Stone Words Walk

Devlog

• Stone Words Walk release!
  September 26, 2023 by Speak the Sky#Stone Words Walk

  Over the past couple weeks I spent some time building the files for Stone Words Walk! Like usual now these are an HTML file with a bunch of display options and some interactive bits (including a cover... Continue reading
• Return to Archipelago23
  July 10, 2023 by Speak the Sky

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  #Stone Words Walk

  This project was supposed to be more-or-less finished, but I decided to finally fix the one part of the rules that kept bugging me: the specific dice mechanic. I didn't like the fiddliness of it or th... Continue reading
• Week 15: change of direction
  April 20, 2023 by Speak the Sky

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  Short post, because I've rethought the underlying idea of Archipelago23. So far Stone Words Walk has been the best-formed and frankly best game I've put together in the anthology of games I was gonna... Continue reading
• Week 14: Islands and changes
  April 09, 2023 by Speak the Sky

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  The Islands This week I was going to try something new—give each island one Impression, Path, Focus, and Event each (in any order), then give the island a brief history or give each part of the isla... Continue reading

  
• Week 13: Islands and changes
  April 02, 2023 by Speak the Sky#Stone Words Walk

  The Islands Last week I re-used previous island names, sketches, and stats (where they had stats); this week I did the same thing with a different set of reused islands, but added a few fresh oracle p... Continue reading

  
• Week 12: Islands and changes
  March 25, 2023 by Speak the Sky

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  The Islands I went back to making islands like I was doing before the drawings, but using previous islands' names, drawings, and stats and oracle prompts (where present) as starting points instead of... Continue reading

  
• Week 11: update
  March 18, 2023 by Speak the Sky

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  A short update: I didn't actually do any Sunbright Dynamo journeys this week because the game hasn't really been clicking and flowing for me the way Stone Words Walk did, which I think has a few cause... Continue reading
• Week 10: journeys and changes
  March 11, 2023 by Speak the Sky

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  #Sunbright Dynamo

  Last week I decided to change the rules in some major ways, getting rid of the inventory stuff and shifting the focus from Passages to Landmarks. One thing I didn't make explicit was that a successful... Continue reading

  
• Week 9: Journeys and changes
  March 05, 2023 by Speak the Sky

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  Slightly late this week, cause I was busy yesterday. The Journeys First journey The hollow groves Echoing trees bristle along my route, by shy back whenever I get close, leaving an open path. 6 vs 4:... Continue reading

  
• Week 8, part 2: starting rules for Sunbright Dynamo
  February 25, 2023 by Speak the Sky

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  #Sunbright Dynamo

  These are the rules of Sunbright Dynamo (temp title?), the second game in the set starting with Stone Words Walk (see the previous devlog for the latest rules for that game). This is a map-game about... Continue reading
• Week 8, part 1: current state of Stone Words Walk
  February 25, 2023 by Speak the Sky

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  These are the updated rules of Stone Words Walk , which I tweaked over the last ~2 months of play. Playing the game I usually use an A6-sized writing pad (with plain paper) and write a full spread for... Continue reading
• Week 7: Islands and changes
  February 18, 2023 by Speak the Sky

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  The Islands I decided to use a simple oracle as inspiration for each island, but I didn't have one for this ocean/archipelago setting so I just used the one I already had for post-apocalyptic monument... Continue reading

  
• Week 6: Islands and changes
  February 11, 2023 by Speak the Sky#Stone Words Walk

  The Islands No rules changes this week, just going back to writing new islands after last week's revisits. Sluice Island Elevation 720 m Area 5.7 km 2 3: Path: Crescent beach of black sand running the... Continue reading

  
• Week 5: Island revisits and changes
  February 04, 2023 by Speak the Sky

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  The Islands (revisited) This week I decided to revisit some islands, and randomly-rolled them from the 28 I made in the first 4 weeks. Each island name links back to the original devlog. Vermouth Isla... Continue reading

  
• Week 4: Islands and changes
  January 28, 2023 by Speak the Sky#Stone Words Walk

  The Islands My changes last week were to cut "Reasons to leave", to add elements of confusion/damage/danger when I roll 2d6, and to add a new (fourth) feature type: Events. I kept those all the way th... Continue reading

  
• Week 3: Islands and changes
  January 21, 2023 by Speak the Sky

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  The Islands My changes for this week were to add random-rolled weather (a d6 or d10 random table of weather conditions) and new temperature stats for each island. I decided to come up with the tempera... Continue reading

  
• Week 2: Islands and changes
  January 14, 2023 by Speak the Sky

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  The Islands The changes I made last time were to add more detail to the maps (maybe) and to random-roll an elevation and surface area for each island before starting to draw it. I didn't do the first... Continue reading

  
• Week 1: Islands and changes
  January 07, 2023 by Speak the Sky

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  The Islands Note: in all the images, the top view is the Northern view and the bottom is the Eastern view. After the first couple days I added letters and arrows to show perpendicular compass directio... Continue reading

  
• Update 0: the baseline rules for Archipelago23
  January 07, 2023 by Speak the Sky

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  These are the slightly-tweaked rules of Stone Words Walk , summed up here just so they're part of the whole log. Playing the game I usually use a <A6-sized writing pad (with plain paper) and write a f... Continue reading