multilingual wikipedia

I keep getting into super obscure subjects with very little information available on them in English, BUT wikipedia+google translate are valuable tools together

Example: the Demon King Chronicle article

This gets me:

• the untranslated name and nickname of the game, which opens up new means of research
• A link to the official website, which my introduction to the game did not have
• Context from both author statements and from reviewers
• AND a link to additional articles on a game that was influential on it but remain untranslated

On one level this feels kinda basic but it's still really exciting to me, this is my first time encountering extensive information on Histoire at all

Froofs hours

The Far Roofs is now out on Itch (digital) and DTRPG (digital+Print on Demand)

I really really want this game to succeed.

Maybe it's because i've successfully dived down the Jenna Moran rabbit hole this year, maybe it's because I'm running a campaign of it, maybe it's because I'm just that charmed by it's mechanics, idk.

I'm thinking of how Chuubo's got a lightning-in-a-bottle sustained community. there's a homestuck hack for it. there's like, a mini-canon of fan comics. That's really really good for an indie rpg.

Far Roofs has a lot of overlap with Chuubo's but there's enough differences that it might have a fundamentally different appeal? By which I mean, I don't know if that Chuubo's fandom is going to now be a Chuubo's+Froofs fandom. It's not as player-driven, it's a slightly more traditional fantasy, it has enough props that it's tricky to play online (I'm making it work tho).

However: this is a very very good game, in some ways created to be a more accessible alternative to Chuubo's, and I want people to give it a chance. I've made a tool to make it easier to play online. I'm considering homebrewing for it to spark a third-party scene of some kind. that's not normal for me. I don't do that.

2019+ seems to be drawing to a close. I don't know what comes next. bluesky i guess. I don't know what social media infrastructure would support a Far Roofs community (unless you all on DW decide to hop on that would be rad actually).

but i want to make it easier somehow