Afour Games

@afour.games

Making tabletop games and content since 1998. Wargaming, Role-playing, rules, supplements, homebrew art and models. ‣ www.afour.games ‣ https://afour-games.itch.io 🠜 Buy things here! ‣ patreon.com/AFOUR ‣ cgtrader.com/designers/rich-pl

I feel like a real game author! someone paid money for a thing I made, and then lodged a complaint! (unable to open pdf) which I had to do 'customer service' for! Look at me everybody! I'm doing a customer service!🥰 (Also: thank you to anyone that downloads any of my games, paid or not.)

When I say I'm really struggling in the editing of The Last Walkers- It looks a lot like this [pic]. Each of the 14 'pages' contains multiple dozens of items to review. And without fail, editing one part means 5 other things screw up. I promise, this WILL get finished...

A OneNote file open with 14 pages of editorial to-do lists, hundreds of items that each need attending and that each rely on other elements of the game rules being written.

When writing rules for a table top RPG, how pedantic is too pedantic? How finely stipulated should the rules be while trying also to offer as much player agency as possible? The work on The Last Walkers revision is taking me forever!

Well that was a painful waste of a day, it turns out Kickstarter is NOT the right platform to find funding to get my game defragg.err onto Steam. I still need to raise cash though to get it done. I am dismayed and feeling a bit pooped.

Thanks to what I can only attribute as latent ADHD, I have done ANYTHING ELSE other than completing the editing of The Last Walkers. I've set up an entire Kickstarter, painted models, created assets and doomscrolled over three days. Only 1 section of the to-do list on the editorial is checked. 😵

I spent far too long today looking for weather icons or weather icon fonts, or SVG... I should have just done this 4 hours ago... If anyone wants some really crappy snowflake or sunshine icons - I'm setting these free as public domain art: #FreeArt #MadeByHuman #NoAI

Hand drawn snowflake weather icon, public domain.Hand drawn sunny weather icon, public domain.

For reasons known only to my brain, I have been undertaking some QoL updates to my stupid defrag game: afour.games/diskdefrag/ I have more important things to be doing, but, it is what it is... So if you have a few minutes to waste playing a nonsense game of computer nostalgia, have at it. #Retro

A screen capture of a game based on the old retro computing disk defrag process.

While I REALLY would love to host an Afour Games table or booth, I cannot afford such nice things. I'll settle for just doing what I normally do - stay at home and gaze longingly at the cool things happening all around. #TTS2026 #BoardGames #RPG #TTRPG

A heavily doctored version of the Tabletop Scotland poster about finding players, instead promoting the itch.io page of Afour Games
Tabletop Scotland@tabletopscot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Would you like to play a game? We have several submissions already on the Game Finder section of our GAME website. game.tabletopscotlan... Check them out, and if you're looking to play something else, add it! #TTS2026 #BoardGames #RPG #TTRPG

Image shows the Tabletop Scotland logo, with a Blue Meeple captioned by "Players Wanted"
Other text reads "Looking for players? Grab a sign from the games library! And check our sessions on game.tabletopscotland.co.uk"
Tabletop Scotland is at the Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh from the 4th to 6th September.

Feeling a little glum today: it will cost me £140 to renew my webhosting, I've made about £60 from my 'games sales'. I'm finding it very difficult to find a way to want to keep 'Afour games' going if its only sucking money from my pocket.

Good news (for me...) I'm done with the edit pass of The Last Walkers! I need to do a little more artwork, finish exactly 1 page of content and it's 'ready' to go! Hooray! It's only taken me about 2 months. All that work, and I doubt I'll even sell 1 more copy... But at least I did it. [1/2]

What's that you say? A new and overly minute detail that needs revision over the entirety of the three different rules documents... ? OH boy! ’ or ' I know you can all see the intense difference this will make. I shall now dedicate an hour of my life to this offence! </s> I hate editing...

I've now spent a solid week in the revisions of what was previously The Long Walk, now renamed as The Last Walkers. Painstakingly editing everything to the nth degree... For a game that has sold three copies and which I don't expect to sell any significant amount post the re-release.

I'd be mad to not tag this as my choice of Painted Mini of the Day! Waaaaaaaagh! #PMotD #Minipainting #WH40K #nerdlings Superb conversion work AND excellent colours so true to the cartoons of #Ghostbusters that I used to watch as a kid.

Apostate Makes@apostate-makes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Yeehaw, FINALLY had the time and spoons to finish up #miniaturepainting these Puppetswar #ghostbusters #orks. I'm satisfied with how they turned out and learned a lot about the comic style of painting.

When editing, it's best to use meaningful names for internal styles or layouts. Dong so means later editing can easily be interpreted. Which is why I take such care on things like this so I don't become confused by my own previous edits. 👀😅 #GamesDesign #Indie #TTRPG

A clip from my editing notes for the rework of my game: The Last Walkers. It shows the terrible internal style formats of "Goober-Table" and "DERPList" which need my attention.