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I'm an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta who studies games, machine learning, and creativity. In a past life I made games, sometimes I still do.
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Piecing It Together
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The Flexorcists   - Suplex the unseen. TTRPG.
CARRY ON - 24XX Monster Hunters   - The supernatural is real, and you are here to stop the monsters — an homage and goodbye to a 15-Season journey.
Welcome to the Hereafter Hotel   - Monster of the Week haunted house mystery
When the End Comes   - A Breathless supernatural slasher horror TTRPG
FIST: Ultra Edition   - A paranormal mercenary roleplaying game
Stille Nacht   - a supernatural murder mystery
English Eerie Second Edition   - Rural horror storytelling for 1-4 players
Space Samurais   - Light vs. Dark inner conflict Honey Heist style
Paranormal Inc.   - A gm-less mystery game of paranormal investigation!
Last Christmas   - You're a time-travelling ghost, you killed Ebenezer Scrooge by mistake, and now the apocalypse is knocking at your door.
Maschine Zeit   - Ghost Stories on Space Stations: A Tabletop RPG
Suburban Consumption of the Monstrous: Free Playkit   - An appetizer to show you what's to come.
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Teenage Angst   - Solo Scrapbooking TTRPG about being a teenager with a lot of feelings, obsessed with a single song
A Novel Dungeon   - Start making dungeons out of your favorite books!
RUNE Quick Start Edition   - Quick start for the RUNE roleplaying game
24 Game Poems   - Twenty-four short, evocative role playing games for two or more players.
How to make cool TTRPG pamphlets   - A free pamphlet teaching how to make RPG pamphlets
The Monomyth Thread   - an essay and heap of game parts inspired by a conversation
dialect backdrop template!   - a template i made for creating your own dialect material
Planetary Loop   - Travel the system as everything ends. Then start again.
EXUVIAE: Relics of House Dragonfly   - Horror-noir one-shots with a pack of cards and no prep
NOVA Creator Kit   - A toolkit for making your own content for the NOVA RPG.
MEGALOS: NEW GAME   - Free quick-start introductory adventure for MEGALOS
ANTI-SISYPHUS OMNIBUS   - All of the world-shattering RPG Theory Zine in one convenient place.
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The perpetual broth   - A short adventure Pop-Up zine for DURF
Troika! Numinous Edition   - The Other world's favourite fantasy RPG
Glitter Hearts   - A magical transforming heroes RPG.
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.
BROKEN LUCK - a Troika zine   - rpg zine
ABOMINATIONS   - Create and battle lab-grown monsters of your own design!
A Fairy’s Day Adventure into the Human World   - a young fae’s adventure in the human world
Welcome to the Habitrails   - A solo tarot game about living in a strange and horrific neighborhood
.dungeon   - An alternate reality table top roleplaying game.
The D1 RPG   - An RPG that only uses 1-sided dice.
Badger + Coyote Duet RPG   - An asymmetrical, GMLess duet roleplaying game
Downfall   - Create the world, and then destroy it.