game chef

  • 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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  • Game Chef ingredients are up, and I’ve been thinking about them for a while. ( http://game-chef.com/ ) I had an idea for a game about druids writing a reality-altering book, but I’m not really very enthused by it. I may return to it later, but right now my brain is more interested in this potential…

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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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  • [Game Chef] Afterlife, Incorporated final draft

    I think that my Game Chef entry is about as done as it is going to get. So here is Afterlife, Incorporated.

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  • [Game Chef] Afterlife, Incorporated

    It’s Game Chef time again! You know, where people from around the globe take a limited amount of time and a list of ingredients to make the best rough draft of a game that they can. This year, I didn’t expect to make a game. I was more excited by other projects. But then yesterday…

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  • [House of Masks] New playtest version

    House of Masks 0.3 is the latest revision of my (award winning) 2008 Game Chef game. The idea with this one is that it is a series of cards to be read out loud as you play to explain the entire game. (The last few pages are the backs of the first few pages, and…

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  • [Game Chef 2012] Crash! / Lanterns of the Dead

    Crash! / Lanterns of the Dead is a game that I made for the 2012 Game Chef RPG design competition thing. Crash / Lanterns of the Dead is two game in one: a game about a crashed astronaut, and a game about an alien culture. The two culture (and the two games) inevitably collide in…

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  • Shakespeare 2985

    SHAKESPEARE 2985 is a game I wrote for Graham Walmsley’s Alternative Game Chef. It’s a science fiction espionage murder mystery do-it-yourself alternate reality game about interpreting poetry and failing thermal dampeners. Yeah, I guess it’s a bit odd.

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  • Cardenio’s Daughter

    Cardenio has a problem. He seems to be slipping between three distinct realities, with a different life in each.

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  • Cardenio’s Daughter, first draft

    Cardenio’s Daughter, or “Follow the Lady” Game Chef 2011 A game by Nick Wedig “Mad let us grant him then. And now remains That we find out the cause of this effect Or rather say, the cause of this defect, For this effect defective comes by cause. Thus it remains, and the remainder thus. Perpend.…

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