Hi, #PortfolioDay! I'm Lone Archivist. A games and graphic designer specializing in graphic, layout, and visual identity design for space and sci-fi games (though happy to work on fantasy as well!). Currently open for commissions!

Absolute legend available for hire

👋 #PortfolioDay I’m Zach and I’m a freelance illustrator who has some availability this month and next, then my schedule is wide open after that. Get in touch! TTRPGs / Video Games / Posters / Album Covers / Novel Art / Whatever! 🕸️ Info/portfolio: emo-sludge.com

This is what the ideal physique looks like

I am currently looking for work! Writing, design, editing and proofreading for tabletop games and just about anything else besides. I've worked with indie giants and first-time self-publishers and I always smash it. Some examples below. Email in bio, get in touch, let's make stuff x

Going to my first adepticon in March 🤡

Win a Witty kitbash original for a good cause!! Renee Good’s family has closed her gofund me after overwhelming support but there are a lot of other families still suffering in the wake of ICE violence that need our help. Grab some tickets, share, spread the word! Fuck ICE, fuck facism

Playstorming a new game this weekend lets go

Here's a texture pack for you to do whatever you want with alfredvalley.itch.io/everywhere-u...

plain and simple: if you work for ICE, you should kill yourself

Beat godRick the grafted today please clap

Listen up indie #ttrpg folks! If you’re not listening to the Brain Trust podcast by @worldchamp.bsky.social and @willjobst.bsky.social, you’re missing out on the wildest, funnest ride through game design. This show is blasting harder and faster than Dave Lombardo on the double bass! 🧠🤝 or is it 🤝🧠?

Just went to my local hobby store for the first time and it’s the coolest—staff is friendly and has all kinds of recommendations and they have cool cars and paints and so many RPGs and I’ve been sleepin on this spot too long. Riders Hobby Grand Rapids!

Legend

I wholeheartedly agree we need to be doing more (and I’ve been trying to get people to do more for the better part of 25 years now) but it’s really a third thing—we don’t live in a democracy while simultaneously most of the country supports what’s happening.

MOLD is incredibly inspiring I’m so glad I found it today

This rings true in my soul

Design is a physical act. Print it out. Hold it in your hands. Cut it to shape. Paste it onto another book or zine. Design for the hands, the hold, the fold, and the weight. Even if your game is digital-only, the physical prototype will show you the typos.

“I want to make things. I want to do every creative activity” I say to the dog sleeping on my couch while I turn on the PlayStation to drown all ideas in my head for the next five hours

Thankfully @soengery.bsky.social has let me know how I’m going to die

A while back I secretly wrote and released an occult New Year’s party scenario for Campfire Anthology Horror Storytelling, it’s a free demo on the games itch page! Print and play sheets or digital files included. Happy new year! willjobst.itch.io/campfire

It sucks lol

Are there any video games that capture the aesthetic of dark souls/elden ring but aren’t so fuckin hard to play? I just wanna learn about some sword freaks without getting my ass constantly handed to me

Cybermetal 2026

you could play Contact, my playlist building game about communicating with aliens through your radio, with exclusively Christmas carols strautmaskreplica.itch.io/contact

Cybermetal 2026

If a tabletop game comes with music, do you prefer ambient/something that can be put on during play or songs/something you listen to outside of play?

Assuming everyone who posts a “games I want to play in 2026” list that doesn’t clearly include one of mine is a hater

Really it's just an appreciation newsletter for a lot of what's inspiring me lately, but each entry has a screenshot beautiful things - games, illustrators, comic creators/publishers, graphic designers, and the like.

Would anyone like to donate old terrain bits/paints/supplies to this budding new minis liker? I am having fun with this. Here’s some dumpsters I got cookin.

When an omnivore relative is in the vegan cheese section unsure what to do to accommodate their vegan relative on a holiday:.. I’ll be there… I got you .

I think about this polar aspect of @willjobst.bsky.social ‘s Torq all the time, implied in many games but explicit here, play is made of 2 distinct modes: action (racing/combat) & chilling (social, exploration, lore, plot hooks, etc). Either stand alone, rhyme but different mechanics, shine together

Fractal Romance is a ttrpg I don't talk nearly enough about tbh. It's a weird, abstract, chill, hangout kind of game. You use a deck of cards to both generate the spaces you explore and denizens you encounter, as well as "tokens" to spend on moves. It's also been compared to Paradise Killer!

This review (correctly) compares Cameron to Rowling as being someone with a singular toxic obsession (the alleged weakness of the Lakota Sioux), but forgets his even more toxic obsession—AI. Don’t forget he’s a board member at StabilityAI and spending money on his movies funds AI development.

youtu.be/3WjTNkqHpsc?... this video was really slick and smart for how to design your first game, focusing on thematic tentpoles throughout the process and not blowing out scope, recommend highly to newer designers but good for everyone as a process checkup!

Does reading make you tired

In the new year I want to -release my first skirmish game -collab with at least one designer and one illustrator I’ve never worked with before -print at least one game I love by someone else -work less conventions/sales events -stop taking this shit so serious and have more fun

In the new year I want to -release my first skirmish game -collab with at least one designer and one illustrator I’ve never worked with before -print at least one game I love by someone else -work less conventions/sales events -stop taking this shit so serious and have more fun

I have been taking a big step away from game design since the temperature dropped here but look at these cool mirrors and frames I etched!

i have always and will always, and if not this then something else

Holy shit

What people call "making games" is actually twenty jobs stacked on top of a burned-out creative arts graduate who just wanted to avoid the grind.

Bad news gang, I got some minis. How do I start making terrain? Like what’s the very first thing you’d recommend I do/make/watch/learn?

🚛👻 FINAL EP of HIGHWAY HAUNT with @worldchamp.bsky.social & @thebedroompunk.bsky.social 👻🚛 home again. & again. & again. & again. & again

This trailer for Ducournau's (TITANE, RAW) next film is an all-timer

My magnum opus maybe

CONTROL Resonant –Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhQm... "Explore a warped Manhattan on the brink of paranatural annihilation in this thrilling action-adventure RPG. Unleash the extraordinary powers of Dylan Faden as he fights for his humanity and survival against a reality-bending cosmic threat."

Oh hey, we're live to review CAULDRON, a swamp skirmish game from Hill Giant Games go here 👇 twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll

Seen some chatter recently about the ttrpg bookmark jam but didn’t actually see mentions or links back to the jam itself! Finally found it and there’s only 4 days left so I prob won’t have time to make one but there’s some really cool creative stuff in here itch.io/jam/ttrpg-bo...

Last call babe