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_.· BRAIN IN A JAR ·._

🧠 A "VIRTUAL PET" DICE GAME! 🫙

There was once an entire person attached to this brain. They loved, laughed, dreamed, made mistakes. They had favourite songs, people who missed them, plans for tomorrow. A whole messy, beautiful human life, all contained inside a warm squishy brain... Which is now in a jar... And it's getting hungry. 

BRAIN IN A JAR is a solo 'virtual pet' game. You have a pretend (or real!) Brain in a Jar that you have to feed, care for, and play with, to earn its love. Keep it alive and happy! Or don't? That's always an option.

Attached are the PDF rules for BRAIN IN A JAR, which can also be viewed online here: https://app.notion.com/p/techdweeb/Brain-in-a-jar-3bb2ac24975b8099afbff9bf63c6f9...

There are also 2 print-ready PDFS that can be folded into a zine style instruction booklet! (instructions for folding: https://www.42ndstreet.org.uk/media/etdlxppk/zine-guide-colour.jpg)

BrainInAJar_RULES.pdf - 8.5 x 11, can be printed and folded without any trimming needed

BrainInAJar_PLAYMAT.jpg - This is the playmat from the game, which you can print at any size you wish (if you don't want to use the booklet)

BrainInAJar_MINI.pdf - Trim along the dotted lines before making the booklet. This version can fit INSIDE a deck of playing cards (or use a card box with dice as a little kit)

BrainInAJar_REPORT.jpg - Fill this out upon brain expiry. It will be collected (don't ask when).

ENJOY! _TD

Published 1 day ago
StatusReleased
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
AuthorTechDweeb
TagsBrain Training, Horror, Real-Time, Singleplayer, Solo RPG, Virtual Pet, weird
ContentNo generative AI was used

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BrainInAJar_RULES.pdf 11 MB
BraininAJar_MINI.pdf 967 kB
BrainInAJar_PLAYMAT.jpg 622 kB
BrainInAJar_REPORT.jpg 410 kB

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This is incredible, I’ll be making brains in jars and giving them out along with this game booklet at my friend’s Halloween party this year! Some notes and criticism below, I’d love an update/response to address these:

  • The Awakened section has two typos: “nver” and “Torubled”.
  • I know the tiny booklet gives very little space to work with, but I feel that the Brain Fog mechanic could be a bit better explained in the rules. I had to re-read a few times and even re-watch your video to understand that clearing brain fog is only temporary for that day, and the permanent fog amount increases by one with each passing day.
  • A YouTube comment explained this before me, but going from 5 dice to 4 dice absolutely plummets your chances at successfully rolling two equal pairs. I think a simple solution that could be squeezed into the rules without much hassle would be halving the wait time to 30 minutes when your Brain is troubled, allowing for a decent chance to save your Brain from awakening but requiring some extra maintenance to do so. Then returning to the usual 1 hour wait time once it awakens, to make sure it doesn’t suffer too long.
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I didn't realize I needed an analog tamagotchi until now. I love this idea, and the art and layout are outstanding. I'm a little confused by the brain fog -- what dictactes the starting amount? ANd do you keep track of it with tokens on the brain? Maybe I'm missing that, but I read the rules a couple times and can't seem to find references to how it spawns, only how to reduce it.

Brain Fog starts at zero and permanently increases by one every day. Which means you have more and more fog to clear with each passing day, increasing the difficulty as time goes on. When your brain dies, you can just look at its final brain fog amount to see how many days you kept your brain alive.

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Ohhh, that makes total sense! Thanks for clarifying!

A PET BRAIN?! IN THIS ECONOMY?! 


Sorry Agumon, I got a new pet now.

I never knew I needed this. Thanks Dweeb!