Get 60+ Indie RPGs at Bargain Prices and Help Finance Game Designers

A tabletop RPG designer who uses the pseudonym Speak the Sky has organized a special initiative to help game designers shoulder the costs of layout and graphic design. Until Feb. 1st, you can buy a special Layout Level-up! bundle of indie RPGs saving 95% on the regular price. Available on Itch.io, the bundle contains 67 items from 53 creators and sells for $20 instead of $424.02. You are obviously free to donate something more to the cause.

“Writing a game is one thing, laying it out is another,” explains Speak the Sky. For example, go to starburst free spins no deposit uk and try out some of the games there. You will get luscious layouts, beautiful graphics, catchy soundtracks, special effects… All the bells and whistles that make games so entertaining. Well, just for you to know, there is a lot of work involved to give you all this “and a lotta the options for analog game designers are often too simple (e.g., GoogleDocs) or too expensive (e.g., InDesign) for what they really want,” as Speak the Sky points out on the Itch.io page of the bundle.

There is a better solution, a powerful and affordable Affinity Suite (Publisher, Designer, and Photo). Several designers have been working on it recently, and right now it is on sale too at 50% off. However, many people will still have trouble affording that. Here comes the bundling initiative to the rescue, with every two sales covering one Affinity Suite license costs. “Many of us self-publishing in the TTRPG space use Affinity Publisher for our layout work, but not everyone can afford a license.” explains designer Michael Van Vleet, from Cold Hearth Collective, on Twitter. “So we’re doing something about it.” In the case of the Collective, this means contributing several items to the bundle.

Exploring the bundle is definitely worth some of your time. Here are some descriptions of games in the package:

Pigsmoke by potatocubed – Step into the shoes of the faculty of Pigsmoke School of Sorcery, America’s finest learning institution for the magically gifted. Teach classes, publish research, and try to navigate the cutthroat world of academia when the demons are real, the auditors are constructs of pure order. Imposter syndrome might just mean you’re a doppelganger.

This Party Sucks by beatingthebinary – A collaborative story game about being a queer and/or trans twentysomething who is (badly) processing a recent breakup. You will play out a piece of their story as they attend a series of three parties while trying (and failing) not to think about their ex. The game encourages a group of three players to laugh, wince, and (possibly) reflect on their own lives and relationships while telling their shared protagonist’s story with honesty and tenderness.

Thousand Year Old Vampire by timhutchins – A creaking hunter among dust and cobwebs, you prowl the night places, seeking the souls on which you feed. You have done this since time immemorial, or so you believe; you have no memories of living as a man-thing like those you catch and eat. But human traces linger; your fingers trace clever arabesques in the dirt of your grave-place, and with the flourishes come whispered songs in a language you’ve forgotten.