Previous Topics In Indie Game Design 12/6/2005 Arcadian: Introduction: Arcadian and Silvervine Games Hello all,
My name is John Arcadian. I'm one of a group of people who are currently working on an Indie game design called Silvervine Games. We're publishing a d10… In Indie Game Design Participants: Arcadian, TonyLB, Jack Aidley, Troy_Costisick, Wolfen, Adam Dray.
12/6/2005 Ethesis: My game: Shattered Norns I used to do a little bit of game design work. I'm afraid I enjoy watching games almost as much as playing them, sometimes more.
I slowed down a bit… In Indie Game Design Participants: Ethesis, Calithena.
12/5/2005 sayter: [Realm] Combat Mechanics (very long) Well, I have a rough draft all typed up for how combat should be resolved in Realm. It has elements of numerous systems, yet is wholly different from… In Indie Game Design Participants: sayter, nsruf, Bill Masek.
12/5/2005 Levi Kornelsen: [8-Bit Dungeon] First addition: Lamp, Coffers, Map [url=http://members.shaw.ca/LeviK/8bitDungeon.pdf][b]This[/b] is the game I'm working on. Based on some thinking of my own, and the advice I recieved in [url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17832.0]this thread[/url], I've started in with a change, and the… In Indie Game Design Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Sean, TonyLB, sayter, dindenver, Arpie, Hermes3.
12/5/2005 Platemier: Sci Fi Based CCG
Preface: Sci-fi is currently a void in collectible card games. There are no GOOD science fiction based games in circulation. I realized this when I began this project, but realized… In Indie Game Design Participants: Platemier.
12/4/2005 Arpie: [Storyville] GMless LARP I really didn't want to have to do a whole damn game to discuss this one concept, but it looks like that's what I gotta do. (Since I've discussed the… In Indie Game Design Participants: Arpie, WhiteRat, TonyLB, Graham Walmsley, TheTris.
12/4/2005 red coyote: [Acadine] - proposing homebrew system here Hi all - a new poster to the system here.
I'm designing an rpg (d10 based) but would like comments on the magic system I have in mind. What I… In Indie Game Design Participants: red coyote, talysman, FlameLover, WhiteRat, mutex, Joe Zeutenhorst, dindenver, xenopulse.
12/4/2005 TonyLB: Misery Bubblegum - Monster Manual for Conflict Resolution So I had this little flash, reading Darcy post here about wanting a Monster Manual of typical adversaries. My game should have this, and it doesn't even have combat rules.… In Indie Game Design Participants: TonyLB, Joshua BishopRoby, Sydney Freedberg, FlameLover, Levi Kornelsen, joepub, Calithena, Arcadian.
12/3/2005 Darcy Burgess: [Domus] -- refining the overwrought beast I've been doing some rework on my submission for Andy K's Mini Chef contest that he ran about a month ago, and I'm ready to open it up to others.… In Indie Game Design Participants: Darcy Burgess, talysman, Shreyas Sampat.
12/3/2005 Andrew Morris: [Unistat] My 7-hour game I wasn't planning to write a universal RPG, but this just popped into my head and I started writing Seven hours later, I have what seems to be a complete… In Indie Game Design Participants: Andrew Morris, mutex, TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, FlameLover.
12/3/2005 redivider: [Wine Dark Sea]: inspirations + design goals + 'homeric' combat Wine Dark Sea: the final voyage of Odysseus
This posting discusses the background of a game I’m working on, my design principles, and includes a draft of combat rules. I… In Indie Game Design Participants: redivider, Troy_Costisick, TonyLB, Sean, Ice Cream Emperor.
12/3/2005 Eric Bennett: Lovecraftian design Hello there, everyone,
I haven't been around since my splurt on Hearths, mostly because a computer error shortly thereafter wiped both that and almost four months of RP logs from… In Indie Game Design Participants: Eric Bennett, TonyLB, dindenver, Arpie, mutex, Mark Woodhouse, sayter, CPXB, Ethesis.
12/3/2005 JSDiamond: All's quiet --bag o' drafts Here are the drafts for all three booklets in pdf form. Try them out if you like.
Just remember that they are rough drafts. All feedback appreciated.
http://www.orbit-rpg.com/alls_Quiet_rules.pdf --this is… In Indie Game Design Participants: JSDiamond.
12/2/2005 dindenver: [LoL] New name round 2 Hi!
I guess since there is a Legends of Alyria game, here's a new round of naming suggestions, please tell me which you think is cooler:
Legends of Lore… In Indie Game Design Participants: dindenver, Ben Lehman, Malcolm, Troy_Costisick, GreatWolf.
12/2/2005 xenopulse: [Beast Hunters of Chel'qhur] It's All About the Challenge Well, I just lost my long post on this because something closed my browser window. So this one will be shorter. I hope it'll still catch your interest, because I'm… In Indie Game Design Participants: xenopulse, Noon, Joshua BishopRoby, Clinton R. Nixon, jasonm.
12/2/2005 Joshua BishopRoby: [FLFS] Scrip Format This is continuing in the vein of Reward System At Last! and partially triggered by Eetu's comments in I'm Surprised.
System in question in short: Every character has… In Indie Game Design Participants: Joshua BishopRoby, TonyLB, LordSmerf, Ice Cream Emperor.
12/2/2005 Jonas Karlsson: [One Can Have Her] Character Creation and Conflict Resolution I've been working and re-working my September Ronnies game One Can Have Her, trying to get it to do what I want without loosing what's good. This has made my… In Indie Game Design Participants: Jonas Karlsson, Joshua BishopRoby, Emily Care.
12/2/2005 sayter: [Realm] Character Types (semi-poll) I was discussing with some of my friends the other day about the game. They have been giving aid in areas relating to proof-reading and ideas as I go along.… In Indie Game Design Participants: sayter, dindenver, Archer, 1of3, joepub, Ramidel, Calithena, Bill Masek.
12/2/2005 Levi Kornelsen: Preparing to revise. This is a game of mine which I'm thinking of revising again to make it more of an RPG again, and less of an Adventure game (the direction I was… In Indie Game Design Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Malckuss, dindenver, sayter, TonyLB, Mark Woodhouse, Sean, J Tolson, FlameLover.
12/2/2005 Troy_Costisick: Learn from my mistakes Heya,
I’ve been going over several design threads lately both here and on RPGnet. There are some common questions I see newer designers raise that in the end, really don’t… In Indie Game Design Participants: Troy_Costisick, Joshua BishopRoby, inthisstyle, Paul Czege, dindenver, FlameLover, TonyLB, Dumirik.
<< more previous topics | | Subsequent Topics In Indie Game Design 12/6/2005 Caldis: [Judas:the game of betrayal] Initial musings
I've had this idea for a little while now and am not sure how to proceed so I thought I'd throw it out here and see what comes of it.… In Indie Game Design Participants: Caldis, Darcy Burgess, joepub, Chris Goodwin.
12/6/2005 TheTris: [Tell Me] Interactivity Spectrum "Tell me" is my new roleplaying game, designed for two purposes. Firstly, to explore this idea, secondly to reveal what sort of play people want in a given group.
In… In Indie Game Design Participants: TheTris, Bret Gillan, MatrixGamer, Arpie.
12/6/2005 Elliott Belser: [Humanity Beyond Earth] A nar/sim transhuman space opera. I'd like to make a game that balances Narrativist and Simulationist issues - I'm making this game with a bunch of Simmies, and I'm a Narrie mostly: we've discussed the… In Indie Game Design Participants: Elliott Belser, xenopulse, tygertyger, MikeSands, darquelf, Anna B, dindenver, nikola, Adam Dray, Sean Craven.
12/6/2005 Graham Walmsley: [The Drop] Live-action spying This weekend, I ran a LARP and was reading Smiley's People by John Le Carre. It occurred to me that there's a very natural fit between live-action roleplaying and spying.… In Indie Game Design Participants: Graham Walmsley, joepub, WhiteRat, komradebob, mutex, Andrew Morris, MatrixGamer, Arpie.
12/6/2005 Levi Kornelsen: Perfect 20: Goals And Achieving them This is Perfect 20, my d20-based system. It's forty pages, and relatively complete.
My design goals here are as follows; the first few, I think I'm getting close to, the… In Indie Game Design Participants: Levi Kornelsen, Andrew Morris, Mark Johnson.
12/7/2005 Kesher: [dungeonkind / S&S] Digging for hidden gold (long) Howdy all.
Sean Stidd (aka "Calithena") and I recently discovered we were both working on games that were trying to approach our original, gut reactions to Dungeons & Dragons, back… In Indie Game Design Participants: Kesher, Calithena, Levi Kornelsen.
12/7/2005 Tobias: 'Bling' as a term, as well as use in RPGs. I was wondering - we have a bunch of 'bling' and 'pimp my ...' tv and commercial things now swamping the Netherlands.
I was wondering whether the term/concept is used… In Indie Game Design Participants: Tobias, Valamir, Adam Dray, Joshua BishopRoby, cpeterso, Clinton R. Nixon, Andrew Morris, WhiteRat, rrr, contracycle, madelf.
12/7/2005 MikeSands: [Badass Space Marines] Inspired by Descent I was reading this thread http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=17921.0 and got fired up on the idea.
So here's a few hours of my thoughts on how this kind of game (i.e. inspired by… In Indie Game Design Participants: MikeSands, Noon, Kaare Berg (Old), darquelf, Olorin.
12/8/2005 Tobias: [Pimp My Prehistory] - first section Hello All,
I'm throwing out the first part of my new game under design.
Pimp my prehistory
It’s 65.432.100 BC, and Earth has been found by the Aliens.
Nice little… In Indie Game Design Participants: Tobias, Bill Masek, Arpie, Joshua BishopRoby, darquelf, Sydney Freedberg, Troy_Costisick.
12/8/2005 Mageant: Idea: Database of Fictional Worlds We are currently developing the Mysticora (www.cjgames.com) world and would like to publish the setting soon for playing. Currently, we are planning on developing a dynamic world presentation system. We… In Indie Game Design Participants: Mageant, nikola, Arcadian, Joshua BishopRoby, Sydney Freedberg.
12/8/2005 dindenver: [LoL] Strength or Prowess Hi!
There are two skills I am not very confident on: Melee and Slashing.
Slashing is any slashing or cutting weapon that relies on the edge of a blade… In Indie Game Design Participants: dindenver, Joshua BishopRoby, Nathan P., Mark Johnson, Eero Tuovinen, JarrodHenry, Adam Dray, Noon, nikola.
12/8/2005 Exaulted_Leader: [Damsels in Distress] Hide & Seek Adventure This is the result of a brainwave from a couple of days ago. I haven't got much after the initial idea, and would be very appreciative of some feedback /… In Indie Game Design Participants: Exaulted_Leader.
12/9/2005 sayter: [Realm] Void - Making it work correctly.... I've been writing, re-writing and then re-re-writing my concepts for Void over the last while. Essentially , I am trying to make a logical series of events for this energy/entity… In Indie Game Design Participants: sayter, Ethesis, Arcadian, J Tolson, Adam Dray, Bill Masek, dindenver.
12/9/2005 Ethesis: My game: Shattered Norns Second Thread, short, questions. Questions:
1) How is my artwork?
Samples at:
http://adrr.com/story/wolf006.htm
http://adrr.com/story/wolf004.htm
… In Indie Game Design Participants: Ethesis, Calithena.
12/9/2005 Dantai: [Going Home] Unofficial Ronnies feedback I've been meaning to post this for a while, but better late than never!
Going Home Is a Ronnies entry using the words mud and gun.
First point - this… In Indie Game Design Participants: Dantai, Gregor Hutton.
12/9/2005 inoir: [Bleed] another vampire game Hello,
My latest game design is called Bleed. It is a vampire game for two players. Together they play the two sides of the whole monster. The human side and… In Indie Game Design Participants: inoir, TonyLB.
12/9/2005 TonyLB: [Misery Bubblegum] If you REALLY loved me .... In Misery Bubblegum: Monster Manual for Conflict Resolution, we were searching for ways to connect the desires and actions of one person to the desires and goals of another, and… In Indie Game Design Participants: TonyLB, Joshua BishopRoby, LordSmerf, dunlaing, joepub, MatrixGamer, Mark Woodhouse, Sydney Freedberg, dindenver.
12/9/2005 komradebob: [minis] The Village Game ( rough draft) Thanks to Thomas ( Lord Smerf), I'm able to show you folks the game design I've been developing, based on the freeform miniatures games my daughter and I play. Here… In Indie Game Design Participants: komradebob, Noon, Arpie, nikola, Justin, MatrixGamer, Emily Care, Tony Irwin.
12/9/2005 Allan: Fingerprints - second draft (long) Fingerprints discussion started here. First Actual Play is here, but this is still using the old rules. I'll post AP using these new rules very soon.
The only thing you… In Indie Game Design Participants: Allan.
12/10/2005 John_Geeshu: [Organic RPG] Looking for feedback and useful criticism Let me begin by admitting that I am starkly terrified of posting on The Forge, primarily because it opens my system up to criticism that may very well cause it… In Indie Game Design Participants: John_Geeshu, mutex, TonyLB, J Tolson, Joe Zeutenhorst, dindenver.
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