I didn’t win an Indie Groundbreaker this year but I had a great time.

Congrats to the Best Setting winner of the 2025 Indie Groundbreaker Awards!

It should be noted that two of the @igdn-official.bsky.social Indie Groundbreaker nominated games this year, my own "In Love with the Moon", and "We Wander Beneath Radiant Lights" (which WON!) came directly out of @shoutingcrow.bsky.social Bad Moon Game Jam. You're doing something right, Justin.

My #ttrpg In Love with the Moon is up for both most innovative and best writing. I can't imagine such a loony premise could win either, but I'm going to enjoy the heck out of the proceedings, and you should too! The watch party is live in less than half an hour, #ttrpgcommunity

Winners of the @igdn-official.bsky.social Indie Groundbreaker Awards are being announced tonight, something I've been following for the most remarkable Indie #ttrpgs long since before I was in the industry. It's always a special time.

Hey guys my game "Kaiju Kontrol" just won Silver for one shot game in the inaugural Canada Rolls Awards for 2025! Announced today.

Last day for the Canada Rolls Awards. Please vote, Canadians, for your favourite 2025 ttrpgs. Both Psychic Danger Society and Kaiju Kontrol are in the running. canadaroles.ca/doku.php?id=...

Well I'm up for a starry night of gaming, what a lovely idea...

To boot, the 4 Pillar profiles are hilariously poorly written. I was in journalism for almost a decade, and I can tell you, not one line of that ever would have been considered up to print standard.

This is all very sobering, as a publisher.

I'm pushing the Canada Rolls again, guys. I think it's a pretty great initiative, the very first year of a Canadian #ttrpg awards. (Also I have two games up for this.) Voting closes on the 15th, if you're Canadian you can vote. Yay participation! canadaroles.ca/doku.php?id=...

Please vote, Canadians, to support Canadian #ttrpgs. There's still time!

Voting is open for the inaugural Canada Roles awards for Canadian #ttrpgs. I have two games up for it—"The Psychic Danger Society", my little old ladies tea and murder game, and "Kaiju Kontrol", my preposterous giant monster game. Please be Canadian and vote! canadaroles.ca/doku.php?id=...

Two of my #ttrpgs from last year's crop have been shortlisted for the Canada Roles Awards and I encourage any Canadian to participate. Here's the @rascal.news article for more: www.rascal.news/the-inaugura...

There is nothing luxury about art, its consumption or its creation. It is an utter necessity.

I'm working on something new, a little monster game that I hope will inspire many imaginary adventures. Who says #ttrpgs can't be fun, but also a little sinister at heart?

How are you going to spend your thinking today?

I am agog, my #ttrpg "In Love with the Moon", a game of made-up science, has been nominated for an Indie Groundbreaker Award or two. www.igdnonline.com/groundbreakers

We're counting down the hits live on air, which in the case of Metal Position: Robot Fighting Cassettes is an exchange of smacks and wallops. Oh and hey, if you're in Canada—it's out now on @joshuakitz.bsky.social marketplace. panjumanju.itch.io/metal-position composedreamgames.com/marketplace/...

One of the best martial arts movies and largely unsung.

My #ttrpg The Psychic Danger Society came out in 2025 and is nominated in a few categories for the brand-spanking-new Canada Roles awards. I welcome participation in these new awards celebrating Canadian ttrpg publishers. And if you vote for me, I wouldn't complain. canadaroles.ca/doku.php?id=...

Online voting for the inaugural Canada Roles Awards is now open! Head to canadaroles.ca/doku.php?id=... to see all the nominees and to vote. Winners will be announced in May at CanGames! Got questions? I'll do my best to answer below.

I hope that when I'm dead they'll at least say of me, "Well, he tried hard."

The argument about whose music is better ended as the mixtapes of those rival bands transformed into robot-shapes and duked it out all over Studio A. Live radio is where the magic happens. Metal Position: Robot Fighting Cassettes. panjumanju.itch.io/metal-position

Just as you're wondering whether there's another track on this tape or if it's all -40 dB mumbles, it jumps out of the deck and does a spinning roundhouse. Stay turned for the community announcement show up next. Metal Position: Robot Fighting Cassettes #indiettrpg panjumanju.itch.io/metal-position

The Studio B Trainer is drunk, the Operator might be high, the Programme Director is pulling their hair out, and in the middle of it all, the cassettes tapes are fighting. Metal Position: Robot Fighting Cassettes. panjumanju.itch.io/metal-position

If you think my #ttrpgs are pretty neat, one thing you can do that's a disproportionately big help is leave a review. Games without reviews get quickly buried and forgotten (in fact, games with fewer than full stars, is how the algorithm works.) We could all be helping each other #ttrpgcommunity

Community radio stations are run by coffee, a well-maintained signal of broadcast quality, and small fighting robots. "Metal Position: Robot Fighting Cassettes", a #ttrpg of biig feelings ans small robots, is on @itch.io #indiettrpg panjumanju.itch.io/metal-position

“This mixtape sucks,” he said, right before it turned into a robot eagle and stole his coffee mug. Come play <<<Metal Position: Robot Fighting Cassettes>>>, out now on @itchio.bsky.social. #indiettrpg panjumanju.itch.io/metal-position

Have you ever looked at an audio cassette tape and thought - that's great, but why isn't it also a warrior robot? Me too. Me too. Come play "Metal Position: Robot Fighting Cassettes", out now. panjumanju.itch.io/metal-position

I intend to flood my feed with the silliest promotions I could write for Metal Position: Robot Fighting Cassettes, because I am having a great time being campy with it. I'm sorry if you actually like me as a person. Normally I'm terrible at promotion. panjumanju.itch.io/metal-position

"Your TTRPG designs are stupid!" they say. Anyway, apropos of nothing, here's my new game about cassette tapes that turn into robots and fight as an allegory for emotional confrontations in a college radio station, “Metal Position: Robot Fighting Cassettes”. panjumanju.itch.io/metal-position

I'm releasing a game next week about cassette tapes turning into robots and fighting throughout a college radio station, which may be a metaphor for the feelings of the station programmers, or it may be, you know, stupid robots fighting bop pow.

A lovely and worthwhile game that turns the cold loneliness of space into something heartwarming. #indiettrpg

Even people who are bad at naming things still own cats.

I only picked up three games from @joshuakitz.bsky.social and I’m kicking myself I didn’t get more. I love WWI stuff, so Ross Rifles by Dundas West and Love & Barbed Wire by @planesailinggames.com were mandatory. And I got a print copy of Bettin’ Bullets by the incredible @panjumanju.bsky.social!

Last day of @breakoutcon.bsky.social let's #ttrpg until our faces are blue.

It's hopping at @breakoutcon.bsky.social this morning. I'm running both the Psychic Danger Society and Fight to Survive, for those down to clown. #ttrpgcommunity

What's that? @breakoutcon.bsky.social starts tomorrow? And I'm running all kinds of games? Welp, I better start walking...

Robert Picardo is a treasure.

Only a few days to go until Radio James Games is at @breakoutcon.bsky.social. Come out and see me. I'm running lots of "Fight to Survive" and some "Psychic Danger Society".

One of our core principles in planning this year’s IGDN Diversity Scholarship was making sure we had the resources to ensure that every participant would have a positive and meaningful experience (including, of course, cash on hand to pay out grants). itdf.games#scholarship

Oh, goodness. It looks like the pdfs of my #ttrpgs are on sale on DriveThruRPG. I wish they advertised these sales a little better I didn't see it coming. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

If you like #Fallout my partner has spent hours and hours and hours writing a Fallout #fanfic. Or is that a #Falloutfanfic? Anyway, I might have rose-coloured glasses but, being a person entirely ignorant of the property, I think it's great. Please take a look. archiveofourown.org/works/802554...

Hey this is me. I'll be at @breakoutcon.bsky.social for FOUR whole days running games, so you have no excuse not to say hi to me, #ttrpg Canadians.

I have new glasses post eye surgery. I can READ again! I want you read *everything*!

There are faster, there are stronger, but my guy...has speakers for ears.

I wrote a new #ttrpg blog article about shared feelings of creative inadequacy in the industry. If you're going to scream into the void, it may as well be fruitless. www.igdnonline.com/blog/2026/2/...

So in big #ttrpg news for any BIPOC, queer, or otherwise marginalised or under-represented creators trying to start something in TTRPGs, the @igdn-official.bsky.social has opened applications for the 2026 Diversity Scholarship. Link and more info in the comments. [1/4]

Will @shoutingcrow.bsky.social be at Breakout this year? Please say yes.