Collin J Ryan
@collinjryan.bsky.social
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I design videogames and TTRPGs. Congenital relaxer, notorious yellow afficionado, also I like food
YEAH come talk about it im a lil exploration gremlin and I need it
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Jason Cordova
4 days ago
Also: I’m convinced whenever you see people come out of nowhere and have massive success in this industry, it’s because they had a trust fund, or they’re parachuting in from some other industry, or their dad is a marketing exec or something. Like, that’s almost *always* the case.
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𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚 🐟 (Comms open)
10 days 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 📶⚡
10 days ago
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Franck Besançon 🩸 Ecstasy&Agony artbook available!
10 days ago
Bounty Hunter.
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Stella
14 days ago
Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
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21 days ago
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Courtney (they/he) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
22 days 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 “fully armored” sorensen
about 1 month 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
about 1 month ago
Sasquatch Diaries Jan 3rd
sasquatchdiaries.neocities.org
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those COLORS!!!
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about 1 month ago
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honesty
about 1 month ago
hellgirl
#hellboy
#illustration
#anime
#art
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Corey They Them Brickley
about 1 month 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
about 1 month 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
My, 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
about 1 month ago
Let's fucking go
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i thiiiiiink it's Taco Bell Friday. feelin a mighty hankerin to Live Más
about 2 months ago
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Bits
about 2 months ago
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Aura/Moom
about 2 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
about 2 months ago
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Hushpuppy Art
2 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 a…
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Chris Schweizer
2 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
2 months ago
We’ve got a Storygames Chicago Giveaway Bundle, just in time for the Holidays! We’ll 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
2 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 🇵🇸
2 months ago
shareholders
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Storygames Chicago
2 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 🐀 👑
3 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 “?”
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Indie Press Revolution
3 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
3 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
3 months ago
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Kat Abughazaleh
3 months ago
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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Sofia Elena
3 months ago
Halloween as Momo and Okarun from Dan Dan Dan 🖤👻👽
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fight me!
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Jesse B. Miller
4 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
4 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
4 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
4 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, you’ll win people over easily
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Chase
4 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
4 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
5 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
5 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
6 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!
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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
6 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.
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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
6 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
6 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
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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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6 months ago
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Rise Up Comus - CASTLE AUTOMATIC Crowdfunding Now!
7 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
8 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
8 months ago
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jamelle
8 months ago
very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
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