You can get over 250 games right now by donating 10 US$ to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund! Organized by @molgannardpress.bsky.social itch.io/b/3299/pales...

New awareness campaign

Fem Tintin! #theadventuresoftintin #tintin #art

When I first got to art school, class introductions asked us who our influences were. I had to explain who Gary Larson was to at least 3 of those classes. Now, 20yrs later, many of the big contemporary artists I didn't know have been outed as malicious sex pests but cow tools still holds up.

The Basilica (Created for HYPERMALL: UNLIMITED VIOLENCE by @ratbastardgames.bsky.social )

Old painting #sketch #Artist #noai #scifi #flatbrush #mecha #ArtistOnBluesky

Hey all. After moving funds around for rewards and bills, I could use some help. Im short on expenses from this last month and can't in good conscience take on anymore commissons now. Your support would mean the world to me Shares would mean even more. Link below (1/2)

This is commentary on Alien (1979) but it's basically what everyone said about John Carpenter's The Thing, and Blade Runner. "Why would anyone make a movie this bleak and miserable and nihilistic?"

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New blog article about representing disabled people in RPGs. Features some quotes from my interviews with @uselrei1500.bsky.social and @ratbastardgames.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/martianc...

Check out this blog post. A really cool topic to explore, especially since it's written by a software engineer. goblinzone.bearblog.dev/making-hacki...

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I painted this charming Toreador OC for a friend. I’m quite happy with the result of the sketch layer. Gives me some old school VTM book feeling

played edith finch recently and i dont really get the appeal at all? i liked Gone Home so much i was expecting to like this one too, since its the same genre and the premise is so similar.

Look at this art, holy shit. www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...

New post today about my first experiences with fully fledged in-person industry events: open.substack.com/pub/martianc...

talked to soo many cool people at the Australian Roleplaying Industry Awards tonight.

Silent Star is a one-shot scenario for Mothership RPG, which you can download FOR FREE! It's a pretty classic Mothership experience, so great for first time players or wardens. Illustrated by the lovely @cianetoneon.bsky.social martiancrossbow.itch.io/silentstar

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

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It seems like the Draw Steel subreddit is mostly folks who are playing the game, or making characters with intent to play. So when someone shows up from Internet RPGland with "here's how to fix this glaring omission" you just see a bunch of people responding with "???*

nothing pisses me off more than a capable woman being interviewed by a man who doesn't know how to interview someone.

Inkarnate is allowing AI assets in their new marketplace. This program was my first gateway into the #ttrpg scene, and i met a lot of cool people there. I witnessed some shady stuff from them before but this is the last straw. Canceling my subscription and taking down my maps from the explore page

I have three review copies of Synaptic Protocol to give to interested reviewers! Drop me a message by DM so we can talk about the details!

Since I'm not at the NY Art Book Fair for the first time in a decade, I'm using my weekend to make another publication. Shocking! It will combine almost a year of my Bluesky posts about self-publishing, some studio photos, and the text from Why Self-Publish Under Fascism? I think this is the cover:

interactive entertainment loves a somatic verb. twitch, itch, kick ... some others im sure

I long to be torn to ribbons by a blackberry thicket just really let the countryside claim me with its claws

If you're a visual artist or someone looking for illustrators, I'm making something for you! A zine full of visual artists, showing their work. Those looking for illustrators can download the zine and use it to window-shop. Submission and the zine itself will likely both be free. 1/2

i wanna make a zine that makes it easier for ppl to build connections in the tabletop space and advertise themselves. maybe a space where illustrators can advertise themselves. that seems like something that's missing. wouldn't need to be tabletop specific i suppose.

Alright #RPGDesign nerds, let's get into some real nitty gritty! Let's talk about some different ways of looking how mechanics are built, in a sense more finely defining crunch and genre emulation. What are your thoughts on this? thoughtpunks.com/ttr...#RPGDesign #TTRPG #Blog #IndieDev

one thing about rpg designers is that we love love love a buzzword

The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.

i think people confuse commerce and capitalism too much

i just lost several people's contact details because WINDOWS 11 NOTEPAD thinks its a real big boy application and not a sticky note like its supposed to be

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a friend of mine who's worked on a somewhat recent free multiplayer game says this about player feedback that I feel like is very astute hearing the feedback is frequently important but responding to it well almost never means just doing what the players say they want

r/rpgdesign is a weird place for a lot of reasons. the people in replies and the people posting seem very very different.

this looks so beautiful

GREEBLING: Glorious term in the art director handbook. Coined for miniature making in cinema & hobby spaces, it means an iterative detail pattern to add story, complexity and ornament to an otherwise staid surface. Ethan designed these tiles for the upcoming Stillfleet card deck HULK CRAWL. UTILITY!

new blog post! its about strategy and narrative, and how they are often in opposition to each other. open.substack.com/pub/martianc...

love yall but this app is painfully millenial

BASS RUSH DREAM

blogging is hard man. i can write 200 words about something easily, i could probably write 10 000 if i had a good idea and enough time, but the 2000-ish word range is sort of enigmatic to me.

“Does X game work for longer campaigns?” Bitch, you’re lucky if your table stays together for five consistent sessions, don’t go planning some epic odyssey before you even know if your table likes the game.

what a superb fucking cover.

🦡can’t believe how good the badger emoji is 🦡 he enriches my life supremely 🦡 such a good little guy 🦡

sometimes u open up an rpg and the class list is like

God is dead. You killed Him. The world is dead. You ruined it. You're alive, for now, and you're going to go down swinging. Warp reality with Words of Power. Fight Devils and other Killers. Embrace change as your Words morph into gibberish. Buy GODSTRENGTH rat-bastard-games.itch.io/godstrength

The search for work continues! - Podcast Editing - Sound Design - TTRPG Design - TTRPG Editing - Project Coordination Those are the things I'm best at/want to do the most. Please boost and share! Rates will follow.