LATEST NOVEL
Fluid Folk
The tests are failing. The camps are filling.
A darkly comic industrial fantasy about identity, bureaucracy, and the stubborn business of staying alive.
Explore the book ↗ARON PENCE / INDEPENDENT GAME DEVELOPER
I make games.
Dungeon Flop is the big one.
An RTS meets D&D, built around co-op dungeon disasters, hired adventurers, permanent consequences, and player-made everything.
Rite of Assembly is our new survival-horror demo. Dungeon Flop and Tall Folk are in development. Hexcrawl V2 is now a free caravan playtest in your browser. Hold Until Dawn is the most game-forward thing I’ve made. Every one of them is strange for a different reason.
THE FLAGSHIP PROJECTNOW ON STEAM
TACTICAL COMEDY ROGUELIKE
Dungeon Flop
NEW: RITE OF ASSEMBLY DEMO1 WAVE DEFENSE THAT ESCALATEDFREE ASCII CARAVAN PLAYTESTNOVELS & TABLETOP BOOKS
01 / ALSO ON THE WORKBENCH
Each one got weird
in its own way.
Current builds, deep prototypes,
and a caravan ready for a test journey.
NEW DEMO / SURVIVAL HORRORRite of Assembly
Build a body from the dead. Place an eye to watch from cover, lend a hand to a trap, and use stolen organs to solve an occult dungeon.
EXPLORE THE DEMO ON ITCH.IO
CURRENTLY BUILDING / KOBOLD CO-OPTall Folk
Possess a kobold, climb through a giant human world, and burgle a future for your clan.
ACTIVE BESIDE DUNGEON FLOP
SECOND-MOST DEVELOPED / WINDOWSHold Until Dawn
An infinite roguelike wave defense with map encounters, relationships, anti-heroes, and dawn buffs.
THE MOST GAME-FORWARD ONE
HEXCRAWL V2 / FREE BROWSER PLAYTESTHexcrawl V2
Find work, prepare your caravan, and follow a journey through changing weather. Your crew, supplies, and choices shape what happens along the road.
PLAY NOW / DESKTOP BROWSER02 / THE SYSTEM UNDER THE SYSTEMS
KLEP V2.0
A deterministic, inspectable symbolic behavior toolkit for Unity 6. Keys, locks, execution, and causal traces you can actually follow.
03 / FIVE NOVELS YOU CAN BUY NOW
Games in progress.
Books on the shelf.
LATEST NOVEL
Dead Folk
In the Dead Territories, dying rarely settles anything.
A ghost, an urn, a mummy, and a Hunter make their way to the Great Summoning. Some want another chance. Others want answers.
Explore the book ↗ALSO ON THE SHELF
04 / THE TABLETOP SYSTEM
4d4 is in active playtest.
Five playtest books are free.
Learn the core game, build characters and abilities, grab zero-prep Scenes, or play the complete Space Miners 4Cast. All five playtest books are free, and the open SRD gives creators a foundation for their own compatible work.
Explore 4d4, five free playtest books & the open SRD ↗
THE TABLETOP SYSTEMFOLLOW THE WORK, PLAY A BUILD, OR SAY HELLO.
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