In "Twisty Little Passages", Nick Montfort gives history of interactive fiction from the late 70s to the early 2000s, starting with ADVENTURE and ZORK, through the commercial heyday ruled by Infocom, and ending in an era of indie IF written for a niche audience. 💙📚 #bookreview @docmofo.bsky.social

My daughter brought this cool book home from school called something like Great Labyrinth.

They should make the star fox characters puppets again

wrote about unc, and the way that the internet works as an accelerator of cultural appropriation aftermath.site/unc-aave-afr...

JUST LAUNCHED on Kickstarter! Arcs is back and weirder than ever! Featuring a suite of strange new expansions, screen printed pieces, and beautiful deluxe add-ons. Go Beyond the Reach! www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...

Thinking about it again, Battle Hunter on the ps1 was basically a turn based extraction game wasn’t it?

nice words by @watcherdm.com on the cairn adventure anthology I am delighted to be in with @zedecksiew.bsky.social and @bradkerr.net, thanks again to @yochaigal.bsky.social for letting us get weird!

Eat shit, lol, and long live The Onion.

Imagine if for the steam drill to work, there had to be more jobs done by people hammering the drills by hand than there were done by steam drills.

Make a jump check. If you succeed, you did.

You’re not sticking to graphics when you stick to graphics.

One weird trick: Get the hell off Bluesky and get out and about. We are all so desperately out-and-about deprived.

I'm considering bringing a design/writing partner on for Tacticians of Ahm to get it across the finish line later this year. If we've worked together in the past, reach out if you are interested! This would be finalizing the near-complete rulebook and expanding our the rest of the adventure/setting.

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Officially added to the list of places I need to eat at whenever I'm next on the East Coast. @gregoryawilson.com: putting this on your radar for whenever you're looking for a quick lunch or dinner after work?

Hi I'm Stella. You can find me all over the web. This is my personal account and pretty much the only social media website I am active on currently. However I am on other spaces, here's a small thread of where to find me.

Somehow, Resident Evil Requiem still has no ass shots only run uploaded to YT. Everyone’s wasting their time practicing head and knee shots.

Did you know that in D&D if you guess what face of the die an enemy’s attack roll will land on before it’s rolled, you parry the attack and avoid all of its effects in the game?

big update to violence. shooting is better. melee is better. cleaned up and split up. expect a bunch more violence shit in june '26. lukegearing.blot.im/violence

A thread of non-obvious things that either influenced BREAK!! and/or make for good BREAK!! inspiration in my opinion. I am going to add to this as I think of new ones (or maybe even find them)

BTW, if you enjoy the random cool RPGs I post, I'm still updating the CRPG Book's google drive with screenshots: drive.google.com/drive/folder... There's 34,000 PNGs of over 900 RPGs there - everything from CRPG classics, Japanese hidden gems, untranslated Taiwanese RPGs & Touhou ASCII Dating Sims!

Did you know theres only 15 tickets left to our live show at Garycon? Where we review THE VAULT OF THE DROW?? Go grab 'em while you can tabletop.events/conventions/...

I’m not so much of a curmudgeon that I dislike all reward mechanisms in video games, but it’s wild when the ad copy pretty much sells a game as a designer drug

www.kickstarter.com/projects/see... Just a few days left to back this!

Hey only a week left on my zine month crowd fund! I have a retailer tier so if any small ttrpg shops wanna try stocking a few then now might be the best time to join in.

#Jennell #Jacquays, trailblazing #trans woman, #TTRPG designer & artist, is a legend. This article provides a deep analysis of her first big adventure module, Caverns of Thracia, proving that she is the first truly great adventure designer, and arguably the GOAT. pathikablog.com/2025/05/05/h...

The Critique bracket's winner is: "How Jennell Jaquays Evolved Dungeon Design, Part 1: Pre-Jaquays Dungeons" by Pathika pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...

So the Jennell Jaquays article made it to the finals. If you want to vote for it to win the critique award I would be very happy! Voting form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"Okay, so, some of you are gonna say it, and in discussing this with friends some of you have already said it: 'Oh, so are we just gonna let the players read the dungeon first, now?' I don’t know. Maybe?" Running it Back: The Case For Replaying Modules. kattkirsch.bearblog.dev/running-it-b...

To my Caribbean folks: are there people in your extended family/family friends whose real names you don’t know?

Round 1 of Bloggies voting ends soon! I got an article in critique about Jennell Jaquays if anyone wants to vote for it. www.explorersdesign.com/bloggies-202...

METAL GEAR SOLID 2 full game map, everything to scale including Arsenal Gear underneath! 🗺️ www.deviantart.com/vgcartograph...

As I always say, one of the best accounts you can follow on social media

DEMON'S SOULS map breakdown video is finally done, check it out! some samples below 🗺️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_hq...

remembering the time @enginqueer.bsky.social got mad at me for saying the “caRIBbean” is a real place where people live but the “caribBEAN” is a fantasy imagination land with pirates n shit

Wrote a bit about making a dungeon book and how I'm starting to view dungeon crawls as a conversation between the dungeon and the players. And what that kind of storytelling means. www.failuretolerated.com/talking-to-t...

This was a no brainer for me. Stella is extremely talented and a kind person.

My zine month zine is officially funded! Woo! Thank you to all the 37 backers who made this possible! I'm looking forward to seeing how far this goes. www.kickstarter.com/projects/von...

www.kickstarter.com/projects/see... Ok I did a kickstarter after all. Just a very small one.

Emergency graphic design commissions: help me buy almond potions and you get some whatever. -30 usd for small stuff such as flyers, titles, etc. NO revisions. -I reserve the right to choose and reply, because i'm not great at being a human person. -DMs/Email in bio.

I think often how they get rewards for doing the same thing Black folks get disqualified for.

Finally got round to watching Suffer this evening - it was good! An honest to god sword-and-sorcery film with strong feminist overtones. Really striking visuals too. Clearly straining hard against its limited budget, but in a way that felt endearing rather than shonky.

no it's not. but there's definitely a lot of privilege in taking the position that your desire to be praised and loved for "art" you didn't create at the very moment you choose is more important than communities having clean water and accessible electricity.

Mad respect for Mothership being less than 2 weeks old and already bringing such fresh new voices and perspectives into the conversation. Happy to support more of this!

I need to think more on the difference between enjoying something 'bad' through the lens of hipsterish ironic detachment, and enjoyment of the same via a kind of gleeful sincerity that doesn't care for prior appraisals.

I am neither Haitian nor an American immigrant so I can’t speak to this further, but one of the many tiny flourishes that make me adore Wonder Man is that ‘Pacoima’ implies one of the reasons Simon feels alienated from his family is because he can’t speak (but still understands) Haitian Creole.

That puzzle from Monkey Island 1 where you have to make the navigation recipe to get to MI but you don’t have any of the listed ingredients is so ripe for use in TTRPGs. Technically this is a big part of Unknown Armies already

I see a lot advice and video essays where people say to not try or have dreams, to use what tools are in front of you, and the basic idea behind this isn’t bad: you might get further not forcing yourself into a single concept of success. But I think this advice doesn’t quite work for minorities.

ICYMI, the latest Missive went out yesterday!

鬼は外！福は内！