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Jaquaysing In Practice
Lots has been written about Jacquaysing the dungeon, often in the abstract. We talk about “increasing player choice”, non-linear exploration, meaningful decisions, etc. For a lot of us it’s become something we just do out of habit or out of feeling like it’s the “correct” way to design a dungeon. We’ll add loops, multiple entrances, […]
Strength In Adventure Games
This was originally a Twitter thread posted in July 2021. I’ve wanted to move it onto the blog for a while now anyway, but the impending explosion of the bird site finally gave me the kick I needed to actually do it. Unlike my other thread mirrors (like the long reads that I do) I’ve […]
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Acquired Play
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Narrative In Adventure Modules
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Wordle Hex Map Generation
Recently @molomoot posted a really cool method of dungeon generation using the daily crosswords they find in the Metro newspaper. I absolutely intend to try this at some point, especially as there’s now a Crossword Dungeon Game Jam running on itch. I haven’t done a crossword in years, but I have been doing Wordle every […]