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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.
Elektra Before the Throne
Personal Testimony from the Last Kings of Heaven
24XX Free_Range
Miles Below Midnight
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Spirals   - A solo dice game for the brave!
How to Say Goodbye   - a game about saying goodbye
AFTER THE STORM   - A solo writing game about poetry and survival.
Meet The Untrue   - a microgame anthology about meeting fantasy halfway
My heart is a trifle, what's yours?   - A grocery shopping game for celebrating a friend
The Cloister   - A two player storytelling game about the last hour of a long journey home
Sharehouse   - A couch game about being young, and single, or about not being able to say how you feel.
MIND WALK  issue III   - A Lyrical RPG Zine
The Tower   - A Solo-Journaling RPG about living in an unusual wilderness.
Roll-Play   - a system-agnostic, relationship-building minigame
pocket change   - a collection of coin-based micro rpgs
Sigils   - A tabletop game/meditation for one or more players
If you like No One Lives Here Anymore check out...
World Maker   - Single player world making game
What Dust Remains   - Build your legacy - but at what cost?
Reunification   - A Letter-Writing Game about Reconciliation
The Colors of Magic   - The Colors of Magic is a light, collaborative, story-focused, fantasy tabletop RPG about a group of wizard friends.
Haecceity   - to exist is to change - who will you become?
Recluse   - A solo rpg engine
Back Again from the Broken Land—Full Edition   - a short Powered by the Apocalypse tabletop RPG of small adventurers sharing stories on a long walk home
Spooky Action at a Distance   - A single player RPG about first contact
We Have Lost...   - The World has lost a Colossus, but we have lost more
Carved in Crystal   - Don your masks and venture out into the world of memory in this GMless tabletop game for up to six players.
XD6 SRD - Hackable RPG Dice System   - A retro, Day-Glo, Nitro, freak-show, rainbow system - grab fistfuls of dice and gamble for epic FX!
The Estate of Baron Archambaud, an Ingrate   - A card adventure for a single player