A survival video game and a lightweight tabletop RPG sharing one world — Fuzzies defending their village from crashed aliens. Grown from drawings I made as a kid, 3D modelled in Blender, and then designed into a video game in Unreal Engine.
The Fuzzies were minding their own business until something fell out of the sky. Now aliens spill from a wreck in the north, and the only thing standing in their way to build a new home is a handful of fuzzy creatures who refuse to run.
Underneath the cute creatures is an older, darker myth — a lid that should have stayed shut, a stolen spark, the price of reaching too far. The infestation reads it back to you on the ground itself: blue, carnivorous plants creeping outward from the crash site, swallowing the map one tile at a time.
The same story, told in whatever medium you've got in front of you — a controller, a fistful of dice, or a classroom of kids who've never rolled initiative before.
A third-person survival game built in Unreal Engine. Defend the village, gather, craft, and hold the line as the aliens push in.
A rules-light system that fits in a backpack. Simple stats, one coin, a few dice, and characters who grow into who you imagine yourself being.
A whole adventure that fits in a single class period. Built so a room of 40 students can build a world together and reach a real ending before the bell.
How can a video game and a dice game both be Fuzzy World? Two things always stay the same — and everything else is free to be different.
Who the Fuzzies are, what fell from the sky, the old myth underneath it all. None of that changes no matter how you're playing — it's the heart of the whole thing.
The pressure that builds as the aliens close in. Losing a moment and watching the story bend instead of ending. Friends you earn rather than start with. That's what makes it feel like Fuzzy World.
A controller and a handful of dice work in completely different ways, and that's fine. Each version can play however suits it best, as long as the world and the feeling come through.
No grand reveal — just the work, in order, as it happens. Some of it shipped, some of it's on the anvil right now, and some is still just a line on a to-do list.
A ten-year-old's drawing: fuzzy creatures, a crashed spaceship, a little village worth protecting. Most impotantly, a mom who loved these creations so much that she held onto them until her son was well into adulthood. Now these illustrations are the inspirations for a video game, a TTRPG, and classroom game that teaches creativity and cooperation
I taught myself to sculpt on a computer using Blender so these little fuzzy creatures could become something real — a model you can turn around and look at from every side, straight off the childhood drawing.
The drawing turned into somewhere you can actually walk around — a first patch of village with ground under your feet and a sky overhead.
Now they can pick things up, carry them, and use what they find. It sounds small, but it's the moment it stopped being a diorama and started being a game.
I'm giving the aliens a mind of their own, so they wander, notice you, give chase — and grow bolder the longer a fight drags on. The danger builds on its own now, instead of waiting for you.
Building the version you play with friends, no computer required — one kind of coin to keep things simple, a few special moves, and a tiny shop for spending what you find between adventures.
A version a teacher can run in a single class — do-over tokens for when luck turns cruel, a final showdown the teacher plays, and a workshop I'm offering to schools.
