PUM Companion: Solo RPG and Storytelling App
A downloadable game for Windows and Linux
Play the Plot Unfolding Machine through an app, easier than ever!
The Plot Unfolding Machine is a game to play Role Playing Games by yourself, for storytelling and creative writing, and world building. Create stories on the fly using your own imagination, a plot structure to guide you, and a set of random prompts (oracles) that are going to give you an infinite source of ideas.
PUM Companion allows you to play and track such adventures digitally. Write notes and journal your game, roll dice, keep track of your characters and plot nodes, advance your plot through Scene Beats, ask the oracles, and bring your storytelling adventures with you all along, all in one place!
Possible ways to use PUM Companion:
- Creative and fiction writing
- Storytelling and journaling with dice
- Play tabletop RPGs by yourself
- World building and game preparation
- Get quick ideas and take notes in group games
The rulebook of the Plot Unfolded Machine is recommended to enjoy the most of this app, particularly If you never did this hobby before. The app is however self-explanatory and has some basic instructions inside to get you going.
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Multiple look and feel themes
Important
Purchase on itch.io is only for Windows and Linux. To get the iOS/MacOS or Google Play Store versions, look for the app in the corresponding mobile marketplaces.
Features
This App makes telling those stories very easy, allowing you to:
- Create and manage multiple and simultaneous games
- Guided step by step wizard to setup your adventures
- Keep track of your game features and plot nodes
- Finish your stories through a plot structure with the plot track
- Quickly get ideas and answers from the oracles with a click
- Manage your characters and speak on their behalf
- Keep track of events, dice rolls, and take your own notes
- Export your games to continue playing in another device
- Play using multiple Look and Feel themes
- Play in English, Spanish, or German (more languages will be supported)
- Play all three PUM-SUM-GUM in one place, with +50 oracles included!
- Many more features to come in the future as the app develops!
Feedback
As this is a very new app and an entire new project, your feedback is absolutely important, welcome, and appreciated. Do not hesitate to drop a comment with your thoughts, but much better, join us on Discord to exchange ideas!
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Technical & Safety Details
- Does NOT collect any user information
- Works fully locally and offline, exports save games as files
- Supports multiple screen sizes, larger screen allows expanded panels
- Please only download from trusted stores only
Credits
To my wife, Maria, for the UI design, and for the coding-master Jeremy, for the backend architecture.
Release Status
Status: Early access
- Windows: OK
- Linux: OK
- iOS Apple Store: OK
- MacOS Apple Store: OK
- Android Google Play: OK
- Windows Store: N/A
- Steam Store: N/A
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of 12.99€ EUR. You will get access to the following files:
Download demo
Development log
- PUM Companion 1.10.1 Update!4 days ago
- PUM Companion 1.10.0 Release!6 days ago
- PUM Companion 1.9.0 Release!25 days ago
- PUM Companion 1.8.2 Release!37 days ago
- Monthly PUM Event - Launch!44 days ago
- Monthly PUM Event - Mother of Origins Primal48 days ago
- PUM Companion 1.8.1 Release!49 days ago
- PUM Companion DEMO version now LIVE!54 days ago
Comments
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i will love it if this worked with a chat bot that learn of your previus "campaings" and giving a rol to the characters you made or import.
obviously, i know it can be done separately but its a lot of work.
Maybe one day! why not :)
It's an amazing app and worth any penny!
Jaensen is currentyl in a developing run :D
Yeeeees, I need to catch up with sleep :) :) Thank you!!
Hi, Jaensen, Congratulations! One question: will it be possible to sync the data between the desktop apps and the mobile apps, somehow? Antonio
Hello Antonio! Thanks for checking this out. Yes, the app has a "Save game to file" option, you can load this ".pum" file from any system where you have the app.
Good! Thank you.
You can use a tool like SyncThing to do this too
Thank you. I know that, but it forces me to be exporting and importing, and if I ever forget and resume with an unsynced game, then we have the trouble… 😅 Nothing important. I was just checking.
I bought it on itch.io but the MacOs release is only via the App Store at the moment will that change or should I also buy it in the App Store? (Then you should probably update the description above "itch.io version is ONLY for Windows, MacOS, Linux")
Hello, you are right, this was a recent change (for the better). Sorry for the inconvenience. Send me a message on Discord and we'll get it sorted out :) - Apple Store is one purchase for MacOS and iOS.
Thank you for resolving my issue so quickly :)
As a fan of your generators, I'm really jazzed to try this out!
I have a question/request: Is it practical to build an AArch64 version for Debian? I could probably run that in my Chromebook's Linux environment, which would be super cool.
Thanks so much!! I will add this point to the backlog, it would be great if it worked in chromebooks
Just a question: if you buy the itch.io version of the program, will you eventually receive a Steam Key for the future Steam version?
hey there! Thanks for checking this out. I still don't know, if Steam Store is viable, then I would potentially replace this version with Steam and give free keys. Plan B is Steam gets expensive then I would support both itch and steam versions in parallel under separate licenses.
Alright, I'll wait and see. I have two more questions: owning the original PUM is necessary to use this software and will the IOS version be released for free (with an hypotetical optional upgrade) or paid only?
Sure. 1. The Apps don't include all the information and explanation of the PUM pdf rules, but it is not necessary. 2. iOS version will be available in the Appple Store, so it will be a separate paid version from the one here in itch for the PC/Mac.
Great work Jeansen! I’ve only taken a quick look at it but I haven’t seen any bugs yet (Linux version). There are a few typos that I will highlight tonight on your Discord. Looking forward to dark mode as that’s my thing 😁. Honestly I didn’t think I would use it because I have a work flow I like but I’m impressed at how quickly you can set up a game from scratch!
Thank you crinklechips for your kind words! Happy to hear any feedback :) Would love to hear what is in your workflow and learn from each other, eventually this app can integrate and export stories outside too.
Love your work. I am tempted to buy this and try under Wine as I prefer my Linux system. How soon until the Linux version is released?
Hello! Super thanks, as fresh as new, things are coming up steady but slowly, some things probably rough on the edges at first. I am currently testing the Linux version, I expect it to be ready by tomorrow (testing on Ubuntu 22)
How do I install under Linux? The pum file is not recognized as an executable or batch file and it is not recognized by software installer.
Hello! Hopefully soon I will package this software in .deb and .rpm
For the time being, you would need to make pum binary file executable with chmod +x and then run it (double click or from terminal)
I had to upgrade to 22.04 from 20.04. Took a while but worth it File search in Nemo (my most used features) is significantly enhanced. And now I can use PUM Companion.
Oh! Glad to hear, 20.04 was certainly too old, also good for safety not to be so behind! I hope you like the app!!