Seren Briar
they/them | 32 | TTRPG designer
https://faefatale.itch.io
Current Project: SWALLOW RPG, a 1-2 player splatterpunk game about consent and cannibalism
- I am not at all a “cozy games” guy but if there’s one game that should have been the coziest ttrpg alive, it’s the neopets game
- I wrote a video game!! With an amazing team! I can’t believe we did this all in 3 weeks, huge ups to @spacedani2.bsky.social (music), @abyssalaquarist.bsky.social (art), and Jergling (programming)!! jergling.itch.io/uncle-henry-...
- I and no one I’ve spoken to consented to having our work used as marketing for this, which we didn’t even know existed. Though two of my games are featured, I am not affiliated with this beta storefront.
- Visiting my parents in a couple months and they want to try a game so they have a better sense of what I do lol. I don’t think any of my own games would really fit the bill, so I’m taking suggestions!
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- And now I’m leaving the open Internet so I don’t get Weapons spoilers before seeing it tonight :p
- HUGE breakthrough on In the Night today
- Oh geez it’s me!!
- Another cool thing about GenCon is that it actually made me feel better about my art rather than worse :) sorry little people in my phone, social media makes me sad and touching grass works
- I did a postmortem write-up on my tumblr about attending #GenCon this year! Heads up that it's super long, but it does cover all four days, the con's amenities, and the various panels I attended. www.tumblr.com/trashprinxe/...
- Gencon was amazing and I am so bone tired
- The cosplayers here are braver than any US marine. It’s so hot and you’re walking around in long sleeves and layers?? Mad respect. Also please drink water
- Arriving at GenCon tomorrow and so excited! It’s my first one and I just looked at the map. I think I’m gonna get lost
- I’ll never forget when I saw Andrea Gibson live in college. Rest in peace and power. Your poetry will have always changed my life.
- PSA to not forget your meds, lest you realize at 3pm that you never took them today and that’s why you feel like throwing hands
- Giving myself permission to word things like absolute dogshit is such a freeing way to draft
- I’ve circled back around to In the Night and, team? They’re RIGHT when they say don’t make your passion project first. I’m a much better designer now. I threw out 90% of what I had before. And it’s actually flowing this time.
- Past Seren was really fucking stupid Somewhere along the line they changed END (endurance) to something abbreviated to ITN But did they write down anywhere what ITN *means*??? Absolutely not.
- When you realize you have to throw out just about everything you’ve designed on a game and start from scratch
- The updated version of decay., aptly called decay.2, is now available! Pick it up here: faefatale.itch.io/decay If you've gotten the game previously (either through a bundle, direct purchase, or community copy), you should be able to download the new version at no charge.
- Reposted by Seren BriarOur kickstarter for C.I.G.S. (Chicago Indie Game Showcase) is LIVE and we already blew past our both our goal and first stretch goal in... three hours. Help us build the future of Chicago indie dev and get tix to see a ton of amazing devs. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ind... #indiedev #indiegame
- Why do we call it skeets instead of flaps. The icon is a butterfly! Flap away, comrades
- It’s his third birthday! Happy birthday, Artichoke!
- Writing the SRD is harder than writing the actual game, y'all
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- Illustrator: Is this good? Anything you want changed? Me, every time, salivating with eyes wide: mmmasdkfg you’re doing amazing
- decay. is designed to be hackable! When the update comes out, I’ll be hosting a game jam with the theme of hacking it. I want to see the different takes everyone has on its mechanics! #ttrpg #gamejam #indiettrpg
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- I also have the procrastination adhd so I've been putting this update off for months, only to finish writing it in less than an hour.
- decay. has needed an update for a hot minute. I'm a better writer now, and I've figured out how to make the disease stages easier to track -- and thus better suited for its design goal of being a party game!
- SOON
- Go see SINNERS in the theater I’m so fucking serious
- I would die for Erica Slaughter but she wouldn’t let me
- Half of me wants to bake banana bread right now and the other half wants to keep reading SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN
- For some reason every attempt I’ve made at naan has flopped. It’s always dense, not fluffy, and doesn’t bubble?? Please drop your naan tips recipes and videos in the replies, a man is suffering here
- You could do a Swallow game where someone gets turned into bulgogi and they have to sit there and hang out with their eater for hours while the meat marinates #ttrpg
- So it turns out making red sauce from scratch (starting with fresh whole tomatoes) is super fucking fun
