My Parents are Aliens - A One-page RPG About Vulnerability and Belonging
The Game:
In My Parents are Aliens, you play the children of freedom fighters in an interstellar war. You’re a slightly abnormal kid trying to live a normal life.
What I Like About this One:
I like the popularity-as-resolution mechanic and I might find other, more complex uses for it.
Was this just an excuse to draw some mediocre gender-swapped Steven Universe fanart? Mmmmmaaaaybe.
What I’d Do Differently Next Time
I’m not a huge fan of character creation elements that don’t tie into the mechanics of the game. I made the choice to have the stuff you’re good/bad at and the parents’ Dark Secret disconnected from the mechanics to give them some separation - weird alien shit gets mechanics, normal life is just life and it’s messy and doesn’t have clean separations between success and failure. Looking at it again, I don’t think that was the right choice - I think if I’m going to have you come up with character defining traits, those should have some sort of mechanical definition within the framework of the game.