Cutestpatoot DevLogs

The initial plan, a couple months ago when I actually started these games, was for them to be Micro-TTRPGs. 3 Micro TTRPGs. Under 5 pages of TNR 12 single spaced, maybe even one-pagers. Man, one-pagers would have been nice. I'll have to keep that in mind next time I do this to myself. I regret nothing but I do wish I'd eventually develop some level of foresight for the scope of projects when I set out to do them.  As usual, I started by logging a ton of my favorite movies into a wheel on wheelofnames.com (LOML) and spinning it 3 times to get my inspiration seeds and I was not disappointed. The movies were Scooby Doo & The Ghoul School (1988), Halloween: Resurrection (2002) and Gone in 60 Seconds (2000). The concepts for each game came pretty quickly.  For Ghoul School  I decided to take inspiration from the actual surface plot of the movie, which is that the girls of the school want to beat the neighboring boys military academy in a volleyball tournament, for which...

 I recently released this via my itch for free and figured it would be cool to host here, too. 10 Minute TTRPG by Cutestpatoot Games The Mission  With the monthly podcast 10 Minute TTRPGs I’ve been trying to help demystify entry into the game design process, which is to say I want everyone to understand that they have what it takes to design games. I won’t say there’s not people who pick it up faster than others or for whom the work is more appealing than it is to others, but I really believe everyone can create at least one game. But what’s really incredible is that nobody else can create the games You create. I’m just here to lend a bit of a helping hand.  In this game we’re setting the timer to 10 minutes and putting ourselves in the hot seat. By the time that timer goes off we’re going to have at least an ashcan of a game, I promise.  An Ashcan* is like a demo, it’s a less fleshed out version of a game or a shorter one, to give people an impression of the full ga...

 I thought it might be nice to collect some of the prompts I came up with over the last couple years, that I have lined up to help me when I want to challenge myself or mess with something new, or for me to put in a wheelofnames.com generator to be surprised with for 10 Minute TTRPGs.   🩵 make a game inspired by my fave childhood book 🩵 make a game inspired by one of my books 🩵 make a game inspired by a movie I love 🩵 make a game inspired by my horoscope 🩵 make a game inspired by my CD collection 🩵 make a game inspired by my fave tv shows 🩵 make a game inspired by my fave cartoons 🩵 make a game hack for one of my fave indie games 🩵 make a game inspired by my fave triple A games 🩵 make a game inspired by a fave DS game 🩵 make a game inspired by a fave Gameboy game 🩵 make a game inspired by a fave Gamecube game 🩵 make a game inspired by a fave PC game 🩵 make a game inspired by my Pinterest Board...