AVAILABLE NOW / AI NOVEL EXPERIMENT
SLOP
An unedited AI novel. Oddities and all.
SLOP is an experiment in fully AI-generated fiction, published without human editorial revision of the story.
Available on Amazon ↗ARON PENCE / INDEPENDENT GAME DEVELOPER
I make games.
Dungeon Flop is the big one.
Recruit a party, command it in RTS mode or take direct control, and make your own dungeons, mobs, items, and powers. Dungeon Flop V3 is an ongoing experiment preparing for a free Steam release.
The Windows V3 build was submitted for Steam review on October 17. Public release is still pending approval. Rite of Assembly is our survival-horror demo, and Tall Folk is in development. Hexcrawl V2 is now a free caravan playtest in your browser. Hold Until Dawn is the most game-forward thing I’ve made. Every one of them is strange for a different reason.
THE FLAGSHIP PROJECTIN STEAM REVIEW
RTS / DIRECT CONTROL / CREATION TOOLS
Dungeon Flop
My grade: B
DUNGEON FLOP V3: IN STEAM REVIEWSLOP 1–3: AVAILABLE ON AMAZONFREE ASCII CARAVAN PLAYTESTWERE FOLK: COMING SOON
01 / GAMES
Games to play.
Worlds in progress.
Playable builds, experiments, and worlds in development. Grades are my personal assessment of each project.
NEW / ALIEN SURVIVALThe Meat Learns
My grade: C
Start as a tiny worm. Stalk the crew, eat, and evolve into a monster across three procedural space-station decks. Play solo or join player-hosted multiplayer.
PLAY FREE / BROWSER + WINDOWS
NEW / ATMOSPHERIC HORRORConcrete Lung
My grade: B+
The next safe breath is somewhere in the 'FOG'. Connect to air stations, watch your O2 reserve, and document an anomaly in this first-person hazmat exploration prototype.
EXPLORE THE PROTOTYPE ON ITCH.IO
NEW / FREE BROWSER TACTICSPush Comes to Shove
My grade: D-
Tiny heroes. Big shoves. Claim the hill, push monsters into hazards, and knock them off cliffs in this small personal game-jam tactics game.
PLAY FREE IN YOUR BROWSER
NEW DEMO / SURVIVAL HORRORRite of Assembly
My grade: B
Build a body from the dead. Place an eye to watch from cover, lend a hand to a trap, and use stolen organs to solve an occult dungeon.
EXPLORE THE DEMO ON ITCH.IO
CURRENTLY BUILDING / KOBOLD CO-OPTall Folk
My grade: D+
Possess a kobold, climb through a giant human world, and burgle a future for your clan.
ACTIVE BESIDE DUNGEON FLOP
SECOND-MOST DEVELOPED / WINDOWSHold Until Dawn
My grade: C+
An infinite roguelike wave defense with map encounters, relationships, anti-heroes, and dawn buffs.
THE MOST GAME-FORWARD ONE
HEXCRAWL V2 / FREE BROWSER PLAYTESTHexcrawl V2
My grade: C+
Find work, prepare your caravan, and follow a journey through changing weather. Your crew, supplies, and choices shape what happens along the road.
PLAY NOW / DESKTOP BROWSERExplore the games and my full report card ↗ · Original Wagon Crawl ↗
02 / SYMBOLIC AI & DEVELOPER TOOLS
An approach to AI.
Inspectable decisions.
Tools for building behavior.
C# / UNITY 6
KEYS. LOCKS. EXECUTABLES.
KEYS. LOCKS. EXECUTABLES.
SYMBOLIC AI TOOLKIT / AVAILABLE NOW
KLEP V2.0
My grade: A
Developer toolkit · not a game.
Decisions you can inspect.
A deterministic, symbolic approach to AI, available as a toolkit for C# and Unity 6. Describe facts, test conditions, choose actions, and trace why a decision happened.
- 01 / FACTSWhat is true?
- 02 / CONDITIONSWhat is allowed?
- 03 / ACTIONSWhat happens?
03 / BOOKS & THE SLOP EXPERIMENT
Games in progress.
Books on the shelf.
AVAILABLE NOW / SLOP SERIES
SLOP 2: Sloppy Seconds
A second helping.
The second volume in the SLOP experiment. By Aron Pence and Astra (Medium).
Available on Amazon ↗
AVAILABLE NOW / SLOP SERIES
SLOP 3: Ménage à Slop
A third helping.
The third volume in the SLOP AI fiction experiment. By Aron Pence and Astra (Medium).
Available on Amazon ↗
COMING SOON / FANTASY WESTERN
Were Folk
A small gunman. A very strange West.
A darkly comic fantasy Western about a wanted gunman hiding as a mouse among the performers of a travelling show. By Aron Pence.
Coming soon.
ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE NOIR
Common Folk
They take his thumbs Tuesday.
Yuven has until Tuesday to recover the Don’s stolen scepter. Frank Ernest has until Tuesday to help him. Frank is a detective. He’s also a drunk. When an old friend arrives at his office with his thumbs on the line, he agrees to look. The rain keeps falling. Tuesday keeps getting closer.
Explore the book ↗
RECENT NOVEL
Fluid Folk
The tests are failing. The camps are filling.
A darkly comic industrial fantasy about identity, bureaucracy, and the stubborn business of staying alive.
Explore the book ↗
RECENT NOVEL
Dead Folk
In the Dead Territories, dying rarely settles anything.
A ghost, an urn, a mummy, and a Hunter make their way to the Great Summoning. Some want another chance. Others want answers.
Explore the book ↗ALSO ON THE SHELF
04 / THE TABLETOP SYSTEM
4d4 is in active playtest.
Five playtest books are free.
My grade: B+
Learn the core game, build characters and abilities, grab zero-prep Scenes, or play the complete Space Miners 4Cast. All five playtest books are free, and the open SRD gives creators a foundation for their own compatible work.
Explore 4d4, five free playtest books & the open SRD ↗
THE TABLETOP SYSTEMFOLLOW THE WORK, PLAY A BUILD, OR SAY HELLO.
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