my life is an rpg · prototype hub

The reading room

A cozy character-relationship game, built world by world. The campaign you can read and play, the hub you browse, and the production office where each world's look is chosen.

The campaign
Kanto · Dear Kuya
cozy coming-home · the worked example
A corner at the turn of the millennium — sun and rain in the one light. He ghosted this street; he's back, and the kids he left are grown, and still holding on.
The hub
The Hub
browse the worlds
Pick a world, scrub its sky. The living ASCII Catalyst — drag to move through the weather, or let the day run.
open the hub →
The Sets
set · broken down · audition
The seven animated settings (sky · seascape · dome · ferry · hearth · street · train). Each opens its own page: the set stays on top, with broken down (element by element) and the styles that render it below.
browse the sets →
How it's made
The pipeline
how a campaign is born
Concept → Pilot → Story → Scenes → Prequel → Front Door. The spine the build walks, the gates that punctuate it, and where the set's style comes in.
walk the spine →
The card engine
scenes as cards
One engine, data-driven scenes — the Dear Kuya letter plays here; scenes with their own workbench (the storm) open from its tabs.
open the engine →
The storm · Robin & Edgar
bond scene · workbench
Play both presentations — ▶ press play, and the music tries to get in: its own pages, the knock that cuts it mid-word, the truck, the white card. Below: the three songs line by line, the 22-card map, the notes.
open the scene →
The grammar
the deck · search by what the scene needs · the rule tray
The card grammar as a searchable deck: every law a card in a horizontal carousel — its rule in a line, a live tap-able demo, one worked beat. Type an intent ("a sound gets louder", "time passes"), filter by family, ♥-pick per palette, and collect rules into a tray you can copy out — scenes unpack into the rules each of their cards uses.
read the rules →
Card achievements
Tadhana · Dear Kuya · Robin & Edgar — the prequel's events, playable
Three prequel events built in the full card craft — each catches a new player up and rewards a reader who was there. Tadhana is the flagship: the bakod at dusk, a vault over the fence, a week of teaching to Ang Huling El Bimbo, and one Tagalog word that bookends the whole thing — every element audition-picked, card by card.
tap through →

The canonical source is the vault (cozy-rpg-vault); these pages are the readable mirror.