In Development

Our In Development Page shows various projects that are currently in development.

Open Game Development Projects

Project 1: A retro text based adventure game: At the end of February 2025 as I was getting back to work on Project 1B, I was messing around with pixel art creation, and started feeling nostalgia towards some of the text adventure games I used to play as a kid in the mid to late 80s on my Commodore 128 and Amiga 500 (as an example, Zork and Journey, both by Infocom). Anyway, I got the idea to take my campaign setting mentioned below in Project 1B and the adventures I created, and see if I could make them into a text adventure game.

I’ve been brushing up on Python and Pygame programming skills, and working to create a text game engine. If this is something that might interest you… stay tuned. If all goes well, I would develop it here under the Asgard Gamewerks banner, but publish it under Upstairs Room Software.

Project 2: A Campaign Setting: As of 02/14/24 I have been getting heavily into outlining and writing content for publishing adventures for the TTRPG Shadowdark. My current plan is to convert and develop a previous fantasy campaign setting I created many years ago and write 3-4 Shadowdark adventures that take place in the setting. I am considering a Kickstarter campaign for the adventures.

Status 4/15/24: I have been working on converting one of my old fantasy settings for use as a Shadowdark. It is nearly complete in a first draft. I plan to share it here on the website for free in a simplified format. I may fix it up down the road and do an official publication of it at a later date.

I had also started a mini-campaign book that will have 3 adventures in it and background information on a town that is within the larger world setting. As of today the background town information and the funnel adventure for the book is 100% written.

Status 3/3/25: I took a couple months off, but right now this entire project is written. I am working on creating some art for the book, and have been trying to teach myself how to do most of it myself. It is not going very well! Lol… While I have a little talent making pixel art for retro video games, I think I am out of my element here and may have to hire somebody… or I just use pixel art.

Project 3: Puzzle Game Books (word search, Sudoku, and more): In March of 2025 I started creating and publishing print on demand word search and Sudoku books that are for sale on Amazon. They are published under Asgard Gamewerks, and can be found by clicking here.

The puzzle books will be an ongoing project, with new books being released frequently each month.