Carcosa Dreams

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Month: March 2019

Game Design and Intent 2 – Your Story

One of the key mechanics in Alba will be the process of earning and using story tokens – we haven’t pinned down yet what they will be called, so that’s a placeholder name. The concept of these is that they…

Q&A

Something a little different for today. Last Friday we asked readers to submit some questions on the game and here are responses to three of those questions. Question 1: As stories will be currency, will there be any in game…

Ask Alba Anything

So, the content treadmill has been churning for a bit now, and while we’re putting together the Alba website, preparing for T67 next week, and recovering from the chaos of <gestures to the world in general>, lets turn this around…

Gangs needed!

2040 The brave officers of the City Police Department are entering the infamous Tenement 67 for the first time in years. They are tasked with bringing law and order to a slum rife with organised crime and poverty. We have…

Villages and Community

Your characters home will not only help shape your character background and ties with others but also be a key story point of the game. They are not intended to provide characters with mechanical advantages or in game resources, they…

A daughter’s pride

A life time ago, in the deep winter at the time of the Gods offering the land froze and with it came a great horde of Trollfolk. A horn sounded as the first burning torches began to light the horizon…