mystery
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Explorations of the Haunted Island
I made a weird little game, called Explorations of the Haunted Island for the Terraforming Dragons game jam. It’s an attempt to use the mechanics from the board game Splendor to tell a story of investigating a mysterious island like in the TV show LOST or the videogame Myst. You’ll need the cards for the…
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The Mystery Creature of Claytonsville, PA
The Mystery Creature of Claytonsville, PA is a GMless game I made about a series of bizarre encounters in a small town, where no one is ever really sure what is going on. It’s heavily inspired by the real world Mothman scare in West Virginia in the 1960s. The key issue is that no one…
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To Graves Unknown
I released my supernatural mystery solo journal writing game To Graves Unknown as a standalone game. You can still get it in the December issue of In*Die RPG Zine. but now you can also get it on Itch.io, on DriveThruRPG or by clicking the link above.
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spooky solo game playtest
I am working on another solo rpg for the next issue of In*Die Zine, a game of supernatural mystery. And I decided that, since I was already writing out the entries for playtest, I might as well make those available to anyone interested in reading along. So if you want, you can follow along as…
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Mystery City
The city hides countless secrets, but secrets can’t stay buried forever. Mystery City is a two page film noir-ish game that tells overlapping stories about investigators exploring the shadowy corners of a setting, sometimes working with or against the powerful power brokers of the city. The basic structure could be applied to any setting where…
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Fairyland Confidential
“It was a fairyland case. I hate fairyland cases. Once magic gets involved in a case, you never know what is real and what is illusion. Who is acting on their own free will? Who’s been enchanted? It’s always a mess to sort out. But no matter how much I swear off the faerie cases,…
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[Actual Play] Longshot
The Liberation Industries podcast did a series of Actual Play recordings of Longshot, my 2010 Game Chef entry. The game seems to still hold up pretty well, and I enjoyed hearing how their game went. You can hear the recordings here: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
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Mystery Town
Mystery Town is a simple little freeform game I made for my daughter’s 9th birthday, inspired by Gravity Falls, Thimbleweed Park, Maniac Mansion and other funny, weird, mysterious fiction that she and I enjoy together. (Mechanically, it’s a straightforward hack of A Town With Pep! by Epistolary Richard, which is itself derived from Swords without…