PURSUIT, my endless game zine about being hunted by homophobic robot dogs, has been downloaded more than 300 times. You can download and play it today for free.

This looks so sick. I can’t wait!

Read between the lines of an ancient folk song to create a story that is uniquely yours with my game Matty Groves.

It’s a really good time to be an Austin Walker appreciator.

A diceless PBTA move for our times: When the first thing you do after waking up is to read the headlines, choose one: • You feel frightened by what is happening to people like you • You feel ashamed by what is happening to people different from you

Bird-watching is good

I’m setting up a solo game of Realis as a way to explore the sprawling sci-fi setting I’ve been working on

Lower Yosemite Falls, late March.

A diceless PBTA move for our times: When the first thing you do after waking up is to read the headlines, choose one: • You feel frightened by what is happening to people like you • You feel ashamed by what is happening to people different from you

I’m starting into Seeing Like A State by James C. Scott after seeing C. Thi Nguyen reference it several times in The Score. I read Scott’s The Art of Not Being Governed a few years ago and loved. It really changed how I approach world-building by giving examples of how control is always resisted.

I’m so excited to play this.

It's that day again!!!

if a position of authority can be misused in this way, that position of authority should not exist. It's clearly not enough to simply change who is in that position, no more than praying that the next king be better than the last.

I’m running a hacked-up version of Scum & Villainy today for some first time players as a way to intentionally build out background setting elements for a project I’m working on.

Today I got to play a Kingdom game about print journalists at the newspaper of record in a city constantly beset by the antics of super-powered heroes and villains. We managed to put together a really satisfying story so quickly. Great game imo

I was a pretentious teen (shocker) and tried to read Faust at like 13. I liked it but missed the point. Harry Clarke’s art changed my life though.

Falling Objects features what I self-flatteringly think is an excellent mechanic, which is “Point at them”. Several of the Hard Bargain costs include choosing another player for a bad thing to happen to, and the game instructs you to point at them to indicate who.

The Work of Play in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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Wishing a meaningful and transformative Passover to all observing

this is a society that hates children and hates the queer, of course it loves conversion therapy. bipartisan commitment to grinding down the young, to torturing them into doing whatever their official owners (parents, schools, the state) tell them to do

And that’s OKAY! Fucking around without ever finding out can be really fun and valuable!

I’ve got 5 games in this great bundle! Go support it!

“A season is set for everything, a time for every experience under heaven” Hevel (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8) takes a passage from biblical poetry and uses the text as a series of prompts with which to tell stories about a community over time.

It's the last day of the Kickstarter for Play Unsafe, my book about how to play TTRPGs. It's been pretty wild. Go and back it here pls www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra... #kickstarter #crowdfunding #ttrpg

Pro-tip: if you get pissed off and take a walk to clear your head, don’t go in a straight line or you might end up with a 7 mile walk home 😤😮‍💨

TTRPGs for Trans Rights Idaho is live! Get over 500 games for as little as $5 (or more, if you're able)! All proceeds benefit @tccidaho.bsky.social & @transaffirminc.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ itch.io/b/3525/ttrpg...

Personally, I think more mecha fiction should be about the horrors of being strapped in to a horrific machine whose primary purpose is to fulfill the military goals of the people who created it. I’m tired of the “gay for my mech” bit.

Incredible business I just passed on the CA 99

The other day, something cool happened for the first time, which is that someone discovered my game Chamounix: Facing the Monster because they were trying to engage with My Words To Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix by Susan Stryker, with which my game is meant to be in conversation

No Gods No Masters No Kings

As an LA resident, I am deeply unexcited about how many times I will have to tell people that I don’t fuck with the Olympics in the future

And there it is, The Longest Cat is back in stock ! Now the handles are made of laser cut plywood. Sorry for all the people in the US, we still can't send any merchandises to you. guypradel.fr/produit/the-...

There's a week to go on the Kickstarter for Play Unsafe, my book about how to play TTRPGs. This is a really good time to give it a boost, so please repost this, talk about it in your own channels, etc etc. Thanks so much. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra... #kickstarter #ttrpg

Something I really enjoy are pick-lists where the options don’t directly contradict so that they could theoretically all be chosen. These are from my game Chamounix: Facing the Monster

Doing some prototyping

“When the most indiscriminate repression comes down on us, we should be careful, then, not to see it as the conclusive proof of our radicality. We shouldn’t think they are out to destroy us. We should start rather from the hypothesis that they’re out to produce us” -The Invisible Committee

Thinking about the Iliad this morning ☕️

So cool

I FINALLY started playing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic after having it recommended to me thousands of times. I was really loving it until I got to Tatooine and encountered the quest(s) which involve interacting with the Tusken Raiders, who the game exclusively call “sand people”. Yikes.

The game-as-text is a work of art, and the game-as-play is another work of art. The two obviously exist in conversation, but I think they’re different. That being said, both are equally capable of being folk art, experimental art, and artistic commodities. Don’t lump it all together, please.

Critical Mass is officially 2 years old! Here’s an appreciation thread. Critical Mass is the first that I ever put out publicly. I’d had the idea of making a hack of The Quiet Year about riots, and that I wanted it to create space for real reflection about political actions and their consequences

I wrote down some questions I like to ask when I'm designing a game (or making any piece of art) and I'm stuck on a particular problem. Maybe they help me jiggle my way loose and into a solution. Trying to blog more this year, let's do it.

Critical Mass is officially 2 years old! Here’s an appreciation thread. Critical Mass is the first that I ever put out publicly. I’d had the idea of making a hack of The Quiet Year about riots, and that I wanted it to create space for real reflection about political actions and their consequences

Today is the two year anniversary of releasing my first game publicly! I’m really proud of all the work I’ve put out so far! I have a ton of plans for year 3, including updates, expansions, and huge new projects. Today, I am going to do a little retrospective of each of the games on my itch page.