JenbalosWorkshop
I am an illustrator, comic artist, graphic designer, & writer who is now also an amateur game designer. Because why do just one thing when you can do more : D
For the You Cannot Play This TTRPG Jam
Small zine about some heroes of civil rights you may not have heard of
For Small Speculative Fiction Write Jam
Art game for the Gaming Like It's 1930 Jam
A horse themed flash fiction prompter
For the Bookmark Jam 2025
Silent Hill inspired game that uses Tarot
For TTRPG and/or other purposes!
Made for One Page RPG Jam 2025
For the Pompous Trash Jam 2025
When Pokemon TCG meets philosophers (or one of them) of history for Imaginary Cards Jam
Dicey brawl against river pirates as inspired by old timey cartoons!
An art prompt game about traveling through dreams
The original, two sided version of this One Page Derelict Jam game!
In which a party in space went way wild
by Jenni Soramo
Games I need to try later
It's time for the Magical Girl team Sequinox to take down Malus!
Adventure
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People see me as a miserable thing, stuck in the world of my own creation. I pity them.
Adventure
Translate terms to untangle the history of a strange kingdom
Puzzle
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Recruit eccentric Knights, assign quests and balance egos whilst carving out your kingdom's destiny.
Visual Novel
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CAUTION: Escape from this supervillain at your own risk...
Visual Novel
Search through an old archive for clues to bizarre and strange events.
Puzzle
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Wake up, it's time to play!
A Quake engine based third person platformer with some high-octane gunplay action!
Adventure
Tyrants keep the city in a chokehold. They grow fat by grinding everyone else's soul into profit. ✊ENOUGH!
Card Game
A survival deck-building game where you lead a resistance cell against an authoritarian regime.
Card Game
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Step into the shoes of budding detective, Cleo, and solve three challenging cases.
Adventure
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Zines, books, comics, and everything inbetween
Making games was their dream.
A collection of 150 horror-themed haiku poems.
A short poem about the emotional expenditure of energy and taking rest when it's needed.
Giant robot yuri space opera. In verse.
a manifesto for the NEW and the NOW
A manifesto for one-page role-playing games
Sarjisessee mietteistäni aromanttisuudesta, aseksuaalisuudesta ja yksin elämisestä
Collection of illustrated studies of Japanese restaurant chain uniforms from the 80s and 90s
Anachronistic Cultural Reporting in the ??th Century
A Cucumber Quest minicomic
A How-To Zine about Tabletop RPG Design
Writings from a residency
An Affinity Publisher and InDesign template for creating a classic mini zine with 1 sheet of paper
An Affinity and InDesign template for creating a 4-page Fold-Over Zine
An 8-page pocket-sized self-reflection, journaling zine.
A zine about zines and how to make them!
A unabashedly colorful 8 page zine about embracing my girlness and love of cute stuff
Go forth and make zines!
Try to make the Romanov's lineage survive!
free minizine - the internet doesn't belong to corperations, you have options
Fun browser games
Intercept - game about a signal interception station during the Cold War
Simulation
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Find 100 kittens hidden in massive ASCII art maps in 100 Hidden ASCII Cats, a unique text-based hidden-object game.
Puzzle
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Beat the devil at his own board game by cheating harder than he does.
Strategy
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Visual Novels, interactive fiction & more
A retro yuri visual novel featuring military girls.
Visual Novel
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A cozy romance visual novel - move to a small town to run your aunt’s antique store!
Visual Novel
Ren'Py addon: Automatic language list & Language-individualized build packages for translators
Quickly add bars at the top & bottom of your Ren'Py scene
A murder mystery novel for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.
Visual Novel
Automatically place Ren'Py Sprites with sensible spacing.
You’re an urban legend in a county full of them.
Interactive Fiction
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Spend a year with your close friend before... Well, before you'll start making the monster.
Visual Novel
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The dating sim where not everyone wants to date you.
Visual Novel
Write letters back and forth with your aging mama. A short visual novel about mother-daughter love, in duck form.
Visual Novel
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TTRPG....2!
Historiallinen roolipeli
Fictional Manual for a Gothic Horror RPG
A TTRPG about Mary Sues
A duet game of Journalists in an underground network working to preserve information and spread truth.
A solo TTRPG heavily inspired by Alan Wake and the Remedyverse.
Play as neighbourhood cats working together on an adventure.
Explore the stars, make planets from rocks, find a new home.
Magical Princesses making messy choices.
Dinner is in an hour, can your cat make it home in time?
"The world holds its breath in the quiet corners; your lens is the only thing listening."
An asymmetrical duet TTRPG about pursuit and purpose
A card-based game about growing and selling crops
A Micro Boss Battler in the Grimm World Universe
A solo journaling game about managing your pantry and cooking a week of meals for your loved one(s).
A City Generator for Tabletop RPGs
A card-drawing game for 1+ players. Create a world, a menace to threaten it, heroes to fight it, and then do battle.
Collaborative World-Building TTRPG For 3-7 Players
Four bookmarks, four adventures!
A tabletop RPG of sailing and discovery across a vibrant treetop sea
A solo journalling game
TTRPG and/or games related to them
You are monsters and have to take over the crew jobs on a cruise ship to remain undetected (Lasers & Feelings Hack)
A Witch is Hiding in the Village
The Splatter Horror RPG
A solarpunk pirate TTRPG
A solo journaling one-page rpg
a game about getting people fed
Lasers & Feelings hack for playing as Phantom Thieves of Hearts.
A Mecha L&F Hack for Lancer
The new cinematic TTRPG inspired by old school action figures and punching Nazis in the face.
A GM-less cooperative TTRPG about bears making noodles
A solo journaling game about sailing eldritch waters and pulling up odd items.
A storytelling cards-and-dice game for 1+ player
A two-page game of hazy truth and costly violence illuminated by LUMEN
Everyone has magic and everyone is in line for the throne in this curling-based ttrpg.
A storytelling cards-and-dice game for one player
A game of speculative biology
A solo TTRPG about asexuality
Divining Backstory for Fictional Worlds
A Solo or GM-agnostic tool for creating scenes using a six-sided die and a tarot deck
A solo-TTRPG about exploring a castle and finding lost memories
TTRPG PART 3
A musical sitcom horror game.
Seek the truth. Keep your cool. Transform and fight.
An investigation story game about monsters running a private detective agency together (Descended from the Queen).
A solo or duet survival horror game.
You were made to be perfect. A solo journaling game about bearing the weight of unrealistic expectations.
an artefact-making game of Where's Wally defacement and surveillance weird horror
A GM-Less or Solo Journalling RPG Adventure
A solo journaling RPG about a wanderer trying to return home - or find a new home.
A solo tarot game about discovering yourself after memory loss
A one-player ttrpg about the invincibility of your mecha anime PROTAGONIST, until fate claims them.
What is the cost of memory?
a two player game about a haunted mech
A mechanic sends a mecha and its pilot into the fray, again and again.
An RPG of memories and mecha love
Print & play solo & coop mecha combat
An epistolary game about steganography
A 48-word solo RPG system with adventures integrated
A fantasy pirate TTRPG
Rustbelt grit
A cozy tabletop roleplaying game of mystery, psychic prediction, community, and tea
A one-page adventure for Gloam
JenbalosWorkshop's Collection
come and listen to my songs
An easy and practical guide to narrative design for everyone from students to experienced professionals.
For when you've gotta roll an NPC interaction and also are mentally healthy
A dark Western poetry RPG for 1+
A quick-and-dirty InDesign tutorial to make a flexible book covers — easily exportable to many formats!
A checkpoint for painful game design
Turn the classic boardgames you've got into new games you'll love
A little kitty (or other pet) for your desktop to help out while you work or chill!
A short animation from the world of Vaults Of Vaarn
An SRD for one page solo TTRPGs.
An SRD for building TTRPGs full of self-expression, teamwork, and difficult choices.
A guide and templates for making your Itch pages look awesome.
A solo playlist building game about being a lone voice in the dark.
Sew fabulous garments, gather intel
