Jesse Burneko
A professional game developer living in Southern California. I make small role-playing games with gothic and psychological themes.
"We know what it is to play a game... That's so rare. ...[P]eople brought together ... having the courage and the talents to make of life a continuing charade of bright fancy. Happy invention. To face out its emptiness and its terrors by playing. By just, playing." --Sleuth, 1972
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Complete Games
A Storytelling Card Game
Expansions For Other Games
A Cybergothic Setting for The Sprawl
Treatises On Play
An Alternative To Clue-based Scenario Design.
The Dungeon as a Narrative Framework and Encounters as Moral Puzzles
Scenarios
A Dungeons & Dilemmas Adventure
The Un-Store (Played)
A curated collection of games by other designers.
A TTRPG of Myth, Mystery and Crime Set in the 19th Century Rural British Isles
A tabletop RPG of a lone wanderer in a strange, melancholy place.
A Film Noir Tabletop RPG
A tabletop horror RPG about mortality and growth, set in an uncanny, creature-infested version of 1890s Louisiana.
Personal Horror Roleplaying game.
A strange city. A vicious crime. One chance to find the answers.
a meditative map-drawing game for 1-6 players
The Un-Store (Play Anticipated)
A curated collection of games I would like to play.
Gothic Horror in Post-apocalyptic New Orleans
A japanese horror ttrpg inspired by world of horror and itou junji.
A game about exploring dark, dangerous dreamscapes
A narrative tabletop game of murder and justice.
A roleplaying game of melancholy horror
Raiding an evil castle across generations.
Robert E. Howard meets the Brothers Grimm!