Joe Young
Joe Young is an award-winning analog games designer from Cincinnati, Ohio. His design experience includes contributing to and publishing the Black Folder, a limited run small games digest distributed at GenCon 2018, collaborating on “The Words and Deeds of the Chain of Tlachic”, a system-agnostic campaign frame Kickstarted during the first Zinequest, and contributing to various projects, including "Paper Arcade Volume 1", "Skirmish", and the upcoming "The Exquisite Corpse in Maggots' Keep".
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A System-Agnostic Adventure
A System-Agnostic Adventure
A Collection of System-Agnostic Adventures
A System-Agnostic Adventure
A tutorial for Wreck Divers
A collection of armies for Skirmish: Wallet Friendly Wargaming
A survival-horror journaling game
Lost socks, lost marketshare, and pick-up sticks
A game of personal and local exploration
Fight monsters with cards you can't see in a 2+ Player Trick-Taking Game.
Homicidal Horror in a National Park
Gather the Trusted. Dig the Pit. Embrace the Wolf.
A semicooperative song-writing icebreaker
A roleplaying pre-game for a group of adventurers
Something to do while you walk in the woods
A pervasive LARP for convention play
My Published Works
Project's I've contributed to that are published by a third party. Check them out!
Play as a colony of Little Blue Penguins trying to forage, breed and survive while the world throws what it can at you
A Unique Branching Narrative Delve Into The Ichor-Black Darkness Of Maggots' Keep
A wargame that uses things you already own for miniatures
A system agnostic OSR setting of dwarves and grit