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Something emerges from deep below! Creatures, bugs, a haunting presence, and the suffocating dark. Discover what an unexplored cave system has to offer in Underneath, the solo game of perilous spelunking! Get it now at the Good Luck Press webstore and on itch.io!
Expanse, a journaling game created by TheTrueToad
Content: Rated PG-13.
Medium: Instructions for a physical game, a solo journaling and map-making game. Play with a deck of playing cards, a small stack of index cards, a pencil, and drawing supplies.
Number of players: One.
About: Pull some playing cards to choose some random prompts that ask you questions about the aesthetic, social, internal, and practical aspects of your gender. Write your answers. Then use your answers as loose inspiration for drawing a map of an imaginary land that symbolizes your gender.
Vibe: Creative.
To feature this creation by TheTrueToad, I include it in the project Curated Collections About LGBTQIA, in the sections for LGBTQIA physical games, LGBTQIA science fiction, fantasy, and horror, and Questioning. I'm doing this series of Tumblr posts reviewing and featuring other people's creations with links to where you can see them on itch.io to celebrate and draw attention to the cool stuff that folks make.
We just released our newest TTRPG: Dolly, We Bought a Dream House!
You are a group of Dollys in a pinktastic plastic world who bought a Dolly Dream House to move in there together... 🎀
GM-less map-drawing story game for 2-6 players
Zero prep necessary, just start playing
Flexible play time from 1-4 hours
Suitable for both adults and kids
Dolly, We Bought a Dream House is available in both English and German on Itch.io, and you can also get a printed version over at plotbunnygames.com! 🎀
The game consists of a 16-page PDF in A5 format. Inside you'll find:
23 random roll tables to create your fabulous Dollys and find out what they'll encounter in their brand-new dream house
Instructions for play
An example of a finished dream house map as inspiration
10 illustrations for the proper Dolly Dream House Vibe!
Screenreader-ready with image descriptions, PDF tags, internal references, and external links
In addition to that, you need a bunch of six-sided dice, something to draw your map on, and optional pink accessories for everyone.
Any similarities with the pinkest movie of the year and a certain fashion doll are of course entirely coincidental! 🎀
Game Design and Writing: Jasmin Neitzel and Andrea Rick (@this-curiouscat) Illustrations and Layout: Andrea Rick Translation: Andrea Rick Editing: Serina Steinmann (German)
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I hate to do this but my paycheck this month will be delayed TWO WEEKS. I am in desperate need, so if you can buy a commission, get some editing, or just want to make a donation it would mean the world to me.
I take payments for coat of arms commissions here, as well as fees for editing, beta-reading, and fantasy map-making.
Feel free to hit me up with commission ideas, or editing help.
Map-Making For Dummies
In this post, I will explain How I make maps, the first of two methods. I will be making a full world of my book ma
Currently, this Map is the close-up of my map of locations which the story takes place on. This Post is on how to make a map like that one if you're interested.
Step 1: Make a few random shapes, and for islands, draw any in spaces that look a little too empty. (I suggest using bigger paper for fully zoomed-out maps like this one)
Step 2: Edit them however you wish so that they fit the plot if that's what you need. If you're like me you'll need to shrink the shapes to get a good distance between them.
Step 3: Now for the Fun part! Erase the lines and squiggle-ify them. I'll only do the far bottom left one to show you what I mean. Squiggles are very important
Before Image:
Erase lightly so you can still see the vague outline of the shape:
Squiggle-ify:
Now do this for all of your shapes
Step 4: smaller islands! Try and make it look like small pieces broke off of your continents and big islands. Add some smaller shapes all around, tiny dots work too. Just shove them randomly splattered around the oceans and outside of the continents. These make your map look a lot more polished.
(Optional) Step 5: Squiggle-ify the big islands MORE - Create bays, penninsulas, ect.
And you're done! Mostly. If you want me to show how to do rivers, lakes, and borders. I will.
I will also do some hacks on naming Kingdoms, continents, Islands, mountain ranges, landforms, cultures, ect.
If you're going to try it, please show me the finished result~ Thank you and Happy map-making!
After a long hiatus, I've started writing blog posts again. The first one is a meditation on map-making: kakleckyillustration.com/blog/2021/6/3/the-story-of-a-map
People seemed to like the map of Iabesos, so here’s some fun little progress pictures brought to you by the powers of insomnia!
