Whoa, this is hell cool! It make me miss the fun I had with my uncle...
My uncle loved to spend LOTS of time drawing stuff like this and making games similar to this one (although less RPGey and more puzzley)
Sometimes he did it with whatever paint software was available on the machine.
I never understood why instead of becoming a artist (he draw really well) or a game designer (he loved to design games) he went to become a prosecutor...
Also, another fun variation my uncle taught me: make your maps with matches, and use paper balls as characters (or coins, or beans, whatever), with matches you can simulate doors, opening and closing them, and have a more freeform roleplay thing, like simulate for example a space ship, and then a accident, as a asteroid hit the ship, and you then throw a heavy coin in your matches and see as they make a hole on the thing, and then the players try to survive in the ship full of holes, broken walls and stuck doors.
By the way, my uncle is still alive, is that we don't have time anymore :/ (also living 600km apart does not help either)
My uncle loved to spend LOTS of time drawing stuff like this and making games similar to this one (although less RPGey and more puzzley)
Sometimes he did it with whatever paint software was available on the machine.
I never understood why instead of becoming a artist (he draw really well) or a game designer (he loved to design games) he went to become a prosecutor...
Also, another fun variation my uncle taught me: make your maps with matches, and use paper balls as characters (or coins, or beans, whatever), with matches you can simulate doors, opening and closing them, and have a more freeform roleplay thing, like simulate for example a space ship, and then a accident, as a asteroid hit the ship, and you then throw a heavy coin in your matches and see as they make a hole on the thing, and then the players try to survive in the ship full of holes, broken walls and stuck doors.
By the way, my uncle is still alive, is that we don't have time anymore :/ (also living 600km apart does not help either)