Couriers

Couriers: Designer Commentary

May 19, 2023Sam DunnewoldComment

A new game from Sam means a new blogpost about how it came together! This time I’m looking at Couriers, my 2-ish page RPG inspired by Blade Runner 2049 and Lasers & Feelings…

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The thing about Google Slides that makes it my favorite virtual tabletop is that everyone knows how to use it. No setting up accounts, no learning a new service, you just get right to playing. It’s easy to navigate and remember where things are. And if all you’re doing is dropping in jpgs of character sheets and putting text on top of them, maybe with a few extra slides for session recaps and notes, Slides is fully functional. You’re killing it even.

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Calvinballing a Whole Campaign

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I’m kind of obsessed with this article over on the excellent Indie Game Reading Club. It’s a guest post by Jason Morningstar in which he describes his process for throwing together a game in an hour. And I don’t mean prepping for a session, I mean soup to nuts all the mechanics and everything, done in 60 minutes.

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