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Blood Vessels Oct 26, 2022
Mint Day is HERE!

Hello everyone! Today is the day we’ve been looking forward to: It’s MINT DAY! Vampires will be available at 12 pm PST at https://bloodvessels.io/ , so make sure you’re ready to go. I wanted to touch on a few updates as the vampires get ready to roll out: How do I get that cool Vampire role? If you purchased a Vampire from our website https://bloodvessels.io/ make sure to connect your wallet to your Discord account. If you DON’T have the Vampire Role because you missed it in the purchase OR

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Blockchain Oct 17, 2022
Building a Bot for Your Discord Community — /skillcheck Overview

Building a community around a game is no small challenge. One thing that is sure to help, however, is building a bot for your Discord server. A bot enables you to offer unique features to your community, allowing them to interact with each other and your game. One feature we built for Blood Vessels was the ability for users to perform skill checks against their “vampires” (i.e. a collection of stats), like you’d see in many TTRPG’s. We’ll take a quick look at how we implement skill checks, which

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Art & Design Oct 05, 2022
Tell the Truth, Even When You’re Lying, Part 2.

Notes on Narrative Design by Dan Tabayoyon, Lead Narrative Designer, Blood Vessels, Kongregate. You can find Part 1 here! I’d argue with most narrative design, the task of creating a narrative seems simple enough on the surface: You have an idea. You work to build a world or setting creating characters to live in that world, and create reasons the player experience matches the mechanics you’re introducing to the player. You build lore and story that makes sense for the framework of the game. A

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Art & Design Sep 16, 2022
Tell the Truth, Even When You’re Lying, Part One.

Notes on Narrative Design by Dan Tabayoyon, Lead Narrative Designer of BLood Vessels, Kongregate. “All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and out of the grave.” ― Mike Carey, Lucifer, Vol. 11: Evensong I don’t know if anyone else has this problem, but when I go to the movies and the setting is someplace I’ve been to or know intimately, I’m immediately looking for landmarks, familiar places, streets I’ve stood on, pla

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