Zero Prep Games

Muppetmeet 2025 poster. Excel Center London - 28th November. An evening of networking and TTRPG industry knowledge-sharing

Muppetmeet 2025 talk schedules split into business track and creative track. Business Track: 6pm - I took this marketing course so you don't have to with Mol Joule from SoulMuppet 7:15pm: Making Games While the world burns: dealing with Tomorrow's Crisis. With Zachary Cox moderating, Kay Lubwika Bartlett from Roll and Play Emmet Byrne from Old Oak Games, and Cat Tobin from Pelgrane Press 8:30pm: What are you r rates? Well... what's your budget? Dancing the dance of Freelancer Rates. With Mol Joule moderating, Helen Gould, Eryk Sawicki and Luke Gearing. Creative Track: 6pm Being a book sicko: a crash course in printing with Zachary Cox 7:15pm Sociall Conscious Games with Eryk Sawicki moderating, George Blandy from Three Sails Studios, David Blandy from Copy/Paste Co-op and Laurie O'Connel from Twelve Pins Press. 8:30pm Our Games on your screens: Designing for APs and APs for Designers. With Aida Branez, co-founder of EUphoria and Nathan Blades, a freelance voice actor and designer.

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Playtest feedback is gold.

Players want more clarity on what makes Godflesh's treasures special – the essence of dead gods embedded in each one. It's a blind spot I had in the quickstart, one we're fixing.

Sometimes you're too close to your own work to see what needs explaining. ^Icel #GodfleshRPG

1. During September, we completed the first month of visual development for #GodfleshRPG, and I wanted to share what we've been working on with artist @ronamis.bsky.social 🧵

These folks know hit to do an expo display.

When you query a ship, the thermal printer off to the side spits out a little note with the details

Also - big red button FTW.

EGX winner.

1. I've been thinking about #CriticalRole Campaign 4 and why it feels so different from the previous campaigns. A thread about format, preparation, and what makes actual play work. 🧵

My take:

Steam Marketplace has a price cap. Expensive skins get traded off-site. Valve gets no cut.

By crashing the market they brought back a lot of trades: expensive skins are now tradable, and cheap ones got boosted.

5 skins worth $50 total ($6 Valve fee)? Now worth $1000 ($300 valve fee).

Take a look behind the scenes of what we are cooking with Zero Prep Games.
The Cycle of Inheritance can't be broken! Became a God or dine trying.

Bringing Godflesh to Life: First Month of Visual Development | Zero Prep Games First month of visual development for Godflesh, a mythic fantasy TTRPG. Learn how we translated divine corruption, supernatural materials, and mythic architecture into concrete designs with artist Mik...

We've written up the full journey on our blog, covering everything from developing non-literate symbol systems to figuring out what happens to all that discarded godflesh.

Read the full post: zeroprep.io/blog/1523-vi...

Concept art showing three silhouetted architectural structures in progressive sizes from left to right, featuring tall twin pillars or towers with small human figures for scale, rendered in black and brown tones against a gradient background.

Rough digital sketch of a vertical structure or monument rendered in browns and greys with loose linework, showing what appears to be a deteriorating or abstract architectural form with wispy smoke-like elements rising upward, set against rocky terrain.

Fantasy helmet design featuring a pale skull-like crest with upward-curving horn, olive-green segmented face guard, beige chainmail neck protection, and brown side plates with golden accents, illustrated against a grey background.

Over four weeks, we established the visual foundation – from character silhouettes showing the Strain's influence, to sacred architecture built from divine remains, to weapons designed for fighting both mortal and supernatural threats.

Concept art silhouettes showing 16 numbered fantasy character designs arranged in three rows, featuring varied wanderer archetypes including wizards, warriors, creatures, and monsters with distinctive shapes and weapons.

Concept art showing a misty alien landscape with mushroom-like flora and a central figure, accompanied by detailed diagrams of a warning/classification symbol system featuring orange curved symbols with handwritten annotations explaining various states.

The challenge: showing a world where gods are grotesque, monstrous entities whose remains become construction materials. Where humans survive using bronze, bone, leather, and godflesh. Where the line between natural and supernatural is constantly blurred.

We've been playtesting Godflesh for months, but rules alone don't make a world feel real. So we brought in artist @ronamis.bsky.social to start visual development – translating divine corruption, supernatural materials, and mythic architecture from concepts into concrete images.

After 125 sessions and countless hours at the table, @icel.me's Thorns of Winter campaign has reached its stunning conclusion.

Three unlikely heroes (and others who parted ways). An ancient cosmic horror. A world forever changed.

#DungeonWorld #TTRPG #ThornsOfWinter

THE most influencial game on @icel.me 's work is getting a new edition.

KenneyNL's list / Starter Kit (Godot) Starter Kits for Godot

Somehow, I set the totally unrealistic and pointless goal for myself to get 1,000 stars on each of the Starter Kit repositories. City Builder is super close now with 974 stars, Basic Scene the furthest away with 222 stars (I got ideas to bump it 👀)

github.com/stars/Kenney...

We made a new GDScript Formatter for Godot 4, written in Rust: www.gdquest.com/library/gdsc...

It runs fast enough to use on every save on a laptop.

Please give it a try, and let us know if you encounter any issue!

😱

store.steampowered.com/app/3149370/...

Oh god we’re turning into a game studio meme 😬

Learning a new engine is hard, but I love that learning to do _anything_ basic in #GodotEngine is so straightforward and intuitive - if still a little buggy XD

But... what could I possibly be working on?
--@jonobarel.bsky.social

(Art assets by @kenney.nl obviously)

The 2-page rules for Adventurers In A Dungeon (WIP)

First draft of my new 2-page "I need a dungeon crawler for a single session, something I can play with newbies" game. @avivor.com , @evyatron.bsky.social , I imagine this even becoming the character sheet itself, in the future.
GM gets their own 1 page, and also a 1-page dungeon.

I finished the three-week onboarding and training for my new job. A lot of the pressure has gone down. Which means that my mind is free to think about the important stuff: Writing the manuscript for #GodfleshRPG full release.

Three magical operatives fighting an evil corp-mage, while the Game Master tries to explain while dressed as a masked ringmaster

Day 6 of my Kickstarter campaign! Here's a sneak peak of one of the art pieces featured in the book, from the amazing @avivor.com !
Behold, the Game Master!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/occ...

I’ve just started it, but holy shit South of Midnight is gorgeous
Especially in stop-motion mode

#TTRPGs and story game crowd:
I'm looking for world-building games to help me flesh out the setting for Godflesh.

The entire setting started from a Microscope game, and now I want to focus on more specific areas during the time period the game takes place.

6. Soon, Godflesh will develop its visual skin and sinew, connecting the game experience to the atmosphere and design elements that make it unique. Can't wait to show you what we're cooking up!

#TTRPG #GameDevt #PbtA

5. We kicked off at the start of the month and have already completed our first week of collaboration. There are sketches and concepts brewing, but it's still early days for sharing. Expect some reveals towards month's end! 👀

4. We're not just commissioning specific artwork. Instead, we're embarking on a months-long visual development journey together. Think concept art, world-building exploration, and figuring out what truly fits the Godflesh aesthetic (and what doesn't).

3. Big news: we've got an artist on board! Meet @ronamis.bsky.social, whom we connected with at @ukge.bsky.social. He's previously collaborated with @nnesk.bsky.social and brings an incredible range – illustration, game design, 3D modelling, the works. Proper multi-talented creative! 🎨

2. Once we wrap up this Vanor campaign, my group is diving straight into Godflesh playtesting. RIP Vanor, hello Godflesh! 👋 This means I'll have another dedicated playtesting group putting the game through its paces.