This is a page for a project I did for most of January 2025. For a review of the project, go to Gentle Games Review.
I've been wanting to design a game - a board game, maybe a tabletop roleplaying game. I recently read Sophie Yanow's A Gentle Comics Habit, and I thought "I will have a Gentle Games Habit."
Each day I'll make up a game. That's the "Gentle Games Habit."
I say "each day", but I will skip days. I won't skip more than one day in a row though. Skipping days will allow it to be a "Gentle Games Habit."
I say I'll make up a game, but I will keep a loose definition of game. People will read some of them and say "these are not games." They will be right except for the fact that the real game is one I am playing called "Gentle Games Habit."
I'll allow myself 1 minute to write the first game. Each subsequent game I will allow myself an additional minute. I won't go over (too much), and I will think about the game before writing it. At some point I'll stop making games in this manner, because I don't want to spend that much time on games each day. By then it will hopefully not matter because I will have made a bunch of small games and developed a "Gentle Games Habit."
The games
- 2025-01-01 Even/Odd Dice
- 2025-01-02 Binary Seek
- 2025-01-03 1 Page, 3 Objects, 6 Words
- 2025-01-04 Walk or Run
- 2025-01-05 Cake Slice Rummy
- 2025-01-06 Paper Pentomino Stacker
- 2025-01-07 House Maker
- 2025-01-08 The Egg of Gungyria
- 2025-01-10 Scheduling Next Session
- 2025-01-11 Invasive Species
- 2025-01-13 Card Backgammon
- 2025-01-14 Clear Bag Burglaries
- 2025-01-16 Monster Builder
- 2025-01-17 Character Cache
- 2025-01-19 Flashback RPG Structure
- 2025-01-21 Suit Seekers
- 2025-01-23 Chasing Windmills
- 2025-01-26 Gentle Games Review