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Paul Siegel

@paulmsiegel.com

Indie game dev, 25 yrs in the industry. Building Hexcrawl, a solo hex-crawl RPG that uses AI thoughtfully - real art first. Co-host of Wandering DMs (TTRPG podcast). Old-school D&D, solo play.

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Paul Siegel@paulmsiegel.com · 5d ago

Wrote an encounter where you stumble on two bands of goblins arguing with eachother. Creates a three-way fight, everyone hostile to everyone. Wasn't sure the combat system could handle it - it just worked. It's both pleasing and disarming when untested code works right out the gate. 😆

Paul Siegel@paulmsiegel.com · 6d ago

An NPC offered me a quest to defeat the Glimmerwings. There are no Glimmerwings. No such enemy exists. The game went looking for one anyway, found nothing, and fell over. Turns out if you let the story name the monster before the rules pick it from a list, you get monsters that don't exist. 🙄

Paul Siegel@paulmsiegel.com · 2w ago

Playing Hexcrawl with the backstory: "I carry a letter addressed to a woman named Elara." Started the game and there's now an Elara NPC in the world, and the letter is in my pack. Turning a sentence you wrote into a real thing on the map is exactly the kind of magic I'm after in this game. 😊

Paul Siegel@paulmsiegel.com · 2w ago

I set out to make a gritty pulp-fantasy hexcrawl. Then I bought a tileset from Penzilla because it had every single piece I needed, and it turned out to be adorable. Reader, I let the art win. It's a cozy game now and I'm not mad about it. penzilla.itch.io

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Paul Siegel@paulmsiegel.com · 2w ago

Spent the week making my own game less annoying to test. Gold lightning bolt in the corner turns on cheats — force an outcome, skip straight to the thing you actually want to look at. Turns out the player who needed quality-of-life features most was me. #screenshotsaturday

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Paul Siegel@paulmsiegel.com · 3w ago

Turning this account back on. Past projects I've posted about here: Fearful Ends, and Martha the AI dungeon master. Current one is Hexcrawl, a single-player hex RPG in the browser. Cozy art, a new adventure every time. I'll post what I make and what breaks.

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Paul Siegel@paulmsiegel.com · last yr.

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Paul Siegel@paulmsiegel.com · 2y ago

I'm considering spending more time here than FB. I think what I'll really miss from FB though is the events section. Partiful is pretty good for hosting, but sometimes I liked to just search for events based on time and location. Is there a service for that that's as good as FB?