Yehuda Shapira
@shapira.bsky.social
Programmer, coffee-drinker, and aspiring writer. I make 📕gamebooks and 🎮video games, and like to blab about TTRPGs & 🧩puzzles.
I would appreciate your help in testing a short dice game I'm developing!
Specifically, I'm interested in hearing:
- How easy it is to understand the instructions
- How easy it is to win
- Was the game fun?
(Tip: You can search Google for "roll 8d6" to roll dice.)
#puzzle #gamedev #hacking
Specifically, I'm interested in hearing:
- How easy it is to understand the instructions
- How easy it is to win
- Was the game fun?
(Tip: You can search Google for "roll 8d6" to roll dice.)
#puzzle #gamedev #hacking
March 26, 2025 at 7:42 AM
February 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The book (notebook, actually) had different missions and rules, and places you could travel to, as well as the story. A bit like the Gloomhaven games (which didn't exist yet), but with gameplay more like the original MechWarrior video game.
#battletech #boardgame #gamebook #fancreation
#battletech #boardgame #gamebook #fancreation
January 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The book (notebook, actually) had different missions and rules, and places you could travel to, as well as the story. A bit like the Gloomhaven games (which didn't exist yet), but with gameplay more like the original MechWarrior video game.
#battletech #boardgame #gamebook #fancreation
#battletech #boardgame #gamebook #fancreation
In my teens, I made a #BattleTech board game / #gamebook.
(I knew just the video games, and didn't know it's a board game.) So I made this hybrid, with grid-based boards for combat and a book for all the rest. To hit an enemy, you had to place its diagram at a certain distance and hit it with a die.
(I knew just the video games, and didn't know it's a board game.) So I made this hybrid, with grid-based boards for combat and a book for all the rest. To hit an enemy, you had to place its diagram at a certain distance and hit it with a die.
January 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
In my teens, I made a #BattleTech board game / #gamebook.
(I knew just the video games, and didn't know it's a board game.) So I made this hybrid, with grid-based boards for combat and a book for all the rest. To hit an enemy, you had to place its diagram at a certain distance and hit it with a die.
(I knew just the video games, and didn't know it's a board game.) So I made this hybrid, with grid-based boards for combat and a book for all the rest. To hit an enemy, you had to place its diagram at a certain distance and hit it with a die.
Chat GPT installation disk (2001)
January 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Chat GPT installation disk (2001)
January 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
An old sketch for an idea for action-puzzle-adventure alchemy video game.
Maybe one day it'll happen...
Maybe one day it'll happen...
January 27, 2025 at 8:06 AM
An old sketch for an idea for action-puzzle-adventure alchemy video game.
Maybe one day it'll happen...
Maybe one day it'll happen...
4. These are just guides, and they're meant to be broken.
Sometimes for a puzzle's sake you'll want the letters to look alike, so that they can rotate and become other letters. Or make the streets of a city map form a hidden message.
It's your call.
Sometimes for a puzzle's sake you'll want the letters to look alike, so that they can rotate and become other letters. Or make the streets of a city map form a hidden message.
It's your call.
January 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
4. These are just guides, and they're meant to be broken.
Sometimes for a puzzle's sake you'll want the letters to look alike, so that they can rotate and become other letters. Or make the streets of a city map form a hidden message.
It's your call.
Sometimes for a puzzle's sake you'll want the letters to look alike, so that they can rotate and become other letters. Or make the streets of a city map form a hidden message.
It's your call.
3. Letters should ideally have enough "character" (no pun intended) that they are easy to remember. It might get frustrating for players to constantly need to consult a reference in order to decrypt each individual letter when they're trying to read something.
January 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
3. Letters should ideally have enough "character" (no pun intended) that they are easy to remember. It might get frustrating for players to constantly need to consult a reference in order to decrypt each individual letter when they're trying to read something.
2. If readers will need to write down the letters as part of solving puzzles, the letters should be easy to write.
January 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
2. If readers will need to write down the letters as part of solving puzzles, the letters should be easy to write.
1. Readers should be able to tell letters apart (unless telling them apart is the actual puzzle).
January 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
1. Readers should be able to tell letters apart (unless telling them apart is the actual puzzle).
A couple of guiding principals when designing a script for a puzzle book:
January 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A couple of guiding principals when designing a script for a puzzle book:
Lapa manut; one of the stranger and more unnerving monsters from my gamebook, Zaltec II.
January 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Lapa manut; one of the stranger and more unnerving monsters from my gamebook, Zaltec II.
My second book is in print! 🤩
December 4, 2024 at 8:22 PM
My second book is in print! 🤩
Context-less illustration from my book
November 25, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Context-less illustration from my book
