The creative journey behind Light RPG Coloring Books
This is where I share everything I'm learning as I build Coloring Worlds from scratch — the mechanics, the worlds, the art, the process, and all the beautiful chaos in between. Pull up a chair. Bring your colored pencils. Let's learn together.
📖 Start Learning ↓Coloring Worlds is a solo indie creative studio building a library of Light RPG Digital Coloring Books — interactive stories where the colors you choose secretly shape the ending.
"I'm retiring in a few years and I want to spend that time building magical worlds I genuinely love. This is that journey."
Everything I'm learning about building Light RPG Coloring Books — organized into structured modules you can follow along with!
What makes a Light RPG? How do hidden stat systems work? How do color choices map to stats and branching endings? Everything you need to understand the mechanics behind Coloring Worlds.
How to design a Color-Stat Map for your own coloring book. Which colors raise which stats? How do you make it feel emotionally right? Deep dive into all three Coloring Worlds maps.
How to write one story that branches into three satisfying endings. Structure, pacing, and the golden rule of branching narratives — every ending must feel like a reward.
A beginner's guide to Unity 2D specifically for coloring book games. Importing art, building the color picker UI, and implementing the stat tracking system from scratch.
How to use Leonardo AI to generate gorgeous coloring book line art. The exact prompts, settings, and techniques that work — and the ones that definitely don't!
Filing trade names, trademarks, copyright registration, pricing your digital products, and building a sustainable creative business as a solo indie creator.
Three unique worlds. Three different tones. One shared mechanic — where your colors write the story.
A gothic medieval fantasy. In the kingdom of Thornvale, a dragon stirs. Elara's color choices determine whether Varathos becomes destroyer, ally, or legend.
A romantic underwater adventure. Nerissa is torn between her glittering kingdom and the world above — while the ancient witch Morvaine threatens everything.
A whimsical forest comedy. Pip accidentally made Thistle the mouse very smart and very talkative. Three important customers arrive before sundown. Chaos ensues.
Every tool, every skill, every mistake — learned in real time. This is what it actually looks like to build an indie creative business as a beginner.
Generating gorgeous coloring book line art using AI image generation with the right prompts and settings.
Vectorizing AI art into clean SVG line art that can be colored by players in the final game.
Designing the page layouts, UI elements, and visual design system for the coloring book pages.
Building the actual interactive coloring game — color pickers, stat tracking, and branching endings.
Writing branching narratives where the same story leads to three completely different endings.
Trade names, trademarks, copyright, pricing, and building a sustainable creative business solo.