#open source rpg

[doctorslippery]

#black market #d100 list #open source gaming #nondenominational rpging #d20 #rpg #gm #game ideas #role playing game #game on #play on

[deltoravivisection]

well uh. Guess I'm not gonna be using unity for this game anymore?

#like the 20 cent thing would not apply to this game since it will be free but I plan on making other rpgs by reusing assets from this. #which will not be free lol. #and I doubt I would ever hit the threshold for the fee to apply but it's sort of also just a principle thing #so if anyone has suggestions for open-source software with a decent amount of stock assets I can use ermmm. Please let me know.

[volfoss]

Does Volfoss have a secret fan translation i can't find? I'm coping here

it does not BUT i did go through and write every story section (as line by line as I could) for every single route in my guide :) link to a direct download (via dropbox) and the gamefaqs page here :) most of the info for it before this was all on japanese sites and even then there wasnt a ton outside of the VERY helpful japanese wiki (link to that here, google translate and a good knowledge of the creatures are your friend here :) it has some stuff i didnt put in the guide such as trooper listings and a VERY helpful map that has each town/rebel (what the Volfoss term for towns are. dont ask me why its confusing lol) color coded for each of the big cities that control them). if you need any other help, lmk! i included some of the helpful sites at the end of the guide as i def recommend keeping up the gallery page and the unit guide spreadsheet as u play until u get a hang of the creatures :)

#asks #i wish soooo bad someone WOULD fan translate it but considering i dont have a great knowledge of JP and did it mostly thru machine + #translation with a lot of fact checking w various sources- this is the best i can do lol. but i promise its fully playable to play it this #way :) but again as a guy that spent like... god 2-3? months on this. from oct-dec. i have a lot of knowledge of it so. if you need more #help lmk :) volfoss is a great game w a PHENOMENAL story dealing w how war can affect the regular citizens and is honestly one of the best #rpgs ive ever played. genuinely tho if u need more help my dms are open and i love talking about it :) #i do hope the guide is helpful bc god. its very scary to see a game w 5 routes and not a ton of eng when u do not speak jp at all lol #♟️

[ratgrrrlgames]

Some More WIP and Stuff

To prove I'm not just making making TTRPG memes and shitposts masquerading as 'games' or whatever (I don't know if these will necessarily make that case, but they are are at least higher effort).

I previously posted some a WIP of Hierarchies of Circles:

Cuplets: A Collection of Libations for the Comprehensive Universal Poem System WIP

So, there other night I was checking out entries to the 12-Word RPG Jam, because 12-Word RPGs have taken over my life, and I came across CUPS (Comprehensive Universal Poem System) by Chubby Crow Games (@harperthejay) and became absolutely obsessed with the simplicity and brilliance.

My neurodivergences were already already loving the 12-Word RPG constraints and adding poetry and/ or rhyme was just too much for my brain not to latch on to.

(I see the glaring error here. Let's call it an ode to Game of Thrones)

I'm using Fancy Animals Art Pack by the incredible Diwata ng Manila for the cover and internal illustrations in which they will be explaining something about the history or form of the poetry aspect being used.

I'm using couplets for optional rules and d8 encounters.

Each separate element in Cuplets uses the rules of the poetic form (that doesn't necessarily mean well or accurately) and are all under 12 words.

D8 NPCs are in haiku, or rather, English haiku, which is simpler than the traditional Japanese form, focusing solely on the 5-7-5 syllable pattern. (obviously none are pictured above as I have yet to put them in).

I took a lot of inspiration from some real life inspiring people, taking aspects of them and making them more fantastical:

1. Deer druid scholar

Teaching the forest critters

Its patience, endless

2. Natural artists

Shaping saplings and briars

Goblin witch sisters

3. A brutal butcher

Mountain wolf of the Black Lodge

Bloody meat sculptures

I am still worked on the d8 (might be pushing it) item acrostics:

1.

Stab

With

Overpowering

Righteousness!

D6 + d4 Hubris (randomly determine attacker/ defender)

2.

Stop

Hitting me

I don’t

Enjoy

Lacerations!

-D4 Mundane, Engender Passivity (Move slower)

I so excited to be working on this and to hopefully have it finished soon and submitted to the the 12-Word RPG and Forever Open Source Jams. [In the context of this jam, I again make cleared that my work will always be at least CC-BY-SA, but art liscnced from artists may have their own liscnces].

A huge thank you to @harperthejay for the inspiration and their fantastic CUPS system!

#ttrpg #12 word rpg #12 word rpg jam #indie ttrpg #ratgrrrl games #CUPS #Comprehensive Universal Poem System #JayTheHarper #Jay the Harper #Chubby Crow Games #Poetry #Poem #WIP #Forever Open Source Jam #Forever Open Source

[bindrpg]

hi!

do you like dark fantasy, TTRPGS and homebrews but hate licences, overlong 50-page back stories and rolling dice for every damn thing?

then you should totally check out BIND, the completely free open source RPG

and support our kickstarter would be nice too

#indie rpg #open source #tabletop #ttrpg #rpg #no cc #gpl #d&d ogl #fuck the new ogl #free as in free #kickstarter #fenestra

[smbhax]

Umoria

#umoria #roguelike #dungeon crawler #rpg #fantasy #game #video game #free game #open source game #open source #ascii

[kay-southpaw]

I have the overwhelming urge to make a totally unofficial TADC rpg

but I'm graduating in June and right now I'm not even done with my uni assignments, ppts and my fucking major paper hahahAH IM FINE

SO

tadc-inspired horror rpg rulebook coming in July? August? probably

90% of it will be my own mental footwork, but still I don't have any intentions of making money out of it so it will be free, I'm all alone anyways so I'll need guinea p- I mean playtesters :> besides I've never written an rpg rulebook before so who knows how will this turn out?

no art cuz I can't draw and too poor for commissions atm ;_;

I'm just writing this post to see if there'd be even any interest in a good old tabletop rpg in this fandom, so yell, slap me or send a messenger dove if you'd be interested. or just, y'know, like the post.

#tadc #the amazing digital circus #roleplaying #rpg #I'll probably microdose working on this #since I haven't even found an open source system to use yet #I'll need to do lots of reading #and figure out lots of stuff #i have a few ideas but it will be hard to use existing systems since i can't have a traditional battle system #I don't wanna make it too complicated either #and I don't intend to steal copyrighted materials #although I have no clue how deep copyright runs in the case of gameplay mechanics #so yeah don't expect me to finish anytime soon #still I wanna do it because of the challenge #hope it goes without saying but this is me posting at 1 am I am an English Major I can and will write the RPG better than this post okay?

[frog707]

I <3 quaternions

Quaternions are mathematical objects that can be used to represent 3-D rotations. They're faster and more compact than rotation matrices and easier to combine than Euler angles. These advantages make them great for implementing 3-D graphics.

Unfortunately, a lot of 3-D graphics programmers don't understand how quaternions work. They treat quaternions as magical objects and feel completely helpless when they don't behave as expected. Even worse, the people who implemented quaternions for JMonkeyEngine appear to have copied formulas from a textbook, ignoring some important caveats.

I spent much of today investigating an issue in Ryan's 3-D role-playing game. Adding physics to a particular scene caused 4 objects to jump to new positions. (They should've remained in their prior positions.)

My first breakthrough was realizing that abnormal quaternions had been applied to the jumpy objects.

Each quaternion has 4 components. When using quaternions to represent rotations, you ordinarily want the squares of the components to add up to 1. Such quaternions are called "normalized" or "unit" quaternions. On a computer, the squares usually don't sum exactly to 1 due to round-off: a sum of 0.99995 or 1.00005 is fine for most purposes. But in this case, the sum was about 0.5, sufficient abnormality to cause serious issues.

One sort of issue occurs when code claims to handle non-normalized quaternions but doesn't do so correctly. Since correct code rarely generates non-normalized quaternions, such bugs can lie undiscovered for years. (Today I discovered one of these issues by code inspection: see JME issue 2023.)

Another sort of issue occurs when non-normalized quaternions get passed to code that expects normalized ones and doesn't check. Such an issue turned out to be the root cause of the jumpy physics objects in Ryan's game.

Knowing the root cause, I considered 2 possible actions:

Upgrade the code to check for non-normalized quaternions. Unfortunately, the code in questions is heavily used and non-normalized quaternions are rare, so this would mean slowing down the common case to check for a rare case.

Document the fact that the code assumes a normalized quaternion. Unfortunately, I don't believe this will help much, since the sort of person who creates non-normalized quaternions probably isn't reading documentation.

#3d graphics #accomplishments #github #open source #coding #documentation #jvm #java #game programming #indie games #physics #fantasy rpg #software bugs #debugging #war stories #troubleshooter #mathematics #math

[starshinescribbles]

Want to make a TTRPG but don't know what software you need? In this new blog post, I run through several of the most popular programs used by indie TTRPG designers and spotlight some free and open-source options!

#ttrpg #tabletop rpgs #tabletop role playing game #indiettrpg #indie game dev #open source #software #tabletop game #ttrpg community

[berenixium]

AI & Human Collab Art: "RPG Maker AI"

https://mastodon.social/@ComputaSciWiz/109682851720304671

#Art #AI #Human #Collab #OpenSource #AIart #RPGmaker

#Art #AI #Human #Collab #Open Source #AI art #RPG maker

[doctorslippery]

#open source gaming #nondenominational rpging #d20 #rpg #gm #game ideas #role playing game #game on #play on

[buginacup]

Unity's behavior is embarrassingly greedy. Clearly trying to brute force their way into skimming revenue from every mobile game on the market -> pushing their adware onto every piece of software. It's been really disheartening to see every game development software company demand exponentially more profit the past few years. Especially since it comes at the expense of scaring away blossoming developers...

If you haven't learned to make games, but plan to - use something open source like GODOT, or at least an old version of RPG maker with a one-time purchase of a license.

If the owner of the IDE you're using would be legally within their rights to do what Unity is doing now you should assume that they will do it eventually too.

#text #unity #Amazing that years of cumulative tool development and resources can just be exploited #Unity is derided (somewhat justly) as a platform #but for many it's been a crucial step for learning at LEAST #gamedev

[ratgrrrlgames]

Hierarchies of Circles

This is a collection of anarchist 12-word RPGs for the Anarchy in the Tabletop, 12-Word RPG, and Forever Open Source Jams.

don’t know anything about art or design and I only know a little bit about anarchism. I most closely align with anarchist communism, but as a queer chronically disabled and neurodivergent non binary trans womxn, I have a lot of frustration with ‘purist’, anti-voting, accelerationist bullshit that wants anarchism on a mountain of marginalised corpses.

We need to live to be able to fight

Love, support and solidarity

- RATGRRRL

I am Queer in every sense.

I don't make things for bigots.

Hierarchies of circles is released under a Creative Comrades License.

Artwork and assets are Attribution 4.0 International , Creative Comrades or public domain Licenses

I can't stop bigots using my fucking Queer shit, but they are absolutely not welcome to it and I will call them the fuck out.

Marginalized folx or anyone who can't afford to pay for whatever reason, please pick this up for free!

Thanks to 

Strega Wolf van den Berg (Inspiration and art)

Sergei Nechayev by Pavlov's House (Directly inspiring some of the games and being a perfect soundtrack for this)

Much That is Good and All That is Evil by Jeeyon Shim (Directly Inspiring one of the games)

#RatGrrrl Games #Hierarchies of Circles #Anarchy #Anarchism #Anarchist #12 word rpg jam #12 word rpg #nano rpg #micro rpg #ttrpg #indie ttrpg #forever open source jam #AnarchyJam2023 #OpenSourceJam

[smbhax]

Back to Word of Recall scrolls (one got toasted by The Ant Queen's giant fire ants! 'o') until I can find another Rod of, and eventually, back to the default Roguelike keyset: my shifted-one-right keymap attempt ended up failing because a) I'd forgotten m and M are sorta needed (magic and Map) shortcuts, and those were being stomped by my down-right movement key; and more immediately, b) m is a toggle option in x (eXamine) lookaround mode, which stomps my keymap, so I couldn't look down-right!

By the end I didn't screw up using my split-B key to move down-left about three times in a row, so maybe I can manage this split keyboard okay without it getting me killed too often. = oo

#angband #roguelike #dungeon crawler #rpg #fantasy #adventure #gameplay #lets play #playthrough #commentary #cygwin #ascii #open source #open source game #free game #open source games #free games #video game #video games

[devsgames]

HOT GAMEDEVS DON'T GATEKEEP

Inspired by this post by @midwinterhunt, here's a compilation of all the game dev resources I have come across, most of which I use fairly frequently. Most of these are free, some are paid but fairly cheap. Feel free to add your own resources. ✌️

Important reminder: When using basically any works or programs someone else created in your games, make sure you thoroughly understand the licenses and terms it has been shared with. If you don't know what the terms are, reach out to the resource and ask. Don't be lazy about this; it's not only dishonest but it can come back to bite you.

Engines

Unity - Best suited for mobile and multi-platform.

Unreal - Tailored for shooters and high-fidelity experiences.

PICO-8 - Virtual console for simple games

Godot - Open source and free!

GameMaker - Good for 2D games

Bitsy - Great little engine for making simple games and experiences

Construct - Never used but have heard nice things

Scratch - If you've never coded before, this is the best place to start. Great for young devs and those who want to get their feet wet.

Adventure Game Studio - Best suited for adventure games

RPG Maker - Best suited for top-down classic JRPG style games

Twine - Text-centric games like Interactive Fiction

Assets

OpenGameArt - Many assets, various licenses, and plenty of CC0 content.

Unity Store - For Unity only. Some free.

Unreal Store - For Unreal only. Some free.

Godot Asset Library

Jean Moreno's Toon Effects - Some of the best effects available on the Unity store. Unity only but I've used them in basically every project.

Steamworks.net C# Wrapper For Unity - Unity only C# wrapper for integrating Steam compatibility to your game

Itch.io - Plenty of free art assets and game dev resources

Kenney - Kenney makes tons of open-source assets for devs to use.

Art

Mixamo - Generates rigs for your humanoid models and lets you apply a library of free humanoid animations to them. Super helpful for prototyping. Adobe.

Blender - Free, open source and fully featured 3D program.

XNormal - Free offline normal map generator

Normal Map Online - Free online normal map generator

Crocotile - Cheap tool for building 3D models from sprite sheets

MagicaVoxel - Free voxel modelling tool

Piskel - Free online sprite drawing tool

Aesprite - Paid sprite drawing tool

TurboSquid - Not always great quality, but can be good source of free placeholders.

Textures.com - Limited texture downloads per day but free for personal use.

Pexels - Free stock photo resource. Most are free for commercial use. Check licenses.

Clipstudio - Good for illustration or graphic design. One time payment.

GIMP - Image editing program a-la Photoshop. Free.

Audio

Audacity - Free and fully-featured DAW/audio editor.

sfx.me - Free 8-bit synth-style sound effect generator for games.

CastingCallClub - Easy forum to find amateur voice talent for your project (p.s.: you should pay them).

FreeSound.org - Free sounds, searchable by license. A go-to for my audio needs.

Incompetech - Royalty-free music by Kevin McLeod.

Scott Buckley Music - Royalty free with conditions. Generally more on the cinematic side of things but very good stuff!

SoundCloud - 'Search -> By Track -> Filter: Use Commercially' leads to songs posted with allowance of commercial use. Always reach out to the artist to understand their terms and confirm that it's okay to use with your project.

Project Planning

Keymailer - Handy for mailing keys to influencers (don't expect a lot of traction unless you're paying for some of the features though).

Trello - Kanban board. Great for organizing tasks, managing bugs, etc. Free.

Notion - Private text and wiki page editor. Good for project organization, note taking, and fleshing out ideas. Free.

Obsidian - Alternative to Notion, with similar features.

Miro - Free whiteboard for organizing thoughts, images, brainstorming, etc.

Wave - Free Bookkeeping site. Great for keeping finances organized.

#gamedev #game development #game dev #indie games #indie game #gamedevelopment #indiegames #indiedev #indie dev #game developer #resources #blog

[suppermariobroth]

In March 1996, a print ad for open development positions at Nintendo to develop "a sequel to Super Mario RPG" is printed the Japanese Famitsu magazine. The game, later named Paper Mario, was released in August 2000, four years after the ad.

On the bottom is a zoomed-in view of the two renders from the ad, the large render of Mario thinking and the small one hidden in the text (top right corner).

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#paper mario #nintendo