All 35 talks from THINKY CON, about making puzzle games, are on YouTube: thinkygames.com/news/all-35-... #puzzlegames #gamedev

Roguelike Celebration is happening today and my awesome friend Johnathan is giving this inspiring talk (gonna be a great time). www.roguelike.club

Nice! Looking forward to reading a deep dive on a tough design space many designers engage with.

"Which would you rather play, a GMless or a diceless RPG" To which I say, "why not both" To which you say, "examples please" Leaving out (checks notes) every single one of my games, let me throw out a few. If I miss your favs, chime in!

Hey it's #SteamSale! You can get 🔥 IMMORTALITY for $9.99 👁️ TELLING LIES for $4.99 ☕ HER STORY for $4.99 & wishlist Project C and Project D whilst you are there... It's a good time to play good games in the present and wish for good games in the future! ✨ store.steampowered.com/developer/Sa...

Wow, Alien Earth started out so strong but has sure gotten real dumb the last couple episodes...

It’s an honor to help launch this series with @anasalter.bsky.social

⬇️ 🚨🚨Heads up, this sale ends tonight!🚨🚨 This is a _rare_ occasion when my physical books are on sale as well my digital stuff (probably increasingly rare if the tariff situation continues to worsen).

good morning, i wrote a manifesto about a new direction for game design / play possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...

I cannot recommend Aaron's books enough, they are fantastic games and 50 years of text games is an amazing dive into the history of games that has largely been left out of the popular consciousness

Reminder: my #BookSale this weekend includes: 🚪 Subcutanean, spooky novel that changes for each reader: subcutanean.textories.com ⚔️ Downcrawl 2E, #TTRPG of underworld exploration: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... 💾 50 Years of Text Games, history of interactive fiction: if50.textories.com

ReSkies or NuBlues or whatever they're called on here much appreciated 🙏

#Downcrawl2E Adventure Zine #2 is here (and ON SALE for launch week)! Explore a new underworld region clinging to an endless roof over bottomless void, in the legendary place Where The Rock Stops. #ttrpg #hexcrawl #DriveThruRPG www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... and SPEAKING OF SALES... (1/2)

our game about DEAD GODS and TAKING BILLIONAIRES TO COURT FOR THEIR CRIMES is in the graun!! thx @yourkyotowife.bsky.social for a thoughtful write-up touching on our complex conversational systems & how joy + rage power transformation 🔥 @allwillrise.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/games/2025/a...

@aaronareed.bsky.social's Downcrawl has blown me away with its simultaneous simplicity and complexity. --- Name a #TTRPG creator (designer, writer, illustrator, etc) you are currently obsessed with and a short point about why. I'll go first!

I hiked the 211-mile John Muir Trail #JMT in the Sierra Nevada this summer, and made a video montage of thirty-second clips from each day of my trip: youtu.be/KXIiEFTvQ64

Look, some of you are sickos banging on the window at night, saying YES to more games like King of Dragon Pass and YES to kaleidoscopic psychopomp journeys into underworlds so you gotta say YES to Thousand Hells, it's the law

Lucky enough to be one of the writers involved in bringing this wild stygian world to life! If you've ever wanted to barter with a dead swan god or infiltrate the fortress where souls go to be flensed, wishlist this game...

About to fulfill a long-time dream by hiking the John Muir Trail through the Sierra Nevada. If you need me, I'll be back in August. 😎🌲🏔️

Great coverage of #Downcrawl2E from The Dungeon Dive with this video walkthrough explaining the game in detail and playing through a few moves as Bartok the Brother Botanist! #ttrpg youtu.be/_zuQYhMwTgs?...

The cool conference: narrascope.org Link to toss them some $$ to keep the lights on: iftechfoundation.org/give/ This is a great org and event! If you support narrative in games, every little bit helps!

Biggest things I liked about Arc: * Not having to care abt the difference between tab/bookmark/history (there's just pages, some starred, some active) * Different workspaces 4 diff sets of pages * Auto-pruning old tabs (I used to use an extension for this) Any recs for similar browsers/workflows?

Pour one out today for the Arc browser, which elegantly solved a number of web surfing frustrations using clever human design ingenuity. Officially discontinued today in favor of an AI clownshow. Getting so goddamn sick of this hypewagon paving over everything beautiful and useful.

Traditional post-#TTRPG con list of characters I played this weekend: * speedy cartoon ferret * post-apocalyptic battle twink * sad vampire from 1600s China * high school friend who moved away * avenging bard with violin crossbow * changeling troll This is objectively the best hobby

Played "500 Year Old Vampire" by @timhutchings.bsky.social at #KublaCon with a truly glorious arts and crafts spread provided by our GM, best letter writing and vision boarding game about being a sad vampire and sad vampire historian ever

Today is the last day for in-person registration for NarraScope. (Registration for remote attendance is open until June 18th.) narrascope.org

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

Andrew is a true legend of interactive storytelling; if you're working on anything to do with dynamic narrative systems, you'd be lucky to have him.

I feel like these two things, and the fact that I don't understand how they can both be true, say a lot about me: 1. Whenever I take out my wireless headphones out I always take pains to put them immediately back in the case, and the case right back in my bag 2. The headphones are never in my bag

A friend of mine from grad school gathers oral histories from overlooked people in a homemade shantyboat. He's raising funds to get the project going again post-Covid. Pitch in if you can & spread the word! We need this kind of project more than ever. www.kickstarter.com/projects/wmo...

Six months of DOGE and yet it is apparently still efficient for the government to generate a flurry of mailings, checks, and auditor time to officially notify me that I have overpaid my taxes by $1.00

About to run the first ever playtest of a new game, such early days I didn't even want to put a version number on it. Always a bit terrifying but it's great to stop dreaming a new dream alone and start doing it together...

Oozing tendrils squirming through every corner of the Deep, Deep Down, and only you can stop them. "The Hypogean Solution" is an Adventure Zine for the #Downcrawl2E #TTRPG that lets you ride an undersea railroad, make strange new friends, and meet a slime god. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Great coverage of #Downcrawl2E solo play from streamer Man Alone: "one of the most magical delving toolkits I have seen ... Did I mention these are the best solo oracle cards OF ALL TIME?!?!" (blushing!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s_X...

Joining the chorus saying don't sleep on the movie Sinners & see it on a big screen with a big sound system if possible. Especially if you're feeling down about making art in the face of generative AI or resisting systems that feel overwhelmingly stacked against you. (And stay all thru the credits.)

And the cards are here too! Big, readable, colorful, and chock full of information. Also, cards with instructions on how to use them on the table, always useful! Here are the basic Downcrawl Deck, the Even Deeper Deck, the Encounter Deck and the early bird bonus cards! LOTS OF CARDS! #TTRPG #solorpg

Never thought the question of "are interactive fictions books or games" might end up bankrupting me & my industry. (Analysis of extremely real open questions right now re: if TTRPGs classify as books or "parts and accessories" of games.) www.enworld.org/threads/do-t...

Getting rumblings that backlogged #Downcrawl2E hardcovers are finally starting to ship from the US printer. Thanks for everyone's patience, they should all be in your hands soon!!

Like everyone else I am also playing Blue Prince, and in completely unrelated news, the shopping and laundry that was supposed to happen this weekend is still not done

Got a review of #Downcrawl2E #ttrpg (thanks!) that thought the cover art was too garish (aww) so I made this minimalist version totally not inspired by #Traveller as a joke. Honestly it kinda works! (The actual cover: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... )

Just backed this #GMless #TTRPG about scheming nobles. Schedule future duels & confrontations on the "Public Record" of upcoming events (love how this adds foreshadowing) & you actually *tear off pieces* of rivals' charsheets when you act against them. Love it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ada...

Is it a normal thing to edit your Discord messages 4-7 times after posting because you keep noticing minor grammar/spelling errors and thinking of better phrasings to improve the flow and more clearly communicate your ideas, or am I a writer

I wrote about tariffs, and the impact they might or might not have on hobby games rowanrookanddecard.com/what-the-new...

Sorry for all the #Downcrawl related posts lately, but: I've got a web store up to sell remaining leftover bonus items from the crowdfunding campaign! If you wanted some sweet metal map coins, dice, the Delver's Guide, or other swag, grab it before it's gone! aaronareed.net/store/

After a long journey (appropriate), 🚨 Downcrawl 2E #TTRPG & the Downcrawl Decks are now live for sale in print & digital!! 🚨 * Build a weird, wondrous underworld, alone or together * Journey System for dangerous travels * Optional rules for solo or GM-less play www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

After a long journey (appropriate), 🚨 Downcrawl 2E #TTRPG & the Downcrawl Decks are now live for sale in print & digital!! 🚨 * Build a weird, wondrous underworld, alone or together * Journey System for dangerous travels * Optional rules for solo or GM-less play www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Migrating the TTRPG collection onto a new shelf that was supposed to have more room but I may have a problem

Found in old files: flier made by my local movie theater in spring 1999, after they learned hundreds of #StarWars geeks had started setting up tents in the parking lot across the street, the day before advance tickets to Phantom Menace went on sale. OCR'd version: pastebin.com/SR7GqtJq

Just launched: lovely project by a local small press celebrating banned books by women over the last thousand years, hand-printed and bound. Mmmm the textures... looks gorgeous. www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...

Downcrawl 2E is (somewhat awkwardly from a design consistency perspective) kinda 4 games in 1: a #TTRPG you can run GM'd, GM-less, or solo (w/slightly different moves for each), & a standalone worldbuilding game ("Downcrawl Worlds") for when you just want to invent some haunted telepathic snailfolk