Gem Room Games
@gemroomgames.bsky.social
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Award-winning tabletop game design team
@itsdanphipps.bsky.social
&
@helloitskali.bsky.social
pinned post!
Hey new followers! We're
@helloitskali.bsky.social
and
@itsdanphipps.bsky.social
aka Gem Room Games! We're about to release DUKK BÖRG but you may also know our other games, such as solo-play emotions-punch Letters to Sandra or death metal viking cat romp 9 Lives to Valhalla!
about 1 year ago
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"... maybe this is a good enough place to begin from. May we all meet ourselves where we’re at and have fun making some things as we’re able!" Absolutely, entirely.
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We've spent 2025 on sabbatical. Or, well, some of 2025. On something like a sabbatical. It didn't really go as intended. Anyhow, Kali wrote about it, with some sabbatical takeaways at the end about making games not so much because you want to but because you need to.
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2025 on Sabbatical: Kinda
In which Kali reflects upon a year spent in sabbatical-ish. Preface Some way through 2024, as we approached DUKK BÖRG fulfillment, we looked around and realized that we were exhausted. We’d been pu...
https://gemroomgames.itch.io/the-gem-room-games-blog/devlog/1283806/2025-on-sabbatical-kinda
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Dan Phipps
5 days ago
GORM BLOG: TOOL FEEL What I like about Trench Crusade blood markers and how it's impacting the way I think about BURN.
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TOOL FEEL: Trench Crusade
One of my favorite things about Trench Crusade are Blood Markers. You get them nearly every time someone takes a potshot at you, representing a range of incidental harm that comes your way in the tren...
https://gemroomgames.itch.io/gorm/devlog/1277034/tool-feel-trench-crusade
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Viditya ✨PAXU✨ Voleti
14 days ago
Hey folks! Did you know that it's really easy to find games made by poc on
itch.io
? Just use the "poc made" tag! There you'll find your next fav TTRPG & support some great designers, new and old! If you're a designer, tag your games poc-made so they show up on the feed!
itch.io/physical-gam...
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Top physical games tagged poc-made
Find physical games tagged poc-made like Alone Among the Stars, A Land Once Magic, Alone On A Journey, The Magus: Oracular Edition, Last Train to Bremen on itch.io, the indie game hosting marketplace
https://itch.io/physical-games/tag-poc-made
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Our full catalog will be at PAXU this year including the FINAL print copies of our 9 Lives to Valhalla adventure Wreck of the Murderous! Would you believe it was inspired by true events? We had to move and it was basically like getting attacked by giant crabs.
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about 2 months ago
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Some upcoming designer commentary on Aeonian Citadel (the Dukk Börg adventure), building the logic of an impossible place, and how Dan writes (or sometimes doesn't)
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about 2 months ago
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candy jam, candy jam, go collect your candy jammmmmm
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about 2 months ago
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It was Skeleton Horde, Darkoath Flesh, and Snakebite Leather that helped those coins rot, specifically, in that order.
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about 2 months ago
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Gettin' some games packaged up, yeah yeahhh We need a new furnace, so every game you buy right now goes directly to the keeping us warm in the winter fund. Plus, you might get a lovingly rendered carnival mallet or one-eyed cat or various onomatopoeia on your package. Win-win!
2 months ago
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New on the blog: Overloading the Faction Relationship! Because we all know it's not what you know, it's WHO you know.
gemroomgames.itch.io/the-gem-room...
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Overloading the Faction Relationship
Overloading the Faction Relationship Dan is working on a small game between bigger projects so obviously that means he needs to write a whole blog post to justify the inevitable scope creep! I Like Fa...
https://gemroomgames.itch.io/the-gem-room-games-blog/devlog/1091045/overloading-the-faction-relationship
2 months ago
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Secret Gem Room strats right here
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3 months ago
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yoooooooooo
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3 months ago
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Oh! We remember this! We used it to make The Shops at Hellfist Citadel (formerly dire testament to war, currently testament to outlet shopping). It's part of the 2022 Hex+Setting Collection, our system-neutral interdimensional modular hex crawl. It was fun.
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3 months ago
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ok but can you buy it at Tractor Supply Co. yet? (no seriously, and they change up their stock:
www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/search/rpg
)
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4 months ago
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Worm! Worm! Worm! Worm! (wow this thing is heavy)
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4 months ago
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Gem Room status update: - Tired - Still enjoying little package doodles when we send out games
4 months ago
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featuring DUKK BÖRG DUKK BÖRG DUKK BÖRG at
#PaxWest2025
courtesy of IPR in
#Booth4320
Woo-oo-oo!
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4 months ago
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Every game is a miracle, a shining beam of love in a hard world. We dont know how anyone does anything, including us.
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4 months ago
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Is it obvious that we're catching up on notifications on this sleepy Sunday morning? We're sleepy, it's a fine use of time
4 months ago
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🤘
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4 months ago
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Wooooo! We love a local gaming store sighting! Also shout out to
@ipr.bsky.social
who makes these sightings possible ❤️
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4 months ago
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We were out of town on airplane mode when this post went up but A) the Plus One team is great themselves, always working to help amplify voices & give chances to newcomers B) the list in this thread is legit
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4 months ago
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Less than $1K before these gem friends hit their funding goal - go go go check it out!!
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5 months ago
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Rebecca Strang
5 months ago
A few close ups of the game kits in plastic totes. These kits include dice, coins, cards, character standees, etc., as required for Play by each game. Games by
@junkfoodgames.bsky.social
@gemroomgames.bsky.social
@almostbedtime.bsky.social
@smolghost.bsky.social
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Dan & Kali met in library school & now a library is helping folks play one of our games. Amazing, fantastic, beautiful thing, actual joy to behold, etc.
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5 months ago
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Dan Phipps
5 months ago
We got books at Gen Con baybee
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Kali
6 months ago
we're at Guardian Games in Portland and I'm thrilled to report that not only are we stocked next to
@goblinmixtape.bsky.social
but that Anamnesis is down to its last copy, time for an
@ipr.bsky.social
restock
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aw yeah aw yeah listen in
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6 months ago
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DUKK YEAH
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6 months ago
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Dropping a few DUKK BÖRG fulfillment stragglers at the post office seems like a fine time to review why Kali loves EcoEnclose's kraft flatback tape. We swear there's no paid endorsement here, it's just really good tape (the brown stuff in the picture) and there's a story about why she loves it.
6 months ago
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GORM LOVE
gemroomgames.itch.io/gorm
6 months ago
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internet hermit josh
7 months ago
I may not have a cool graphic, but I *do* have cool RPGs you can check out!
#PaidRPGDay
ostrichmonkey.itch.io
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Look, copy editors also cost money
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7 months ago
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Ziggy Fox 🔜 FC
7 months ago
For my next trick, I'm joining
#PaidRPGDay
& offering my game at the astonishing rate of "the normal price it always is" :3 Go check out some cool indie projects today and help some small creators if you can! Find fox game here:
chronicled-fox.itch.io/rillem
#sologame
#solorpg
#solottrpg
#ttrpg
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Ken Lowery
7 months ago
Following another Free RPG Day, I'm proud to kick off the second annual
#PaidRPGDay
! Today, I'm offering my games at a price you can pay to have them! Take a look and consider supporting your favorite indie publisher today, whoever they may be. Shop (with money) now:
bannerlessgames.itch.io
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Today is the Second Annual
#PaidRPGDay
! As Gem Friend
@kenlowery.bsky.social
says, they're as free to buy as they are to make! What a wonderful day to support indie rpg makers by giving them money to support for their beautiful, creative labor.
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GORM WORK 2025.06.19
gemroomgames.itch.io/gorm/devlog/...
Stopping the FRAY to hang out with your opponents and play a sport or watch a movie for a bit now unlocked.
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WORK 20250619
DONE 2025.06.19 WORK is describing both a broad portion of the LOOP and also discrete actions taken during that LOOP. adding ACTS to better distinguish. HALT window is unclear. Intent is to allow HALT...
https://gemroomgames.itch.io/gorm/devlog/969902/work-20250619
7 months ago
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DUKK BÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖRG is gonna be with IPR at
#Booth1203
at
#Origins2025
!
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7 months ago
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Dan Phipps
7 months ago
GORM TODO Both GODS may forfeit their WORK LOOP to BALL. BALL GODS agree on a shared activity all LIFE FORMS will engage in to remind themselves of their humanity. All LIFE FORMs take 1 BURN. All LIFE FORMS heal 1 GORM. JUNK FORMS WORK as normal.
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GORM WORK: FOIL is now HALT
gemroomgames.itch.io/gorm/devlog/...
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WORK 20250617
GAME WORK DONE 2025.06.16 ● FOIL is unclear. Replacing with HALT. TODO ● WORK is describing both a broad portion of the LOOP and also discrete actions taken during that LOOP. adding ACTS to better...
https://gemroomgames.itch.io/gorm/devlog/968407/work-20250617
7 months ago
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In case you missed it: Yesterday we released an esoteric skirmish tactics miniatures ashcan called GORM
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GORM by Gem Room Games
Esoteric Skirmish Tactics
https://gemroomgames.itch.io/gorm
7 months ago
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Ken Lowery
7 months ago
We willl also be giving out FREE download CODEs for
@gemroomgames.bsky.social
's new skirmish game GORM in the CHAT. Don't miss it. 👀 Learn more about GORM here:
gemroomgames.itch.io/gorm
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GORM by Gem Room Games
Esoteric Skirmish Tactics
https://gemroomgames.itch.io/gorm
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Ken Lowery
7 months ago
At the top of the HOUR, DJ SLOG (
@gemroomgames.bsky.social
) tries to STOP the apocalypse, figure out computers, and fend off rival GANGs with the help of some Brainsawz and the SONGs of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, HEALTH, Kid Cudi and more. JOIN us in the CHAT at:
bannerless.games/void-kore
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VOID 1680 AM // KORE_06.15.25
Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb. Tonight's broadcast comes from the bottom of the Xerxes Crash Impact Crater, which houses a computer that's goin...
https://bannerless.games/void-kore
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FREE GORM NITE GORM GORM GORM GORM
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7 months ago
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SPEAKING OF PEOPLE wanting to play 9 Lives to Valhalla - IPR has all NINE(!) remaining physical copies of 9 Lives adventure The Wreck of the Murderous in their warehouse of wonders. If you want your cats to wash up on a black sand beach for trials of glory, head their way!
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7 months ago
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Brian has exquisite taste in this and many other things.
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7 months ago
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Our first game design award was a Sprintie. Have you, too, conducted the miracle of creativity & logistics that is making a game? Apply for a Sprintie!
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7 months ago
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👀
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8 months ago
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If you see this post a knight (this lil' guy is from 9 Lives to Valhalla; a more noble knight you'll surely never meet)
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8 months ago
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Woo-oo-oo!
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9 months ago
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