It's our 18th birthday today! Exilian was named and founded on March 18 2008 :) Here's to many more years of creative geekery in our little community to come!

Starting very soon with our Friday evening workshop session! Looking forward to an exciting weekend with everyone :)

Very excited for this: @unormal.bsky.social and I will be on a panel at Coding Medieval Worlds 6, a workshop bringing historians and game devs together all virtual, Feb 21st and 22nd

Looking forward to everyone's presentations and to chairing the panel on Communication and Information next weekend ☺️

Next weekend, I`ll be having some fun with a bunch of other game devs and historians!

Happy Cyril & Methodius Day! As on every Feb 14, it's an excellent day to tell the linguists in your life that you appreciate them, to learn a language, read a book, recommend one to a friend, invent an alphabet, or more things besides. :) exilian.co.uk/forum/index....

Looking forward to Coding Medieval Worlds 6, now one week away! We've got a great array of panels and discussions on this year's theme, including on research for #GameDev, history as mechanics, and getting information across to players! Find out about these events at: exilian.co.uk/codingworlds/

If you're a voting member of Exilian, please go to the voting area of the forum sometime in the coming week and vote, this year's committee election has now begun! If you're not a voting member and want to know about it or about how we run, do give us a shout and we're happy to answer questions :)

Anyone got thoughts or ideas on small pots of money a mostly-online creatives' org could apply for to support running costs? @exilianofficial.bsky.social runs on about three people's small donations and rising costs are swamping that at the moment. Boosts welcome! #nonProfit #creatives #organising

🌟 Spotlight: @exilianofficial.bsky.social We're extending the deadline for places for CODING MEDIEVAL WORLDS 6, a free workshop and discussion forum for historians and game developer... 👉 https://bsky.app/profile/exilianofficial.bsky.social/post/3mbalm5vzs22y #IndieSpotlight

Let people know about your work! In the next few days we'll be writing the next Exilian newsletter and if you have an indie game, book, music, comic, or other thing to tell people about, we can help you tell people about it! #WritingCommunity #GameDev #IndieDev #AmWriting #Comics #MastoArt

We're extending the deadline for places for CODING MEDIEVAL WORLDS 6, a free workshop and discussion forum for historians and game developers taking place on February 21-22! You now have until Jan 25th to ask to join :) #Medieval #GameDev #IndieDev #Gaming #History

New article! We have a book review of Predators, Reapers, and Deadlier Creatures, a fantasy-realism tragicomic tale set amidst the horrors of the wars in Afghanistan, and an interview the author, poet and war veteran Matthew James Jones. You can read the piece here: exilian.co.uk/article.php?...

Announcing CODING MEDIEVAL WORLDS 6, our next workshop for historians and game developers! It'll be 20th-22nd February next year, and if you're an interested historian or dev we'd like to see you there! Please share widely to friends, all questions welcome :) #GameDev #Medieval

One of our members, indiekid, has a maths/game balancing puzzle he'd like help with. Any ideas on this? Boosts very appreciated! exilian.co.uk/forum/index....

Looking for a creative community online beyond social media? Check out Exilian!

Our latest newsletter is out! We have several new little TTRPGs to report, more new free music and images for your projects, and new writing and music from our community too! Check all that out here: exilian.co.uk/forum/index....

We've updated the look of our exilian.co.uk homepage for the first time in somewhat over a decade! There's also a new look for exilian.co.uk/articles.php with the same new theme. We hope you like the new look! Thanks to SOTK for helping get this sorted :)

Updates from the Forge 58 is now out! You can discover new #GameDev and creative writing projects and resources in each issue of these community newsletters. And if you'd like your project featured for autumn, just drop by and post it on Exilian sometime :) Read on: exilian.co.uk/forum/index....

In the coming days we'll be writing our next quarterly newsletter! If you have a creative project or resource that you'd like to be included, just drop in and post about it over the course of this weekend. Questions welcome :) exilian.co.uk/forum/index.... #GameDev #TTRPG #AmWriting

Very happy to once again be sponsoring and web-hosting this great event - looking forward to many great papers in the coming days! :)

Sounds like an amazing newsletter! ✨ I love discovering new indie gems and supporting creative communities. Keep up the fantastic work! 🌟 #SFF #IndieGames #Creativity

Our latest Updates from the Forge newsletter is out! Discover new SFF fiction, indie games, art, and more besides from the wonderful creative folk of the Exilian community :) exilian.co.uk/forum/index....

Learning that the game 'Strange Sickness' (strangesickness.com) was partially inspired by that chaotic Handforth zoom council meeting (www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCjM...) is DELIGHTFUL. #CMW2025 // @exilianofficial.bsky.social

I’ve been thinking about self promotion and how doing it worries some folks. Here’s my thinking from 25 yrs, for what it’s worth. Do you think what you’re making is worthy of someone’s attention? We could even reduce that down to worthy of the attention of someone who might like it? 1/looooong

New piece in our articles section! Not so much an article as the EXILIAN ROMANTASY BLURB GENERATOR, which can create hundreds of possible Romantasy plots and characters for you to be amused by or ponder genre tropes over! Have a go and let us know what you think :) exilian.co.uk/forum/index....

Happy feast day of Cyril & Methodius, everyone! We celebrate their day every year as a non-denominational Feb 14 alternative of languages, learning, and books. Want to learn a new alphabet or tell a linguist you appreciate their work? Today's the day! Find out more: exilian.co.uk/forum/index....

New article! You may have heard of the Two Cows Theory, in which political systems are jokingly "explained" using the idea of a person with two cows and how their life is affected. But what if this idea set were applied to the realms of medieval Europe? We find out! exilian.co.uk/forum/index....

Just a few days left to get entries in for our winter competition! Details here: exilian.co.uk/forum/index....

Announcing our winter competition! Until Feb 9th do send us *any* creative response to the theme of ICEBOUND Guest judges are @clioem.bsky.social and @goldkarattv.bsky.social: the prize is an ebook of Books & Bone donated by cosy SFF author Veo Corva! Find out more: exilian.co.uk/forum/index....

Our latest newsletter of creative geekery is out! Our quarterly newsletters like this one feature crafts, game dev, writing, discussions, and support/resources for creativity from across our community. Check it out - and do share/reskeet if you like what you see! exilian.co.uk/forum/index....

New article! You may have heard of the Two Cows Theory, in which political systems are jokingly "explained" using the idea of a person with two cows and how their life is affected. But what if this idea set were applied to the realms of medieval Europe? We find out! exilian.co.uk/forum/index....

My friend @jubalbarca.bsky.social has released a free game on steam! The Exile Princes. "It's a quirky, old school medievaly sandbox RPG offering lots of choices, procedural worlds and characters, weird little medieval guys, and more besides." #indiegames store.steampowered.com/app/2824620/...

Today on #wishlistwednesday: 🎨 A sneak peek of a new scene from Legends of Castile and a "kindly" reminder that only 5️⃣🕔 days are left in our crowdfunding campaign! Back us or share this to help us reach our goal 🙌⏬ tiny.cc/legends-ks

Taking the scenic route through Stormveil Castle. #EldenRing #PhotoTour

Service announcement: our exilian.co.uk forums and website may have limited to no availability from tomorrow (Sunday 24th November) until Tuesday 26th November. This maintenance period is for us to move to new & improved web hosting. Thanks and see you on the other side!

We made a little starter pack of the Exilian community who are here on Bluesky :) Including some lovely devs, thinkers, and world-builders, do check them out! go.bsky.app/5n5vbaK We'll grow this list over time: let us know if you're a member on our forums or guest at our events & not added here!

We've tried a couple times to make a little starter pack consisting of our Exilian community creatives & members but it keeps giving a "failed to create starter pack" note. Anyone know what causes that?

So a Worldbuilding Starter Pack. Bit low on people so far though! go.bsky.app/MLMT5uE

Anyway to creative folks that are trying to do their own thing and feel overwhelmed in business spaces: you aren't failing if you can't keep up perfectly, your voice is vital and we need more of it. You'll find your rhythm as you go, but please please don't diminish yourself 💜

Introduction! We're Exilian, a community of creative geekery that has existed on the web since 2008. We have our own little webforums, you can join us there at exilian.co.uk :) We're a non-profit, community-owned group with a mission of supporting curiosity and creativity in all their forms.