Collin J Ryan
@collinjryan.bsky.social
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I design videogames and TTRPGs. Congenital relaxer, notorious yellow afficionado, also I like food
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Erica Bridges
2 days ago
The Kickstarter campaign for Nostos is live!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hon...
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Nostos
a tabletop roleplaying game about sailing home and saying goodbye.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/honeycupgames/nostos
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Animation Obsessive
5 days ago
From: Yoshitaka Amano's 1001 Nights (1998), dir. Mike Smith, Hyperion Studio
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Benn Jordan
13 days ago
If anyone with an SDR and antenna wants something to do this weekend: I would really like to compile a database of IQ recordings from the No Kings protests that have a strong police presence. Generally in the 100Mhz - 1Ghz range, and more specifically frequencies used for P25.
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Chase
15 days ago
I wanted to talk about this moment quickly cause I've been thinking about it a lot. It felt like a climax of the session mechanically and it feels worth exploring why
@ryanzenith.bsky.social
and I built it like this. Watch like 2 minutes from the point shared here for context.
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Vesta Mandate | Harboring War Criminals - One-Shot
YouTube video by StoryGamesChicago
https://youtu.be/nDoeqzW32Ww?si=w0Q58PbkgJIelYzE&t=7335
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Jesse B. Miller
22 days ago
I made a bunch of custom moves for my Apocalypse World game and they're working really well so I wrote them up to share here.
bsky.app/profile/jess...
#pbta
#gamedesign
#ttrpg
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Storygames Chicago
27 days ago
Check out a One Shot of Vesta Mandate, run by
@ryanzenith.bsky.social
and with players
@collinjryan.bsky.social
,
@jessebmiller.bsky.social
and Kat Hannigan. If you're looking to run Vesta Mandate at your table, the first half hour has a deep dive on the Session 1 Procedure and character creation!
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Vesta Mandate | Harboring War Criminals - One-Shot
YouTube video by StoryGamesChicago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDoeqzW32Ww
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Yochai Gal
about 1 month ago
I have been toying around with this concept for YEARS. Glad someone finally beat me to it:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sto...
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Diabolic Dialect
Grab your Spellbook, don your robes! Dive into a magical game of weird wizards and insane, linguistic spellcasting!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/storygames-chicago/diabolic-dialect
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athena (who is really cool)
about 1 month ago
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Rise Up Comus - CASTLE AUTOMATIC Crowdfunding Now!
about 2 months ago
Anybody less into RPG theory than me is a 5E-only troglodyte and everybody more into RPG theory than me is a fart sniffing navelgazer.
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Dragon Cobolt
about 2 months ago
I'm thinking about how every artform that I do - music and writing - has, like, technical terms that mean specific things and are used to describe complex, technical concepts with precision, so that you, as an artist, can communicate with other professionals efficiently and deeply Except for TTPRG
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Chase
about 2 months ago
The second season of Gamestorm is starting with a bang! Our first episode is out now with guest
@outridercreative.bsky.social
. Come checkout the first episode and the game we made!
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-3atsr...
storygameschicago.itch.io/when-we-were...
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When We Were Teenage Ghost Hunters by Storygames Chicago
a storytelling game
https://storygameschicago.itch.io/when-we-were-teenage-ghost-hunters
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YEAH come talk about it im a lil exploration gremlin and I need it
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2 months ago
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Jason Cordova
2 months ago
Also: Iโm convinced whenever you see people come out of nowhere and have massive success in this industry, itโs because they had a trust fund, or theyโre parachuting in from some other industry, or their dad is a marketing exec or something. Like, thatโs almost *always* the case.
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๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ ๐
2 months ago
listen man: I have a single guiding principle for being on social media and that is to never vaguepost. Live and die by the sword of your opinions or shut the fuck up. To the extent social media is a community (barely, it sucks), I think this sorta soft indirect IYKYK shit is so insidious.
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M. Kirin ๐ถโก
2 months ago
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Franck Besanรงon ๐ฉธ Ecstasy&Agony artbook available!
2 months ago
Bounty Hunter.
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Stella Sacco
3 months ago
Gotchaโletโs dig into that step by step. 1. ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ป๐ผ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐๐ต, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. Youโre not just immobileโyouโre immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐บ. That makes total senseโitโs a natural human impulse, and youโve been through a lot.
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Courtney (they/he) ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
3 months ago
My absurdist queer game about coming out in the workplace is making the rounds before its Q2 release! Keep an eye on the itch page for updates.
courtana.itch.io/corporate-sp...
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Corporate Sponsored Outing by Courtana
An absurdist queer corporate collaborative tabletop roleplaying game about coming out in the workplace.
https://courtana.itch.io/corporate-sponsored-outing
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sam โfully armoredโ sorensen
3 months ago
one of my long-running campaigns finally died. as an intermezzo before the next one, we've decided to to play a few sessions of Triangle Agency set in 1974
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Sajan
3 months ago
Sasquatch Diaries Jan 3rd
sasquatchdiaries.neocities.org
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those COLORS!!!
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3 months ago
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honesty
3 months ago
hellgirl
#hellboy
#illustration
#anime
#art
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Corey They Them Brickley
4 months ago
Eddington and Pipe Rock theory are the two most prescient cultural works of 2025 that I think are just like clear Rosetta Stones for understanding this era of internet/social media
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzuj...
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Pipe rock theory
YouTube video by Conner O'Malley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzuj14hzCaw
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Storygames Chicago
4 months ago
Need a game to play over the holidays? Get our new holiday one-shot adventure The Gingerbread Factory! Flee from the sticky monster, DOUGH. Fend off the Wizard-hating carolers. Unravel the mystery of gingerbread life. Get both The Gingerbread Factory and Diabolic Dialect in a bundle, now on Itch.
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The Gingerbread Factory by Storygames Chicago
โMy, my. All the gingerbread has come to life! Rita Rhizome needs your help to fix it!
https://storygameschicago.itch.io/the-gingerbread-factory
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snow
4 months ago
Let's fucking go
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i thiiiiiink it's Taco Bell Friday. feelin a mighty hankerin to Live Mรกs
4 months ago
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Bits
4 months ago
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Aura/Moom
4 months ago
it's important you understand this before trying to invite me to your party
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why does indianapolis tap water taste SO bad unlivable
4 months ago
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Hushpuppy Art
4 months ago
A half memory clings like a scrap of flesh on carrion. Once upon a time, in another life, the path you walked was that of aโฆ
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Chris Schweizer
4 months ago
Rereading LOTR and the flight to the ford, where the party rushes poisoned-by-an-evil-blade Frodo to Rivendell to heal him of the cursed wound inflicted on him at weathertop, is a little less frantic and harrowing than I remember
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Storygames Chicago
4 months ago
Weโve got a Storygames Chicago Giveaway Bundle, just in time for the Holidays! Weโll be drawing winners on the 22nd. Enter for a chance to win by reposting or quote posting this post! You can find other ways to enter in the image in this post!
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Storygames Chicago
4 months ago
Gamestorm S1E6 - Roll any Number of Dice is out today! Check it out at the link below or wherever you get your podcasts!
gamestorm.podbean.com/e/roll-any-n...
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Roll any Number of Dice - Kat Hannigan | Gamestorm
Come along for our weird Biopunk ride, as Kat and I build a game that focuses on Rolling any Number of Dice! We'll take a trip through a host of indie games, and we'll stop by our old friend Blades in...
https://gamestorm.podbean.com/e/roll-any-number-of-dice-kat-hannigan/
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daffodil ๐ต๐ธ
4 months ago
shareholders
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Storygames Chicago
4 months ago
Celebrate the holidays this year with any (or all) of Storygames Chicago's games for 50% off! Buy all our games we've made to date for just $20! The sale runs all weekend! Hope you'll get a chance to check it out.
itch.io/s/170881/bla...
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Black Friday Sale by Storygames Chicago
A bundle by Storygames Chicago, $20.50 for 9 games
https://itch.io/s/170881/black-friday-sale
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rat king ๐ ๐
5 months ago
if i posted photos of someone like this my partner would be texting me with a link to the tweet accompanied solely with โ?โ
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Indie Press Revolution
5 months ago
New! Threadcutters - elite tarot assassins Vesta Mandate - sci-fi political thriller on a space station
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/
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Corey They Them Brickley
5 months ago
good rpg writing is like a very delicate balance of train guy and theater kid
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Does everybody else get absolutely exhausted after running a playtest? GMing is a brain-drain as it is, being in design mode on top of that is rough I crashed at 9pm last night lmao
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Kat Abughazaleh
5 months ago
Good things are possible and we donโt have to settle.
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Sofia Elena
5 months ago
Halloween as Momo and Okarun from Dan Dan Dan ๐ค๐ป๐ฝ
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fight me!
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Jesse B. Miller
6 months ago
In neon across your vision, injected into /self/eyes/ad.socket "Zine on itch, zine on itch. Get. This. Zine. On. Itch." A short, brutal cyberpunk game for two Fight the impossibly powerful, not that you can win, but it's all you have left
storygameschicago.itch.io/cyphernoided...
#ttrpg
#zine
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Cyphernoided2600 by Storygames Chicago
A cyberpunk game of paranoia and cybernetics.
https://storygameschicago.itch.io/cyphernoided2600
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Storygames Chicago
6 months ago
If you missed us at Gamehole Con but wanna check out
#VestaMandate
our release sale will be running for two more days! Check it out along with all our other games, here on our Itch!
storygameschicago.itch.io/vesta-mandate
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Vesta Mandate by Storygames Chicago
Hard sci-fi, political thriller TTRPG set on the Tense Powder Keg of Vesta Station
https://storygameschicago.itch.io/vesta-mandate
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Corey They Them Brickley
6 months ago
its interesting watching people work out in real time that frictionless peaceful demonstrations are very easy to ignore regardless of size. Still worthwhile just as a way to get people involved but actual change requires us to be so difficult and annoying that people lose money
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lol that's the pic you chose huh fr tho say hi to us on your way to the food trucks!!
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onion person
6 months ago
watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, youโll win people over easily
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Chase
6 months ago
Question for people in the
#TTRPG
community: What're the best ways to accommodate accessibility when releasing a new game? Is it best to have a straight .txt file? Or are things like .doc and .docx better for using text to speech and other accessibility tools?
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Chase
6 months ago
If you havenโt seen it yet, check out the first five episodes of Gamestorm and their accompanying games! The sixth and seventh episode are a touch delayed but they should be coming soon!
gamestorm.podbean.com
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Gamestorm | Storygames Chicago
Gamestorm is a podcast all about tabletop game design! Join us for our first season as we bring on guests from here in the Chicago area, spin a random prompt and design a game based off of it over the...
https://gamestorm.podbean.com
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