Put together my first photography #zine tonight, featuring photos I took on different weekend trips to Cape Cod, mid-coast Maine, and lakeside New Hampshire this fall! 💫

"Roman Hyacinths" has been my handle since I started making art and videogames half a decade ago... and last week I got a thigh tattoo of hyacinth flowers in a Roman-esque bowl 🪻🏺✨

Scrabdackle's new Act 1 trailer is out!! I'm SO excited about it, it was really fun to put together! You can check it out on the Steam page below - it's really finally looking like a real game ready to launch!! 😊 store.steampowered.com/app/1578720/... #indiegames #godotengine #indiedev #gamedev

⚔️TIME ⚔️ TO ⚔️ RECLAIM ⚔️ YOUR ⚔️ BRAIN⚔️ Blanksword's Steam Demo & Kickstarter Campaign just launched as of RIGHT NOW! Play the Demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3484670/... Preorder the game on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/283... Join the Discord: discord.gg/ftmCfsupyv

pretty pictures from a weekend on #CapeCod — probably going to make a small photography zine of New England spots once I free up a bit!

stoked to vote in local city elections! :) #Somerville

BIG NEWS! Moon Rings playing card decks are available now! Edition of 100, standard 52-card deck. Can be used for playing Moon Rings or for any reason you'd use a card deck. Get them from the game's itch page. Shipping to the U.S. only atm Please share! junkfoodgames.itch.io/moon-rings

This is just a test room I set up while debugging yesterday. It's not even in the game. But the VIBES... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #GodotEngine

An epistolary visual novel I made for my mom last year is in this wonderful #indiegame anthology! Check it out ☺️

Dive again into the world of indie games with Indiepocalypse #68! -10 curated games for $15! -Zine! -Newly commissioned game by olszoj​​ (olszoj.mmm.page) -Cover by CharleyJadeIllustrations (charleyjadeartistry.com) pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-68

Incredibly grateful to @pcgamer.com for sharing about our Games for Palestine charity bundle. Thank you so much for the coverage!! ❤️ www.pcgamer.com/games/you-ca...

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Played this analog mystery game by @smolghost.bsky.social last night! Had a blast figuring out what happened as we explored envelopes, sketches, floor plans, photos, newspaper clippings etc., getting increasingly sucked in and excited as the story unfolded. Tight game design all around!

What a handy little mouse you are! Restore your burrow and decorate it how you like 🐭🔨🪑

branding for the pixel doodle zine with a new score: Bates 56 with a 4.25” reach for binding 8.5” wide pages in half. 
#art #1bit #blackandwhite #oc #pixels #pixelart #doodle #pixelicons #icons #digitalart #illustration #artist #dada #fluxus #zines #perzine #dotchke #60grid #webapp #solodev #stapler

@azurexis.bsky.social's game Paper Animal Adventure just launched on Steam! I was honored to make 3 songs for this wonderful project (2 remixes from the charming original OST by Mothense, plus a short action theme) - and I can say the game is REALLY fun! store.steampowered.com/app/1982120/...

I'm doing GMTK Jam this year! In my game you play as a drifter musician who finds a genie. You wish for your music to change the world, so the genie creates a banjo that has the power to warp space into loops (and therefore "change the world") #gmtk #gamejam #indiedev #gamedev #unity3d

Ah yes, the first video game AIs: Blinky, who chases Pac-Man, Pinky, who tries to get in front of him, Inky, who tries to flank you, and Claude, who generates a trail of bullet points and em-dashes and occasionally veers into white supremacist rhetoric.

The Wholesome Games Celebration on Steam will return August 7-14! Now in its third year, this event features world premiere game announcements, new releases, discounts, and demos ⬇️

I often look at and admire this mini poster made by @romanhyacinths.bsky.social that was inspired by my game Wither & Grow! I need to get a frame for it!

today i painted an alpine dam 💧 #alps #painting #gouache #summeralpschallenge #mountainart

I just backed The APWOT Trilogy Reprint by @apwot.bsky.social on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz...

@dodoot.bsky.social's Kabuto Park is delightful. It honestly reminds me of what summers used to feel like as a child — especially the unbridled joy of being able to lose track of time exploring the knuckle of woods in my sun-soaked backyard, filling my pockets with cool rocks and leaves.

Increase your wisdom score with The Explorateur, my rpg newsletter for designers, writers, and layout artists. This issue has some meaty reviews, a treasure trove of inspirational resources, and a pile of links you'll bookmark if you haven't already. www.explorersdesign.com/the-explorat...

🪲🌻🌲 Kabuto Park is OUT NOW! 🐞🪷🎉 🪲 Catch the cutest and strongest bugs 🐞 Win the tiniest sumo fights 🐝 Collect, upgrade and enjoy summer I am so proud of this little game, it means so much to me 💕 Share with your friends 💌 #indiedev #indiegame

Check out this amazing mini poster that @romanhyacinths.bsky.social made for my solo game, Wither & Grow! A very lovely gift! Also! Their zine Dirt Cheap Wands is really cool! It has a vellum paper cover, which I love to see used in zines.

went on a beautiful day trip to Plum Island today and hiked to Julia Street! 🦪

I just backed Galactic & Going Rogue: Two TTRPGs of War Among the Stars by @jumpgategames.itch.io Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gal...

I just backed Knapsack Magazine, Volume 2: Butter by @luckypocketpress.bsky.social on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/luc...

I might have been the only games grantee, but it was great to meet folks with different creative practices at @masscultural.bsky.social's event! Would highly recommend MA-based #gamedev / #TTRPG folks to look into the grant for future years — it's a completely unrestricted $5,000 award!

New zine in hand. @romanhyacinths.bsky.social ‘s Dirt Cheap Wands is so fun and my daughter claimed it immediately. A trade for my three doodle zines. A bargain, really, the production value of this is 🔥 #zine #zines #fanzine #fanzines #writingcommunity #booksky #indie

Made a limited batch of iridescent business cards! Going to be bringing some of these to the @masscultural.bsky.social creative individuals grants celebration later today 🥳

Do you make weird, artsy, short-form videogames? Or know someone who does? Check out this new zine project I've been working on (intended to kind of bridge poetry/academia/art world/indie games) - and consider submitting a game for the first issue! www.gamepoems.org

clearly had no choice but to dress up as my indie game jam group's bird mascot for my roommate's bird-day party 😌💅

A bunch of cool stuff just dropped over at Knave of Cups today! One of those cool things is our latest solo game, Moon Rings! Go check it out!

I just wrote a short tutorial/review of how I delivered the Jukebox PDF to 688 backers and set up community copies on itch: jarofeyes.substack.com/p/jukebox-pd... Also, 223 Jukebox community copies, funded by the immense generosity of Jukebox backers, were just released ✨🎤 (see 🧵)

Made a print this morning for my bird-loving roommate's birthday using some of @byjessicaelena.bsky.social's brushes and textures! The birthday gal is the yellow bird (thoughtful and inquisitive), I'm the red one (bold and derpy), and our other roommate is the green one (creative and fun) 🦜

Got some amazing doodle zines by @macwebbdesign.bsky.social in the mail yesterday! 🙂‍↕️ (Ripped cover is my own fault 😭)

Hosting 5 indie TTRPG one shots this summer for friends, including HUNT by @gilarpgs.bsky.social, LAST TRAIN TO BREMEN by @seaexcursion.itch.io, Cowboys with Big Hearts by @bullypulpithq.bsky.social, Here We Used to Fly by @kurtrefling.bsky.social, and CRASH PANDAS by @gshowitt.bsky.social 👀✨

Working on a second fake shopping catalog zine for wacky magical items — this time magical rings — and I keep on making myself giggle as I work on the combos section lol

Got a handful of beautiful zines in the mail yesterday that I'm excited to dig into! 🌞 Four TTRPGs on the left by @junkfoodgames.bsky.social and a shiny perzine on the right by Commonplace Zines ✨

"one of these days I'll get a huge U-shaped desk" I feverishly mutter to myself as I spread my zine-making mess across my bedroom floor

I finally put out an article about a game design thing! I have a bunch of these stored up but they often end up in editing purgatory. This one has escaped! Output Randomness: Game Designers should know how to use it. open.substack.com/pub/ezraszan...

Just added 5 new ttrpg zines to the shop! Two setting adventures, a magic item collection, fantasy character drawing guide, and a shadowdark one shot! www.jpcoovert.com

a moth — painted in gouache with details in colored pencil! ✨

Little felt composition from a while back!! #art #textileart

I'm absolutely mesmerized by these holographic cat bookmarks I just made lol

fragment: remix of 1880s japanese firework catalogue from the public domain review

Shipping six copies of this zine out tomorrow! 📫💫

Made my second-ever #zine — a 14-page fake shopping catalog for wacky magical wands! Kept making myself laugh while writing these descriptions 🫣