Bhaloidam

Bhaloidam is a tabletop storytelling platform inspired in equal parts by Umberto Eco's semiotics, Russian (Organic) Formalism, and Commedia dell'arte. This blog hosts project updates and play-session recaps. If you tell stories with Bhaloidam, please feel free to submit your own!

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I’m fully embracing Bhaloidam as a personal non-commercial project from this point forward, which entails discontinuing the Bhaloidam Tumblr and Twitter accounts. If you’re interested in continuing to receive Bhaloidam-related news, please stay tuned to one of the following:

Twitter (Bhaloidam updates mixed with personal posts & SJW content)

Tumblr (Bhaloidam updates mixed with personal posts & SJW content)

Bhaloidam.com (Bhaloidam updates mixed with other personal projects)

Facebook (Bhaloidam updates only)

Google+ (Bhaloidam updates only)

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It’s About to Get Quiet In Here

...because I’m reabsorbing Bhaloidam posts to my primary Tumblr blog.

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In the Night Kitchen

  TRIGGER WARNING: Child Abuse

I can still viscerally remember reading Maurice Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen for the first time. I found it on the library shelves of the Newark Valley Elementary School, took it over to a table, and forever changed the way I thought about reading. In fact, it forever changed the way I thought about life.

A darkness runs through Sendak’s work. Even this seemingly…

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Day 13 I'm still trying to get the hang of using Pencil on the iPhone. It doesn't feel as natural as it does with the iPad Mini.

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Chapter Excerpt: How Bhaloidam Works

Chapter Excerpt: How Bhaloidam Works

I thought it would be a good idea to share snippets from the rough draft from v2.0 of the handbook. I know Github– where I’m hosting the project as I work on it – can be a little inscrutable. Please feel free to give me feedback on these drafts – where ever you feel most comfortable doing so. I want this next version of the handbook to be the definitive guide to using Bhaloidam and I can’t do…

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The Gang is Back!

The Gang is Back!

Although the next handbook will not be entirely in a comic-book format, I couldn’t imagine writing it without including the trio of Spinners who appeared in the first handbook.

Inspired by the play styles of the Skein who stuck it out with me as I developed the core Bhaloidam rules and named after three good friends who were my constant companions in IRC as I sweat, struggled, crowed, and cried,…

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Day 12

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Abmandu 2.1 Realized I'd forgotten a few details - full lips, lavender irises, an breasts. The latter led to an update to my deform rig, so I can easily add and modify breasts on all my models. I'm increasingly happy with this setup.

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Abmandu Aroe

I’m pretty thrilled with this new mesh. I’ll be making a few more characters with it over the next few days before I officially declare this the style for the Bhaloidam Handbook v2.0, but I’m hopeful!

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Day 10 The Secret Cave Paintings of Lascaux. What are they hiding from us?!

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Day 9

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Day 8

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Bhaloidam v2.0 on Github

Bhaloidam v2.0 on Github

There will be many updates on the site as I work on the next version of the Bhaloidam handbook. I’ll continue to post about the art direction, the foundational concepts, structural thoughts, etc.

But to track what’s actually happening with the content of the handbook itself, you’ll need to track the Bhaloidam Handbook on Github, where I’m hosting all the source files for the handbook. Right now,…

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