I recently listened to Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder (my review/reflections here). There are some game design applications, but I'm not sure I'm ready to go into detail

Jupiter Sovereign is themed around alchemy, and while I don't aim for it to be necessarily a learning tool, it has roots in it beyond just window dressing. One of the things about alchemy (or, rather,

So I've been thinking about how to get Jupiter Sovereign from a passion project to a published product, and it's become clear to me that some things have to be done to get the game moving toward a state

Got a little work done on Jupiter Sovereign. Wanted to get some conditions done and have some way to represent them. Conditions are all represented by an icon, because I like having that as a way to

One of the things that drives any game are the consequences for failure. In Jupiter Sovereign, there's a problem with this because consequences for failure are essentially narrative. Death is temporary,

This past week I was lucky to work on @loreshapergames' project Jupiter Sovereign. You can read an amazing post about the history and setting of the game here. Also in their blog are various interesting

The shuttle's engines whined as it entered the docking bay, and Zaman hoped that it'd hold out long enough to get him delivered safely to the moon. If those idiots back at Central could recognize his

Quick status update, it was a hectic day/week, so I am behind where I thought I would be. The font used in Jupiter Sovereign is somewhat of an interesting issue, because there just aren't that many fonts

I haven't forgotten about the Role Archetypes series, but I'll be postponing it another while because I'm working on Jupiter Sovereign. In Jupiter Sovereign, each character has one or two domains of psionic

I had originally planned to get a rough draft of Jupiter Sovereign up for everyone to see over the three-day weekend, and that did not happen. So, here's a brief update about the process. Right now I'm

"Adomas, there's something wrong with Fabricator 5." He slid into the seat, feeling its cushions fold around him as the mind-bridge warmed up, preparing for the transfer. "Oh?" "Says

Whenever I work on a game I like to take some time in pre-production to think about what goes into it. Jupiter Sovereign is just a sketch for me, but I still want to do it right. As a result I'm going

So in the interest of full disclosure: I had some issues trying to sleep last night and I'm basically running on caffeine and willpower, and I've got freelancing deadlines coming up. The next part of the

So yesterday I teased an alchemy themed giant robot game, and I had more ideas for it. Basically, I want the entire game to have no numbers on the character sheet. You should be able to have all the details