Games
I make games!
This is a catalog of all my favorite and most popular games. Everything here is hosted on itch.io and should have free copies available. If that isn’t the case, let me know and I’ll put some more up. I’m not making a living making games or anything. I want you to just play them more than I want your dollars.
My games tend to be for solo, contemplative play; or light rules for quick group play. I lean toward horror, and toward the absurd and surreal. Nothing here takes itself too seriously.
Contents
Featured and Popular
These are my most viewed or downloaded games, or ones that I am just especially fond or proud of.
YOU CAN DRIVE OUT NATURE WITH A PITCHFORK BUT IT ALWAYS COMES ROARING BACK AGAIN
This is the first thing I ever made. It’s a systemless generic solo hex crawl through an enchanted forest, and is kind of like a CYOA gamebook with state: certain events only unlock once you have visited certain areas and had certain experiences.
There are elements of this forest that continue to appear in almost everything I do. It’s a little rough around the edges, but I continue to be very proud of it, and it occupies a special place in my heart.
You will like this game if you want to explore a dreamy forest on your own and discover mysterious things and solve problems.
NO ONE EVER LEAVES
A haunted house solo journaling game that uses playing cards. Designed for “succession play,” in which you play a “season” and then pass the game to a friend or enemy so they can continue the game in your world.
Inspired by American Horror Story: Murder House.
You will like this game if you want to feel creeping dread and horror, and have your character(s) eventually fail.
https://dozens.itch.io/haunting
Shoes in the Dark
A tiny, postcard-sized mashup of “Roll for Shoes” and “Blades in the Dark.” These are the rules that I used to run an email play-by-post game with some of my friends. Rules small enough that you basically don’t have to ever think about them, but also accommodating enough for you to make your character feel special and unique.
You will like this game if you want to start playing something RIGHT NOW with as few rules and as few obstacles as possible.
https://dozens.itch.io/shoes-in-the-dark
Spooky Stuff
These are games for doing spooky stuff!
SPOOKERS
Minimalist onepager about meddlesome kids exploring a haunted house. It will probably end poorly!
Features a diminishing RESOLVE resource that when depleted means you lose your cool and you succumb to the horrors of the house.
You will like this game if you want to play as the scooby doo kids but with higher stakes and probably eventually perish.
https://dozens.itch.io/spookers
VUMPIRE!
In this game you are an umpire who is also an ancient and undying vampire who thirsts for blood.
This is the only game in the world that has an entire baseball game simulator, in which you also get to be a vampire.
You will like this game if you want to play a baseball game simulation, and also drink some blood.
https://dozens.itch.io/vumpire
Giraffe Horse World
This is a not-very-serious series of games about horses and giraffes.
SPORTS HORSE 3.1
The original SPORTS HORSE game. Create horses. Compete in games. Win prizes! Be a champion.
You will like this game if you enjoy an absurd premise and collecting horses.
Horses on the Brink!
This official SPORTS HORSE expansion provides a setting, plot hooks, and HORSE MAGIC.
https://dozens.itch.io/horses-on-the-brink
There Is A Giraffe Who Wants The Best Leaves But Its Neck Is Too Short
A small “Lasers and Feelings” hack about being a giraffe who yearns for the best leaves that remain just out of reach.
You will enjoy this game if you enjoy an absurd premise and being a cute animal.
https://dozens.itch.io/giraffe
Best Leaves! Girafferific!
A supplement for TIAGWWTBLBINITS that provides a name generator, plot hooks / random encounters, and locations to explore.
https://dozens.itch.io/best-leaves
Discordian Stuff
I made a couple games about discordianism and chaos magic.
Discordia!
This is a Honey Heist / Wretched And Alone hack that allows you to play a time-traveling chaos magician and puppet / plaything of the sisters Eris and Aneris who treks forward and backward across the seasons of discord.
You play with a deck of playing cards and a tumbling block tower game (i.e. jenga)
It includes a slightly-too-complicated magic system based on discordian elementalism with seasonal bonuses.
You will enjoy this game if you are a discordian or chaos magician.
https://dozens.itch.io/discordia
Chaote!
Basically the same game as Discordia! but distilled down to a small onepager with conspiracy, magic, and adventure.
Everything Else
Library Game: a pocket sized game that I play ALL THE TIME, and which I love.
wicked grin: a risus hack that I made for a one-shot that we never actually ended up playing. I would still love to play something with this one day.
Rovoron Kullter Luxury Electric Scooter (Only rode 5 times) - $1,100 (Denver): This craigslist ad is a precarious dice-stacking tower-building role-playing game about trying to ride a scooter that is too fast and too powerful. Try to ride it five times without falling down twice challenge (difficulty: impossible).
Giant Mutant Hybrid Bighorns: a game of hubris, mad science, and genetics based on a true story
A Very Special Lyrmwithmas: a game zine and activity book that I made for my gaming group for our annual made up holiday honoring the Doom of the Desert herself, Lyrmwith.