Seren Briar

it’s so weird living through a time that’s going to be a chapter in a future high school history textbook

I am not at all a “cozy games” guy but if there’s one game that should have been the coziest ttrpg alive, it’s the neopets game

Uncle Henry Isn't Home by Jergling, Seren Briar, spacedani2, Francisco del Valle Find Uncle Henry. Lose yourself.

I wrote a video game!! With an amazing team!
I can’t believe we did this all in 3 weeks, huge ups to @spacedani2.bsky.social (music), @abyssalaquarist.bsky.social (art), and Jergling (programming)!!

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But creators have not provided you the games yet. Your marketing implies all the games were submitted to you and the creators are affiliated. This is not the case and is misleading.

Kindly remove my games from your beta and marketing.

Using the dataset to carry on the torch in an archival format strikes me as distinctly different from a storefront to profit off of.

I and no one I’ve spoken to consented to having our work used as marketing for this, which we didn’t even know existed. Though two of my games are featured, I am not affiliated with this beta storefront.

Something mystery/investigative might work, but definitely not a horror investigation game.

Must be beginner friendly, one session, simpler rules, and preferably something lighter in tone. My mother doesn’t really like fantasy or scifi at all. Neither of them are into horror whatsoever.

Visiting my parents in a couple months and they want to try a game so they have a better sense of what I do lol. I don’t think any of my own games would really fit the bill, so I’m taking suggestions!

Credit to my gamedev buddy Annabel who doesn't have a social media account

And now I’m leaving the open Internet so I don’t get Weapons spoilers before seeing it tonight :p

This has blown the game wide open.

(And of course, because gothic horror protags are by and large emotionally immature, they’re going to cause more problems for themselves even as they deal with the overarching “plot” level conflict)

So yes, there will be supernatural occurrences. But the point isn’t to discover that or why something is occult. It’s about solving the problem.

In Dracula or Frankenstein, no one’s going on a mission to figure out that the count is a vampire, no one cares that the modern Prometheus was created by Frankenstein. It’s all about handling the situation regardless of the origin.

I was talking to my design friends and suddenly realized: it’s not about *finding* the problem, it’s about *solving* the problem.

Something I’ve been struggling with for a long time is the core loop/character motivation. A lot of horror games veer investigative, and I understand why, but that was never going to be the right fit for gothic horror.

HUGE breakthrough on In the Night today

Oh geez it’s me!!

Another cool thing about GenCon is that it actually made me feel better about my art rather than worse :) sorry little people in my phone, social media makes me sad and touching grass works

I did a postmortem write-up on my tumblr about attending #GenCon this year! Heads up that it's super long, but it does cover all four days, the con's amenities, and the various panels I attended.
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Gencon was amazing and I am so bone tired

The cosplayers here are braver than any US marine. It’s so hot and you’re walking around in long sleeves and layers?? Mad respect. Also please drink water

Arriving at GenCon tomorrow and so excited! It’s my first one and I just looked at the map.

I think I’m gonna get lost

I’ll never forget when I saw Andrea Gibson live in college.

Rest in peace and power. Your poetry will have always changed my life.

PSA to not forget your meds, lest you realize at 3pm that you never took them today and that’s why you feel like throwing hands

Text that says: e. Critical Success: The spirit makes its presence known to everyone present.

Giving myself permission to word things like absolute dogshit is such a freeing way to draft

I’ve circled back around to In the Night and, team? They’re RIGHT when they say don’t make your passion project first.

I’m a much better designer now. I threw out 90% of what I had before. And it’s actually flowing this time.

My best guess is “intuition” but that is also stupid.

Past Seren was really fucking stupid

Somewhere along the line they changed END (endurance) to something abbreviated to ITN

But did they write down anywhere what ITN *means*??? Absolutely not.