Hey y'all. A South African dev released a blackity black game during BHM and it's currently getting the usual suspects in the reviews. Imma grab this up myself anyway, but can we all be some chums and help push the racists out of the reviews? 🙂

You can get most of my itch titles in this bundle. You can get some of my favorite games to play in this bundle. You should go buy this bundle.

Oh shoot, I forgot to share my marketing experiment findings! In the month of January, I ran ads for Paragons at $10/day. Some days were good, some days were bad, but over the whole month, we did ~$800 in sales from ads alone. Over the month, I experimented with graphics, ad copy, and videos.

Going to the grocery store today actually gave me psychic damage. They're moving everything around but haven't changed any of the signage yet so it took three times as long to find things on top of super bowl weekend traffic.

The pre-launch page for our next Kickstarter for the Paragons Starter Kit is live now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bro...

Here we go folks, we are LIVE! "The Curse of Stoneshatter Tomb" for #Shadowdark is a 2nd lvl, one-shot, adventure designed to drop into your campaign, or for convention play! PDF, Print, and #Foundry VTT options available! #RPG #TTRPG #OSR www.kickstarter.com/projects/jer...

TTRPG layout designers, please send me your portfolios. For a client I'm doing some consulting for.

Get Ready for Five Fires! Follow the BackerKit page and help take this #ttrpg of DJs, breakers, MCs, and graffiti writers from PDF to Print.

I'm genuinely in my farming sim era. Got the 100% for Stardew, then Coral Island, and now I'm working on Fae Farm. 😌

"A wizard is never late, nor is she early. She arrives precisely when she means to." I am thrilled to let y'all know I'm joining #WotCStaff as a Game Designer for the Dungeons and Dragons team! This move starts a new chapter in my life and I am so excited to see what adventures await me 💜

Tomorrow I run 10 hours of D&D. Send caffeine.

WYRM is here! WYRM is my fantasy adventure game, and my take on the OSR/NSR style of play, with a Gila twist. Get the core rules, starting adventure, starter sandbox hexcrawl today. All PWYW. This is just the start of WYRM. gilarpgs.itch.io/wyrm

Want to take your game to the next level? Meet the experts and get insights into how to best use Hedron to create your world. Our Fireside Chat is starting soon, join us in Discord.

Honor your agreements—pay your freelancers. If you’re in a tight spot financially, or other parties cause money problems so that you’re suddenly low on funds, that’s unfortunately completely irrelevant. The freelancers don’t need to care about that. Pay them.

Tomorrow

I hope other countries start imposing sanctions on the US. I hope the World Cup and Olympics relocate. Trump's actions need to have consequences or he'll keep pushing the limits.

Playing Deadpool in Marvel Rivals is actually the most fun I've had playing this game in a long time.

The Three Stooges have nothing on this

hearing from sources that Amelia Bedelia has been arrested in connection with the water-pouring assault. "but it was ICE headquarters," she said

Channeling all of this *waves arms* frustration into game design

When I was 8, I used to watch Star Wars semi-regularly. Every time the Death Star blew up, without fail, I would say, "That's gonna leave a mark!" I thought it was the funniest thing ever, and tbh, it's pretty funny

#ad Have you ever wanted to be a super hero (or villain)? Well @brokendoorgames.bsky.social's Paragons: The Roleplaying Game is here to help you fulfill those dreams. I was able to be given a copy by @joshuamsimons.com and so I had to do a video. Like, Subscribe, and comment! youtu.be/eTCan-i7-ak

Hey cuties! Since this is the first video of the year, I'm putting it out for early access for FREE. Just become a free member to watch this video and get more content throughout the year. Also, thank you to @brokendoorgames.bsky.social for the book! www.patreon.com/posts/early-...

I've been working on some fun Paragons things this week and I can't wait to show them off!

I think it's so important to get to know your collaborators and creative partners. It's easy to sell an image of yourself in a short convo or a quick meeting, but that illusion fades away once you spend meaningful time with someone.

We are an MLIS capstone team working with the GAMER Group at the University of Washington seeking input on how TTRPG players find games, or want to find games. If you are a TTRPG player, designer, or both, please consider taking our research survey: uwashington.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#TTRPG Designers, players, & related nerds: @ttrpgcataloging.bsky.social is a group of Library & Information Science MA students are working on a research project focused on improving cataloging for TTRPGs — unbelievably important work! They’re seeking participants for interviews.

One of my goals for this new year is to use social media more intentionally. Not more or less, but with a more clearly defined purpose. Anyways, I'm on day 6 of a marketing test for Broken Door and it's going really well so far - I'll report back once I've got a little more data.

Yesterday when I said "who knows what tomorrow will bring" I didn't have violating international laws on my bingo card.

Working on a game about grief today. Who knows what tomorrow will bring!

Oh man, I've got some cool things cooking in 2026.

As I reflect on this year, I figured I should write up a little blog post to share some of these reflections with others in and around the tabletop games industry who may be interested. www.joshuamsimons.com/post/2025-a-...

This is the week I watch the final season of MHA. I'm not prepared.

Increasingly, I'm finding myself drawn towards TTRPGs that are packed full of flavor and very specific aesthetics. Doesn't matter what the aesthetic, so long as the game is dripping with it. I'd love some recommendations to add to my library, if folks have them.

This year's #ExtraLife campaign was a big one and I am so grateful to everyone that played in games, donated, reposted Bsky messages and hung out during streams. With all of your help I was able to raise a record $872 this year and I'm so proud of all we accomplished together. Thank you so much!!

Looking to pick up a new TTRPG for the new year? Check out Paragons! Become a superhero, fight villains, and save the day! brokendoor.shop/pages/paragons

This HOPEmas is my final charity campaign with Team Sidequest. It's bittersweet. I'm proud of the things we've accomplished together. My community has raised $222k in the last 5 years with Sidequest, but it just doesn't feel like home anymore, so it's time to move on.

Someone left a positive comment on one of my games today, so I'll be on cloud 9 for the foreseeable future

Tell me your favorite holiday song or album. For me, nothing beats the big band sound of the Chicago Christmas album.

I've made a fatal error and got jalapeño juice up my noise Remember me as I was

91% of my play time on Steam this year was Marvel Rivals. I think that's all you need to know about the video games I played in 2025.

There's something so exciting about having a half-formed game idea and getting to work out the details.

I'd swear in on The Expanse. All 9 books stacked on top of each other.

One thing you need to know about me is that I like cheese.

How am I just now realizing that Circle of the Moon druids are somehow even stronger in the 2024 D&D 5e rules? Temp HP equal to 3x your druid level when you wild shape is actually wild.

Celebrating my birthday by raising money for @projecthopeorg.bsky.social 🥳 We are closing in on our first milestone and it would be so freaking cool to hit that during birthday shenanigans. 💜

Today I found a backed up copy of the novel I wrote when I was 12 and read through the first few pages. It's even worse than I remembered, but cool to revisit some of my earliest creative writing.

An emergency has come up with Ichi and I have to take him to the ER. I hate asking for funds again, but I want to make sure he’s taken care of—I’m really anxious about it. I’m so sorry, and thank you in advance 🖤

I'm not a huge fan of snow, but I know someone who is

I know I'm extremely late to this bandwagon, but Ted Lasso is very good.