they tell me i HAVE to stop doing big fullbleed vertical titles and i loveee to never listen
leo 🦈
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if your goal is to make art to connect with people (mine is, always has been), whats the point if no one attempts to connect with it! thats what marketing is!! its information!! communication!! its necessary!!!!! and i sympathize if u think it sucks but dont pretend it isnt, like, real!
© George Rorris. 'Androniki.' Oil on canvas, 2013. 75 x 65 cm.
i do think marketing, self-branding, and promotion r skills it is possible to learn, is the thing. do they have very little overlap with what most ttrpg designers like to do? yeah but that's not the point. the point is its in your hands. you just dont want to. which is fine. but you gotta be honest
i do think marketing, self-branding, and promotion r skills it is possible to learn, is the thing. do they have very little overlap with what most ttrpg designers like to do? yeah but that's not the point. the point is its in your hands. you just dont want to. which is fine. but you gotta be honest
498103481034 things to do rn but ouhhh i want to be soooo self indulgent and make. some brittle star merch. stickers and stationary and maybe a cute shirt. all custom designs no lazy shit. wdyt
with monumental amounts of grit, effort, and determination we have gotten it to 45%
leo 🦈@darlingthresher.bsky.social · 4d agonothing worse than a design that's like 75% there
obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo
I met you on a cliff (Saint Paul) What did we talk about.
And the award to the ttrpg infustry's highest quality premium quartz bong (medium size) is...
whew, that was a close one!! we almost gave an independent RPG an ENnie for graphic design!!! what would we have done then????
Judges' Choices!! the awards that, imo, actually matter! I very strongly think we should give more weight to judges' opinions and rulings beyond the audience appeal, and that correspondingly we should put more care and effort into selecting judges! like maybe letting active professionals judge!
As I just posted, a fantastic and sharp game with an extremely cool concept. Burn bright and fast against your inevitable death, so that humanity holds onto hope in the face of overwhelming odds. Check it out!
leo 🦈@darlingthresher.bsky.social · last mo.They're here! Grab a physical copy of INFINITE REVOLUTION (with some minor external blemishes) for the lowest price I will probably ever offer them - $21 w INCLUDED SHIPPING to anywhere in the US, over 50% off retail. all proceeds go to medical care for my stupid disintegrated knee lol
Sam Sorensen should host the ennies next year and they should give him a gun
2019 Defunctland video: "In 1989, the Walt Disney corporation was feeling the heat from the Six Flags Dick Smasher and wanted a one of their own" (20 mins) 2025 Defunctland video: (single very serious plaintive piano note) "Since the dawn of time... Man... Has always tried to eat a snack" (3 hours)
My awesome lovely books from lovely lovelies (taken while squatting at the church next to gencon and leeching off of public wifi)
I love when RPGs give a bunch of things brand names. It isn't just a "pulse rifle", it is the F20 "Arbiter". Demo charge? Nortinghouse M-450 TACFORZ Charge. Don't get me started on the Sato GS Grail VI!
there are so many different games i love to play them all : )
Nice Youngguy@tabloidsores.bsky.social · last wk.whenever someone asks me abt story games vs mechanics heavy games i just picture the two cakes image and smile warmly
just what the scene needs! a heavy metal dark fantasy dungeon dragon clone! produced by a weirdly muscular middle-aged man with his own merch line and a disgraced corporate game designer! and get this, it's drenched in weirdly aggrieved edgy nostalgia! it's unlike anything we've seen before! yippee!
Polygon@polygon.com · last wk.Joe Manganiello has created a new official setting for D&D
Illustrations for a TTRPG campaign setting - Cloudsurge - made by photobashing public domain etchings Most of the etchings in these images were by Gustave Doré, and Charles Meryon
good news btw this found literally nothing except some mild swelling so im out $1000 for no reason but at least i also have weird nerve pain in both legs now
leo 🦈@darlingthresher.bsky.social · last mo.hey pals guess who needs an MRI and forgot that those cost like $1200. i'll be put up some discounted printer's seconds of INFINITE REVOLUTION maybe tomorrow-ish. tell ur friends also still open for layout work moving into late july / august
