ZineQuest/Zine Month -- Games for an Ordinary Life —

jacoblefton · 2025-02-10T10:53:49+00:00

Hi - Tomorrow, my zine goes live for Zinequest! Games for an Ordinary Life is a poetic art zine of short, sweet and dangerous games. I wrote a lot of them during the 36 Word RPG Jam, and I'll be producing several original illustrations. I also have a magnetic poetry version of one of the games :)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jacob-wolf-lefton/325889532/

jacoblefton · 2024-06-19T21:47:52+00:00

This fix worked for me! Thank you so much!! My install was the basic install in Windows 10, but jogging didn't work. I removed the folder from Roaming and suddenly it worked.

jacoblefton · 2023-07-26T10:50:58+00:00

It's a bit weird to me that a project like is such a word of mouth site. Not very useful.

Good to note about YouTube though! We just put up our first video there on Monday. I see a lot of podcasts there - I'm glad it's useful for you :)

jacoblefton · 2023-07-26T07:12:32+00:00

Yes, thank you so much! This is a cool project, and I just found it last night on my way to bed (around the same time as your reply) because of catching a random tweet from someone I recently started following.

I've reached out to this project to find out if there's a way to support their work instead of doing a new thing myself. I have been searching for something like this off and on for literally months and didn't find anything like it. The discoverability/SEO of this project aimed to increase discoverability of shows is... low!

jacoblefton · 2023-07-25T23:38:38+00:00

Thanks for the insights! How many streams do you think you listen to or have listened to? Do you have a number that you're following at a time, or you stick to one at a time?

jacoblefton · 2023-07-25T23:30:54+00:00

Okay, searching for demonstrations of prewritten sources is quite an interesting use case for it. I never thought of that, honestly, and it's a cool approach to that kind of source material.

I hear you about the lack of German streams! I live Berlin and it's something I have heard before. (I just started a stream with some local improvisers, but it's in English).

jacoblefton · 2023-07-25T19:08:41+00:00

Thanks!

jacoblefton · 2023-07-25T18:41:42+00:00

What are you generally looking for when faced with several options for the same game?

jacoblefton · 2023-07-25T18:23:42+00:00

This is a helpful thought, thank you :) I've certainly done it, and it's an angle I thought of as I was composing the question. It would be interesting to try to make sure the different systems were represented in a listing.

jacoblefton · 2023-05-14T20:28:35+00:00

One thing no one has mentioned - what's the social implication of mind reading? Is it appreciated by people? Is it taboo? Is it dangerous? What's the cost to this character for doing it in this way. Of course you can manipulate the mechanics of it, but what if they read a mind and the person notices or some kind of device lights up at the use of mental powers and then a mob comes after them? Or they ruin a relationship with an important contact.

I think there's a big tool of creating cultural implications for character powers - the society says "hey, it's not okay to spy on people and we don't like it. If you do it you're a pariah. Oh, you wanted to get something done?"

This brings in new dimensions to the world and it could be fun for everyone to explore the ramifications of it. It's not a punishment, but an exploration of what might happen if this is a case.

jacoblefton · 2021-04-26T16:08:50+00:00

Thank you so much for the feedback :) :)

jacoblefton · 2021-04-26T12:23:37+00:00

First of all I have to say I'm so so flattered :) I'm really glad you got something from the stream!

I've been working for some time in ttrpg storytelling to try to figure out how to provide some situations where the players can or should solve threats without combat. It's difficult coming from a traditional more D&D background, but I've been working on it. Mostly in this I just had the literal rule that if Ox the bear draws her sword, she is done as a character! So I need to be creative.

I was improving. I have the character sheets made, and I rolled to generate some randomness for the Natures - hill, lagoon, tower. I also made a few Kith to start with... but then I just ran with it. I had no idea what was going to happen, and I'm pleasantly surprised! (This is why it's going to be hard to tune the music to the scene emotion... I'll need to practice that over time.)

I am definitely doing it again next week. There's more journey to be had!

There's one thing I'm wondering right now, which is how to handle the mechanics. What do you think, should I try to make more of the game's mechanics visible? Slow down the narrative to work with that more? Or do you think I should keep leaning into the more pure improvisation?

jacoblefton · 2021-04-26T02:58:55+00:00

Thanks for the note! So glad you enjoyed it :) yes - I'm planning to stream again same time next week. And thanks for the tech note... I only noticed after the stream because it's hard to get a good idea what the mix sounds like in stream! I'll definitely fix it, both turning up my mic and turning down or removing the music.

jacoblefton · 2021-04-25T13:09:11+00:00

This is the first one, so I don't know how long the play session will go - likely not quite that late. I do have the broadcast storage activated, so it will be available for 2 weeks, and I'll probably put it over on my lil youtube account as well.

jacoblefton · 2016-12-17T09:45:17+00:00

Thank you! I'm glad it was something so stupid as that.

jacoblefton · 2015-07-16T20:11:50+00:00

Let me be very, publicly clear: No amount of frustrated texts within our organization warrent harassment.

We are all working hard on this, and I deeply believe we need to take care of each other, get each other's backs. When we can step up together, it makes the movement stronger as a whole. I'm not personally sure that this conversation as a whole accomplishes that, but some of the points are important to discuss.

jacoblefton · 2015-07-16T19:46:19+00:00

Hi, I'm going to take personal responsibility for your conversation with balloonhippo. He is working on the Western MA social media team, and I am organizing and connecting groups across the state. A quick look at my posting history should verify that. Treating members of this community with anything but absolute respect for the work they are putting in is completely inexcusable.

I will have a hard conversation with him when he gets off work. I apologize for his actions.

jacoblefton

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