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Frayed Knights Pilot Episode Now Available

[i]A dainty elvin warrior with an inferiority complex and a hot temper. A thrill-junky rogue who consider...

Author Jay Barnson Date 04/30/2008 (8:59 am) Comment 12 comments

Frayed Knights - The Interview!

I was just interviewed at RPGWatch about Frayed Knights, the indie RPG of high fantasy and low humor... [url=http://www.rpgwa...

Author Jay Barnson Date 03/28/2008 (11:25 pm) Comment 1 comments

The Future of Indie RPGs

The second "Indies of the Round Table" panel discussion is up, where the experts of indie RPG development speak up on matters of interest to RPG fans and developers. This month's question is, "What do...

Author Jay Barnson Date 03/17/2008 (4:34 pm) Comment 0 comments

Frayed Knights, Late Nights

Another heartwarming tale of development of Frayed Knights - the comedy-based indie fantasy RPG. With the This month has been a blur. A sleep-deprived, frantic blur. The "Pilot Episode" of Frayed...

Author Jay Barnson Date 02/27/2008 (9:14 pm) Comment 15 comments

Why Indie RPGs? Indies of the Round Table #1

I somehow managed to abuse my pretense at being plugged into the indie RPG scene (there's a scene?) and rope ten indie RPG developers together for a monthly Q&A called "Indies of the Round Table." The...

Author Jay Barnson Date 02/11/2008 (5:52 pm) Comment 4 comments

Frayed Knights: Beware the Priests of the Pus God!

http://www.frayedknights.com - the Comedy RPG - Continues Development. The dungeon is just about...

Author Jay Barnson Date 01/30/2008 (1:24 am) Comment 5 comments

Frayed Knights Development - Frayed Nerves!

[i]Dirk: So this is the temple of the goddess of disease? Benjamin: Nope, that's Neutoxis. This was the temple of Pokm...

Author Jay Barnson Date 12/31/2007 (8:32 am) Comment 2 comments

Indie RPG News Roundup - December 13th

Wow. I've neglected these for the past few weeks. Sorry. Crunch-mode in the day-job (which is also game de...

Author Jay Barnson Date 12/13/2007 (9:44 pm) Comment 2 comments

Frayed Knights: The Mid-Development Doldroms

Ah, gentle reader. Let me welcome you back to another installment of http://www.frayedknights.com Theater, wherein we again follow the rollicking adventures of ...

Author Jay Barnson Date 11/29/2007 (4:51 am) Comment 3 comments

Indie RPG News Roundups

What's going on in the world of indie computer RPGs? A lot! [url=http://www.rampantgames.com/blog...

Author Jay Barnson Date 11/16/2007 (6:38 pm) Comment 2 comments

Indie RPG News Roundup for November 2nd

Indie Computer RPGs: An Endangered Species, or simply maxed out on their stealth skills? You decide! This week: Two action RPGs, and three games of good ol' fashioned turn-based goodness! Dwarf For...

Author Jay Barnson Date 11/02/2007 (9:57 pm) Comment 1 comments

Frayed Knights: Entering Awkward Adolescence

My eldest daughter is becoming a teenager. She's hunching her shoulders and learning to say "Whatever!" and...

Author Jay Barnson Date 10/30/2007 (9:37 pm) Comment 5 comments

Indie RPG News!

I have been running a slightly-regular feature on indie RPG news for the last several months. What's coming down the pipe, what's been updated, and just general cool stuff about indie RPG titles. It's...

Author Jay Barnson Date 10/25/2007 (5:19 pm) Comment 10 comments

Frayed Knights RPG - Still A Bad Idea!

http:///www.frayedknights.com, the comedy-based RPG, continues in all...

Author Jay Barnson Date 09/29/2007 (10:20 pm) Comment 5 comments

Frayed Knights: Pretty (Funky) Pictures

Frayed Knights - the comedy RPG - is still deep in development. I've been concentrating on coding at this point (with hopes to have the subsystems all complete by November), but I have been get...

Author Jay Barnson Date 08/28/2007 (3:53 am) Comment 6 comments

Frayed Knights: Ripping The Guts Out

This month, the adventurers Chloe, Arianna, Dirk, and Benjamin spend the whole time trying to get through the first five mi...

Author Jay Barnson Date 07/31/2007 (6:43 am) Comment 7 comments

Frayed Knights - Failing to Give RPGs the Seriousness They Deserve

Chloe: EWW! Pus! I hate these things. Arianna: Waitaminute! That's PUS covering these monsters? Chloe: Worse. I think these are pus-golems, creatures magically built out of ...

Author Jay Barnson Date 06/29/2007 (6:41 pm) Comment 6 comments

Frayed Knights: Top-Down Development

Last month, I talked about how I would be publicly documenting my development on Frayed Knights. So far, it has been a successful experiment. [image align=right]http://www.rampantgames.com/...

Author Jay Barnson Date 05/28/2007 (6:01 pm) Comment 10 comments

Making an RPG --- In Public

Many moons ago, while shooting off my mouth on these very forums about how you didn't need a big budget and premium tools to make games, Tom Bampton called me on it and dared me to do just that - in a...

Author Jay Barnson Date 04/28/2007 (5:01 pm) Comment 8 comments

Interview with Indie RPG developer Jason Compton

It's http://www.rampantgames.com/blog/2007/04/beyond-gate-jason-compton-on-making-of.html again at Rampant Games! This isn't very Torque-related, but it is indie-related. Her...

Author Jay Barnson Date 04/16/2007 (5:07 pm) Comment 13 comments

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