Alfred Valley

@alfredvalley

analog game maker and zine defiler (Lay On Hands, Thousand Empty Light, Cycles of the Eye, Brute Fort) - alfredvalley.itch.io

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Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· 4d

DIECHROME is my new @onepagerpgjam.bsky.social game. You play this entirely in your head and it's built around a grounding technique to distract yourself from intense situations. Includes a diceless randomiser and colour-based oracle

Digital mock up of both sides of Diechrome

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· 22d

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Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· Jul 9

I recommend the short film God Is Shy by Jocelyn Charles (2025). Creepy, beautifully hallucinogenic and fleeting. A breathtaking abyss

poster for God Is Shy, showing a cartoon face half submerged in dark water with staring eyes

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· Jul 8

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· Jul 7

it's finally happened

screenshot of youtube subscriber count for @alfredvalley: 10,000 subscribers

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· Jul 6

IT'S SLIMIN' TIME I've been making a proxy pauper deck

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· Jul 2

lord I've been cooking

A trio of proxied Magic the Gathering Slime Against Humanity cards. They are stark black and white and look gruesome

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· May 22

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· May 21

come join the chat now, music will start in a few minutes

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· May 14

Reminds me of Banemaster from 1995 which Chessex published. I've got a set, haven't worked out what to do with them yet!

scan of 4 Banemaster cards: Two Eye Stabber, Spike Toed Boots, Gutting Gauntlets, Skull Mace

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· May 14

Follow the tale of our young, unnamed narrator dealing with the torching of his village and the immediate, bloody aftermath (there's an accompanying lyrics zine)

Inner cover of accompanying zine for My Hand, the Sun, the Body and its Spoils

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· May 12

I'm in the process of making a nasty dungeon synth ep with this minimal setup and I'm having an absolute blast

Photo of musical gear on a bright blue table: Shure microphone, Yamaha PSS-50 keyboard, Soma Rumble of Ancient Times synth, Vestax GSM601 tape recorder

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· May 6

this is the sort of thing I make when I'm bored and have a piece of plasticine on my desk

Lo-fi graphic of a bat-like creature's head in pink and black with the words VOID BAT behind it in gold. Surrounding the subject are various stats in white: HP 8, MORALE 7, STONE SKIN -D4, FANGS D4

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· May 4

I've always wanted to make a game that uses "go first dice" mathsgear.co.uk/products/go-...

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· May 4

looking for some Holbein's The Ambassadors mf dice

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· May 1

Latest issue of @wyrdscience.bsky.social spotted at @goshcomics.bsky.social❗

Photo of Wyrd Science on a display shelf next to other comics / zines

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· Apr 25

Well look what's just arrived! Looking forward to playing this @goblinsandgardens.bsky.social

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· Apr 15

I almost exclusively use these A5 cardboard mailers. They can cope with a fair amount of zines in one go or I can fold them in such a way as to keep a single item snug. I wrap my items in tissue paper before packing them in.

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· Apr 7

try making something with your hands that you've never made before, it unlocks some esoteric pathway in your brain

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· Apr 2

Thinking about the 1996 game Chaos Overlords. Did anyone else play this? I never had a clue what I was doing but was totally captivated

Back page of Chaos Overlords (1996) game box

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· Mar 25

I've had this image open on my computer for ages and I don't know what to do with it so I'm putting it here

1500 etching by Hans Sebald Beham showing a scene with a couple kissing whilst a man throws up near them

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· Mar 10

This retriggers the Sunderstaff in the bottom right, destroying a 4-power peril in that row and letting me further reap the benefits by playing Warlux Pearl which gains power from destroyed cards

Photo of Brute Fort prototype cards in semi-transparent red sleeves

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· Mar 10

I've been playtesting Brute Fort a lot, trying to balance the 5 new bonus cards. For such a quick game it can have fantastic moments of tension like here where I'm losing badly (12 pts against me), but a well-placed Fleet-Foot Boots in the 11th hour completely turns the tide

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· Mar 6

wadmaxxing

a preview of a Brute Fort card called Hermit's Wad:
3: Destroy a card in your hand unless there is another consumable in the fort
2: Destroy a card in your hand unless there is another consumable in this column
1: Destroy a card in your hand unless there is another consumable on this floor

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· Mar 6

Here's another review

5 star itch.io review by King: Intense, dark, brooding, Powerful with a capital 'p' and fancy text flavor. If you like experimental synth music that's somehow as bright and charismatic as it is dark and etheral, you owe it to yourself to listen to this ghoul-slaying, sword-swinging, dungeon-crawling soundtrack.

It's funky, weird as hell, and utterly, magically unhinged. You'll stop what you're doing just to focus in on what twisted, inky beats you're hearing. Like seriously, I had to pause for several moments when Skeleton key started playing, and then blast the volume on the next track Ritual Whetsone.

And if nothing else, it's a delightful compliment to the game, that fills in any cracks or crevices with cosmic black ichor that'll keep you glued to your cards for days.

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· Mar 3

this is really the best feeling as a game designer (Brute Fort)

5 star itch.io.comment from WanderingEchidna: "Surprisingly content rich and heady gameplay in a svelte package. For having so few cards, many play patterns emerge, resulting in tense and close games as well as the occasional empowering engine to make you feel clever."

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· Feb 28

JUNJI ITO PINBALL is now over. Thank you to everyone who got involved. All contributions are still viewable here alfredvalley.itch.io/junji-ito-pi...

Here is a message I received today through the contact form on my site.

Everything has led to this moment.

Locking all the posts later today.

PLEASE take care.

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· Feb 27

Yeah it rules. Even my shoddy soldering skills didn't stop me from getting some results

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· Feb 23

Damn this game keeps surprising me itch.io/t/5995314/ju... *honk if you wish to be the junji ito pinball machine* (I might have to make some bumper stickers)

i find it sounds really peaceful and gross im imagining like im the machine but my brain and my eyes and mouth and face are strewn and stretched inside the machine and i can exist and communicate through sound effects and mechanical parts moving around to make the machine do noises and move and its genuinely it made me want to cry? i like teared up ive never felt like this not even when i realized i was a girl and while i do admit is similar it feels really different

ive never felt like anything really

Alfred Valley@alfredvalley· Feb 16

it was my friend's birthday last week so today on his lunch break I took him for a surprise old timey photo