They send you to a forested Minnesota town to catch a serial necromancer. Hopefully you just do your job and don't get too involved.
Launching soon. Follow so you don't miss it:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/252728880/the-balsam-lake-unmurders
The crowdfunding pre-launch page for my journaling game The Balsam Lake Unmurders is now active to follow. It's a game where you're an agent sent to a forested Minnesota town to catch a serial necromancer. Check it out.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/252728880/the-balsam-lake-unmurders
You write your journaling game play...
The more money you spend on a new tabletop game (ttrpg or boardgame or journaling game) the harder you try and more likely you are to actually play it.
Assuming you're curious about journaling games, and you'd make time to play, what's the biggest thing holding you back?
Fellow USians. Not a great day. I'm trying to get a handle on my mood, and I would like to do something nice.
Well, I have about 15 copies of Inscapes, my zine about how imaginal worlds make us who we are that have a slight trimming issue where the back cover is about a millimeter or two shy of the page edge. They are otherwise perfectly readable. And I think it's a hopeful zine.
So if you would like to read it, and you're in the U.S., I will...
...called Miss Margerie. It's about having a conversation with a neighbor whose politics are opposite yours, but who can tell you the truth of things you're unsure of that happened in other games.
...reality dating shows are a voyeurism about hot people hooking up. Be With Me is about finding real human connection.
You can get a copy here:
https://sites.google.com/view/paulczege/flash-sale-be-with-me-by-paul-czege
There's another game in the book too. It's...
Be With Me is a journaling game about your time on a reality dating show like The Bachelor or The Bachelorette. You choose paint swatches from the hardware store to represent the prospective life partners you date on the show. You write journal entries eliminating down to your final two, write fantasy weekends with them, choose the one you want to marry, and write your proposal.
The secret of it is...
Inscapes is my recent sequel to The Ink That Bleeds. It's about the metaphysics of what happens when you play. It's about how the worlds you make when you play make you who you are outside the games. It's written just like The Ink That Bleeds, with examples from my own play.
You can read an interview with me about it here:
https://www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-reading-club/guest-interview-paul-czege/
You can get a copy here:
https://sites.google.com/view/czege-paul/how-to-buy-inscapes
...you the motives of your unconscious mind when you play. If you're curious about journaling games, I don't think you'll be disappointed with it. It's not like any other games writing you've read.
...say what they've done themselves. Truly powerful narratives, I think, are "I did this, and this is how it affected me."
So that's how I've done it with my journaling game/zines. None of the examples are contrived, not in the games and not in The Ink That Bleeds or Inscapes. They're all drawn from my own play. In The Ink That Bleeds I show you written immersion. I show you...
Good morning #FediBookFair
I've been so consumed by playing journaling games, and making and publishing them, and writing about them as zines.
The Ink That Bleeds is a how-to zine about playing them immersively. You can read an excerpt here at the Indie Game Reading Club Blog:
https://www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-reading-club/excerpt-the-ink-that-bleeds/
It's about a way of writing that aids immersion when you play.
You can get a copy here:
I send everything myself as stamped letter mail.
What if I made conceptually engaging journaling games as 5 x 7 cards? 
I think you'll like them:
https://sites.google.com/view/czege/vampyres-are-people-too-and-millennium-self
(Limited copies available)
If you missed the Kickstarter for Inscapes: How the Worlds We Make Make Us Who We Are, my fervent, provocative, practical, metaphysical zine about playing journaling games and the experience of immersion in imaginal worlds, I have mailed to backers and can now sell other copies:
https://sites.google.com/view/czege-paul/how-to-buy-inscapes
Inscapes: How the Worlds We Make Make Us Who We Are is now live on Kickstarter!
It's my fervent, provocative, practical, metaphysical sequel to The Ink That Bleeds, and I can't wait to get it into people's hands. Check. It. Out:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/252728880/inscapes-how-the-worlds-we-make-make-us-who-we-are
When your most brilliant imaginal friend (who you know in journaling games you've played) is doubting her own reality on some subconscious level, what does she do to restore her confidence in her existence?
If you play journaling games, how many have you played?
(Please boost to help get a wider response.)
I've been so consumed by journaling games the past two years. I've played dozens of them, and I wrote a zine about how immersion works, and bleed, and self-care, and why to write dialogue, and how to play them. It's called The Ink That Bleeds. If you know someone who might be curious about journaling games, I think it would be a great gift. Copies available here:
I also and designed and published two...
I'm conflicted about terminology related to journaling games.
I don't think "scene" is the right term for a unit of written stuff when playing, because it means specific things in drama and fiction, and journaling play isn't specifically about writing that satisfies the mechanical structures of story fiction. If I write an autobiography I'm not composing it from a collection of "scenes". It will include memories and beliefs and...
