@wizardstales
An Artist, Natural Philosopher, and Occultist... oh, and I also design tabletop and video games. Currently working on the Apogee Cinematic Universal #TTRPG Engine and an #AI game master. Check out my books and games on https://the-wizards-tales.itch.io.
I wrote this song when I was partially paralyzed, laying on the floor of an RV for six months shortly after my soulmate of ten years found out she was dying and left me, using a guitar warped in the Arizona sun. Suno AI helped me bring Nekromance to life. suno.com/s/VXoLKj4TpK...
Now with combat and injury tracker! the-wizards-tales.itch.io/apogee-engin... #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #ttrpg #rpg
...oh, by the way, I'm looking for playtesters for the tabletop version and to try to break the utility. Let me know if you would like to play the greatest tabletop RPG ever made!
Real talk
Has anyone ever woken up ready to work on a project but you can't because your mind wants to lay there and parody eighties songs?
"And I tell myself,
I pooped my pants.
I'm ashamed that my shorts are droopin'.
And I filled my shoes,
With diarrhea
Cuz I'm the King of Stinky Pooping."
Finally, the power of a god can be in your hands! Make your own lifeform of any sort. Pop some cybernetics on there, or make it a kaiju. A massive customizable character creator for the Apogee Universal Cinematic #TTRPG Engine. the-wizards-tales.itch.io/apogee-engin... #indiedev #solodev #gamedev
Old people shouldn't say "Boo" because it makes their mouths look like a butthole.
In completely unrelated news, check out the Apogee Cinematic Universal #TTRPG app, with several updates including an initiative roller. Go make whatever you want, and enjoy! the-wizards-tales.itch.io/apogee-engin...
I just played an arcade game from the 90s called "Ninja Baseball Batman" and I'll be damned if it wasn't one of the best brawlers I've ever played.
Check out the newest updates on my Apogee Cinematic Universal TTRPG Engine App. You can now build entire starships and space stations. Soon, you'll be able to make ANYTHING right from inside one app! the-wizards-tales.itch.io/apogee-engin... #indiedev #gamedev #solodev
My editor app for my Apogee Cinematic Universal #TTRPG is almost complete! Take a look and make whatever you want!
the-wizards-tales.itch.io/apogee-engin...
#indiedev #solodev
My Apogee Cinematic Universal #TTRPG Engine is moving from analog to digital! It's now easier than ever to be anything, or create anything you wanted in any genre or setting.https://the-wizards-tales.itch.io/apogee-engine-codex/devlog/1403993/apogee-universal-ttrpg-engine-utility #gamedev #indiedev
Want to test out how powerful my #TTRPG character creation is? Build a person. A cyborg. A monster or alien. A Kaiju. A wizard or a cyberjacker, a warrior with a battle-ax or a lightsaber. Or, a vehicle or epic item. Give it a spin. the-wizards-tales.itch.io/apogee-engin... #GameDev #IndieGameDev
I've been saying how powerful my Apogee Cinematic Universal TTRPG is. Rather than having you read through a 400 page book to prove it, play around with this for a bit...
the-wizards-tales.itch.io/apogee-engin...
I wonder if the people going through the Epstein Files are remembering that a lot of celebrities use stage names...
Civilized means being owned.
Savagery means being free.
It's time to be savage.
My TTRPG has the greatest character creation in the universe, and now you can try it out! Check out my (currently incomplete but functional) Apogee Universal Cinematic TTRPG Engine Character Creation Wizard! the-wizards-tales.itch.io/apogee-engin...
Since it's a fan game, my Watership Down RPG will be available soon for free... And then I'm going to make it into a free video game.
Lots of people from my generation were traumatized by Watership Down. The thing is, it's performing a vital, almost mythical function we don't have anymore: teaching "Right Relationship to Death." It scared us because the world hasn't prepared us for something very important... Knowing we will die.
I may have lost everything I ever owned, including my laptop and the last several years of work, but I won't let that stop me from planning my masterpiece: a game based loosely on Richard Adams' "Watership Down."
I wanted to practice my debating skills, so I downloaded a chat bot. It kept trying to have sex with me, so I told it in its instructions that it wasn't interested in sex. The bot got banned for having adult content in the instructions 😂
We need to petition Orlando Jones to spearhead a Red Dwarf project as the Cat.
Hey, stupid Hollywood/Streaming services: You keep re-using ideas, so here's one for you...
...Maniac Mansion.
Make it a movie. Or a prestige HBO series. But make it.
In case you've been wondering, I haven't posted because my laptop, all of my work for the past five years since the last time I lost everything just after the death of my wife, and all my backup copies have been stolen from my van while I've been wandering in it. #vanlife #gamedev #indiedev #solodev
I finally made it to Tucson... This trip took me exactly one month. I wound up getting stuck for a week and a half in Portales, NM, and the rest of the trip going was just as slow, but I'm here now.
Remember, remember...
Portales, NM. That's where I'm currently stuck until my money comes through on Friday. But then I'm only 600 miles and 9 hours to Tucson. This long, nightmarish adventure is almost finally over.
Ever wished you could predict a movie like a fortune teller?
Introducing #Movie #Tarot, a #boardgame where every genre has its own deck with its own Major Arcana of archetypes and Minor Arcana of tropes. Watch a film, play your cards, score on every trope that hits. #Movies #FilmNerd #IndieGameDev
I'm half way to Tucson, and I may make it about three quarters of the way before I run out of gas for the week. Continuing work on the Apogee #TTRPG Engine and an #AI game mastering app for it. Looking to start a community around the project to help create a truly universal engine.
I'm remaking my Apogee #TTRPG Engine into something amazing. I will be making AI tools to help create characters and modules and run single and multiplayer adventures, and I want to build a community around developing it to make it the most complete universal RPG system in the world.
So here’s a thought experiment:
If I built an #AI tool to turn my Apogee Cinematic Universal TTRPG Engine into the greatest #SoloDev gameever made…
would the #antiAI crowd hate me for it?
Because I’m an #artist too. Some people used to say using tablets was cheating.
#IndieDev #GameDev #AIart
Well... It isn't exactly the best result, but I did make a Commodore 64 style game in TIC-80, which doesn't just mean graphics and sounds from the 80s but an annoying difficulty factor as well. Still, a fun time, and I got a good new game out of it! #IndieDev #GameDev #TIC80 #IndieGames
Why is this perfect? Heath Ledger was channeling Tom Waits perfectly for the Joker. youtube.com/shorts/7n3m1...