Nano-games
Like your games compact? These role-playing games are two or three pages.
The first three games feature the Diceconomy system, which allows three players to competitively control the course of the game’s narrative. They’re also free to download and share under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY-NC-SA license.
Runeblade: A Dark Fantasy Nano-Game (print version)
Vector: A Sci-Fi Horror Nano-Game (print version)
Doublecross: A Cold War Espionage Nano-Game (print version)
Created for Ryan Macklin’s Flash Game Design Challenge, download the player sheet or the GM sheet for Iä: A Game of Dark Worship.
Phenomengineers is an “infectious game fragment”. Once you read it, you’re playing it.
Anansi’s Children – The Tale and The Rules were created for the 2012 Game Chef design competition.
Monoliths of Titan was created for National Game Design Month 2012.
Full-Length Games
Spectrum is an ongoing open-source generic game system project. Current version of Spectrum Prime, the core document, is v1.4.2, downloadable here.
Phew! Some of those backgrounds make the pdf’s really hard to read. And thin white font on 100% solid black is a major eye strain and cannot be printed. Too bad.
Which game(s) are you referring to, Joseph?
Runeblade has that interfering sword background image. It’s not only hard to read but prints badly too. As far as Vector and Doublecross, they cause eye-strain on a monitor and are just not printable. You can’t ask people to print even a mere 2 pages in solid black. Pass me the design files and I’ll put my skills to work for you for free. I love the idea, I just have a really hard time with the usability.
Print-ready versions of the Diceconomy games without the background images have been uploaded (see above).
What happened to the print versions’ page 2?
Sorry, forgot to change some settings back from the last time I exported something else. The full front and back are up now.