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One Trillion Years - A Preview

Hey folks,

So I decided to join another game jam at itch.io, This time its the Mapemounde game jam, all focused on using maps as part of the game's design. The theme of this year's jam is  "A game in which the map portions belong to differen...

Spooky Action at a Distance - Prototype

Hey folks,

There's a tabletop game jam happening over at itch.io called the Me, Myself, and My RPG Game Jam.

I've been inspired to make single player roleplaying games ...

Tales from Neon Black - Improvised Interference

Today's story was inspired by a Writer's Emergency Pack card called "What would Indy do?" It's a reference to Indiana Jones and suggests how to think of your hero improvising in a situation. Chasing a tank on horseback, bringing a gun to a sword fight, s...

Tales from Neon Black - Pinnacle Liberty

Today we have the copy from some sort of advertisement from one of the factions of Neon Black, Pinnacle Liberty. They run the off-world colonies in the solar systems, which are basically just getaways for the ultra rich. My prompt today from the Writer Emergency Pack was "travel". I imagined this has a brochure or some ad tha...

Tales from Neon Black - No Heroes in Prime City

Another bit of microfiction inspired by my cyberpunk game and the Writer Emergency Pack. Today's card was "Kill the Hero". 

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There’s a classic tale on the ‘Net, told and retold to new freelancers who talk big about the corporation...

Tales from Neon Black - No Words

Today I wrote a short story, inspired by working on my cyberpunk game and the Writer Emergency Pack.  The pack is a set of cards designed to help inspire creative writing or get you out of a slump. Each has a prompt or idea like "cause and effect" or "you can't go home again". I drew a random card yesterday in the middle...

Neon Black - Skipping 3.0

Hey Patrons,

How's thing? Work okay? Life okay? Getting by as we crawl out of these long dark months? Well, that last question only applies to those of you living in the northern hemisphere...

Anyway.

I have a bit of an update for you on Neon Black, the cyberpunk tabletop RPG I'm working on. For the last few...

Published in CapsuleCrit

Hey Patrons,

Today I had a short piece published. It's a micro fan fiction story that I worked on my Twitch stream several weeks ago. I didn't share it here, in case of this exact eventuality, but now I can by linking you to the CapsuleCrit page.

Not a paying gig, but I get to share the space with other writers I ...

Latest Version of Neon Black now Available

Neon Black v 2.3 is now available for everyone and not just patrons!

You can find the updated rulebook, character and crew playbooks, and play sheets right here. 

Play as a clever and scrappy crew of characters...

Neon Black Version 2.3

Hey folks,

Ever take a second look at something you made and realize that you absolutely hate it? Yeah, that's what I did when I was looking over the last build of Neon Black, version 2.2. I didn't like the changes I had made to the crew and character playbooks, so I rolled back some of the changes I made and implemented some ...

Neon Black Version 2.2

Hey folks,

The latest version of my cyberpunk RPG Neon Black is finished and live for patrons. 

Play as a crew of highly skilled but poor hackers, suits, and sleuths trying to survive in a near future cyberpunk world of powerful corporations and alien artificial intelligences. This is a hack of another RPG called Bl...