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Gaming Like It’s 1926: The Public Domain Game Jam<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\nRandy Lubin is a game designer who partners with Techdirt and The Copia Institute on many of our game-related projects, including our public domain game jam<\/a>. He’s also the developer of Story Synth<\/a>, a free and easy to use platform for building narrative games. Story Synth makes it easy for even inexperienced designers to quickly build a game, so it’s a perfect way to get involved in the jam<\/a>. We invited Randy to share some details on how the platform works and what you can do with it.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

\nWe\u2019re in the middle of our fourth annual public domain game jam: Gaming Like It\u2019s 1926<\/em><\/a>. If you\u2019re thinking about designing a game, Story Synth<\/a> is a free platform on which you can design a browser based game in under an hour, with no technical skill or prior experience needed. In this post, I\u2019ll give a quick overview of what Story Synth is and how to design a game with it.\n<\/p>\n

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\nWith Story Synth, you can design prompt-driven storytelling games by authoring the content in a Google Sheet and then uploading the sheet at storysynth.org<\/a>. The platform then automatically builds your game, complete with a homepage for your game that you can share online. The platform has live multiplayer: players in the same session will see the same prompts at the same time.\n<\/p>\n

\nStory Synth supports a wide variety of formats inspired by tabletop RPGs such as The Quiet Year and For the Queen. Other formats enable players to generate collections of random prompts and to explore a map of hexagons. You also have plenty of options to customize your game, from tweaking the visual appearance to adding on extensions such as dice rollers, editable lists, shared journals, and more. You can learn more about all of this in the Story Synth guide<\/a>, or the video tour<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n