A Greeblin’s Journey is a solo journaling game about a travelling creature called a Greeblin. They have become unsettled from their home and are now travelling for the first time in a world they have never explored. The road is strange and not nearly as kind as their bed, but they had to do something. They had to go somewhere.
This project is a digital-only (for now) zine!
This game will be fully funded after hitting $1,000.00 of sales!! Every sale counts towards that goal so let's do this!
The game uses 2 six-sided dice to generate the prompts for your Greeblins adventure, determining the topic and impetus for them to be writing in their journal. The dice also create the score for each journal entry.
The player's goal when rolling dice (and using their characters abilities) is to end the game at a total score of 21. Ending the game at 21 has the Greeblin reaching their destination and ending their journey satisfied.
But going over will cause the Greeblin's chronicle to end abruptly, with them running off course or becoming distracted from their goal by the wide world around them.
This whole adventure will take 20 min to 1 hour of your time and can be replayed over and over again.
The game when finished will include all of the rules for:
- Playing the game: all of the rules needed to play the game.
- Replaying the game: How to keep things fresh.
- Playing with different modes/styles of writing.
- Additional Prompts to replace used ones to keep things fresh over many playthroughs.
Of course, this game will also feature a wide amount of drawings of Greeblins and illustrations for the game's rulebook.
The entire zine will be around 32 pages long as a full digest zine when it has completed development.
For buying today:
- YOU are MAKING SURE THE GAME GETS MADE by giving me money.
- YOU get the PLAYTEST RULES, which is everything needed to start playing right now.
- YOU get access to UPDATES to downloadable files as the game is updated prior to being completed.
Finally, when the game is done you get the full complete rules with all of the art and additional rules.
The reason that 'A Greeblin's Journey' is being launched using itch.io is because:
- I am in school and want this game to be one of my part-time jobs.
- More of the funds go to the person making the game.
- Itch has a great dev blog and update system that allows document updates.
- If I make it to 50% of my goal, I can still work on the game. Just not to the degree that I would have liked to. That can't really happen using a lot of crowdfunding platforms.
The last reason is that itch.io is the same location where the game will be for sale and allows buyers to get their copies of the game from the same place where it is being developed rather than having to use separate platforms for funding and downloading I can have one solution for both.
Once the funding period is over, and we hit our goal then I will start working on these:
- More Playtesting!
- Finish writing the Replayability rules.
- Finish writing the Modes of Play rules.
- Finish zine illustrations.
- Have game text edited by my editor (Beau Sheldon).
The main amount of the game's writing is currently drafted, and the additional features left have been started being outlined. I have plans for illustrations and have even commissioned some already (BasiliskOnline! a great artist is doing 2!)
Hello! I am Thomas Novosel. If you know me already it is either because of my art I have done for OSR games or because of my popular one-shot game Runaway Hirelings! Which has been featured on the One Shot Podcast, and Technical Difficulties to name a few. I am a queer game designer and artist who writes short games that are fun and full of fantasy weirdness.
In order to download this Solo Journaling RPG you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $10.10 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Support this Solo Journaling RPG at or above a special price point to receive something exclusive.
Buying this reward gives you a copy of the game in progress, the game when it is finished, and when the game hits its sales goal and is finished adds +3 community copies to the community copy pool.
Buying this reward will allow you to tell me about your Greeblin and I will draw them into the finished rulebook.
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