Projects and Prospects
Game Publishing creates and develops social books and games, focusing on the three categories below, ttrpg, trivia and tabletop. Here is an overview of our current projects and products.
Heartstrings on Kickstarter
Campaign launched on Valentine’s Day!
Our publishing house is filled to the brim by people with great affection for and experience with pen and paper roleplaying games. For years we enjoyed them as players and GMs, and now we also create our own.
Tabletop Role-Playing Games
KVAD Role-Playing Game
Status:
Proofreading
Released, limited supply
Core Rulebook, Character Sheets, Skald Sheets, Map, Dice Set, T-shirt
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KVAD is an immersive tabletop role-playing game inspired by the famous Scandinavian Viking era. It employs an easy to understand dice system, through which the Skald (Game Master) can guide players in their quest for fame and glory. Their aim is to be remembered in perpetuity by composing a Kvad (hero song) via their deeds.
The Norwegian version of the game has already become a top seller, and we are expecting to launch a Kickstarter campaign for an English publication in early 2024.
TALE Role-Playing Game
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Released, Limited supply or Print on demand
Core Rulebook, Diploma Sets, Quest Packs, Map, Dice Set, Cup, T-shirt
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Written and conceived by an experienced player of more than 20 years, this well-structured rules bible offers a coherent to-the-point system, making every gaming session as pleasant and free-flowing as possible.
Although hugely entertaining and challenging for virtually any level of role playing, from casual to hardcore, entry level participants are especially catered for through step-by-step tutorials and easy-to-use templates.
The World of Tale is an open canvas to players and game masters. It has a loosely defined geography, a set of main deities, rules for cosmology and a short history. It is a medieval fantasy world where you are free to create your own climates, cultures and religions, using in-game forms and guides to spawn a new world.
The Quest Pack sold separately focuses on a small area in the middle of the map, mostly in the Varaes Forest Region, the Rancari Mountain Range and Roya's Marsh. With the ruleset, you can create your own content, quests and errands in Tale.
The game mechanics are inspired by PbtA games. The Gamemaster does not roll dice and has a set number of actions to perform to help the advancement of the story. The players take actions, and when the outcome is uncertain there are three possibilities: Skills, Qualities and Actions. Skills are unique to each character, Actions are basic - like Attack or Perception, Qualities are tests of a character's strength or focus.
The game mechanics are designed to take as little as possible time away from actual play.
DIM Role-Playing Game
Status:
Playtesting & developing
Core Rulebook, Scenario Book, Character Sheets, Entity Sheets, Map of Carcosa
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A hermetic journey of self-discovery, DIM places you in a strange world of gods and entities willing to lend you their powers in exchange for fealty. Instead of growing your character’s class you develop bonds with these entities, which in turn develop your character’s abilities. You are on a journey to go home from a place you never intended to end up.
The game mixes elements of ancient hermetic wisdom, Lovecraftian horror and the writer’s own experiences with neurodivergence to create an uneasy feeling of otherness.
Developed over many years as a way of creating a role-playing system where all types of conflict are as engaging as combat traditionally have been in pen and paper games. With mechanics created not as an open template, but as a way of tailoring gameplay to the game.
The game uses the Taler game mechanic ´Ascension Story Engine´ prototype.
Other Projects in Development
DIM has been developed using Taler, a set of methods for creating intertwined game mechanics and narrative, namely “World Creation Kit”, “Narrative Creation Kit” and “Ascension Story Engine”. To make sure that the game engine works on multiple genres and gameplay types, several prototypes have been created. Among them are ´CyberTale: An Electromagnetic Opera´.
If you have any new ideas for role-playing games, or if you have an IP to create games for, or have any questions at all, do not hesitate to contact us.
Knowledge is power, and much fun besides. Everyone at Game Publishing are absolutely mad about golden nuggets of info, using them to annihilate the competition at pub quizzes.
Trivia and Quiz Books
Video Game Trivia
Status:
Released, distributing
Products:
First Edition, Print on demand
Pong? Tetris? Elder Scrolls? Final Fantasy? FIFA? Consoles? Racing? Strategy Games?
How much do you know about video game history? About the famous games - and many of the obscure ones? Do you know more than your friends and family? Challenge them to a trivia bonanza about your favourite classic!
More than 2000 questions and hundreds of hours of geeky fun await!
We have also included some mini games, puzzles and quests! Everyone loves that!
Dive in - and enjoy!
Comic Book Trivia
Illustration image
Editing
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Products:
Print on demand
Comic books use to be the sole domain of geeky outsiders and misfits. Not anymore! With the popularity of huge franchises like Marvel’s Avengers and DC Comics’ Justice League soaring to unprecedented highs, comics is now the new cool.
This comprehensive quiz book provides a challenge for anyone, wether you are a seasoned geeky veteran, or a relative newcomer to the genre.
Enjoy!
Do you have a subject about which you know a lot? Do you want to make a Trivia book? Contact us! Let us know if you have any ideas, suggestions and more.
We are all about fun and games. Nothing says fun and games like an actual…game. Our tabletops actually include cards and books as well, but the endless fun nevertheless remains front and centre!
Tabletop Games
Heartstrings
Status:
Ready for campaign
Proofreading
Ready for campaign
Ready for campaign
This is a game for those who want to have a brief moment of romantic silliness with their friends, partners or strangers, imagining they could be sitting at a french restaurant, with a glass of red wine and heaps of medium-quality poetry to vow their intended.
Tonight is the night where the stars sparkle in your eyes, or something..
Actually, forget I said anything - more wine?
Kalas
Status:
Playtesting and developing
Proofreading
Proofreading
Have you ever had dinner with your parents, been at a picnic, a long haul coach ride and thought - ´this could be game-showier´? Maybe not, but now you will! Kalas is a team-based six-round card game that lets you have fun, start conversations, and test your knowledge of your teammates (and the world). It's a trivia game for people who aren’t THAT into trivia games.
Turn anywhere and anytime into a Kalas game show, and challenge yourself, your family and friends to find out who is best at solving low stakes tasks in a medium amount of time!