alien life

  • [Monthly Monster] It’s Hard to be a Flumph

    It’s Hard to Be a Flumph is a little hand-drawn game I made about how difficult it is to be a flying psychic jellyfish thing. For decades, they have been treated as pitiful jokes, but these noble creatures only want to fight for justice and law. But no one in town will take them seriously,…

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  • [Monthly Monster] A Day at the Beach

    For September’s monster game, I made A Day at the Beach, a fairly silly game where players collectively control an algoid, a collection of sentient moss formed into a roughly human shape. You’re trying to hide your swamp plant nature, so you’re taken on a human disguise. And to maintain your disguise, you’ve found yourself…

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  • [Monthly Monster] Saurials of the Two Worlds

    This was originally supposed to be June’s monthly monster game, but it got away from me. Anyway, Saurials of the Two Worlds is a game about anthropomorphic dinosaur people trying to build a new life in an unfamiliar land. It turned out to be more effective in play than I had expected. The inter-relationship between…

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  • [200 Word RPG] Squamous

    Written for the 2017 200 Word RPG Challenge. Squamous You are each eldritch abominations, taking human form for nefarious purposes. Your human vessels are… weak. Disgusting. Meat. Always sweating, defecating, desiring. How do humans tolerate this? Each abomination has a secret eldritch Goal. Write down a noun and a verb. Give the noun to your…

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  • A Shadow Among Shadows

    Here’s a game I made over the summer, inspired by but not entered into Game Chef, but I never got around to posting it here. It’s a mashup or Archipelago and some boardgame mechanics, where you explore an abandoned space ship. A Shadow Among Shadows

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  • Interstellar Diplomacy

    Interstellar Diplomacy is a freeform-ish game I wrote as an entrant into the Golden Cobra Challenge. You play alien diplomats, meeting on earth to decide whether or not war will destroy the galaxy.

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  • Medical Bay Three

    “Four years of pre-med, four years of medical school, one year of residency, years of professional experience back on Earth and all the memory downloads about extraterrestrial culture have all taught you this: you don’t know anything about what you’re doing. Not here, anyway. On the Sphere, everything is weird and different. The Sphere is…

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  • [Doodles and Dragons] Vast and Starlit

    Epidiah Ravachol is selling a microgame via self-addressed stamped envelope. To buy it, you mail him a dollar and a picture that you drew. These are the pictures that I drew. Sometime in the next few days I’ll mail them to him.

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