*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...

CLIP STUDIO PAINT GOT A NEW VERSION OUT & THEY ARE DOING THEIR BIG DISCOUNTS ON PERPETUAL (One time purchase) LICENSES ‼️ Sale ends March 17th 2026, if you want to use Clip Studio Paint this is the perfect time to get it 👀👍✨ www.clipstudio.net/en/purchase/

Now that winter is closer to its end than its beginning, some of my after-work capacity is returning. It feels kind of incredible to go from ‘dead-eyed no-brain every day after work’ to being able to hit a handful of incremental personal goals in the evening.

The development of this TTRPG is just a roller coaster ride since day one man

If you worked on a game you should get a credit. That's where the conversation should end.

i imagine a man to love

I don’t care what you guys say, bluesky has the Juice* * the criteria: I have more Bookmarks than I will ever reasonably read and the list grows every day

I cannot stress enough how important it is that you recommend indie TTRPGs you like online. Someone on Reddit asked for a game rec, only like 3 out of 20 people said my game, but it made for a massive wave of visits to the Itch page. Word of mouth is real. www.reddit.com/r/rpg/commen...

Must slay... the spire.. 🗡️🗡️🗡️

New arrival today! And man, even just flipping through, the art style is so fckin cool. (Cc @floaker.bsky.social)

A side effect of my two-year journey to be less online is that I my first impression of basically all influencers is when they do something bad enough to end up in the mainstream news.

Within a day of sending it to my first reader I had an idea to expand the game that plays nice with what’s already there but unlocks some real potential useful paranoia, so maybe I’ve got a little more cooking to do here…

……… the kill bill sirens going off in my head rn

yeah yeah we saw all you sly posters going "Blades '68? ...just ONE off." Well we're not COWARDS. Challenge accepted! At $420k we'll commission April Kit Walsh (designer of Thirsty Sword Lesbians) to write up... Blades '69 Time to put your money where your mouth is. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

I've been tweaking it for the last couple weeks, and I think I finally have a playable first draft of COURT OF VIPERS. Cleaned up some language, tweaked some rules, balanced some numbers, etc.

put 500+ hours into the first one wondering if the sequel is going to eat my entire life too early signs point to oh no i’m fucked

Spotted from @remotegamejobs.com; GameDev.tv is offering 5 indie game devs $500 each as a sponsorship and applications close March 8th. That may be comparatively small to some, but to a lot of teams that can be a big help, and I love to see this kind of generous support. gamedev.tv/p/indie-game...

JOB OPENING AT GB PATCH GAMES 🗣️ We're looking for new Ren’py programmers to join our studio! Our team is currently working on a slice-of-life visual novel called Our Life: Now & Forever, and we are bringing on at least one new programmer to help complete the game. #gamejobs #programmer #renpy

Finished reading GRAVITY tonight! A really cool approach to thematic, characterful GMless play. I know at least two of my projects this’ll be a good touchpoint for, both of which could — with a little tweaking — work straight up as GRAVITY playsets.

For me, if we’re not including solo games: — Roughly every 2 weeks I DM my home game of D&D 5e, and every so often play in a D&D (soon to be Kids on Bikes) campaign — Maybe ~1 a month? — Averaging maybe 1 every 1.5 years at this point? Last few years I’ve done Wickedness and Rom Com Drama Bomb

TTRPG folks: — How often do you play (any) TTRPGs? — How often do you read/learn a new (to you) TTRPG? — How often do you play a new (to you) TTRPG?

I’ve almost read my way through GRAVITY and started in on BLEAK SPIRIT, and the games are good folks. The games are good.

New Kickstarter from Exalted Funeral that I hope you'll check out - I'm really excited to work on it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/exa...

YES. GOOD. Delineating them by year was bullshit, and also very annoying.

Hi pals, looking for recommendations of solo journaling rpgs that deal with the theme of self love/care! Reply below if you know of any 💖

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope launches this Wednesday! Over 100+ essays on the craft of game writing and narrative design; affordable priced. … AND we’ll also launch with the first two episodes of the podcast series, where we talk to the article writers about their craft.

Hello I am very excited about this

Melbot Studios is looking for a Story Writer to help craft wild, satirical narratives for their roguelite game with Adult Swim vibes. 🛰️ Remote, Contract 🎭 Comedy sample required 🧠 Game development XP a big + ⤵️

Writing is hard. Writing is great. Writing sucks. I love writing. I wish I could stop writing. I cannot stop writing. Please help. Please leave me alone, I have another 3 pages to get through. Please read my work. Please never perceive this garbage I've created. Respect me. Ignore me.

TTRPG industry folks, can you help me get in touch with someone from White Wolf please? Our old contact is no longer with the company and going through Paradox PR is getting crickets. Cheers!

This weekend, tried three video games that I absolutely see myself diving deeper into: 9 Kings (roguelike deckbuilding autobattler), Sultan’s Game (card-based narrative strategy game) and Nightmare Frontier (tactical RPG extraction roguelike from the Rogue Waters folks). Games are good, gang.

The draft page for chunking...

Dragonfly Motel is a TTRPG about surrendering to surreal impulses and drifting through dream logic weirdness, watching absurd elements suddenly align and form something strangely satisfying. Final hours on Kickstarter now! PWYW for digital. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

YO are you making a zine for this? Are you PRINTING that zine, makin it exist IRL? Do you think it'd be cool for that zine to get sold out of a vending machine in a game bar in Portland, Oregon? DM us! (Think: A6-ish or smaller, $25 or less retail)

New mail!

it's the final stretch, the end of the Endtimes is nigh www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

This is exactly what marketing yourself on social media feels like, actually.

save me from myself young jeffrey dean morgan you’re my only hope

One of the first microTTRPGs I ever drafted was called TIME TRAVEL MURDER MYSTERY. When I shared it, the note back was, 'I literally don't even know what is going on or how this game is played'. Revisiting that draft this week... I echo that note. 😅 But I love the title/concept. Gonna try it again.

do i…….. want one of these? do i……… NEED one of these?

Y’all should do these quests…

My partner @nuegameplus.bsky.social did some INCREDIBLE graphic design work on these cards—reimagining the Luminaries from #Illimat 😩

i put on that new game of thrones show and uhhhh is this some sort of gay romcom between the dopey hedge knight and the feral lord? because i’m in it to win it but i expect if it was, i’d have had all my friends scrunching it into a ball and whipping it at the back of my head

Oh no. Steady Hands have opened preorders for a Mollymauk Tealeaf cardigan and I’ve sworn an oath to purchase no new clothes til summer. NO! BEGONE, BEAUTIFUL THING!

My fav writing I’ve gotten to do at Fortnite is coming out very soon, written with the great @sdanuser.bsky.social and voiced by two VAs I admire tremendously. Fuck. This ‘being alive’ shit ain’t that bad sometimes.

After the basics of it came to me in a burst last week, I've got a first draft of a new micro-ttrpg, COURT OF VIPERS. It sits at about 3.5 pages, and will probably make its debut in Portalier's next playtesting packet, maybe in the summer.

Heyo, if you're a new game designer who first published a game in 2023 or later, you can submit yourself to the Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program! www.dianajonesaward.org Submissions just opened and will stay open until March 16 #ttrpg #indiettrpg #ttrpgcommunity

I used to save my fanfics on these.

I feel like curators of all types—critics, influencers, reddit recommendations—are only going to become more important in the next few years. Never been a better time to keep a little list of things you like and share it.