Yehuda Shapira
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Yehuda Shapira
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Programmer, coffee-drinker, and aspiring writer. I make 📕gamebooks and 🎮video games, and like to blab about TTRPGs & 🧩puzzles.
Well bargained and done.
February 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
February 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Laugh all you want, but do it quickly because that thing is headed this way and it's carrying elementals
February 4, 2025 at 5:27 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
January 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
TBH I just assumed it would be heavy metal, but now I can't get the image of Northwind Highlanders doing this
January 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Blast music, not guns
January 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
5. One more thing to consider is inclusiveness.
Would people with dyslexia have a hard time with your script? What about other visual impairments?
You can't always solve this (especially not with a graphic-heavy puzzle game), but it's something to always keep in mind.
January 26, 2025 at 4:05 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.
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.
January 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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
1. Readers should be able to tell letters apart (unless telling them apart is the actual puzzle).
January 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Does that mean you're willing to look at the book I wrote?
December 10, 2024 at 12:41 PM
Lazer's Legion

A Hasidic group led by Rebbe Eliezer "Lazer" Schottenstein, who became anti-Kurita privateers following the Kuritan conquest of their peaceful home moon.

Their emblem is a skull with payot.
December 10, 2024 at 5:56 AM