Packbat
Nonbinary mixed-race plural system of the mid-Atlantic region of the US. Pronouns: she/her, they/.../themselves, ze/zir, xey/xem. Disabled and unemployed, making games in our spare time.
We love itch.io as a fan of personal and experimental art and stories and as a fan of small games in general. This is the place where we contribute our own.
Places else-Internet to find us:
- @packbat on Indiepocalypse.social Mastodon (creative side account for mostly tabletop roleplaying game - TTRPG - posting)
- thepackbats on ko-fi (creative blogging, mainly TTRPG-related - one of two places we posted our 200-word game series)
- Packbat on Patreon (ditto - the other and original place we posted the 200-word game series.)
Our physical games
A one-page sports movie RPG we made up to use in a blog post about game design.
A framework for fooling (and not fooling) NPCs in tabletop roleplaying games
a collection of 200 word analogue roleplaying games by the Packbats
A TTRPG podcast about designing and playing a new game every episode.
A competitive drawing guessing game for two players.
Our walking-sim-likes
A poking-about in a representation of a building full of books.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Our creative presentations
A guide for people who don't know toki pona but want toki pona names
A plea to the world about hardware requirements.
A piece of experimental music and meditation on what makes things interesting even when they take a long time.
Run in browser
Our visual and auditory artworks
A tense and exciting PICO-8 background music loop.
A set of toki pona custom emoji
Our puzzle games
A puzzle game about pointing arrows around in a cycle.
Puzzle
Play in browser
Our tech experiments
A platformer-like jam game about colors.
Solo RPG Book Club
Starting mid-May 2024, we kicked off a monthly game discussion hashtag on the fediverse, #SoloRPGbookclub. These are the games the bookclub has picked so far.
A storytelling game about breaking free of a time loop that has ensnared your Home.
A Solo Metroidvania Condensed RPG
A solo journaling game about a witch finding a home.
we hope you'll stay forever
A solo journaling game
these ones messed us up emotionally and we appreciate it
These are creative works that left us with a lot of feelings. If that's the point of art, these are very art.
Play in browser
Sometimes special people come into our lives for a brief time, and then they have to leave.
A Two Player Prompt Based RPG exploring a romantic relationship broken beyond repair.
A free night ride across Tokyo, searching for our home with the help of some stranger.
Visual Novel
Peace. Kids playing in mech wreckage. A ghost. One last journey to find a final resting place.