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Games by J. Walton
With a few notable exceptions, I tend to mostly keep my head down and make games that speak to me, alongside a small group of peers and collaborators. I'm a game designer, educator, and critical scholar with 20 years of experience in the indie games scene. Hi.
Miles Below Midnight
Elektra Before the Throne
24XX Free_Range
Personal Testimony from the Last Kings of Heaven
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Session Zero   - A deck based character creation game.
World Maker   - Single player world making game
Iron Core   - Iron Core is a rich dice mechanic for you to build your own games.
Session Zero: World Building Edition   - A deck based world building game
The Estate of Baron Archambaud, an Ingrate   - A card adventure for a single player
RPG Design Zine   - A How-To Zine about Tabletop RPG Design
House Spirit   - A journaling game that fits on a business card, for a domestic spirit
MEGALITH   - Single card to generate a Megalith location  for your ttrpg sessions
An Altogether Different River   - A GM-less storygame about returning home and grappling with what has changed
Our Innermost Thoughts   - a mostly-solo zine of small RPGs
Marked   - Be chosen. Hunt. Be marked. Die.
World Wide Wrestling: Second Edition   - The tabletop roleplaying game of pro wrestling narrative action!
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Anomaly   - A Game About A Supernatural Investigation
busted!   - a heist-flavored roleplaying card game
Time To Drop   - a time loop heist game.
Omphalos   - A Sample Chapter of His Majesty the Worm
Dungeon Seeds   - A Sample Chapter of His Majesty the Worm
HEIST: Get Rich or Die Trying   - a single session tabletop roleplaying game
Hierophants   - A roleplaying game about religion, legacy, and leadership.
1400 SNEAK   - Lo-Fi Heist-Fantasy RPG.  Part of the 1400 plug-and-play micro-RPG series.
Welcome to the Habitrails   - A solo tarot game about living in a strange and horrific neighborhood
Tarot Telling For Two   - A Tarot-based RPG for Two Players
Beneath A Cursed Moon   - A Gothic fantasy tabletop roleplaying game.
Amal   - Beta Maxx Theft Quick Start
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Numbskulls   - A TTRPG about Skeletons in Disguise
The Creature Comes for Us   - A card-drawing game for 1+ players. Create a world, a menace to threaten it, heroes to fight it, and then do battle.
Places in Verse   - 7 settings for any system
Village Witch Post   - A postcard game for a witch writing letters about her new home.
Sacred Forge   - You are not the wielder of the holy sword. You are its creator.
The Story of a Story   - A Lost and Found solo journaling game, where you play a story as you journey from inception to transformation.
Alone on a Map   - A solo ttrpg map making game
The Suburbs   - a diceless, GM-less  TTRPG about teens on the internet
In the land of Giants   - An adventure to trick the gods
The Tattoopunk Antebible   - A punk anti-bible for your Tattoopunk world
Sabotage   - Your class, Worker. Your stat, Capital. Your mission, Sabotage.
Ganancia   - Society, hope you're not lonely without me