The Odd Magpie

The Odd Magpie

Michael Murphy-Burton

Category: game design

20 Jul
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Technosys: A Technoir/Genesys Kitbash

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I’ve been running a limited series game the last month or so. Initially I had planned to use the Technoir system in its vanilla incarnation...
22 Mar
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Paint By Monsters DevLog 7 – Design Process Part 1 – High Level Design (So Far)

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Paint By Monsters started life, as with many of my original designs, as an attempt to subvert aspects of an existing popular design. In this...
05 Nov
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Paint By Monsters: DevLog 4 + Feature Video 0.0.10 – Brush Strokes!

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I’m gonna talk about all the faffery in a minute, but if you want the TL;DR, I invite you to take a look at feature...
23 Oct
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Paint By Monsters: Devlog 3 – On Tilemaps and Arrow Traps (Bonus: Feature Demo Video 0.0.9)

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New devlog up over at itch.io. Go check it out! And here’s the 0.0.9 feature demo video, which shows off the first fully-functioning lair upgrade:...
22 Oct
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Paint By Monsters: Devlog 2 – Work To Date

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I promised some local tech folks I’d do a weekly summary of my progress on Paint By Monsters, and I figured since I was doing...
13 Apr
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Meet Mechanisms!

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Mechanisms now has a Print and Play!
25 Aug
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Boardgame Research: Thornwatch

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My regular tabletop gaming group kindly agreed to try Thornwatch during our last session. I read through the rules when I received the game earlier...
16 Aug
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Why I Stopped Playing: Badminton League

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Time Played: 4+ hours Play Store: Badminton League Dev: Red Fish Game Studio Pub: Dev-published, I think Graphics: Well-made “pseudo-pixelart” vector graphics. Animation is smooth, though...
10 Aug
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Design Prototyping: Card RPG

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Perfect Minute Games is primarily focused on video games, but one of the fun secrets about game design is that paper is always an option...
06 Oct
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Theorycrafting a fully-integrated Eve MMOFPS

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I’ve been doing a lot of game design of late, both for Beat Farmer and for other projects I’ve had in the back of my...