Piuma fragment. Overisles, 2023. #ttrpg #indierpg #fantasyart

Hi I wrote about the making of classic platformerChuckie Egg and talked to its creator Nigel Alderton. Please give it a read as I want to show there’s an audience for this gaming history stuff 🙏 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

@generalwitch.bsky.social I listened to your excellent Horror Express episode today (bit behind) and weirdly found the film on iPlayer. Giggling along now. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

This is gold dust thank you. Where do I start?

This week I’ve been avoiding Americans in Italy (hard), while Aled’s been avoiding his children at home (impossible). Here’s another dose of design-adjacent links and thoughts for your weary souls including Paula Sher, The Stone Tape, Design Reviewed book and rats. pook.design/the-wood-pil...

I completely love this mag. Please support weird shit.

Snowy Vesuvius

Here is a preview of Pook Fat (or Pook Chonk) in development in Glyphs. Coming some time this century from @pook.design 😜

Yet another Pook newsletter has sloughed from its fetid egg sack and slopped into being. Enjoy!

The Shire has gone full on Spring Mode just like our website. We've been beavering away on an app design project. We have a new iPad which is as disappointing as Google's new AI design tool Stitch. At least there are now Tintin LEGO minifigs in the world. pook.design/the-wood-pil...

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a whopping 55% off in the Steam Spring sale! 💀⛏️🩸 It's a great time to check out our folk horror adventure set on the moors of Northern England. The answers lie in the soil...

Client request for email signature – 100% grumpiness guaranteed. Ask for animation and expect fury.

In other news Ralph is thirteen today.

Books of February. Kingmaker – Winter Pilgrims by Toby Clements – Medieval romp; TMI on anal fistula removal – 3/5 The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers – sweary crime gang saga; Happy Valley the early years – 3/5 What We Can Know by Ian McEwan – Sci-fi with flooded UK drowning in nostalgia – 5/5

I just cleaned out under the kitchen bookshelf and have retrieved the ultimate in middle class detritus: A LEGO space nose cone, a collection of oil painting brushes, an Apple Airpod Pro earpiece and a sad-looking kumquat.

Sökning @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social freeleaguepublishing.com/shop/the-cal...

Sunday Dooodles

That was a steaming load of Pollocks

Sweet 16. Although it's not sweet, it's full of bees. Who should be sweet but are in fact very bitter. About this government. Also Indie foundries*, future maps and a Dig Dug clone by yours truly. pook.design/the-wood-pil... * This appears to be shutdown!

It's half term and Bug and I made a silly game called Dig Bug. digbug.netlify.app

Ships of Innsmouth print (99% there I think). Feedback welcome. #ArtPrints #Innsmouth #Illustration

Dig Dug by Bug 🐞 👾

🎉 New Blogpost 🎉 Building Typographic Scales in CSS with :heading(), sibling-index(), and pow() www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/bui... What if we could create a typographic scale for headings with one line of CSS? One rule to scale them all. #CSS #FrontEnd #WebDev

Bug just got into Stranger Things.

I think I've gone a bit mad reading this book. I have added some more real and imagined locations to the map. The novel is really McEwan's best in years and I highly recommend it. It reminds me of David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas) with more nobbing and less clones.

Finally… www.lego.com/en-gb/produc...

I'm currently reading What we can know by Ian McEwan and idly wondered, as you do, what it would look like round here if Marlborough was indeed a port. Here's a preview of 2119. flooded-britain-2119.netlify.app

After a week of Figma and Google Docs we are ready for the weekend. This week's 15th newsletter brings you another stupid Groundnut Scheme idea from an "architect" who should know better, a dotty duo from Quebec and some brilliant TV to distract you from the world. pook.design/the-wood-pil...

Joined-up shreddies is a genius bit of nostalgia #smallprophets

Time for bin juice

I can’t believe I have never watched this film. A delight. It’s on BBC iPlayer. Why are you still here? boxd.it/1q6K

Did you know that a gap in the bottom of a hedge made by small animals is called a smeuse in some parts of the UK? This and other vital facts are free of charge when you sign up to @pook.design newsletters from The Woodpile.

This is the best trailer song ever. The end. store.steampowered.com/app/2397300/...

I was just using Acrobat for, you know, print production, but realised I should have, of course, been generating a podcast. #sillyme

Minifig Nige!

We ❤️ Powerpoint * Hey sign up to @pook.design's newsletter and get actual physical pixels pooted through your digital inbox every week. *😭

This 1000 album thing is going to kill me. Van Halen eponymous cowpat followed by Jackson's 1979 solo effort. 1001albumsgenerator.com/the-pook-boy...

“Your LinkedIn Network Will Be Back Soon” Can it not?

Bluerrgh open.spotify.com/track/6BEguk...

Last week's comic. I'm new to The Traitors and predictably loved every minute of it

Filth #bskybeer

This is joyful. Warning — may contain Corgis

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"No, for real, I am," said grim-faced Aragorn, grimly. Then he trod the Paths of the Dead and it was, like, totally fine? @marshdavies.bsky.social This marshwiggle made me giggle thanks

Possibly the only MR James adaptation I've never managed to track down...

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Limited numbers of the Hob's Barrow super deluxe physical Switch edition, soundtrack vinyl and art print are still available to pre-order via Lost in Cult! Not long now until they become a physical reality 👀 www.lostincult.co.uk/shop/hobs-ba...

Jessieeeeeeeee!

How it started ----> How its going