#wolf does game dev

[companionwolf]

someone in the mmolb discord had the idea of 'a two player journaling game hack of In the Air Tonight by Austin Ramsay where one player is the pitcher and the other is the catcher' and uh. we might try to make it. asked permission. the user granted it. so uh. we'll see ig?

[companionwolf]

Hi selfship tumblr! I wanted to update you all about the selfship solo TTRPG (tabletop role playing game) idea I've been kicking around.

I've adjusted my concept for it and high key restarted from scratch. Now it's more of a isekai story, where you are brought into your F/O's world and have to go unite with them, somehow.

The core of the game is in a typical 'roll on prompt tables and write an entry of your adventure' journaling game format, with a few extra mechanics that to gamify it a bit more. I'm figuring out what those will be and how to make the game a working cohesive unit.

I'm focusing on nailing down the prompts at the moment -- I'd like them to be short but evocative, and generally applicable to any F/O source, while still often tying back to the themes emotions and idea the game is based around and aims to draw out.

'When can I play it?' I also want to know (I don't know, but you'll see a post if and when it comes to fruition). In the meantime, you might see occasional other dev posts from me in the tags.

('What about all the responses you got earlier about this game?' Those experiences folks shared are being used for inspiration and to help focus my prompts so they that fit the vision and vibe for what the game will be as a whole.)

[companionwolf]

Brain: solo ttrpg where a core feature is using a camera/taking photos

Me: ok sounds cool, what else about it?

Brain: all I got, boss

[companionwolf]

Working on the selfship journaling game; trying to come up with prompts (the idea is you roll on a d20 and then write something based on the prompt).

Not sure I'll go with these in the end -- part of me wants a more fantastical approach, but I want to make this accessible to anyone who struggles with the blending of fiction and reality due to mental health. Also attempting to figure it how to gamify this all more.

Anyway, here's what I got right now (Xs are just a placeholder for actual words):

1. You are overcome with longing for your F/O. What do you want for?

2. X

3. For whatever reason, you are reminded that you love someone you cannot touch, cannot ever have physically. What prompted this painful remembrance, and how do you handle it-- does your F/O help in this moment or does that ache too much?

4. X

5. Through your F/O, you're learning and asserting to yourself that you are lovable, inherently so. How have they made you realize you deserve love, from them and from yourself?

6. X

7. You come up with a new idea for a headcanon for your selfship. Is it sweet? Sad? Angsty? How does it deepen your connection to your F/O?

8. X

9. X

10. X

11. In your dreams, your F/O is there. What are you doing? What are they doing? Do you speak with them? Do anything together?

12. X

13. X

14. X

15. Your F/O motivates you to make something-- art, writing, anything creative. What do you make, and what does it mean to you to have?

16. X

17. Something challenging is ahead of you. But your F/O inspires you to try. How do they help you?

18. You're doing something, be it at home or out and about, and pretend your F/O is there. What do you talk about? Do they help with whatever you're doing?

19. X

20. You come across an imagine that inspires you. What is the scenario?

[companionwolf]

30 Days, 30 Lines - Day 1

Finally had something I could use for this to start off. This is a WIP full basic outline for a Twine game I was planning for the Transformation game jam.

Basic concept: player wakes up as a plushie in the post nuclear apocalypse.

[Disclaimer: the transformation aspect of this is not a sex/fetish/etc thing]

Important plot points / things to know: - Themes: Consciousness, identity and the self, finding purpose, determination - When player awakens, the world is post nuclear apocalypse - Stats:

Social

Mental

Physical - Main side characters Jane: leader, dog Fish: subordinate, cat CB: subordinate, bunny Snowflake: loner, cat

- Goal is to leave house 

- The player must prove self to Jane, learn about toy society, solve problems for the other toys, and accept new conditions.  - Room ideas Room 1: fix someone, moral dilemma, gather items; fight dust bunnies; build  Room 2: find something; rescue someone; solve a puzzle/riddle Room 3: fetch quest; defeat a threat; contest Room 4: fix hazard; solve mystery Room 5: get out - All include opportunities for relationship and character development scenes

- Simple inventory - Variables tracking choices and inventory - Choices impact others; choices impact end (if you even reach it, for example)

- Death is possible 

Season 1 - started Room 1 Player wakes up Player meets Jane, Fish, Snowflake, CB Jane brings the group to Room 1 The Smalls ask for help The player learns about the nukes indirectly The group returns to the bedroom to find supplies Dust bunny fight Moral dilemma - take from a non sentient plush? Group brings back supplies to the Smalls The group moves into the next room Season 2 - not started Room 2 Jane brings the group to her little settlement They spend time there, others are informed the player is gone Player gets to talk to folks Relationships + char dev scene/s Player tries to find … something important? Their phone? Someone is lost Group goes to locate them Player solves a puzzle Season 3 - not started Room 2 Player brings the lost plushie back to room 2 Character development + relationships scene/s Group receives a request to bring a item to room 3 Group finds item Room 3 Group brings item Player introduced to this room's tyrant leader Player encounters the resistance Group chooses who to help Somewhere in here: contest Season 4 - not written Room 4 Group goes to (escapes?) to room 4 Group encounters environmental hazard Group solves hazard Someone has been destroyed Group helps solve Previous choices impact the route they have to the fifth room Season 5 - not started Room 5/Exit Group reaches final room Group figures out how to leave Player goes outside End

[companionwolf]

My friend: Um. You're one man who is also disabled and that game you're emulating had a whole team of developers and money and 5 years. Of COURSE yours will less polished well executed and such. And then you beat yourself up for not having time and energy for making a whole game in under a month when you have almost no prior experience. Dont be mean to you ):

Me:

(They're very right. I'm mean to me...)

[companionwolf]

17776-as-a-TTRPG was supposed to be a small game/s. And, uh, this is my current hypothetical book/doc setup.

Intro & safety tools etc

How the game's phases work

PHASE 1 - Sat

Making your character

Playing phase 1

PHASE 2 - sports

Making your team

Making your main PCs

Playing phase 2

Making NPCs (NPC teams, team NPCs, others)

Making stadiums

Other misc items here

PHASE 3 - command

Making your command PCs

Playing phase 3

Other misc items

CREATING A GAME (ONE SHOT)

X

X

Other misc stuff idk ):

CREATING A MAP TO THE CHAMPIONSHIPS (CAMPAIGN)

Creating modifications, Decrees, Blessings, etc

Generating missions

Generating the bracket

Other misc items

OTHER MISC TOPICS

X

X

X

things?

BLANK SHEETS

Sats

Teams

Team PCs

NPC Teams

NPCs on Teams

Other NPCs

Stadiums

Modification creation

Blessing creation

Decrees creation

Brackets for campaigns

Mission worksheet

Quick reference sheets (for each..phase?)

('Those are Blaseball words.' Yeah. This isn't Blaseball though... or football. It's murder paintball-capture the flag, possibly in sapce-- I haven't decided. I guess I need to change this thing's name since it's only really 17776 in inspiration. Fuck. Naming is pain.)

[companionwolf]

messing with mz to learn functionality. going to make a game with these guys eventually. have to finish regicide dog (in xp) first. since it was nearly done. maybe we'll remake it in mz afterward?