Introduction to my work!
Darling, you're a haunted house!
A one page solo journaling game about being a haunted house powered by William Lentz' Second Guess System.
Designed as a part of my final project for my masters degree on investigating indie communities, design philosophies and analysing solo roleplaying games through a lens of queer games studies.
Fun fact: You can watch a performance and playthrough of the game on the EUphoria Channel!
About Me!
Hiya, I'm Finley!I'm an aspiring narrative designer and games academic who has shifted gears to creating tabletop roleplaying games with a focus on crafting narrative experiences.I have a particular love for solo roleplaying games and I'm currently working on a few - you can find out more here!I'd love to work with others with passions for rich, diverse narratives, intriguing design and overall fun projects.If you wish to contact me regarding writing or design work my email is on this page or for ease: [email protected].
TTRPG Projects
I can't hide it - I love solo roleplaying games! I love the mix of design, communicating with the player, and writing encounters/prompts.Where this current list revolves around solo RPGs, I am open to working on any RPG project and look to expand my portfolio for the better throughout 2025 ✨To keep up with my personal works be sure to check out my itch.io page: finley-jinley.itch.io!
Darling You're a haunted house! - A solo game about being a haunted house!
You are the apocalypse (Demo) - You've ended the world. A solo mediation on ending the world played with tarot cards to process the rush of emotions that follow.
Red Skies - This is a solo game that will be as a part of the PocketQuest Funded GAST: Horror Zine Collection inspired by the video game DREDGE and maritime myths.
Academia overview
My background in games studies assures that a lot of my work is typically thoroughly researched around the topics of design theory, queer studies/queer games studies and communities in specific relation to indie games design (both digital and analog).
The embedded video is a digital presentation I gave about my introductory research into solo games, their creation and queer studies
I have also done a couple of other talks - I spoke with the American Librarian Association about what solo RPGs looked like and how to engage with them in a library setting (and a bit about game jams!)
I was also at Muppetmeet, a TTRPG industry knowledge-sharing and networking event held in partnership with Dragonmee which ran on the 1st December 2024 where I gave a talk on queer games design - here's my slides for that talk.