i hit the bong as hard as i was able and wrote this game in an hour and 20 mins for low effort jam 22 and it was really fun. i am posting it all here for free!
if u want a pdf u can dl it on my itchio (also for free), + u can also toss me some coins there if u thought it was funny or nice or it helped u do something or u are into the idea of me making more games: https://iraprince.itch.io/smoke-weed-and-do-something
my newest game is here! LAMPLIGHTER’S FESTIVAL is my submission to Mock Cover Jam 2: Rituals& Folklore - a map-drawing/worldbuilding game that can be played solo or collaboratively. PLUS, you get to use all your dice!!!
as a bonus, the game comes with high-res example maps created using the game, with additional notes about actual play outcomes and the resultant worldbuilding!
dream up a fake-married couple, wield their fraudulent union to achieve your shared goals, and do your best not to blow your cover – or fall in love for real. for 2 or 4 players (1 or 2 pairs), played with 8-sided dice and standard playing cards.
thank you so much for checking this out, i’m so so excited to share it!
hi! let’s talk about modding EotP if u want to play it w a poly relationship! normally i think my philosophy would be to leave hacking/adaptation entirely up to the players - i trust u guys to bend things around to meet ur needs - but ppl have been asking + i do have some thoughts!
a lot of this is gonna be about what is, to a lot of people, probably super basic dice probability - but when i was designing EotP it was all new to me, so bear with me! i wanna lay it out so that my kindred Gays Who Hate Math can understand how to adjust things however they want
so one of the main things that need to change is that for the challenges/marital trials, both players have to roll a d8. but now we need more than 2 players to roll a d8 to participate, and that totally changes the ranges and the probabilities, so we have to fix it!
rolling several dice and adding them together is different than rolling a d20. you have a way higher chance of collectively rolling a sum somewhere in the middle. so if you split the ranges more or less “evenly,” like in the top bar of this diagram, it turns out pretty unbalanced
in EotP trials have three basic outcomes: roll too low + u perform poorly, roll in the middle + u’ve hit just the right balance, but roll too well + u start catching feelings. but the thing is, imo, the fumble + overshoot outcomes are more fun! so ideally we want it to be equal, but when it comes down to it, depending on how the numbers sort out, i would advise letting the middle range take the hit. here’s the dice calculator i used; you would just have to figure out these ranges for the # of characters in the marriage!
there are some other tweaks that can be made to trials. for example, a lot of them assign roles/tasks based on which half of a pair rolls higher or lower. w a group >2, that could be modded into highEST and lowEST, or just splitting the group down the middle into high/low camps
for the regular card prompts that drive most of gameplay, that can be pretty easily handled by just having players address their responses to all other players in the marriage, rather than just to a singular spouse as the prompts are written for. BUT, i think a cool adaptation to allow for more zoomed-in interactions within a poly character group could be to have everyone roll their d8s when a prompt is pulled, and the player handling the prompt focuses their turn specifically on the player(s) who rolled closest to their result. i think this could create some cool flow where u get insight on specific interactions within the relationship, since everyone won’t necessarily be interacting w/commenting on every other player each prompt, + it would allow the party to “split”/not insist everyone is always clumped together ingame
the one thing i’m sticking on is the boiling point mechanic, which is how the game ends. normally it relies on 2 players rolling their dice, then choosing an outcome based on the difference btwn their results. that’s harder to replicate w a group. for now my thought is to just replace that mechanic entirely with another range of high-low thresholds, like the ones above, but split into 4 instead (bc BP has 4 possible outcomes, vs 3 for the challenges); but i want to chew on it more, and if anyone has any suggestions i’d def welcome them!
in the end i rly just want ppl to feel comfortable crunching this thing up + tearing it apart + frankensteining it back together in whatever ways would be fun. im not interested in being like This Is The Official Poly Expansion Mode! or w/e. but i hope this can b a helpful start!
dream up a fake-married couple, wield their fraudulent union to achieve your shared goals, and do your best not to blow your cover – or fall in love for real. for 2 or 4 players (1 or 2 pairs), played with 8-sided dice and standard playing cards.
thank you so much for checking this out, i’m so so excited to share it!
I stayed up to finish Far Cry 5 - that was the most wasted, most unnecessarily nihilistic and pointless narrative direction I have ever had the displeasure of playing
Hey since this post got so much traction, I made a video highlighting 6 games from this bundle I think you should check out! The bundle is still live for the next few weeks, so please donate!
Both Orphans! and The Dreaded and the Deep are in there so if you’ve ever thought about getting them you can get both for a good cause.
