At the crossroads, a pile of broken water-rich rock marked the road west; the north road bore a sign marked ‘To New Askja.’ Those who could read went north. You journeyed west. West across the volcanic desert, past other grēners who already marked their claims with names like Lamia, Usha’s Hole and Lunar Landing. Your claim, illegally named after your lost love, proved barren. Without money, without food, without friends, without love, taking a job meant a chance at another claim and wealth and maybe love.

The job: Deliver a skinner to Oasis, the city of exile. An exile’s fresh start means your fresh start. To help you along your journey, someone in exile hired a mercenary, a scientist, a gambler, a frontiersman, a forgotten marshal and a native. Each of you have something to gain and something to lose. You’ll journey to Oasis together, apart or alone, and deliver the skinner or be consumed by the desert.

A Game for Game Chef 2010
Theme: Journey
Using: Skin, Desert, City

Free Download: Burial at Crossroads

I shot a picture after every move and combined them together into a little time lapse movie using Startrails. Enjoy.

How to Host a Dungeon Time Lapse.

Final Map:

1. Select a theme for your game and gather up players.
2. You have 140 characters to name, describe, pimp-out your character who is in-sync with the theme.
3. Person who suggested the game, describes the opening scene. Play begins.
4. RULE ONE: You cannot tweet again until two other people tweet. Your move must be contained in one tweet.

Opening Scene

1. Opening scene incorporates two or more characters, an area in-sync with theme. Something wrong and the ultimate goal.
2. Each player has their character do something to try and make scene right.
3. Can name and move other characters.
4. Can call characters not into scene into scene.
5. Every player whose character is in the scene tweets, at least, once.
6. Tweets continue until person who set the scene like the resolution provided by a player. Calls that player winner. Winner sets next scene.

Next Scene

1. Next scene incorporates characters from last plus one, an area in-sync with theme. Something wrong that moves to ultimate goal.
2. Follow set 2 to 6 above.

Final Scene

1. When person who suggested the game is named winner of scene, an attempt at a final scene is started.
2. Name how ultimate goal can be met.
3. Each player gets one tweet to resolve.
4. If person who suggested the game likes one, it is named as winner.
5. Else, play moves into new scene set by player selected by the game suggester.
6. This person will have a chance to set final scene next time selected to set scene.