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Notocracy Decembuary 2022 (Connoisseurs))

It's that time again, time to instigate the democratic process and witness as you all abuse it heavily. The poll will run until January 7th. A lot of Reduxes this time around simply because I have a backlog of them and I really, really need to wrap them up.

Democracy Demands Blood, and You Must Feed the Beast

Fear & Hunger: Solus in Somino (REDUX)

With the release of Termina, I feel it's time to go back to the dungeon of Fear &a...

New Years Update

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBvNUuR4Pb4

Alright, let's do one of these fancy smancy update thingies. 2022 is coming to a close, and this means three things:

• Rise & Grind, I need to finish up any and everything I have on the End of Year Notepad Must Die Stream

• By Friday the NOTEY AWARDS will be up. No videos this week though.

• My crippling alcoholism is taking its toll...

The Year End Round Up (Ish)

Hello, as you can see by the image above, we've ended Catboy Thule and the Crisis of my Mortal Soul, and instead have started on converting a Hentai Game into something else.

My life is in shambled and democracy is dead.

However, CRISIS | SINNER seeks to be a bit more involved on the SMT lore and me playing around with Google Docs formatting (as well as Affinity most likely) as the game engine is finished. I just need to add all the bits to make it actually run.

Regardless o...

I'm Not Dead

I have emerged from Britain a changed man, and that means I changed immediately into nicer clothes as it was Thanksgiving Week.

I'm not dead, content is continuing as always. Currently it's a Commission Project for Catboy Thule Advance Wars.

I am being paid money for this and I regret every moment of it. Help.

Updating Things And Such

Hello!

Eclipse Judgment is reaching its conclusions here soon and everything should be getting back on schedule. However, as stated in other places, I will be taking a trip to visit some friends in the UK next month. I did pause all billing for November, so don't worry if it isn't popping up, if you DO notice a charge, yell at me so I can yell at Patreon.

All in all, things are going smoothly and life, is as they say, good.

A Bit of an Oopsie

Hi! I'm not dead.

I just finished writing Song of the White Carnations though. I thought I already made a post about it on here, but then realized today that I never made a "This is the Detox" bit about it.

Then I realized that I never made the original post and it's in my drafts so yeah here this is.

Songs of the White Carnations was inspired by the works of Hugo Pratt and in turn Corto Maltese about a fictional country undergoing...

Notepad Forgot the Update the Patreon!

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I would like to believe I'm a productive soul and able to get everything done, but fun fact I tend to forget Patreon sometimes. But good news all around.

VOID HAUNTERS is in full swing, after some dev mishaps I have found the Golden Path and it involves playing Tetris and dying horrifically. 

GOD KILLING SWORDS PDF is still going, turns out AI Art is still a pain in the ass to wrangle at some points, especially when you're cheap! 

HUMAN RESONANCE RPG...

Septtober Notocracy (CONNOISSEUR)

It begins again. I managed to compile quite a few different options together, each one with their own unique problems and needs. People have been threatening me with more Commissions though, so these ones may take a bit longer to sort through.

But they will get done. Oh, and remember, no sharing with the plebs!

End Date is 9/10 at 11:59 PM EST

Crisis Heroine: Yogurt and Subway Edition (God Help Me)
I said I would fix a ...

Zombie Dark Thirty

With the conclusion of Soul Survivor: A Post Modern TTRPG, we enter into our next game, one that popped up a little unexpectedly due to a Commission.

Take the role of a squad of Operators on Anti-Bioterrorism Operations. Emphasizing a distinct Action-Horror identity, you'll be a high speed, low drag, force of nature, crashing into a location with the intent to stop terrorist organizations from destroying the world with terrifying strains of the Lazarium Vaccine.

Or be a part of th...

The Year is 1999

Soul Survivor: A Post Modern TTRPG is the next game on the list, accompanied by a full playthrough of YIIK: A Post Modern RPG.

Affectionately speaking, this is going to be something that haunts my dreams until it's done. Less affectionately, I hate the me who thought this would be a good idea. 

Basic groundwork has been laid out, the only major issues currently permeating it are the standard assortment of "man this feels a bit light, but it's also all I need for what amounts ...

Updates in the Dark

Hello, meant to type this up earlier but truth be told it's been a bit busy. The results had come in and our next list of games are:

• Sanguine Nights & Terrible Curses
• Soul Survivors: A Post Modern TTRPG
• Void Haunter

Currently, Sanguine Nights & Terrible Curses is getting worked on, which has consumed a bit more of my mental energy than I was thinking. Regardless of that, we're trucking along smoothly as always. 

Looking at the curre...

Junely Notocracy (Connoisseur)

We're back, after spending a few days staring at the document thinking of a sixth option, I opted to just go with these five. Each are weird in their own right, with a lot of them serving as springboards of ideas for future projects. Except Soul Survivors, that's just Masochism.

End Date is 7/3 at 11:59 PM EST

Action Squad Combat Evolved
A modern tactical shooter using the TICK System, forcing the players to play the second-by-second combat of...

Monster Girls and Media Week

As Sunday was my birthday, I've decided this week is going to be Media Week. No streams, no Little Opinions, only catch-up work. Generally speaking we're looking at a pretty consistent schedule ahead of us, most likely this Wednesday (6/15) the next round of Notocracy will be afoot.

However, before the next round of games pop off we're going to need to fix Monster Girl Adventures: ReMonstered Edition, which, bluntly speaking, is pain. I managed to completely cut a majority of w...

Trenchfoot and Monsters

Trenchfoot has reached its conclusion.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oT6Oiq4rDnA0QkTx9bcB9WfDzvMvXqlNRI-jLg3H048/edit?usp=sharing

In short, it's a weird experiment to make a "Kriegspiel Game" that's playable in a smaller scale and set in WW1. Babies first Kriegspiel sans Judge was a driving force. Did I do that? I ...

Notepad Gaslights Himself Into Thinking He Updated Patreon Again

As the title says, I actually thought I updated Patreon. I have a bad tendency of not doing this and I apologize immensely. I get focused on things.

Regardless! 

Cruelty Squad: The Physical Sensation Edition actually finished, it was weird and I need to convert it into a PDF.  This means we're starting on TRENCHFOOT which is a Wargame.

Well, more accurately Trenchfoot is going to hopefully be the weird hybrid between Hex & Chit and "Traditional" Wargames. My go...

I'm Not Dead, And Other Updates

I could have swore I typed this up earlier, however here I am. For those not in the know, I moved. It sucked. 

But I'm up right and ready to go again. As for the Aprimay Notocracy, the following won the vote:

• Cruelty Squad: The Physical Sensation Edition
• Trenchfoot
• Monster Girl Adventures: ReMonstered Edition (Tied with Chromestrike: Jury Rigged, the E-Boy Tie Breaker is no /m/echanic.) 

Aprimary Notocracy (Connoisseur)

It's that time of the day again, another draft of games for the chopping block. Been working on things fairly consistently for a bit here, so I may take a break after this set of 3 for another Notepad Media Week (tm) trying to find some "Inspiration." But alas, here we are. 

As always, Democracy Demands Blood.

Monster Girl Adventures: ReMonstered (REDUX)

Originally posted to the world in 2019, MGA is one of my older ...

Sidewindered

Project Sidewinder has reached its conclusion. In a positive sense, it's a unique project focused on player decision and management of resources, in a less-than-positive sense, it's a bizarre nightmare of "what if." 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HvTLYoCRysHzjrW6MoBW2E9CWZZ3JT0O564U2o-ERtA/edit?usp=sharing

The major "What If" asked was...

Project Sidewinder

Jets.

Jets are weird, they are effectively sonic tinderboxes that people have agreed we should use for the military. Do you know how complex a jet actually is? Insanely so. Luckily, I'm not going into "super hyper detail" but instead making a Melodramatic Plane Game about Pilots, Problems, and Blasting Bandits on your nose. 

After much debate and banging my head against a wall, I ALSO decided on going diceless. Yes, no dice, only YOU, TOKENS, AND THE WILL TO ...

Midnight Anima (Notepad Does Dark Souls)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aKMQLVYaJDVl70ENRpWkCRwj93TAS-FI7xJi23RQgUE/edit?usp=sharing 

The Link to Midnight Anima, an odd game.

    "I want to make a thematic game" is a complicated thing to go down, and that complicated nature only gets more strange when you decide to go deeper than you'd thin...

March Notocracy Results and Moving Forward

March Notocracy has ended and I've been hard at work formalizing some of the meaty nasty details down. 

The primary three who won out where: Midnight Anima, Project Sidewinder, and Pojedynek Kobiet (REDUX). Over the week I've got my basic notes down for each of them, with Midnight Anima being out first one.

What IS Midnight Anima though?

Well, I don't believe you can transfer Dark Souls to the tabletop easily, it's too steeped in Video Game log...

March Notocracy (Connoisseur)

Another helping of the most transparent abuse of the democratic process available. As a Patron, you have more voting power than the plebs who are not. Thank you all as always. Long live the Plutocrats.

One of the major themes of these games is THEME which I feel I've been lacking on recently. I want to go 120% in making these games feel thematic, both mechanically and "Pitch" wise. 

The top three games will make it on the list, tried to get a decent distribut...

By Blade, Cross, and Democratic Voting Processes

The latest game has started production, By Blade and Cross which is a game about mechs, conquistadors, and exploring the New World. 

Generally speaking, it's a two-faced project, on one hand it's about updating the rules and ideas from a previous game (Saga of King Arthur and the Men of Metal, or SKAMM) which was the Pendragon Saga, but with Fantasy Mechs. I wanted to fix that one for a while, but it proved to be just awkward enough to make it difficult. 

The ot...

ZIMO, Me, You, and Kickstarter

For those who don't know, February is Zine Month, a time when people host and push out "Zine Games" which are often small and to the point. Now, I asked the Outer Consortium their opinion on the matter, and now I ask all of you:

Should I take the next SPRUGaZINE to Kickstarter?

I previously released a "thing" called The Relic Frontier which I dubbed a "SPRUGaZINE" as i...

Glitter Squad, Go!

The Forces of Evil have taken over the heart of the city and have been causing terror, it's up to the forces of the Glitter Squad to save the day! But who's this dashing, handsome, blue clad stranger?

Glitterbreak is a Skirmish Sized game about players building a list of either Magical Girls or the FORCES OF EVIL under the Dark Lord of Chaos and Misery, competing head to head to save (or destroy) the city. It's also one of my first foray's into Skirmish Game de...

End of the Saga, and The Next One

All things must end, and A Saga of Blood, Iron, and Soil has reached its (relative) conclusion. Saga was a game built with two goals in mind:

• Be as accurate to the Sagas and in turn history as possible
• Prove BCS can be SRD'd.

Generally speaking, I believe I scored the second one pretty much head on. The concept of Blood, Coin, and Steel's systems being able to be applied elsewhere is proven and can work. The only major issue I can see is some overlap ...

A Saga of Blood, Iron, Soil, and Registry Errors

I am not dead.

Unfortunately, the computer I've had for about five years finally committed sudoku last week and I was forced to retire it. I managed to save everything I could, so here we are. The NEW computer came in yesterday and I spent a good amount of time patching things up in that regard. 

So, where are we?

We are working on The Saga of Blood, Iron, and Soil, perhaps a foolish attempt at creating a game all about ICELAND and the struggle...

Notocracy Results (But There's Still Time!)

Today is the day, the ending of the vote. Currently the results are as follows. Yes, a TRIPLE tie for second place is currently ongoing.

If there is a tie among the voting population, then I bring in the nuclear option.

Qiāngxiá: The Good, The Bad, and The Xia

Qiāngxiá (literal translation to GUNHERO) is a game about being Rootin-Tootin Wuxia Heroes in a land beyond the borders of the Imperial State, where the line between the good, the bad, and the ugly blur together.

Most Martial Artists base their styles off of firearms . . . or were firearms developed from Martial Art styles? No one's certain, but  that won't stop the high-flying Gunheroes from enacting a person sense of Frontier Justice, with a Iron Rifle Kick Boxing or just actua...

2022, The Year of Growth

It's two weeks into 2022 and it's time to actually formalize what the grand "plan" is, right? 2021 was a fairly impressive year with some major growth, but looking forward is often the most important plan.

I have five major things I want to do this year, not necessarily "resolutions" more in the line of "things I want to do."

Reach Twitch Affiliate / 200 Followers

Amazingly, I already managed to the first half, which I feel incredibly accomplished already. T...