Catastrophe can be plausible without being preordained, and treating every danger as destiny does not make us more prepared. My latest.

But I get it, sometimes you have to see the thing, to hold it in your hands to have a sense of what it is, so that you know what questions to ask, before you put a piece of yourself into it. So go check out the demo, tell us what you think and what you're curious about. Keep shoveling.

We set the sub tiers to a few different values based on what folks can afford, but all the tiers get access to the same things: weekly updates, stories from Evernight, behind-the-scenes content, and early access to the game as development continues. Every little bit helps.

If you haven't tried the Evernight demo yet you really should. If you haven't followed @cempoaloon.bsky.social yet, you should do that too. If you've heard about what we're up to with this and want to support the work, the best way to do that is with a Patreon sub. www.patreon.com/posts/we-did...

People love to give out ideas and advice. People don’t love to act. Any time I have a community meeting about planning something most of the attendees do this and just a few people do the actual work.

Duamn is an absolute delight to work with and his work is some of the best in the #RPGLATAM scene. Hire him!!!

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After the rains these gems arrived… aka Clematis blooms! 📷 🌱

coming soon to Evernight: characters that can move left and right without crab-walking

If you have been on the fence/not able to get Zephyr yet, this is gonna be a great chance to do so at a discount, and it helps me push the game and get the word out about it :) I really wanna be able to continue making new books for Zephyr so boosts are appreciated <3

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Coding a game from scratch is a trip. "why does changing this variable suddenly change the font for the text that shows up" i ask an hour into debugging the code for a grave's epitaph. hours later i have fixed the bug, but I still have no idea what I did in the first place to cause it

Heya neighbors, I just got my June rent invoice. Wanna help me pay it? That'd be rad.

Please, my fellow queer creatives. Do not discount every single book you have ever put out to $0.99 or free. Do not cut your commission prices down by 70%. Do not make your album just $1. Do not make your video game $1. I understand the urge. I understand the feeling of doing it "for the cause"

Rain fell, and then leaves, and then snow; and then the larva, feeding themselves on the hem of my skirt, and my toenails, and my flesh; and then the flies and beetles, and the crows; and then the seed, reaching my chest, taking root at last in the heart you said you would come back for.

FYI re: the Evernight demo

If you haven't tried the Evernight demo yet you really should. If you haven't followed @cempoaloon.bsky.social yet, you should do that too. If you've heard about what we're up to with this and want to support the work, the best way to do that is with a Patreon sub. www.patreon.com/posts/we-did...

Come on down to 36th and Blaisdell until 2. Selling lots of kids and adult clothing. Some camping gear. Random house stuff for free. Everything super cheap.

You cannot lose money from people who didn't have it in the first place// I care about people getting to my art above all// Some will download it to see it first and then buy it// All our work would have been impossible without piracy enabling art literacy// Piracy rules 🤍 Support pirates

"...fascism is a cultural project. [ ] It is a cultural project of dehumanization and disposal. So we need a cultural project of our own, rooted in a proliferating sense of empathy and solidarity. One that insists that we are all worth caring for and fighting for." We are ALL worth fighting for.

I ORDER MY COFFEE BLACK. NO SUGAR. NO MILK. NO WATER. NO CUP. THEY HAND ME THE BEANS. I EAT THEM IN THE PARKING LOT LIKE A HORSE. THE BARISTAS HAVE STOPPED CHARGING ME. I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE TUESDAY. I CAN HEAR THE WIFI

✅ cempoaloon.itch.io/evernight

Yes, the first thing that happens in Evernight is somebody tells you to go shovel the sidewalk and they don't even give you a shovel to do it with because sometimes that's just what happens—but when a friend asks for help you help 'em, even if you're not friends yet, so cempoaloon.itch.io/evernight

We have (incredibly biased) opinions about this.

follow us for video game and also letterkenny / shoresy echolalia

i make video games now [again][also]; follow @cempoaloon.bsky.social for more of that

Here we go, y'all.

*deep breath* okay friends. demo's up. go nuts.

It's heartbreaking that games as a medium remain out of reach for people telling the stories worth telling most. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

WE HAVE SOLD OUT OF THE FIRST RUN OF PHYSICAL COPIES OF WIZARDPUNK 2!!!!!! THANK YOUUUUU!!!!!!!!!

How is this legal? It's not. Now what?

Making a to-do list that 12-year-old me would die happy to see, where the next and most critical item is: - get video game demo ready for distribution

Wanna hear Ross and I talk about #Torchbearer, analyze #DnD culture and it's shift from old D&D to modern D&D? Check this out 👇 I had a great time, and I really appreciate Born to Lose bringing some well earned love to Torchbearer.

years later this clip is still the tangerine m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS6b...

There are no permanent victories in politics.

it took me too long to realize that this was "horseshit" censored and not new slang i didn't know about yet where "horses" meant bad

Don't make me lose faith in crowdfunding as a tool to help bring peers together in mutual support and instead declare it to be yet another anti-consumer tool used only by rich people to get richer. Help do this by giving @betterlegends.bsky.social money! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

"Do you know," the necromancer says peaceably, laying on a tiled roof looking at the summer stars, full of wine and warm dinner, "why skeletons are thought of as evil?" "What," Janey says cautiously. "Raised ones, you mean? That — that your sort have got to?"

GIRLS IS BUGS. AND FLOWERS. Turns out there is too much witch inside Charlotte for one single Charlotte. So she just made another one of herself. Except like, tinier, so she's easy to store inside. Anyway this is less #art and more sketches for an illustration but I thoughts I'd post it anyway?

Attention all you beautiful people heading to Mayday, please post photos! Show us the Battletrain, show us all of the wild and wonderful puppets HOTB made this year, post art bikes and dogs in costumes! Show us the people of Minneapolis at our sunshine-soaked, exuberant best! 🌞

Autumnal Conductor! Me, Lhuzie! Violet Tangerine! Magic Dungeons! HEAT! Thank you everyone that voted on us so far! The votes are now open if you want to keep supporting us!

Let me talk a bit more about why specialized services in premodern societies end up clustered in towns, instead of having ahistorical "village blacksmiths" and so on Your average subsistence farming village has, like, 50-200 people in it, probably closer to the bottom of that range.

my only big Heated Rivalry opinion is that Remy Nadeue should have come back in season 5 of Shoresy

hey, check out @diwatamnl.bsky.social's amazing cover image for our forthcoming GMfull rom-com game LOVES ME, LOVES ME NOT, the winner of our #randompromptsjam! it's a beautiful cover and a wonderful game, keep your eyes peeled for it in the next couple of months!

I talked with @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social about hope, backlash, political memory, and how history can help us understand our own power.

I really can't tell you how much better it feels to choose your lane and to go hard there. Focus on one or two things and get some traction there. Keep inviting people to join in. Most will not and some will. Keep going.

contsitustito--fuck constitutitiutio--fuck constitution YEAH GOT IT FIRST TRY

Someday I'm gonna run another event like this. I was really fucking good at it. forums.beamdog.com/discussion/4...

We are just a few backers away! Nibiru is a sci-fi TRPG of lost memories, where Vagabonds venture into a colossal space station inspired by ancient mesopotamia to recover the memories of their past - feat. an original system for journaling and survival gameplay! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ara...