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Welcome to the Jam! Intros and Ideas. Sticky

A topic by Thoughtcrime Games created Jul 28, 2025 Views: 156 Replies: 3
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Hey all, welcome to the Jam! This thread is for people to do brief introductions and maybe talk about some ideas you want to work on. Collaboration is encouraged.


I'll start: My name is Quinn Murphy. I started the jam, but also I have a bunch of dungeons and small rule ideas I wanted to get out there.  Top of my list right now? Magic spells. 

My thinking was that spells are on different media. The media you use determines how much magic you get to use (measured in "tracks"), but also the media has different qualities it imbues the spell with. Is this is an excuse to indulge my  love-affair with minidisc? Maaaaybe.

I also have a 5-song dungeon: "The Howling Ballad of Sonata Manor" - a gothic romance of the Howling Court, werewolf aristocrats in a blood feud. One of the players has a true love who was an escaped noble taken back to the court. To reunite with them, they must navigate the feral noble courts and fight/negotiate their freedom...or maybe part ways?

That's what I have on the docket. What do y'all have?

I created a dungeon just a bit ago that has a branching path depending on whether or not you were successful in dealing with the Conversation central to the room. Success meant you moved to a path that was centered on words over action, and the other path the opposite

I was making rooms with Gemini, which i was only using to better understand how to create rooms, dungeons, and Soundians, when it created an interesting treasure tag, Forte. between the two of us, we decided that things with Forte have +3 instead of +1, like most treasures

i just thought of a new thing for Soundians: Resonance. It triggers when a Soundian is in a room that matches it's song. So like Halo, who's based on "I Wish I Had An Angel" Would have "Resonance" in the Shattered Sanctum, the Dungeon Room that is likewise based on "I wish I Had An Angel" Resonance gives a Soundian +1 to all approaches when in the room matching its sound.