First post on co-host! Woo! I thought I'd use it to talk about I'm working on at the moment.
My main design project right now is Untitled Space Investigation Game. This is a far future game at the border between SF and fantasy. You're state agents investigating threats to sapient life and freedom such as: demons, rogue AIs, cults, sorcerers, ancient technology, and so forth. You might play an ancient war machine, a space necromancer, a technarchologist, or a super spy. I'm playing in the space of emergent mystery mechanics such as those seen in Brindlewood Bay and Apocalypse Keys, but I'm iterating it and folding in DNA from Lovecraftesque, to try and being more of a procedural investigation feel. Also I'm grabbing a bunch of ideas from Forged In The Dark. Currently playtesting version 1!
Meanwhile I'm cooking up a bunch of smaller games, such as:
- Side quests, a little book full of inter-connected tables for generating interesting NPCs with fun problems that your characters might like to help with.
- Grimbark, where you play power armoured doggos defending their owner the immortal emperor from threats such as cars, postal workers and cats.
- VIIIIth, in which you are members of the ancient order that prevented the rise of the old god Henry VIII through the use of ritual marriage; 500 years later, you must stop his successor.
- The Working Dead, in which the dead have risen and been found fit to work by the Department of Work and Pensions. What awful jobs must you do to earn a crust?
Of course all this is alongside my ongoing work on Lovecraftesque 2e. That's been going pretty well, giving me space to work on the above. I've just signed off on the draft spec with Longpack Games, meaning they will be imminently producing a sample copy to send to me. And I finished a couple of weeks ago the draft virtual playroom, which is currently undergoing a little playtesting to ensure there's no issues with it.
Plus my usual work editing Black Armada Tales! We have a tentacular new season coming next week - watch out for that!
Edited to add: I should probably have said that we have a Patreon where we share our ongoing design work and new games. You can sign up to get regular games from 2-pagers to 30-page zines, as well as previews of the bigger stuff we're working on.
You can find our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/blackarmada