Development Diary

[indiekid]

What I've not been up to https://masterofolympus.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/diary-64-sleeping-giants/

[indiekid]

Another playtest zone and another invented word https://masterofolympus.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/diary-65-the-supragame/

[Jubal]

Nice to hear from you!

"Supra" in contexts I know about is also used in "supranational" - so organisations like the EU are referred to as supranational, in that membership is voluntary on the part of member states and powers that 'naturally' lie with member states are explicitly granted to the Union to exercise, making them supranational. (This is then different to international organisations like the UN, which exercise functions that member states do not claim themselves and/or solely function as forums for international agreement.)

[indiekid]

Sorry I missed your comment Jubal - thanks that is an interesting use of the prefix. I suppose it is still beyond national but not above it.

[Jubal]

Yes, exactly

[indiekid]

A new playtesting experience https://masterofolympus.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/diary-66-lets-iterate/

[indiekid]

Why the annual UK Games Expo is important to me https://masterofolympus.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/diary-67-seasons/

[indiekid]

A desperate attempt to find a unifying theme for my visit to UKGE - Jubensha

[indiekid]

A premature article about a premature flight https://masterofolympus.wordpress.com/2025/07/05/diary-69-flight/

[indiekid]

Two important trips down south https://masterofolympus.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/diary-70-pilgrims/

[indiekid]

Designing games is hard https://masterofolympus.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/diary-71-barking-up-the-right-tree/

[Jubal]

Have you looked into Victorian era myrioramas when designing this game? They seem like a fairly key related existing concept (and were AIUI very much in the "loose/rules-free" model of play).

[indiekid]

One which taxes all of my blogging skills https://masterofolympus.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/diary-72-the-centre-of-the-universe/

[indiekid]

...also thank you for the comment on last entry Jubal, I'm sorry I missed it. I had never thought of looking at them actually, though I vaguely remember one from my childhood. It's an interesting concept and the child-friendly version of Yarn Spinning I mention at the end of the entry does kind of suit this. But the rules at the moment don't involve laying the pictures side by side, they're discarded once used up

[Jubal]

I had never thought of looking at them actually, though I vaguely remember one from my childhood. It's an interesting concept and the child-friendly version of Yarn Spinning I mention at the end of the entry does kind of suit this. But the rules at the moment don't involve laying the pictures side by side, they're discarded once used up

Yeah, it just sprang to mind. If they're discarded to a pile and don't need to get reshuffled into the game, finding ways to keep them positioned as a record of what's happened so far might be an interesting idea to experiment with!