A.R. Connolly

Photography, Writing, & Game Development

Snapshots

Around the World

Front Seats & Backroads

Capture the Miles

Spokane, WA

Beauty Found

Experimental

Lab Work

Giving Back

Recently, I visited Art Salvage in Spokane, WA. When I left I had a dozen photo prints & an idea for a new project.Linked below (the paintbrush) is a gallery of free to download & use photographs that I’ve taken over the years. At launch, approx. forty shots are available, but more will come with future updates.These images were collecting dust on a digital shelf & instead of relegating them to deletion or disuse, I decided I wanted to give you all what Art Salvage gave me; a new art endeavor.Again, these are free, you can use them in whatever way you want, & more will be coming. All I ask is you create art & send it into the world.

Notebook

Small Sampling of Writing - Commissions Open

"Ordinary" - Flash Fiction Character Introduction(CW: Discussion of Gore, Death, & Murder)

"Addiction" - Flash Fiction(CW: Manipulation)

Backstories: Tragic & Otherwise - Flash Fiction Collection(Coming Soon)

Development Kit

One day, I offered to run a homebrew campaign of Dungeons & Dragons for my housemates. Fast-forward 8 years & the campaign is long over, but the world building never stopped.Veil Runners is a fantasy/sci-fi tabletop game that weaves together the cooperative storytelling present in games like Pathfinder and Masks with the customization and strategy found in wargaming titles such as Battletech and Trench Crusade. Similar to the XCOM series and Darkest Dungeon, it has been designed to tell an overarching narrative but in bite sized pieces. Life often requires players to come and go out of a game and Veil Runners aims to make that as easy as possible by treating it as inevitable.When the world was torn apart by its gods, all that remained was an ancient ship that had served as the planet's core. Now, the metal behemoth drifts through the debris field of devastated, broken islands known as the Veil.In Veil Runners, each player creates three characters. Each trio will work together to overcome challenges both in the field and at home. How will your team equip itself for a combat sortie? How does your crew navigate desperately low resources far from home? Will you follow the mission parameters given to you or break rank when under pressure? The apocalypse destroyed one world, now you must learn to live in a new one.At least, that's the basic idea. I have rules, world building, lore, etc. to begin testing, but the game is far from ready. Life requires money, and a tabletop game, especially in early development, doesn't pay bills. Until my photography work and delivery job can support me shifting development focus to the game, Veil Runners will remain in the background. If nothing else, I genuinely hope to have piqued your interest enough to follow the story of this project as it unfolds.

Veil Runners Lore Primer (Under Construction)

Veil Runners Playtest Rules
(Under Construction)

About

At a Glance:

  • Queer, disabled, photographer, writer, and game dev

  • Based out of Spokane, WA

  • I love weird art whether I'm making, sharing, or consuming it

  • If my work touches one person, in even the smallest way, I've done something good for the world

  • Please support your artists so they can keep creating

Nightstand - Currently Reading & Rereading:

  • Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

  • Riposte by Kat_2V

  • Horus Rising by Dan Abnett

  • Neferata by Josh Reynolds

Game Case - Currently Playing & Replaying:

  • Ravenswatch by Passtech Games

  • Fear & Hunger by Miro Haverinen

  • Kenshi by Lo-Fi Games

  • Heroes of Might and Magic III by New World Computing & Loki Entertainment

  • Risk of Rain 2 by Gearbox Software, Hopoo Games, & PlayEverywhere

Contact & Support

@Notes-By-Alyx

A.R.Connolly.Contact@Gmail

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