Tuesday, October 27, 2020

October Update

Hey folks. For the last few months it has been a struggle to properly document and record my projects on this blog... so here's an attempt to do so!

-Over the course of the quarantine I ran a weird scifi westmarches game over Discord (with some absolutely wonderful folks) called Interdimensional Voyages, which was partially automated via a Discord Bot. We've finished what I'm calling "Season 1", and "Season 2" will ideally start back up when I have more time and energy. More posts on this to follow.

-Max Cantor of Weird and Wonderful Worlds recently interviewed me! We cover topics like emerging trends in RPGs, automation of games, and ADD and mental health! (On this topic, I am considering writing posts on how my ADD and mental health has affected my participation in the TTRPG scene.)

-I'm working on a new project whose size and scope are swiftly ballooning, for better or for worse. Here's the mind map of the current rendition:

It's a multiplayer cooperative game about founding a settlement in a dark fantasy/horror world (then going on adventures to keep it alive), with high (dwarf fortress-esque) levels of procedural generation, that will be fully automated through a discord bot.

That's about everything for now, more detailed posts on individual topics to follow.

Wishing you all the best,

-Saker

4 comments:

  1. That new game sounds dope! I'm interested in this discord automation aspect. Have you documented that any where on your blog?

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    1. Thank you! I have a couple posts (that are still under construction) that will cover my adventures in Discord automation in greater detail!

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  2. Huhhh... when you say discord bot automation, do you mean something like:
    "Bot, give me the next hex"
    "Sure thing boss, it's a [insert hex description here]."

    Or something different?

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    1. I'm talking more like the bot can run an entire game on its own!

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