciting to see a variety of cultures represented in games and other media! It will be interesting to watch this project grow.

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Concept: Old-style text-based game where you type in the actions you want to take, a la “open door” or “look room.” At some point you need to help someone or something, an NPC or the world itself, but the “help” command opens the help menu. You need to actually navigate your way through the menu to provide help.

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Project Runway for supervillains:

“You have 12 hours to design and create your very own... death ray.”

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