Here you'll find items that otherwise might be (or were previously) removed from the site, but are worth guilting myself over not giving them enough love. They're probably mostly still getting at least incidental attention in the form of tweaks or occasional writing, but while they're fully-formed ideas, there's only so much headspace to dedicate and they're sipping coffee in the corner bistro table of my mind while everything else parties on the floor.
Join a young boy named Lutie and his sidekick White on an adventure of magical mayhem! With a dream of being one of the cool kids, Lutie decides to become a wizard and is tasked by a light from the sky to fulfill a prophesy. Lutie must brave (loosely speaking) several old dungeons full of traps and enemies to find magical crosses stolen by wizards of old and return them to their rightful places to begin purifying the world's stale magical energies!
Learn and equip multiple spells at a time to burn, zap, freeze, and sheep your way through the dangers that lie before you!
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Remember the silver reflective screen and four grays? How about the green? Ever feel Indiglo® was a classy lighting solution that was never given a chance worldwide? Same here! Ghost in the Machine is a love letter to days when handhelds were younger!
Ghost in the Machine is done in various palettes to simulate the look you grew up with and remember most fondly, or the one you wish you'd had. The game itself is like nothing those handhelds ever saw, with a complex story and systems, optional characters and content, and other hallmarks of what would have been on a console at the time. The stylings may still be retro, but they're not your gray brick's!
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Guiding Lights is the cover name for several stories taking place in the same universe.
Guiding Lights: Tamer is an offer to fans of true stealth games. Feng Jin is thrust into a new world at the rebellious age of fifteen and has to take care of himself in a world where energy is an economy and his has been stolen from him. Feng is out to steal it back!
Using a unique Chromomancy system, Feng must sneak, hide, and steal his way through the Dark World, making unlikely allies along the way and learning how to live on the streets of a concrete jungle where the rules are different from home. Hiding in the shadows at night and blending in during the day, Feng will learn what it takes to survive, but also what it takes to live with himself.
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Thomas suffers a curse from an ill-fated bid for additional power: so long as he wears his blue shell ring, he will live half in the frozen, unfinished World of Winter. However, should he ever take his ring off, even his original Power of Blades will be stolen from him. With the exiled ruler-by-default of the World of Winter trying to make his way back to Earth, he needs that, and all the help he can get.
Even if he'd like to strangle them sometimes.
Guiding Lights: Winter takes place during the same timeframe as its sister project and shares many details. Between day, night, the phases of the moon, and other concerns, Thomas must navigate two disparate worlds and the intricacies of dealing with people after having become embittered by his own situation and distanced from others by his questionable humanity. A goofy class clown and popular gymnast seem like unlikely allies, but with their Power of Shields and the Power of Rings to complement his own, other options are scarce.
But the real question is: will any of them be friends after this is over?
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Follow Jet on his adventure in his newfound magic! Discover commands by typing in four-letter words and build command chains out of command orbs to create complex and even logic-based actions!
The Power of Commands tells the tale of a teen with the power to command anything to do anything, so long as the command word fits into four letters and the action applies. Sent out to attend magical classes at the capitol against his desires to take up work in technology, his life gets even more complicated in true RPG fashion!
Driven by a deep story, advanced systems, and a colorful cast, The Power of Commands will keep you playing without the need for fancy graphics!
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