Doing something twice makes it tradition, right? UK GAMES EXPO 2026: RUNNING THE NUMBERS! My blog post about our time at UKGE 2026 is live. All our numbers are included. Any question? Ask away! And please share. All part of our commitment to radical transparency. shorturl.at/snTcM

Hi folks, now that my brain is slightly less mush, here's my regular post-con postmortems, this time for #UKGE 2026. byodinsbeardrpg.com/2026-06-01-u...

The application to be a vendor at the Indie Games Night Market at PAX Unplugged in December is now live! www.newmillindustries.com/ignm-app

if everyone is done making weird posts about "conservative art" or its impossibility you can now listen to our ongoing year-long tolkien series in which we are pretty regularly stopping to assess the man's politics as expressed in text and paratext vs how he is reformatted by the modern right

Whooops was busy getting ready for the weekend, forgot to actually post games from last Crunchy Thursday. Learned to play Horrified, and got through two missions of Mechs vs Minions, and finished with a really poor showing at Arboretum :p

If you want a model for the future of gaming, the one-day Super Heroines Con held yesterday in Cincinnati offers one. It was organized by primarily LGBTQ+ / disabled women & prioritized accessibility, childcare, and a welcoming atmosphere. www.superheroinesetc.org/events-1-fD0...

[Announcing Buwan Ng Wika: Lingua Narrative Celebration 2026] The annual celebration for cultures and languages in Philippines is coming soon! This event will be focusing on video games with localization and narrative focused element Game Submission: forms.gle/Xhzgrw34o5uL...

False Alarm apparently they are the same guy!!! Revealed in some other books, that he was so cool that he got sent back to Middle-Earth to be a cool guy again. I much prefer if there were Two Glorfindels tbh. Put me in the Doubleglorf camp.

3 days left to back my tactical card brawler that lets you beat up demonic billionaires and other capitalist tyrants. #indiedev #deckbuilder #indiegame #videogame

Masturbation among birds is ‘natural’ and should not be punished, say experts

Maaaaaaan am I gonna go read the Christopher Tolkien books

I don't need to be "protected" from seeing porn, I need porn artists to be protected from being debanked, having their work stolen by AI, being abused for the content of their work, and going broke.

All the elves and Numenoreans are like hey man remember The West? The West used to be cool. Which one bro!!!!???? You guys fucked up so many times god had to triple-break The West! (Losing Aman, Beleriand, AND Numenor).

Also wtf there are TWO Glorfindels? I know Jonald Ronald Ronald loved repeating names, but it was a very funny 8 seconds between me going Leo pointing hey I know that guy to oh wait he’s dead different guy my bad

Extremely funny to me that Maeglin’s betrayal is set up across so many chapters, and then his actual fall and death (by fall, hah!) is all over in 2 pages. Maeglin! You love saying nothing so much, you should’ve shut the fuck up and said nothing when Morgoth got your sorry ass.

me, bravely: world cup? non no world sphere, actually

Friday is fast approaching! Speaker submissions close on the 5th of June. Don't overthink it! bsky.app/profile/free...

FINE I'LL START BLOGGING! For your convenience and for easy reference, I've taken the massive bluesky thread of crowdfunding advice I posted a while ago, and edited and organized it in blog form.

Pinned:

Had a lovely conversation with @laurieoc.bsky.social who is the organizing energy behind @playtestmaterial.bsky.social — I’m really optimistic about this one. We desperately need a space that neither journalism nor academic journals cover (as awesome as @analoggamestudies.bsky.social etc. are.)

"This reality [the cost and harm of genAI] is fundamentally at odds with the spirit of game development: to delight the player, the human being on the other side of the screen." Well said.

So, final day of #UKGE 2026! If you haven’t dropped by to pick up your copy of Against Time and Death, look for the red and blue! (If you look real close you’ll see the mechs from yesterday’s world-first Speed Daemons demo…)

For anyone who missed this or want to relive the panel, the recording is up on Youtube: youtube.com/live/gymwh40... 👀

Hell yeah (oh no) Turin Turambar! As good and as tragic as I remembered. And extremely a wuxia novel omg.

Thinking about President Zuchini Nicchini.

the thing about olruggio is he's a twink that grew a scraggly beard to beat the twink allegations but at his core he's still a twink

he would tho

yeah they both would say that

One time I ran a one-shot inside of my longer Blades in the Dark game where we played out three factions fighting over a strategic volcanic island northeast of Duskvol by playing King of Tokyo and then playing out a vignette from Firebrands every time someone new took Tokyo or played a card.

at the end of every level all the enemies get back up and shake your hand despite having clearly sustained life-ending injuries, like miyamoto wanted to do in goldeneye

police story minigame where you have to answer six different ringing phones at the same time

they should make a jackie chan game like the new bond one where you're just having slapstick fights. there should be a button to yell "sorry!" or "i don't want any trouble!" while you're smashing someone's skull with a mop

Update on my comic book for CAFKLX: Due to a printing error where spreads are printed front and back instead of left and right, I have adjusted pricing. It is still readable, although not the intended experience 🥲 Each preorder also comes with an 8-page sketchzine, and a sticker!

In an hour 4 known yappers of comics will talk your ear off about comics studies!! Fellow cartoonists, please tune in!

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

Beren and Luthien still hits, (and now REALLY hits like a Jin Yong novel), time to get into Turin Turambar, which I remember also liking.

everyone have fun at the united kingdom general election! (i think that’s what’s going on)

Oh cool Goku is in The Silmarillion.

JRR! Too many weregild and not enough werewolves in The Lord of the Rings, my man! Also very cool to see names repeated, and that Sauron twice in his life had to assault a Minas Tirith.

Huan is the goodest boy.

Did not remember how many times I’d read the word “leaguer” in the Silmarillion. The “weregild” of the First Age.

HOLY SHIT SOMEONES ALREADY DONE THIS AND ITS PERFECT

Jin Yong’s The Lord of the Rings

Hmmm elves are good at archery and stepping light as shadow SO IS GUO JING

we hold our events bi-weekly because we are a queer-friendly space

The Silmarillion reads a lot like Chinese palace intrigue dramas or wuxia stories, and Maeglin’s tale most of all.

Galadriel not telling Melian the full story of why they ran away from home while theyr’e chatting in Doriath is basically a teen girl hiding her problems from her cool aunt at the next town over she ran away from home to.

You can tell how well the Lalaport event is going by how much Tolkienposting I do.