Ashton McAllan
Hi! I’m Ash and I’m a gameplay and narrative designer, streamer, gamemaster, and occasional code witch. I focus on systems that create stories, small and indie games, and supporting diverse and marginalized voices.
You can find my streaming content on Twitch & Youtube featuring:
- Roguelikes and other procgen games
- Game design sessions
- Tabletop Roleplaying Games
Digital Games:
Game Of Thrones: Tale Of Crows
An ethically designed narrative idle game.
– Gameplay & Narrative Designer Ruins
A massively multiplayer single player tabletop computer roleplaying game.
– Creator The Garden Embassy
An Exceptional Story for Fallen London.
– Writer Sunless Skies
A Gothic Horror CRPG of exploration and exquisite storytelling.
– Queer Representation Consultant & Writer Daylight
An Exceptional Story for Fallen London.
– Writer Amygdala
A disembodied head roguelike platformer.
– Team Lead Monadnock
A puzzle game about trust.
– Team Lead We Are Seeds
An ARG about growing a garden of hope together.
– Team Lead Broken Mountains
A sidescrolling-shooter-as-music-video-clip
– Solo Project Infinite Ski Run
An infinite scrolling ski game.
– Artist and Programmer ?❤️️?
A dating memory game made for Emojiam.
– Solo Project
My Roleplaying Games:
The Republic
A game about element bending social justice warriors.
– Designer Between Dreams
A game about reclaiming intimacy in the haunted everyday.
– Co-designer Goblin Heart
A game about being a group of goblins together.
– Co-designer In Which We Live And Breathe
A properly cyberpunk fantasy game.
– Designer Antiquarian Adventures
A treasure hunting TTRPG.
– Designer Oracle
A fortune telling roleplaying game.
– Designer Footprints
A game about leaving marks on places and things.
– Designer It’s Personal
A game about messy assassin relationships.
– Designer Goblins In A Trenchcoat
A game to be played on twitter.
– Designer Psycheball
A game about psychic battlesport in cyberspace.
– Designer
Mods for Digital Games:
Storyspirit
A Minecraft mod adding quests, dungeons, and minibosses.
-Developer Polearms for Caves Of Qud.
A mod adding a new weapon type and fighting style to Caves Of Qud.
– Developer Qud Kissing
Dating mechanics for Caves Of Qud.
– Developer
Other Roleplaying Game Work:
Necronomicon
A doomed future for Fate Of Cthulhu
– Writer Hack The Planet
Cyberpunk/Climatepunk Forged In The Dark
– Contributing Writer Tempered Legacy Magic Items steeped in story
– Contributing Writer Paris To Angkor A scenario for Cut To The Chase
– Writer Breakfast Cult Roll20 Sheets
Roll20 character sheets for Breakfast Cult
– Programmer/Designer 5e Variant Humans
A variant that makes humans in 5e interesting.
– Designer Traits for 5e
A manageable replacement for inspiration.
-Designer Item Drop 5e Treasure Tables
A way of generating treasure items with history.
– Designer Ashton Hand Clocks
Hand Drawn Clocks for AW/Blades in Roll20
– Artist Lonely Engines
An experimental nano-game about robots finding connection in surprising places.
– Programmer