Distant Star Games

About

Distant Star Games is the roleplaying game label of a single designer, Ewen Cluney, described on the site as a graduate student and freelance translator. The stated aim is to make games that are "fun and wacky" and reflect the designer's own interests, which in practice means anime- and manga-inspired titles, with "other things here and there." The best-known release is Thrash, a free anime fighting-game martial arts RPG, now at a 2.0 beta; the catalog also includes Mascot-tan, Halo: The Covenant War, and Hikikomori. The site notes that the author's offerings have all been free so far and that…