Time for More Heart and Fur

Hello. C J here. We’re wrapping up Pride Week here in Kingston and the Islands Ontario with the actual parade and arts market later today. This reminds me so much of a furry convention that I’m having to double check internally what city I’m in. This worked out well to get me the week off I needed from game design after finishing like everything enough to playtest. I’m looking for playtest teams starting this next few weeks and I’ll be relying on Facebook furry groups and their chats to do so.

So next. Food of the World is still being researched and I’m still working on animating some of the recipes as videos. Those videos will be here and samples will be on Facebook. The Quantum Starter Set is being worked on and after that Quantum will move onto Lands of Creation. The Starter Set contains enough to play the game but Lands of Creation will vastly expand what it is capable of. Food of the World will be presented as recipes on cards and the first batch will be part of this Expansion.

This is not a very large workload but it involves a lot of planning. Video game design is mostly the same for now, as is Facebook marketing. Both are going well. Time to start adding things to the to do list. I’m also working on Heart and Fur Modern as well. This is a modern day themed Heart and Fur book that is an expansion of the core rules. This one will be a team effort. The original Heart and Fur was made with a vast team of artists, volunteer testers and fans all across the internet.

I’m looking to recreate this model with Heart and Fur Modern. I’m going to start hanging out in some of the Facebook furry group chat groups and see what the Facebook community want out of my game. I’m open to just about anything so long as it fits the game’s themes of social narrative and non violent conflict resolution. The game has no set setting, no continuity rules and no actual combat. Here are some of my ideas so far.

Modular modern day character professions and backgrounds to make character creation easier. These might come with packages of character personalities and romantic preferences as well.

A module about running a campaign set inside of a cafe as its employees.

Modern day technology or science themed races like electric dragons, copper wolves and scientist rodents.

These ideas will rapidly be made into free samples so people can keep track of the game development in real time. These are my next project after my recovery time from Pride Week. I’m also adding ten more of these books to the production line, one for each of the ten biome types in Lands of Creation. Lands of Creation divides real life food, culture and history into categories by the climate it happened in. I want social RPG and slice of life gameplay in these ten categories. More soon.

C J Mcpherson

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