As a composer of choral pieces for tardy cats I often sit frustrated, waiting for my muse.

ANNOUNCING MY WINTER ANTI-SALE for the next few weeks, itch.io is doing its winter sale, where devs who cut their game prices get promoted. but my games are all already underpriced, so i'm jacking up the prices by 50% instead. ho ho ho happy holidays

I absolutely love this game format.

Sometimes games exist to break down barriers between rules and play. Apollo 47 by @timhutchings.bsky.social makes rules feel like a tennis net rather than a fence.

These "playable" bookmarks are for sale on thousandyearoldvampire.com and I think my own set is getting delivered today.

Their policy position is "I should be able to take whatever I want, tell whatever story I want about it and be believed, and consign all my critics to silence, prison, and death." That's *what* they believe, as expressed through statements and action. We need them as far from power as possible!

This makes me a lot more interested in using KS next time around.

If you donate food/money/time to a food bank or to help folks who didn't get SNAP benefits, I want to mail you a print copy of my goose game! DM me your address and what you donated (I don't need receipts) and the goose will be on its way! International is ok! I have a dozen to send out! HONK

Some larps to play tonight by @timhutchings.bsky.social and Jay Treat! timhutchings.itch.io/halloween?sy... www.goldencobra.org/pdf/2015/Hal...

Fights in Tight Spaces is one of my favorite computer games. I could not get into Knights in Tight Spaces. It feels wrong in a way that didn't soften with time. The Far Sails sequel was the same. It just never had the same feeling of quality as the first game, controls felt wrong.

I read bad. I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 14th 2025) in 04:55 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Old Morris Cave is great for letting your mind wander through history #ttrpgs #ttrpg

Fell on my face right out of the gate: I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 13th 2025) in 05:16 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

If you normally receive the TYOV newsletter please let me know if you -don't- receive one today. For the second time the Shopify newsletter system has given me an outrageously atypical undeliverable report and I am curious if the report itself is trustworthy.

Had to ask for a clue and am ashamed. I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 9th 2025) in less than 8 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟡🟩 cluesbysam.com

'Noem also claimed federal agents in Portland recently arrested "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa." I don't think I've ever been so certain a statement was satire and been wrong. www.kgw.com/article/news...

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

This one was tricky. I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 7th 2025) in less than 9 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Butchered an easy one: I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 6th 2025) in 04:24 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟨 cluesbysam.com

@timhutchings.bsky.social Really nice write up of Art & System in the newest Wyrd Science!

The Apollo 47 print book is only available at drivethrurpg.com/en/product/246241 I share because the article links to the PDF which ain't the same at all.

In SPINE, I want players to play with the ttrpg's rulebook in innovative ways. I wrote this essay to think through the design. It describes the various ways we play with books in ttrpgs, with examples of how we use books as props, as anchors for fictions, and how we recreate them as art.

Flying along then got hung up at the end. I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 1st 2025) in less than 8 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Then Satan rose up from hell and bellowed, “Little bunny Foo Foo! My most dedicated worshipper! Continue your reign of terror against the field mice in my name.”

I took a break for a three minute phone call. I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Sep 30th 2025) in less than 12 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

I appreciate the newsletter reminding me about these puzzles. I hadn't done one in awhile. I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Sep 29th 2025) in 03:50 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

How much does it cost to put 8+ federal/mystery employees in the field for however many hours they spent waiting for that guy? Did taxpayers pay for that guy to have a "this is my personality" cowboy hat?

look at dat cover

I'm excited to announce I'm going to be running a four-week remote workshop on creating interactive fiction with #bitsy starting at the end of September! Games created in the workshop will be featured in an exhibition at Accent Sisters in New York, with whom I'm partnering on this project!

Here's a thread on how to win a Golden Cobra. I've won it twice and judged it once, not that that's any guarantee. (Golden Cobra is a larp competition, which launched today, and you should totally enter). 🧵

I do not especially care about tarot decks but I love the Goblins and Garden deck. I only look at it a few cards at a time because I want to go as long as possible before running out of cards.

I just backed Dungeon Wilds on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/jon...

This is so much better than Trump's birthday parade.

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

July 2022: Leisure Games makes its literary debut! The shop gets a mention in "The Sorcerer of Pyongyang" by Marcel Theroux, in which the author buys a copy of "The Habitition of the Stone Giant Lord" (by @timhutchings.bsky.social of Thousand Year Old Vampire fame) in the shop.

He has to come out on the balcony and wave, right? That's how we know everything is okay.

guess who's coming to kickstarter in a month? (it's me, the funny lady)

I made one mistake because I miscounted. In the real world miscounting would've sent an innocent to jail so I deserve my shameful yellow box. I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Aug 27th 2025) in less than 8 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

did a terrible job on this one. slow brain reversing of the binaries. I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Aug 26th 2025) in less than 6 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

"writing for the contrarian at the table"

Don’t get me wrong, I love my burlaps bags, but THIS! BOX! HAS! EVERYTHING! Fun fact: my niblings called for my birthday and asked if I was bringing The Quiet Year when I come to visit. (Yes, my darling weirdos)

Butchered this one: I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Aug 23rd 2025) in less than 14 minutes 🟨🟩🟨🟩 🟨🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟨🟠🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Aug 19th 2025) in 04:54 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

#history When a government wants to control how the governed learn history, choosing what's "acceptable" & what's "disloyal", that's a red flag we've been wary of in other countries; we can try to keep our own house in order by standing with the Smithsonian in this moment. aaslh.org/smithsonian-...

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Aug 18th 2025) in less than 6 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Grueling I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Aug 17th 2025) in less than 23 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Before you make your next #TTRPG, check out my free font Polymath, which lets you create a bunch of different dice types in an accessible way: hedgemazepress.itch.io/polymath-dic...

Friday’s good. October 1st is better. 📅 Art and System: Games for Expanded Play launches on BackerKit—featuring Princess with a Cursed Sword, Dog Eat Dog, and The Mountain Witch. ##CMichPress #IndieGames #Games #Gaming

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Aug 13th 2025) in less than 6 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Aug 12th 2025) in less than 17 minutes* 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com