The Time War has begun.
The public beta of Against Time and Death, my duet game of war, self-discovery, and connection across the multiverse, is now live. Link below! π
If you loved This Is How You Lose the Time War (and why wouldn't you?!), you're going to love this game.
@milnermaths Hey, thank you Guy! I appreciate this very much. It makes me immensely happy to hear you say that I've hit the trifecta of innovative, fun, and playable -- that feels like very high praise indeed! π
Head on over to the Against Time and Death pre-launch page and hit the button to be notified when the Kickstarter campaign begins.
You're a true virtuoso at manipulating the weave of the multiverse, and you're about to meet your match...
https://t.co/b6s568VDEw
Love This Is How You Lose the Time War?
Then you're also going to love Against Time and Death, a two-player #ttrpg about the forbidden relationship between two operatives on opposite sides of a multiversal time war.
Launching on Kickstarter in February 2025 -- link below!
I think you should be like @miramanga: read the excellent This Is How You Lose the Time War (seriously, you'll love it, it's brilliant), and then check out the game I wrote that aims to capture some of its fire!
(Thank you, Mira, and I'm glad you liked the book!)
Just finished wonderful read: the epic, epistolary This Is How You Lose the Time War by @maxgladstone & @tithenai
Thanks to @ickbat who recommended it AND is developing a game based on it too. Enjoy the beta version here: https://t.co/y0Wb6jQ3g3
See you in another strand!
@gilfer @BeckyAnnison @BlackArmada1 Oh goodness! Thank you -- I'm so glad you liked it! It was so much fun to play.
(Just quietly, I'm two exchanges into another playtest, and without wanting to jinx it, I think something great might be happening again. There might be something to this little game!)
This is an opportunity show what your faction believes, but itβs also an invitation to your rival to twist it, break it, remake it.
What my rival has done here is frame a scene so lovely that I donβt *want* to break it.
In other words, theyβve absolutely nailed the brief.
The default action in Against Time and Death β a game about two operatives on opposite sides of an epic time war β is to frame a scene in a strand of the multiverse that favours your factionβs ideology.
Your rival will then take action to subvert that strand to *their* ideology.
I playtest (my own designs and others) and I play on @BArmadaTales, but I also play ttrpgs with my dear friends just for the fun of doing it. Weβre doing it tomorrow night, as it happens.
This has benefits for my game design, obvs, but the main reason I do it is for my heart.
if all you do is playtest ttrpgs and/or stream playing ttrpgs, i strongly deeply passionately encourage you to take some of the people you trust most and gather together and play for the sake of playing for a bit
And if a game about the relationship between two operatives on opposite sides of an epic time war sounds like your jam, Against Time and Death is currently in playtest!
You can pick the playtest draft up here, along with all future PDF updates:
https://t.co/vPSOKU84QQ
So @theloneamigo has launched a game of Against Time and Death with all of twitter -- feels appropriate for a game about a war for all of time and space!
Follow along to see where the strands of time take us...
At the sharp end of the multiverse, only two futures remain.
They have strangled all other competitors in their cradles, or weaved them into their webs.
Their agents climb up and down the strands of reality, seeking the final victory they both crave.
This is the Time War.