mostly successful

  • Silent Film Larp

    For my wife’s birthday this year, I created a silent film larp, where the players are part of a failing movie company during the silent film era. And in the process of playing, you actually create your own silent movie, the “original” lost version of a more recent, more popular movie we’re all familiar with.…

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  • [Actual Play] So Now You’re a Time Traveler

    The Party of One podcast played So No You’re a Time Traveler, my two page time travel game.

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  • [Actual Play] Tricks and Treats

    The Weekly Affirmations YouTube channel played Tricks and Treats (my Halloween Lasers and Feelings hack) and it was weird and funny like a comic book by Jhonen Vasquez.

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  • [Actual Plays] The Devil John Moulton

    I decided that I should keep track of places where my games have been discussed or played online. So here are some places where I have seen my game, The Devil, John Moulton, played or talked about in some way: Actual Play Liberation Industries has a 4 part series of play in podcast form: Part…

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  • The Divided House and other stories

    The Divided House and other stories is a game I wrote for Giacomo Vicenzi’s Spooky Design Contest 2016. It’s a loose, freeform narrative game, inspired by “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius”, The Twilight Zone, House of Leaves, Archipelago III and the board game Power Grid.

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  • Unsupervised Apprentices

    Unsupervised Apprentices is a simple little game I made where you play sorcerous apprentices who can’t quite control your magic. When your wizardly mentor disappears, you probably should find him or her. Or you could just goof off and do all those things you couldn’t get away with while the archmage was around. Either way,…

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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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  • Ghost Lines Dark

    An afternoon of hacking gave me Ghost Lines Dark, largely because Messers Harper and Walmsley had already done all the hard work.

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  • Super Repo

    Super Repo is a game I wrote very quickly so that we’d have something to play on Friday. It’s a comedic superhero game, wherein you play people with superpowers who chose to work a mundane job rather than fight crime. The PCs are all repo workers, taking back freeze rays and giant battle robots from…

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  • Nameless Horror

    This is an outdated version of the game. It’s fun to play, but you will probably get better results playing this updated version, with like actual rules for danger and death. Maybe at some point in the future this game will get a title. Until then, it’s just a simple little GMless horror game. The…

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