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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IPR @ PAX Unplugged 3701
1 day 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
4 days 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
16 days ago
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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Sofia Elena
18 days ago
Halloween as Momo and Okarun from Dan Dan Dan 🖤👻👽
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fight me!
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Jesse B. Miller
28 days 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
about 1 month 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
about 1 month 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
about 1 month 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, you’ll win people over easily
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Chase
about 1 month 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
about 2 months ago
If you haven’t 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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onion person
2 months ago
99% of the culture war from the right is them going out of their way to look at stuff that they don’t need to look at that just ends up making them mad
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Chase
3 months ago
If you haven't checked it out yet, go listen to my new podcast about game creation, Gamestorm! We have 4 of 7 episodes out in the first season and I hope to do many more seasons! Share it with a friend who might like it or check out the
Itch.io
for a look at the games!
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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Chase
3 months ago
The second episode of Gamestorm is out now! Check it out if you liked the first or haven't taken a listen yet. Share it with a friend if you know someone who might like it!
gamestorm.podbean.com/e/co-opt-exi...
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Co-opt Existing Board Game Pieces - Jesse B. Miller | Gamestorm
In our second episode Jesse and I tackle the idea of co-opting the pieces of existing games to build an RPG, similar to games like Dread and its iconic use of a Jenga tower. Join us as we talk about e...
https://gamestorm.podbean.com/e/co-opt-existing-board-game-pieces-jesse-b-miller/
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Chase
3 months ago
Another episode of Gamestorm is coming tomorrow, with
@jessebmiller.bsky.social
as a guest and lots of talk about Monopoly for some reason. If you haven't caught up check out the first episode here.
gamestorm.podbean.com/e/a-game-for...
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A Game for Whoever can Make it - Collin Ryan | Gamestorm
Join us for our first episode of Gamestorm as we dive deep on our first prompt, a game for whoever can show up! Follow along as we tease out different ideas and talk through the design of our game. If...
https://gamestorm.podbean.com/e/a-game-for-whoever-can-make-it-collin-ryan/
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Louisa
3 months ago
the new punchdrunk project drew inspo from immortality and blue prince.... the fact that it is in london and not nyc is homophobia against me personally
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Chase
4 months ago
Gamestorm is out now! On all (most) your favorite podcasting apps! Each new episode sees my guest and I spin a random mechanic and design a tabletop game from scratch. You can find the first episode with
@collinjryan.bsky.social
here!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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A Game for Whoever can Make it - Collin Ryan
Podcast Episode · Gamestorm · 08/06/2025 · 1h 4m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-game-for-whoever-can-make-it-collin-ryan/id1831608736?i=1000720957335
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4 months ago
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Rise Up Comus is at PaxU
4 months ago
I am a technical writer as my day job. On my weekends, I write RPG nonsense. Here is a post about good technical writing from non-RPG sources that I draw on inspiration from:
riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2025/07/info...
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Information Architecture in Non-RPG Books
Technical writing is a profession that is literally hundreds of years old at this point. Interestingly, the essential techniques and fundame...
https://riseupcomus.blogspot.com/2025/07/information-architecture-in-non-rpg.html
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Sandy Pug Games
5 months ago
so like 150~ people managed to cost the state $135mil and grind the logistics of three branches of the state armed forces to a halt all over the strategical territory of a single home depot parking lot, using like 10 shopping carts and some smashed up rubble on the road? Interesting interesting
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Best of Dying Twitter
6 months ago
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jamelle
6 months ago
very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
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Jay
6 months ago
OH MY FUCKING GOOOODDDDDDDDD MATSUNO YOU ARE THE ETERNAL GOAT
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Shadaloo Dumpster Fire
6 months ago
Soul Calibur announcer voice:
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red-headed chough 𓅰
6 months ago
Took this as a joke but it's legitimately one of the best pics I've taken of his cosplay sorry
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Zalmon ザモン
about 1 year ago
#animation
#art
#mecha
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11 months ago
Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!
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Leafie🍂
6 months ago
the healing power of going "man, who gives a shitt" and moving on
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fiiiiinally got on here... Kicking it off with a bang with my writeup for the Storygames Chicago newsletter!
open.substack.com/pub/storygam...
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Pasión de las Pasiones and the Magic of Questions
A case for removing stats from your next Powered by the Apocalypse game
https://open.substack.com/pub/storygameschicago/p/pasion-de-las-pasiones-and-the-magic?r=5bo6lp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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