When I was a child, my best friend and I would play pretend on the playground. She would be a superhero and I would be a supervillain, and we would narrate a chapter from her incredible adventures. I would pose a challenge to her, but she would ultimately defeat me. There were no mechanics besides the kinetics of our bodies. ...
2022-01-26 15:28:23 +0000 UTC View Post
So here we are, at the end of 2021 and the start of a new year. It’s a Long Grasping month in the Hudson Valley, the view from my office punctuated by thick mist and hungry branches. Rain is constant but snow is nothing but a memory. While it doesn’t really feel like winter, I thought it would still be a good ide...
2022-01-03 20:39:45 +0000 UTC View Postor The Tricky Art Of Welcoming New Players To Roleplaying
My dad reads all my games. It’s an incredibly touching and swee...
2021-11-14 17:23:38 +0000 UTC View PostHello patrons both old and new! It's super exciting to have all of you here — you're all such important parts of the community and help support us in more ways than you know. Companies like Possum Creek Games that operate on big Kickstarter releases can struggle a lot with "feast and famine", and having a stable income sour...
2021-08-29 03:29:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks, here is a recording of last night's Patreon talk for all of you! It will go live to the public eventually, but all you get first watching privileges. In this talk, I discuss the 2009 RPG Normality, ergodic games (a game that is nonlinear and difficult to read intentionally), lyricism, playability, and game...
2021-06-23 16:15:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks, tonight at 8pm EST I'm going to do a Salon Chat about ergodic games, unplayability, emergent texts, and the fascinating tale of an illegible RPG. Make sure your Patreon account is synced up to your Discord account, and come join us!
Afterwards I'll do a Q&A and help folks out with their projects! Th...
2021-06-22 22:22:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, Jay here. So as we move forward supporting other creators and developing Possum Creek Games into its own publishing house, I wanted to talk a bit about what that's looking like over here and how we're moving forward. I also wanted to show off all the projects we have planned down the line, in one form or another...
2021-05-14 01:17:56 +0000 UTC View PostI find it really hard to write essays. Therefore, I didn’t. These are each a fragment of a concept, and together I hope they can point to some greater framework beyond the sum of their parts. I encourage you to extract meaning from them in whatever way feels natural.
After a long a...
2021-04-24 22:45:23 +0000 UTC View Post(Uncanny: A Sleepaway Expansion releases on Itch.io and our website February 19th)
Hey gang! Grub here,...
2021-02-16 17:11:52 +0000 UTC View PostHappy February everyone! It's incredibly snowy here, and I'm writing this update while bundled up in my office and eating some cake one of my roommates baked. There's going to be a couple of exciting things coming this month! Grubby is going to be doing an article about the methodology and art direction behind Sleepaway <...
2021-02-09 20:50:46 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks! There's not going to be any new games coming out this month on here. Uncanny is coming out next month, Wanderhome is in a few months, and all my other projects are in various states of disarray and aren't great for showing off. I hope to have something for you next month — maybe some more Yazeba's, or a revam...
2021-01-18 17:12:41 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Really quick update, but you can now back my Patreon with an annual upfront membership to save money (10% if I remember correctly?). It's a super convenient deal and makes it even easier for Possum Creek Games to keep doing the things you all help support.
Also in personal news, Ruby is now upstate and we'v...
2020-10-29 22:15:09 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patrons!!! I love you all dearly. I don't have any new content this month (my vacation ate up a few weeks) and I've previously said I wouldn't promise content every month regardless. My job has become "small business owner", a logistical hellscape of banks and accountants that would be way more demoralizing without your co...
2020-09-29 02:56:44 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, good afternoon! If you follow me on Twitter it's been kinda a crazy month! Wanderhome launched on the 4th, and it's made $225K+ at a dizzying speed, and in an instant I've kinda had to restructure my whole life and business and income? Perh...
2020-08-28 17:20:02 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone,
Thank you all so gosh-darn much. When I started this Patreon two years ago, I didn't know what it would be like or what we'd be doing. Some of you have been here with be since the beginning.
When I set up the Patreon originally, I wasn't expecting much - I didn't have much of an internet following, an...
The Wanderhome Kickstarter launched August 4th, and I wanted to take a moment before then and introduce the team of artists working on Wanderhome! The priorities for this project was to choose artists with a ton...
2020-07-20 22:15:30 +0000 UTC View PostWanderhome has reached 550+ followers, a full 2 and a half weeks before launch! I promised on Twitter that I'd post the Wanderhome style guide for everyone's enjoyment, should we make it to 550. And thus, here it is! I hope it ...
2020-07-18 23:13:58 +0000 UTC View Post
(Sidebar: For sales tax reasons, I updated the tiers to more accurately reflect what you get. I gotta figure out more things I can give you, in a way that doesn't create more work for me!)
This has been a good week for lil ol' me. Last week I won an ENnie and was nominated for two other awards, including Game O...
2020-07-14 21:47:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been relatively quiet in the past couple of months. I know "quiet" for me isn't how most people define quiet, but it's true I haven't really posted here. I released a game last night (a Mountain Goats inspired "mixtape" PDF of lyric games called Altar Boys...
2020-06-19 01:52:26 +0000 UTC View PostGood evening everyone! I've stopped apologizing for not posting frequently here, and that's okay! It's been a long month for me, just as I'm sure it's been a long month for you. It's been interesting - my work hasn't been interrupted by conventional forces (after all, I do still work from home), but the pressures of quarantin...
2020-04-09 01:12:55 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much to all my new patrons and supporters. Your help means the world to me, and I'm not sure where I'd be without all of you.
Hey everyone, I wrote some big ol' theory about RPGs! I'm sick of all the theory that naturally and automatically assumes designer intent is the most important thing there i...
2020-01-27 19:44:15 +0000 UTC View Post
My much-anticipated third volume of Games For The Missing & The Found is here, and it is only going to be online for 24 hours! Get it now, before it's literally too late!
2019-11-15 02:20:40 +0000 UTC View PostSo, Sleepaway is done! Well, almost. The text is all done, the layout is all done, and all that's being worked on right now is the art.
Meanwhile, I've spent the past week on a small farm in Colombia with my dad, doing some mental health recovery and writing games. My current projects, while I wait for Sleepaway, ...
2019-09-16 17:05:09 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, here's the second game I wrote this summer, for your personal viewing! It's called White Dirt Red Rain, and it's about post-apocalyptic jungles and a crazed rush for survival using an immersive mechanic based around sand. It's high-octane and crazed, and I hope it inspires your own creative work!
2019-07-28 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Camp has finished for me for the summer, which means it's time to unload a lot of my creative work over the past several months onto all of you! Over the next several days, once a day, I'm going to post some of the work I've been doing for my Patreons only. While not all of this will make perfect sense (as...
2019-07-27 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
I've launched it! The Kickstarter for Sleepaway! It's here! Holy moly! Please go check it out, I'm so excited about this game (as I'm certain you've seen) and wow oh wow is this going to be an awesome, crazy wonderful ride. A "horror game with heart" a "psychadelic nostalgic nightmare party," a "ritualistic symb...
2019-06-05 09:47:19 +0000 UTC View Post
The worst part about being about to start a Kickstarter, but not quite about to launch yet, is that I have a lot of creative energy and nothing much to do with it, and a general nervousness to release. It's the perfect time to revisit old works and bring them together!
House Larps is a set of ten games by myself and JJ ...
2019-06-01 01:26:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you all for your endless support. While I figure out video camera stuff and get onto my feet, I figured I'd post an old game from a while ago I dug up from my Google Docs and got a little chuckle out of. It's a party comedy secret role LARP about a dysfunctional family trying to accomplish their goals while also guess e...
2019-05-28 16:22:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all,
Kickstarters are hard and scary! I've been agonizing for weeks about how best to do it, while also marching forward with preparation. While I don't have anything nuts to show you right now, I figured I'd include some sketches from the work my dear friend and talented coworker Worsey is doing for the cover art.<...
2019-05-26 12:48:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all,
I decided last night to publish Sleepaway onto itch.io. I'm currently in too fragile of a financial circumstances to not have a storefront I can promote the game from, and I want to start getting the word out about this game pretty much immediately. However, this means all of you can buy it! As usual, my Patreo...
2019-05-13 10:30:39 +0000 UTC View Post
