Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This video is divided into two parts. The first is an answer to why I wrote The Outer Darkness. The second part is a complete beginners overview to combat in the game, so that you can pick up and play today and start making stories (As well as finding out your own).

Outer Darkness is my latest game (available now for $5 for a limited time while initial revisions are still happening, then will be back up to $12.99! Or $11.99... I can't remember, but anyway this game is my attempt to share something that I have wanted to find a way to share Game form with this community for quite some time, which is a reflection on shadow work and more broadly the way that I see as the full embodiment of active imagination this video will not give you all the instructions, but I think I finished and felt like it was a good attempt at getting you in the mindset that I am looking for players to have not only that but it gives a full overview of the Core gameplay mechanic of combat which will help you to understand far more than combat… Get the info in this video down and it won't take much to learn the rest of the game make sure you pick it up now! drivethrurpg.com/en/product/535626/the-outer-darkness-solo-ttrpg?src=hottest_small&affiliate_id=3784436

I'm going to take about a week off of designing the game before finishing the final update, but I need to take a little break from it so that I can make a bunch of YouTube videos because I literally have been dreaming about making Youtube videos which of course always happens when I don't have time to make YouTube videos but I have lots of great games to talk about big ideas small ideas mostly just ideas like I've been thinking about how hot air balloons work recently I mean I know they work because you like put hot air in them but… is it just me or like is it unbelievable that humans are still doing that? You'd have to pay me $1 billion to float up in the air on a birthday balloon I mean my God. I won't be doing a video on that I just wanted to speak that out loud.

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