YEARS OF FONT DESIGN yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for using anything other than BEBAS NEUE AND MONTSERRAT

The art direction in some PC-98 games just fucking RIP. Goals.

“AI is ok as long as it’s not taking anyone’s job” and whose work is it trained on. Did you forget that it’s a bunch of stolen fucking shit? Are we moving the goalposts already? “it’s sticking around so you have to get used to it, be realistic” no I don’t. Eat my shit and hair

Man, what a joyful time to be learning art.

Art journey update: I started doing sketches daily, and now I hit 100! I'm thinking of aiming for 200-300 before I start advancing into full-body sketches, clothes, and even *thinking* about colors outside of values.

I played Horses this weekend and I wrote down some messy thoughts not only on the game but especially on the specter of formalism that emerged to haunt us all for a moment. transgamerthoughts.com/post/8023277...

My rig is going to waste with my gaming habits LOL 7800XT running Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss (1992) on a CRT monitor

I've been doing daily sketches to get comfortable with drawing different body parts, I use Sketchdaily as the site of choice, I think it's really good. But this fucking site wants me to become a foot fetish artist. I checked the numbers, and I should not be getting this many foot references.

Of the games I know and know how to run (in chronological order!): - DREAD (It just hits different) - Shepherds (PbtA without Playbooks) - Fractures (A scene setting game I made) - Genesys (For the funky dice and otherwise trad gameplay)

No! Not again! Beset by another game idea. These just never end, do they?? Anyway this time it's a migration and fantasy evolution -based solo (?) game, where the Vo' people migrate from The Heartland to form the different fantasy peoples in the setting, and gain traits depending on player choices

Oh no not the BOOMER SHOOTER IMMERSIVE SIM DUNGEON CRAWLER WITH PC-98-STYLE SPRITE ART Game idea wrought in pure gold attacking my head. One of these days one gets made, but I have a lot of stuff on my plate already, uggghhhh. Anything that gets me to work on my art, I guess!

Drawing hands is fuckass. Gonna need seventeen years of more practice to make them not look like mittens with hotdogs glued to them.

Is English the 5e of languages?

Sometimes it's just having the right project to push you forward. I'm starting a side project called CITY OF DOOM, which is a sort of OSR X PBTA sort of dungeoning game, and it has kind of lit a fire in me. I just want to draw the art for the game myself and make dungeon synth for the game.

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

this is all fun and games but you gotta go outside and breathe the fucking air to live, this shit ain't real, this is the fucking illusory realm, this is the realm of spectacle and unsuppressed urges man, this is 100% performance, none of this means jack shit, peel your fucking eyes away

she got bottom surgery! i'm happy for her

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.

I don't often say this, BUT. Fractures is probably the best game I've ever made. It's 2 pages, barely has rules, and still somehow allows for the most cinematic gameplay I've ever managed. It's like a culmination of all my narrative games. Also it's free. ghost-spark.itch.io/fractures

> Watched Counter Monkey Videos from Spoony in very early 2010s > He recommends Pathfinder 1e as the first RPG to play > Get the game, GM a campaign, learn to hate the game > I start making RPGs > 10 years on, here we fuckin are

I haven't read this yet but I see my name and therefore must repost it.

Okay silly TTRPG idea: A game about violent corporate espionage and organized crime. To play the game you gotta but multiple Employee Handbooks and sell them to prospective players, who can, after playing, run their own games and sell Employee Handbooks themselves. The name? The Pyramid Scheme RPG

I'm trying to figure out a somewhat modern TTRPG scenario where you depose a dictator. The problem is that in most cases they just end up being replaced by another dictator. But I guess that's fine if we cut out the fine print from it and add some hopeful epilogue.

Here I am trying to make up a fake Latin American country for my modern fantasy thing and hoping that my names for things aren't too stupid. Ironically the NPC names are so generic they match to wikipedia articles of Latin Americans. Just gotta see I don't have any names that are too unfortunate.

Anyway time to read CIA / Military dossiers as writing inspiration.

Huh. I might have figured out why I 1) I prefer black and white images for games and 2) why I struggle to make art. I rank somewhere between 3 and 5 in the aphantasia scale. I can't really "see" anything in my head, but I can have fleeting images that may inhabit my mind temporarily.

You know, I bet this is a place of honor.

What's happened to just appreciating things on their own? I guess this might be unique to me, but I feel like, as a creator and game developer, weirdly stressed about actually making a proper breakthrough. It's like I feel the chains of obligation hanging over me, ready to catch me whenever I do.

I know I'm known for my derivative games, but then my non-derivative game ideas are like "100% Narrative Card Game" and "100% Combat RPG". That's not a joke, those are my two primary projects outside of derivative games (i.e Pathfinder, PbtA etc).

Without saying your age, who your first animated crush?

Some mornings and nights I hear the reversing beeps of large machinery and vehicles, and I think to myself: "Should have become a road worker or mechanic instead." That shit is some honest work, and we won't run out of it.

Hope for tomorrow: Restored.

Is it hopeful or depressing that I made what is probably the best RPG I've ever managed to create (at least I feel like that) and realized that as a product it would be better as a board game (with heavy RP elements)? Otherwise it's just going to be one of the million free RPGs released every year.

Good news: Fractures FUCKING SLAPS as a game. Today the playtest was "We have 3 days to get to the dungeon, and we're out of money and gear" and it was great. Bad News: Naming stuff "Climax Scenes", "Pushing", and "Pulling" is a little on the nose when a character is literally selling ass.

Ah shit oh shit ahhhh man. I just finished up writing a raw version of an collaboratvie episodic microgame called Fractures. Now I'm already infected with the next idea, a dungeoning PbtA game that is resource-based. And I'm supposed to be editing WARDEN! Must be Autumn. Happens every time.

I didn't know that writing and editing a 200+ page Trad TTRPG was going to be hard. Why didn't anybody tell me???

I saw that article about how video game music isnt weird anymore and yeah, you just dont hear shit like this in fantasy games anymore m.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ7r...

WARDEN is a truly a wondrous fantasy game, because in it you can Work A Vocation, gain Savings and purchase an apartment. All this without it eating your entire livelihood. Yay...

If u see this quote with the energy u bring to blue sky

As WARDEN enters final stages of production, I've already started work on a new TTRPG (and probably will start new games all around again, I'm just like that). This one has the explicit purpose facilitating and escalating duels so that previous lovers fight in the rain atop a burning building.

commission work for @ghost-spark.itch.io , thanks again

I do not post much. That is because I don't like posting. I don't want to post to be relevant in this world. I want to make games, make art and make myself heard that way. But posting seems to be the requirement for anyone to see it. Especially in TTRPGs.

Version 0.3 of the WARDEN Playtest from @ghost-spark.itch.io is out and I made a piece of art for it of the merchant Yiska from one of the example settings in the back! It's a really cool genre-agnostic TTRPG with solid combat and character building rules and is free to check out right now

if your combat system is ponderous and dull, your ttrpg is TRAD if your combat system is fast-paced and dull, your ttrpg is OSR if your combat system is fast-paced and inscrutable, your ttrpg is a STORYGAME

repost this if anti-trans people are not welcome and unsafe with you

"What exactly is the difference between sci-fi and fantasy anyways?"

Thinking of making the most radical left game ever and just marketing it as "apolitical" so chuds will scramble their eggs over it. But then again, doing a hit piece like that is rarely an actually good idea. Just feeling a little spiteful ig

Knowledge is power…

I feel like I need to tap the sign cause I keep seeing people trying to "dunk" on hateful peeps on my feed. This ISN'T TWITTER. Please don't make it into it.