all the space you need
A downloadable ttrpg compilation
From May 2022 to November 2023, we published a free 200-word game almost every month – no playtesting, just our best attempts at capturing ideas in game design. The results ranged from game-portraits of specific experiences, to solo and collaborative worldbuilding and journalling games, to straightforward adventure RPGs.
This collection brings together all 17+ games in plain text, HTML, and PDF formats, and includes a detailed commentary track on each game as a US$5 bonus feature.
(The tarot deck visible in cover art is the Arcade Arcanum by Rose Frye; the cover fonts are Radio Newsman by Shara Weber and Dine by Dr. Robert Hiller FRSA. The PDF versions use Atkinson Hyperlegible by Applied Design Works and the Braille Institute of America and Fairfax HD by KreativeKorp. The KWrite screenshot also uses Fairfax HD. The cover image is a photo we took of ourselves and processed using ImageMagick's color quantization and dithering tools.)
Contents:
- maryland tornado warning: a mini-larp about being stressed by the possibility of extreme weather
- supplemental item: the packbats' playing card oracle system: a matrix of associations for a 52- or 54-card French-suited playing cards deck
- conspiracy in reverse: a narrative-building game about someone unfolding a mystery that includes themself
- as you would expect: a two-player game of one character visiting another's dream
- space to unfold: a freeform game about leaving an abusive culture and unlearning its toxic ideas
- talk about your lives: a letter-writing game that uses events in your life as prompts
- where things will happen: a worldbuilding game to be played to set up later games
- last safe room: a game of tense argument among tight-knit allies
- waiting outside, on call: a game of anxiety when something major is happening that you can't help
- but what does it mean: a conspiracy-board-building game
- moving with what we have: a survival game about leading a village of refugees
- unstressful leaves: an experimental LARP of guided visualization
- April 1 bonus: exposition space battles: a miserable slog through a fun premise
- for thought or feeling: a game of chess in an unreal world for an unknown home
- repurposed spaces: a mapbuilding game about buildings being transformed by new occupants
- leave two footprints: a character creation game played during a walk
- filler episode: thin footsteps: a fantasy setting post-ecological disaster, following archaeologists digging through uninhabitable ruins of the old world
- four nightmares: a horror story about revealing the secret nightmares of three characters and one closed research facility
- lipu pi sitelen kulupu / the group drawing: musi ni li pali e toki pi lon ala kepeken toki kule / a game where you tell a story by talking about colors
- a saga for player and GM: a framework for playing a roleplaying game in epic verse
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Development log
- how we went from plain text file to PDF/UA68 days ago
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