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What I'd love feedback on: did you file each conclusion because of the evidence, or did you guess? And where did you get stuck?

Project Forge is a short pixel detective game: you work three night shifts as the records auditor on an ark ship, pin evidence to a case board and file three conclusions. The game doesn't tell you whether you were right until the end.

https://gsmstudio.itch.io/project-forge

Free, desktop browser, 40-60 min, keyboard or gamepad, mouse on the board. Open beta until 30 November. The last card shows a completion code; the short feedback form (email optional) is linked on the page. Bug reports are very welcome.

Made with AI tools: story and most code by Claude, some features coded with DeepSeek and Cursor; backdrops, portraits and cover are AI images (Gemini). Nine languages (all but English machine-translated).

Name of System: original print-and-play advent game (not a hack or supplement)

Number of Players: 1-4, ages 8+

Approximate Session Length: about 10 minutes a night solo (up to ~25 with four players)

Testing Period: now until mid-December 2026

Other Details: There's one printed map. Each night you read one short rule and ink its symbol onto the map, so the board slowly "wakes up" over the month. Turns are roll two dice, pick one, do the space. Boss fights are one roll a turn, and nobody dies.

The first three nights are free: 5 single-sided sheets, full colour, US Letter and A4. You need 2 dice, a pencil and a pen; no cutting if you use a coin or a button as your marker. If it works for your table, the full 24 nights is US$4.99 on itch.

AI use, up front: pixel art generated with AI and edited in my own build software; rules drafted with AI tools and balance-checked with a 10,000-run simulator.

What I want to learn: which rule on the sheet confused you first, and could your kids follow the rules on their own?

How To Contact: reply here, or comment on the game page:
https://gsmstudio.itch.io/pixel-quest-first-three-nights