A small little bit of both advice and a plea for using Bluesky. This platform doesn't have an algorithm for content. If your default response to seeing something cool is to hit like, take a second to hit the Repost button too. Especially if it's a cool indie product, a show, some art, whatever.

"Fuck! What an interesting game! Each player takes control of a member of [Harvest]’s tragic cast and manipulates their fate through a smart adaptation of Dream Askew’s token mechanics. This time, common pools of tokens double as a clock that counts down each act of the game—I loved it."

Incredibly shocked and saddened to learn of Steve Dee’s passing. His passion for making games and sharing the craft of gamemaking was unmatched. He made a whole bunch of great games (It Is Forbidden is stellar), and in his memory I want to share my favourite:

new one page rpg dropped

a few days late my partner and i finished my yearly tradition of watching the Jefferson Mays one-man stage show of A Christmas Carol. still an absolute banger, one hell of a performance, might stream it for friends next year. also, they seized their chance to do the funniest possible thing:

If you're Australian, could you sign please?

The #ttrpg that's been at the top of my wish list for years is about to finally release, so I wanted to give a brief plug for "Stonetop" so other people who find it as exciting as I do can get in on what might be a limited print run. 1/

“no one owes you a game you can complete, they just make sure you don’t fail for the wrong reasons” is maybe the most succinct way to convey exactly how i feel about accessibility and its purpose. bring everyone to the same starting line with the tools needed to meet the intent of the game.

today, i am 32. last year was long & strange, but brought new joys. i published 3 games! i have a steady gaming group! i pitched to a publisher! i made good work, cooked good meals, lived well. if you wish to celebrate: - share a memory of us - make a wish for my 32nd year - reflect on my games

This year I put out We Contain Solitudes, a duet rpg that I am very proud of. sevencrowsgames.itch.io/we-contain-s... Next year I am aiming to finish, if not publish, Eutopea's Wake, a new project. A sort of alternate history 1930s morality/ideology game.

spring is over. a cousin lies dead. a warlord schemes. the goddess has claimed a new chosen. by the barrow, the pariah cries out to the darkness "cousin troll, teach me!"

playtesting

spring is over. a cousin lies dead. a warlord schemes. the goddess has claimed a new chosen. by the barrow, the pariah cries out to the darkness "cousin troll, teach me!"

playtesting

tis the season for engagement bait, after all…

tis the season for engagement bait, after all…

I've been thinking a lot about Batfam headcanons, cozy roleplay in D&D, and what it means to assert whether or not a game supports a certain kind of play. So I wrote down my thoughts and turned them into an inaugural post on my new itch blog! seraphim-seraphina.itch.io/my-blog/devl...

incredible things are happening on tiktok www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8y5e9Jo/

D&D is an unreconstructed western wearing the flayed Medieval Times-esque aesthetic skin of 'European' "feudal" fantasy

DNGN CLUB 25: A YEAR IN REVIEW Continuing with another free 1 page game, Safe Cracker is a system neutral mini game to enhance the tension of breaking into a vault. It's short, sweet, and inspired by Mosaic Strict rules building — it can be played by itself or as subsystem of another game.

still looking! especially curious in Scottish and Welsh perspectives

folks from the UK & Ireland I'm doing Research please help—what are y'all's mythologised national identities? i.e. Australians claim we're laidback, fair, & cheeky (which isn't untrue but is highly conditional in practice). what equivalent claims would the English, Scots, Irish, etc make?

It is Winter Solstice, the very day where this folk horror ttrpg is set, so enjoy the sale!

Merry Christmas to me! (Shout out to @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social and @possumcreekgames.com) Looking forward to uhhh ritual murder and queer horror in the new year

still looking! especially curious in Scottish and Welsh perspectives

folks from the UK & Ireland I'm doing Research please help—what are y'all's mythologised national identities? i.e. Australians claim we're laidback, fair, & cheeky (which isn't untrue but is highly conditional in practice). what equivalent claims would the English, Scots, Irish, etc make?

#TTRPG persons: you have until Christmas Day to get hold of our beloved and acclaimed TEETH zines of 18th century horror, lost pigs, and ballgowns, at a bold 50% off! It's the incredibly toothsome TEETHAZINE Bundle: itch.io/s/167336/tee...

I will have to second Harvest, alongside Grand Guignol (both by Luke Jordan). Another must-read TTRPG I've found this year is Zephyr. Very evocative worldbuilding, with excellent writing that makes the reason for every introduced element clear. The text fits well alongside every art spread.

you heard it here folks, endorsed by the best newsletterist of 2025: gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io/harvest

(tim rogers voice) people asking what I think of "GIRL FRAME." they want to know if I've played "GIRL FRAME." folks, the only "GIRL" I have "FRAME"d is this photo of my mother, who I love very much. she died. piloting a robot.

"You don’t spend the game wondering whether you’re a good person. You instead wonder if you are ready to kill for the island or die for it — whether it’ll be your friend, lover, or father who will hold the knife and whether they’ll smile as they do it." gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io/harvest

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

Facilitated Grand Guignol today, and man, I am so excited about the developments made on both Belonging Outside Belonging and Firebrands frameworks. Really, really good synthesis and improvement on each, imo, not to mention unavoidably, unapologetically queer

If you already own HARVEST, please rate & review! If you don't, come get some lush eerie bloody folk Gothic TTRPG goodness and find out what the omen deck has in store for you... gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io/harvest

Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.

DESPERATION (Jason Morningstar, Bully Pulpit) UNDER HOLLOW HILLS (Meguey & Vincent Baker, Lumpley Games FIELD GUIDE TO MEMORY (Jeeyon Shim & Shing Yin Khor) REACH OF THE ROACH GOD (Zedeck Siew & Munkao, Thousand Thousand Islands)

If you already own HARVEST, please rate & review! If you don't, come get some lush eerie bloody folk Gothic TTRPG goodness and find out what the omen deck has in store for you... gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io/harvest

After a pause, we are once again accepting pitches for games. If you've designed a TTRPG (especially one built on PbtA, Forged in the Dark, or Fate) that's near-complete, you can find details about how to pitch us (and the services we provide) here: evilhat.com/game-submiss...

The physical edition of my solo game, Psalms for the Undertow, is now available for members of the Dirtgoblin Zine Club! Members get editions that include experimental materials. In this case that's a two player mechanic I'm currently testing, printed on vellum, and a piece of handmade paper (1/2)

Harvest is a "beautiful cursed woodcut of a game" and Rascal writer Thomas Manuel's game of the year. GMless diceless period folk horror, it revolves around a golden paradise off Britain's coast preserved by generational ritual sacrifice, and which you'll choose: die for the island, or kill for it.

In light of Creator Day I wanna say if you can’t buy games even on sale there’s a great way to show appreciation to game designers and that’s leaving a nice comment/good review, which you can do directly on itch on the creator’s game pages!!

STUPENDOUSLY BRILLIANT I FEEL LIKE THE BOOK ITSELF DEMANDS AND DRAGS ME TO READ IT BETTER, AGAIN AND AGAIN

God Luke, we had such a great session of Harvest last week. The Wise One called the whole island together to 'forge the blade', with everyone pitching in a bit of metal from their homes. The voice of the last sacrifice sung out from the flames and the preacher Stranger was marked to hold the knife.

Reshare: Thomas shares how despite never enjoying a Belonging outside Belonging game before, Harvest became his Game of the Year. It's a combination of its lush prose, rock-solid structure, and bloody folk horror. www.rascal.news/i-was-sacrif...

"You don’t spend the game wondering whether you’re a good person. You instead wonder if you are ready to kill for the island or die for it — whether it’ll be your friend, lover, or father who will hold the knife and whether they’ll smile as they do it." gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io/harvest

Eyyy, good shit, @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social!

With We Contain Solitudes in the bag, I have moved into development and playtesting on a new project. Here's my first pass at an intro for the game, as a little teaser for anyone interested.

Here We GO! Come along, my dearies! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

when mamdani is mayor i hope he fixes all the changes they made to hadestown