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How much control do you have over what happens to your character in a tabletop RPG? Can people do things to your character without your permission? Do you want them to?
In most mainstream tabletop roleplaying games, you control your character's actions but not what happens to them. You choose how they feel about events, but not the other effects. A combination of the rules and the game master's judgment decides whether your character gets scared, hurt, or killed.
There's a different way.
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Hello! Gregory here. Almost a year ago we released our dark, funny, satirical game Ossuary. It's a story about descending into a static underworld, talking to the people there, and corrupting them with sins that are really virtues.
A year on, it's a good time to look back and talk about how the game was made and received. In short: those who played it seem to have really liked it and understood where it was coming from, but it hasn't had the exposure, popularity, or sales that we wanted from it.
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Both of us attended GDC Next 2014 November 3-4. It was a cozy conference, focusing primarily on non-development topics: marketing, social media, business development. Both of us feel pretty lacking in these areas, and so eagerly hopped on too-early flights to attend.
Rather than give a boring session-by-session description of what I attended and learned, here's discussion on some of the highlights:
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We've been selling our game Ossuary for $5 for almost a year now. We just set its price to $10 at each major storefront where it's available.
Why are we increasing price on a year-old game? Because we underpriced it to begin with. Let me elaborate. ...
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I gave my first-ever conference talk at BlendConf on web accessibility, titled "Simple Accessibility: The Bare Minimum for Compassionate Development". The slides are over on Speaker Deck, and embedded after the jump.
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From: KernelPop
Subject: join the fight
sk3tch,
you know about samsara, right? security company i worked for for a few months? they dont deserve to exist, they call themselves security experts but just help more people die.
im out of there. they screwed me over. i'm out tons of money, ...
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The only perfect computer security setup is one even the creator can't access.
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I've spent the last six weeks with my left arm in an immobilizer sling. Six weeks of southern United States summer, of being a day-and-night software developer, of being a gamer, all rocking a sling that straps my left arm to a pillow that is in turn strapped to my torso and neck.
After the first 11 days, I've had some use of my left hand for things like typing, but I have limited wrist mobility and can't reach for things or hold/lift more than about two pounds. I'm in this sling 24/7 until some time after August 4.
Plenty of computer and gaming things become difficult in this situation, and I've been exploring some new configurations to get my gaming in. What's come out of this are some good practices I can take away for basic accessibility in developing games.
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don't let samsara get their bloody hands on your systems. everything about them is a lie. they have killed and stolen and ruined lives. zero day is watching and waiting and we will hold them accountable.
the binders come from Vedas and ...
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Our work-in-progress, Exploit: Zero Day, will be a social, online game. It'll let you roleplay as a hacker with other players and even interact with the game's characters on the forums. The kind of community that forms will be essential to the game's success.
At the same time, the Internet can be an abusive place, especially in gaming spheres, and we're producing a game themed around "hacking" and computer security intrusion that is attempting to provide compelling dilemmas. There's a definite risk of our community becoming hostile, toxic, or downright dangerous.
Part of our vision statement at Future Proof Games is "audacious compassion." How do we create a community that encourages audacious compassion while being fun and financially self-sustaining? We're still working out the details, but here's our thoughts at the moment.
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