I wrote a little about criticism today. idlecartulary.com/2025/09/25/w...

Finally in a mood to get back into some solo games! Playing these in the same morning is wild. Hard pivot from classical music to the Tenet OST

This was an incredible amount of fun! My feedback is that Sam is a devious puzzle master and everyone should tell them how awesome it was so we can do it again next year

This was an incredible amount of fun yesterday, thank you to everyone who participated! If you have any feedback, let me know - I might make another next year, so I'd love to hear your thoughts.

If you enjoy puzzles and indie TTRPGs, I highly recommend trying this out, ideally with some like-minded folks. It was a blast!

Had a blast jumping into this intermittently throughout the day!

This was so much fun, especially in the discord. I got so hooked that I was jumping in throughout the day while grocery shopping and while at an Oktoberfest.

This was so fun (and h/t to my wife who figured out the "THIRD" clue)

If your name is Sam you're a puzzle master sorry I don't make the rules

This Puzzle Hunt was so much fun! Great work everyone who pitched in in the discord, look forward to working with you again next year!

Genuinely a blast to see folks come together and solve this, Sam Reich who

we did it, we blazed a day-long trail of chaos through Itch view/download trends and Youtube view analytics

Just finished this challenge, together with some very clever people over at its discord. If you wanna know if I liked it - it is currently 2:47AM, and my brain is still buzzing Great stuff!

Had an incredibly fun time hanging out and helping to solve this super fun puzzle hunt with some really clever folks! Rarely are my niche interests combined so well, haha!

The discord server has officially solved the puzzle hunt! It took them 11 hrs and 32 minutes, and 2 hints. Hint documents will be uploaded for each puzzle within the next hour, for anyone who wants to try it with some extra help!

The discord server is on puzzle 5!

The 2025 Blinking Birch Puzzle Hunt is live! This series of puzzles will test your indie TTRPG knowledge. Bring friends and your library of games! #TTRPGPuzzleHunt2025 blinkingbirchgames.itch.io/the-blinking...

The Discord is on puzzle #3 of 8!

Sam is doing fucked up evil puzzles about all your favourite indie games and many more I absolutely have never heard of before. This is great. Get in here.

Quinn is looking for help with part of the puzzle hunt!

Hey this is the coolest thing ever you gotta join

The 2025 Blinking Birch Puzzle Hunt is live! This series of puzzles will test your indie TTRPG knowledge. Bring friends and your library of games! #TTRPGPuzzleHunt2025 blinkingbirchgames.itch.io/the-blinking...

anyone else watch the Knights of Guinevere pilot 👀

Restricting the expression of sexuality through fiction and art made by adults, for adults – including those you find personally disturbing or offputting – is conservative censorship, full stop. When that censorship disproportionately affects subgroups, that's also discrimination. For shame.

Tomorrow!!

NEW: Caught in the Remix is a tarot-based escape from an infinite extradimensional nightclub, with a playlist acting as a timer before the environment remixes around you. Can you manage your stress enough to make it out with your friendship intact? ratwavegamehouse.itch.io/caught-in-th...

This is in 2 days! It is far from expertly designed and its somewhat small & silly, but I hope its a good time. It's been a fun experiment for me to make!

already funded!!!! i'm so excited for this game!

Running a poll to try and get data on what devices and formats people read TTRPGs in, so designers can make more informed choices. I intend to share the data once I've gotten enough responses, please spread this so we can cover more ground! forms.gle/V7WtvMpAUkJa...

Today my new adventure Orestruck is officially released! Return to the Tannic Forest to confront monstrosities, both magical and mundane. Itch weirdwonder.itch.io/orestruck DrivethruRPG www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... @spacepenguinink.bsky.social spacepenguin.ink/collections/...

This sounds fun!

I made a poetry zine. It's available on my website. All proceeds go to helping a trans girl and her cat pay bills n stuff. "Letters for Juno" is a series of letters addressed to people I love. Write them while they're still around to read them. Get a copy at nerves(dot)store.

"We're going to have to learn to live with [radical right wing demagoguery with all its associated violence]" is: - An abdication of responsibility. - An abandonment of hope. - A position only available to those who feel safe enough with an ongoing catastrophe to begin the work of normalizing it

Did you hear about the 2025 Blinking Birch Puzzle Hunt? It's an indie-TTRPG-themed series of puzzles and trivia that starts this Saturday at 9am ET! Here's the discord server, where players will be working together to uncover the solutions. discord.gg/dMkxfdTqkt

Just finished this and thankfully only make a couple minor tweaks! Nothing game-breaking thank god.

Another game I want to talk about real quick since we’re getting into the cozy fall season: Beneath the Canopy is a 1-3 player journaling game that uses Major arcana as prompts. It’s inspired by Over the Garden Wall. Explore the strange woods, but do not lose Hope or you’ll fall to The Beast.

I am SO excited about this one

Just got my COVID vaccine! I live in VA, so I had to get a prescription first, but it was SUPER easy. Make sure to get yours this year, ESPECIALLY if you're going to conventions. There's no excuse!

CAN WE ERASE OUR HISTORY is a two-player, diceless hack of Time To Drop in which you relitigate a toxic relationship (or situationship) while listening to The Beths and being thrown across other realities in which it might have gone differently marns.itch.io/can-we-erase...

Here's the Discord server for the puzzle hunt! discord.gg/dMkxfdTqkt

Currently going though one of the final steps to prepare for this, which is methodically solving all of my own puzzles to make sure I didn't fuck anything up.

In case anyone thought I was exaggerating in Outliers

You really don't want to miss this one!!

fascinating watching the development of TTRPG safety norms alongside the shifting nature of BDSM safety norms

In the process of making all 10 itchio pages for the puzzle hunt

ok, played around & ended up here: Use this image as a template. Image size is 94x27.5mm (scale this however you want in pixels) Pink & Blue bars are cut off when bluesky crops. Desktop crop- Pink. Mobile crop -blue (pixel 7 anyways). Generally, don't put anything in the colored zones.

Here's the Discord server for the puzzle hunt! discord.gg/dMkxfdTqkt

“I firmly believe that everyone should be doing everything in their power to do what we can to end the genocide in Palestine." Game designers band together again to extend critical aid to Palestinians in Gaza.

The setup is going well! I believe I've just finished making the discord server - I might post it a couple days ahead of time so people can trickle in and I can make sure everything's working. So keep an eye out for that!