We're doing something new this month: chatting about the work we're doing in a short podcast! Legitimately short: it's only 15 minutes including our dope intro/outro music, "Juparo" by Broke for Free, licensed under CC-BY 3.0.

Give a listen below or read the transcript online or as a ...

We're quickly approaching completion on our GM-less roleplaying system Rosette Diceless. We're so close, in fact, that we'd like to show off an excerpt from the book! While the contents still might change, this sample should be very close to the design and contents of the final book.

Below, you ...

"(I Fell in Love With) The Majesty of Colors" has been out three months today! We're happy to announce that as of today, the game will be available on desktop platforms for $1.99 and mobile platforms for $0.99. This is the game's new normal price, not a temporary ...

Often, the most effective ways to communicate a work's tone are also the most subtle adjustments. In digital games, creators too often put off or overlook background sounds, even though they immediately set a mood.

Our roleplaying game sourcebook Rosette Diceless doesn't come with a soundtrack, but books have a ...

Our upcoming roleplaying sourcebook Rosette Diceless is in its final typesetting and compilation phases! Images, ornaments, and fonts are chosen and largely placed. We want to share some of that process with you, including a major tech struggle.

Rosette Diceless is setting-free, although it includes some suggestions on world building, as well as optional character abilities in science fiction or fantasy settings. Not being tied to a particular setting meant that we had fairly free reign in choosing our style for the book.

Developing this book is happening on a miniscule budget, however, so when we decided on an aesthetic for the book, it took into consideration assets that were public domain, had liberal copyrights, or were very low cost.

At the end of February we released "(I Fell in Love With) The Majesty of Colors" Remastered. Now that the furor and stress of the release week is behind us, we can look back at how it went.

We've been generally very pleased with the critical and fan response ...

As we move forward in finishing our next project, we've decided to change its name to match how it's serving best in playtesting: Rosette Dramatic LARP is now Rosette Diceless!

Rosette Diceless is a roleplaying system that focuses on collaborative storytelling and consent-based conflict resolution. You can roleplay everything from complex combat to intricate political debate with the same set of simple, quick-playing rules.

Motivations

There are two big reasons: the realities of the system, and marketing.

We're thrilled to announce that "(I Fell in Love With) The Majesty of Colors" is officially released! You can buy it on Steam, itch.io, the App Store, and Google Play.

It's 33% off during launch week (through March 6, 2018), making it $2 USD ...

The other week we gave a talk at James Madison University as part of their CS Speaker Series at the invitation of our friend Prof. Michael Stewart.

We presented on "Ethical Intention in Development," and we now have a video that combines our slides with recorded audio from the ...

"(I Fell in Love With) The Majesty of Colors" is coming out in just a few days. We're nervous and excited and trepidatious and many other things you might find in a thesaurus related to "nervous". We don't release games very often, so this feels big.

One of the things we've aimed to do with the remastering of "The Majesty of Colors" is not to just give players the game from 2008 in a new technology, but to give folks the game they remember playing, which is probably a little different from the reality of the Flash game.

We've talked about some of the major improvements we've made to the game, but the smaller enhancements have mostly been left to our social media posts. Here's a compilation of some of the recent gifs we've posted: