za3k > games
sometimes I made games. I make board games, card games, storytelling games, and computer games. the rules are collected here.
| game | date | type | complexity | players | tested? | recommended? | description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| faux pas | 2021-04-28 | cooperative | mid | 3-8 | no | maybe | a "visible role" game, where everyone knows your secret identity except you. try to enter the dining room in order of nobility rank. |
| doodle adventures | 2021-03-29 | drawing | low | 1-6 | no | yes | listen as a premade story is revealed, and doodle what happens. |
| emperical zendo | 2021-03-19 | board | mid | 2-8 | no | no | a variant on traditional zendo, where you score points for predicting the rule but never guess the rule outright. |
| logic potions | 2021-03-13 | board | high | 2-4 | no | no | a potion-brewing game. not about logical deduction, but about logical deduction clues themselves |
| deadly education rpg | 2021-02-12 | roleplaying | mid | 2-6, plus GM | no | no | a traditional pen-and-paper roleplaying game based on the affinity-based magic system from Naomi Novik's "A Deadly Education" |
| loot boxes | 2021-02-08 | storytelling | low | 2-4 | yes | maybe | "Car trip" game. Players have an inventory of random items. They must use the items to solve a series of challenges. |
| no, this cannot be! I AM INVINCIBLE! v2 | 2021-02-08 | storytelling | mid | 2-8 | yes | yes | Villains send wave after harder wave of enemies at the Heros, until they kill the Villains. |
| ninjas ninjas ninjas! v2 | 2021-02-07 | storytelling | mid-high | 3 | no | no | Fast, diceless storytelilng game about how cool ninjas are. |
| ultimate archwizards vs the dark Lord | 2021-02-03 | storytelling | low | 3-5, plus GM | yes | yes | One-page storytelling game about the final episode in a fight anime. |
| stupid conspiracies | 2021-01-17 | party, competitive | low | 10+ | no | maybe | Conspiracy nutjobs try to join as many conspiracies as possible, and get as many people as possibly to believe their conspiracy. |
| stupid russia | 2017-10-29 | party, competitive | mid-high | 10+, plus GM | yes | no | Spy directors make deals with each other, trying to report more agents than anyone else, without getting their own agents executed. |
| colony on the moon | 2016-07-05 | computer (minecraft) | high | 1+ | alpha | no | A minecraft modpack. Based around providing reductionist components and having the player do their own automation. |
| volcano | 2013-02-05 | computer | low-med | 1 | beta | no | An ASCII roguelike I made in college. Not much fun. |