Gaming, tools, and thoughts from Game in the Brain.
I dont know how many of you get frustrated when you are copy-pasting text, tables, or want to make notes and changes for your campaign given the material. Game in…
Read more →I’ll try to post these more regularly. I plan to post a Stakeholders Report if we get silver. Particularly how I do my sales analysis (Pivot Table), and why we…
Read more →Frustration with some books. So My GM got to using Swords and Wizardry and I found it such a waste of time to re-encode all the Equipment for the Loadout…
Read more →Spreadsheet Under Maintenance Everything Above Row 82 is still usable. Removed all the appscript dice after Row 82. Will use Appscript to Cut and Paste the Randbetween instead. This is…
Read more →One of the Interesting things about Matt Easton Analysis is converting the Strengths (and Weaknesses) of Spears into Game mechanics. Did you encounter a Game System that was Hard to…
Read more →I’ll be raising the prices when we hit silver because the add-on is pretty huge. Every system will have the following 1) 1 map 2) 2 locations equal to renders…
Read more →the dream is GODOT to automate this fully and make it visual (would probably cost couple of thousands USD to plan and 20x as much to execute). Imagine if you…
Read more →I need to be really organized. This video of the challenges of Cyberpunk red is reminding me of the technical debt we were incurring. I guess what happened in cyberpunk…
Read more →Blender is really useful with this in the future. The trick I guess is using the internal measuring tools to plan System Jumps in 3d. A GM opening Blender and…
Read more →Typically I get the project off the ground: writing Mneme Variant Combat rules and the World Generation Book. After that Nicco does most of the content writing and art. Of course…
Read more →Link to the Career Cards (Up Today October 18) These are Flow Chart Cards for creating characters for the Combat Careers in Cepheus Engine SRD. The Objectives are: You will just…
Read more →Easy Settlements Cepheus Engine I find this complimentary to mneme. If I buy this – I will feel compelled to make a Spreadsheet for this to automate it like the Mneme…
Read more →As a filipino my income for books reflects the formerly 6usd per day minimum wage back in 2010s and corresponding income – at this time I think I earned 600usd/mo…
Read more →Checkov’s Gun is a principle by which we can approach details that affect stakes (stakes are things that give set backs or gains to the character). This is using pull system…
Read more →This applies to NPcs and PCs – and real life. In a game we make likeable or untrustworthy NPcs say agreeable or disagreeable things to PCs. In session zero we…
Read more →221015 Milestones for Game in the Brain Mneme 😅😅😅 I had a hard time finding my Milestones Targets. (this is not binding. i will realize I bite off more than…
Read more →We are at 66 sales, averaging about 5.5 per month after Sept. The 3 systems are now in its first draft, we will polish it up and nicco will start…
Read more →Preamble on Game Mechanics and Design if a mechanic in the game system works a particular way it affects behavior. Thats why simulationists like myself are obsessed with getting the…
Read more →All the profits went to buy the XP Pen 15.6 during the sale. this will make nicco’s job easier. As mentioned before everything we make goes directly into investments to make…
Read more →Why!? Short explanation: as an Exercise – I cannot have a TECHNIQUE if it only applies to one system – it has to apply with MANY SYSTEMS – even for…
Read more →Uploaded a usable version of the more detailed World Generator. Created a simple video tutorial how to set up. There are a lot of Issues with the World Generator Spreadsheet…
Read more →It would take me and nicco probably 3-4 months mastering the Polygon Runway level of detail and Character rigging. We ventured into this and came up short. We will be…
Read more →I listen to Earthsea imagining it in Ghibli animations. Not just that I would like the world building in Studio Ghibli in the art. So there was a period where…
Read more →Osr Notes Spreadsheet What I take pride in as a special ability is thinking in pivot tables and data arrays. (see link, solving the problem – how to organize gear…
Read more →Spreadsheet for cepheus engine ships So I was supposed to use Orbital but I ran into problems 1) I want ships to render for the scenes but orbital lacked the…
Read more →As an end-user OPEN SOURCE is a miracle. as an IT Company, it makes the company irrelevant. Currently, I’m in my ERPNext implementation. Our current proprietary Application vendor has been…
Read more →Louis Rossman talks about Trying and wearing our failures like a badge of honor. I would give some advice and help (consulting and problem solving) getting people to make something…
Read more →https://youtu.be/OAyJWIx7Z6Q Setting up the Asset Browser so that it would be easy to Select and Drag Worlds. Video Shows the following How to Append (adding objects from other Blender Files). …
Read more →fixing the Spreadsheet. After the spreadsheet back to Blender. Thank you to the Patrons who purchase this Month of October! I have 2 purchases! Thank you! We are buying Nicco’s…
Read more →Have to figure out a way to HIDE extra planets. Have to figure out a way to generate more Gas and Ice Worlds.
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