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Good Luck Press

@goodluckpress.co

A collaboration between Seb Pines and Will Jobst to create and publish experimental, cool, and strange games that explore the medium and push the form.

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Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · 6d ago

While not at GenCon, we're there in spirit! Grab a select number of Good Luck titles from @ipr.bsky.social over at booth #449!

promo image that reads: games at gencon! IPR booth 449, jul 30 - aug 2, indianapolis, IN. there is an image of a ghostly woman's silhouette shadowed in a blowing curtain. credit for the image reads: art by seb pines, dwelling.

Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · last mo.

Jean, from the OCAD Drama Club, ran Craterboys on a beautiful spring day, using chalk and super big dice!

Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · 2mo ago

We might not be at Origins, but our games are! Check us out at @ipr.bsky.social, booth 1803.

Text reads: Games at Origins! IPR Booth 1803, June 18-21, Columbus, OH. Art by Seb Pines, We Shall Be Monsters. The image is of two green hands with purple shadows, with different cuffs, rings, and notably, they're both right hands.

Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · 2mo ago

This Saturday, we're vending at the Indie Game Emporium! We're excited to be back this year, alongside local indie game devs, organized as a part of Toronto Games Week. Located at the Allan Gardens, 160 Gerrard Street East, Toronto, from 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm. #torontogamesweek2026

A rainbow background with a cat playing video games. The text reads:

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Indie Game Emporium, Allan Gardens Childrens's Conservatory
June 13th (SAT)
4:00 to 9:00 pm.

Physical editions of indie games, game anthologies, soundtracks on vinyl, cds, cassette, zines, pins, prints, postcards, stickers, tarot cards, and more!

Spiral Tower, Ludo Genics, Aaron El Sabrout, Mighty Yell, Kitten Cup Studio, Mui Wang, Ash K, jonnlee_erg, Tallywinkle, Spooky Squid Games, Good Luck Press, Droquen, Luis, Insertdisc5, Void Blob Co-op

Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · 2mo ago

@ckunzelman.bsky.social wrote about the electric storytelling of We Shall Be Monsters!

If one of the lessons of Frankenstein, and all the derivatives afterward, is that creations are unpredictable to creators, then We Shall Be Monsters is an appropriate inheritor to the legacy. Ironically, the game is fully predictable; players know exactly what qualities they are putting into their creations. How those qualities interact, and how players will use them and the ones they chose beforehand to answer the framing questions of the game, is what makes it feel like the creation is always running away from your control.

Perform mad science with creature-building RPG We Shall Be Monsters
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This is what I’m chasing in solo RPGs, and We Shall Be Monsters hits the high notes with the best of them. Controlled chaos, two monsters caught in a melancholic death spiral, bound together for eternity: Now that’s gaming.

Perform mad science with creature-building RPG We Shall Be Monsters
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An image of the cover of We Shall Be Monsters, on top of a lace kerchief and near a hobby saw. The text reads: We Shall Be Monsters. The cover shows luxurious blackletter text with a haunting low contrast image of a body lying on a table, ready for a "Mary Shelley moment", if you catch my meaning. In the bottom left corner, in green, it reads "Pines".

Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · 2mo ago

Toronto! Your next Indie Game Night is this Saturday at 6:00 pm ET at the Guild House in Toronto. Come find your new favorite game! Illustration by @emo-sludge.com. For more details, see the event page here: theguildhouse.ca/collections/...

Text reads: Indie Game Night, 6:00 - 10:00 pm, The Guild House, 579 St. Clair Ave. West, Every last Saturday. theguildhouse.ca, goodluckpress.co. There's an illustration of two disembodied arms reaching for something out of sight, illustrated by Zach Hazard Vaupen.

Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · 3mo ago

The nominations for the Indie Ground Breakers are in, and @smolghost.bsky.social's We Shall Be Monsters and Underneath are up for two awards! We Shall Be Monsters is nominated for Best Writing, and Underneath is nominated for Best Rules.

Text reads: Nominations, Indie Groundbreakers. Best Writing: We Shall Be Monsters. Best Rules: Underneath.

Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · 3mo ago

We're at TRICON! All weekend over at THEMUSEUM, @smolghost.bsky.social is slinging games alongside @trueryankhan.bsky.social! themuseum.ca/tricon/ Art by @sobcomix.bsky.social.

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We're at TRICON! This weekend, May 2-3, THEMUSEUM, Kitchener, Ontario, 10 King Street West.

There's an image of a person drinking from a Nalgene, wearing a climbing helmet, repelling into a cave, with a ton of climbing gear.

Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · 3mo ago

This weekend, we're at TRICON at THEMUSEUM in Kitchener Ontario! Stop by and say, "hey!" We'll be vending alongside @trueryankhan.bsky.social, and we'll be featuring the work of @julienlegault.bsky.social, @strautmaskreplica.bsky.social, and @summoningpress.bsky.social. themuseum.ca/tricon/

A picture of a sunny clear day in Kitchener, ON, of THEMUSEUM. There's text that reads:

May 2-2, THEMUSEUM, Kitchener, ON, 10 King Street West

Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · 4mo ago

On the first episode of the new podcast This Should Be A Game, from @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online and @jessfrom.online, @willjobst.bsky.social guests to chat about the movie Gravity. Together, they brainstorm how to adapt it into a game! Catch it where ever you listen to podcasts.

Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · 4mo ago

We'll be at TRICON, held at THEMUSEUM in Kitchener, Ontario! Catch us on Saturday and Sunday, May 2nd and 3rd. Stop by and check out the other awesome vendors! Art by @sobcomix.bsky.social.

Text reads: Good Luck Press at TRICON, May 2-3, THEMUSEUM, Kitchener, Ontario, 10 King Street West. There is an illustration of a person spelunking, wearing tones of climbing gear, cracking open a Nalgene water bottle. The illustration is by Mary Verhoeven, and it's from the game Underneath.

Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · 4mo ago

In a recent issue of Skeleton Code Machine, @exeunt.press takes a look at what makes @smolghost.bsky.social's We Shall Be Monsters special. Find the rest of the piece over on Substack: buff.ly/sxEvP5B.

Text that reads: We are told, that these parts come with a mixture of desires and ideals that are both our own (as we provide the vitality) but also from the part itself as “even dead flesh holds memory.” It won’t be simply a pair of legs, but legs that have a bit of our own personality in them as well as the personality of the former owner.

The cover of We Shall Be Monsters, on a cyan background, with a menacing pair of tweezers above.

Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · 4mo ago

Last month, @willjobst.bsky.social was on @theweeklyscroll.com to talk everything games, from the founding of Good Luck Press, to the admiration of Adam Vass, and a flip through of the upcoming Plasmodics! Find episode 305 where ever you find podcasts, and a video version on YouTube!

An image of both Will and Ryan on a call, in which they're wearing the same t-shirt, available on the World Champ Store. The shirt has a guy in a mask surrounded by barbed wire. The design is by Dark Wizard.

Text that reads: With Cli-Fi, I push as far as it can go and see not what post-apocalyptic pessimism we have, but how we'll live after the human era has ended. And in doing like research for this, especially about like bunker dudes and, and preppers, there's this understanding for preppers that it's three days until cannibalism. When the thing happens, whatever it is, it's three days before we are tearing each other apart.

Text that reads: When in reality, we see in disaster zones all the time, people come together, they collaborate, and they work to make life better and easier. And you can find that with like blackouts or like huge snowstorms... this just happens on earth. And so, the perspective of Plasmodics is that it's a shaking off all these ideas we had about what the future should be or what the end of the world should be as the people inhabiting the future.

The cover of Plasmodics, on a fibery orange paper, with goopy green and blue squishy things just out of frame.

cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I really, really enjoy this game from Seb Pines and I think you should play it!

Not The A.V. Club Games@nottheavclubgames.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Become your own Frankenstein (the doctor, his monster, or both, even) in the new storytelling tabletop RPG We Shall Be Monsters. www.avclub.com/we-shall-be-...

Not The A.V. Club Games @nottheavclubgames.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Become your own Frankenstein (the doctor, his monster, or both, even) in the new storytelling tabletop RPG We Shall Be Monsters. www.avclub.com/we-shall-be-...

Perform mad science with creature-building RPG We Shall Be Monsters

Become your own Frankenstein (the doctor, his monster, or both, even) in the new storytelling tabletop RPG We Shall Be Monsters.

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Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · 5mo ago

We're here at Breakout Con! Join us for a weekend of games, panels, and (of course) slinging zines and books. Stop by table C2 and say hello!

A standing banner in a hotel hallway that reads "Breakout Toronto". The illustration has three cyberpunky people with guns. There's a d20 critting and a d10 showing a 10. Text over it reads: March 19-22, Sheraton Centre, Downtown Toronto, 123 Queen St. W., Toronto, ON.

A map of Breakout Con showing a circled table that reads C2. It's between the Churchill Room and the City Hall Room, on the right side. The text reads "Good Luck Press at Breakout Con, Table C2, right outside the City Hall Room".

Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · 5mo ago

Tomorrow, we're off to Breakout Con! Find us there through the weekend at table C2.

An illustration by Kaylee Rowena of three people linked in hands around a burning candle, a tape recorder, and an oujia board. Their eyes are closed. The text above reads: "Good Luck Press at Breakout Con, March 19-22, Sheraton Centre, Downtown Toronto, 123 Queen St. W., Toronto, ON.

Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · 5mo ago

This Sunday, we're tabling at the Pittsburgh Indie Expo! Stop by the Heinz History Center from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm and check out the other cool publishers, printmakers, and comics artists. For more details, check out www.pieburgh.com.

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"Good Luck Press at Pittsburgh Indie Expo, March 15, Heinz History Center, 1212 Smallman Street, Pittsburgh, PA"

There is an illustration of a person drinking a soda while their car is charged up via solar panels. The illustration is by Gabriel Reis, and it appears in TORQ: Rallyraid Roleplaying.

Exeunt Press 💀🎲@exeunt.press · 5mo ago

IT'S ALIVE!!! ⚡ Exploring how We Shall Be Monsters from @goodluckpress.co uses a zero-luck prompt system that is both thematic and structured: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/we-shall-b... #ttrpg #solorpg #frankenstein #monster #circuits 🎲✂️

Building circuits in We Shall Be Monsters

Exploring how We Shall Be Monsters by Seb Pines uses a zero-luck prompt system that is both thematic and structured. Also, Tumulus Issue 07 is filled with vampires and shipping soon!

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seb pines @smolghost.bsky.social · 5mo ago

one of the prizes is a game bundle of seven physical copies of my solo games! that's hours of entertainment for a mere $5 raffle ticket! buy a bunch of tickets to help out Fabian and up your odds of getting some great games!

a beautifully displayed pile of roleplaying games. on the bottom are two manila envelopes housing the games Curios: Albrecht Manor and Curios: Jasper Park. on top are 4 zines and a paperback book all games with the titles: Underneath, Dwelling, Auspex, Venatores, Belluae

Bad House RPG@badhouserpg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Gods have decreed no streams for the end of the month. We still need help for @rocketsandpens.bsky.social, as promised, we are opening the Raffles to help them out! Win Prizes by buying a ticket for your desired item! Check out what we got at ko-fi.com/rocketsandpe...

Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · 6mo ago

This Sunday, we're tabling at the Rock Paper Scissors Book and Print Fair, at the Art Gallery of Guelph! We're alongside a whole host of awesome printmakers and booksellers, stop by!

Tabletop Bookshelf @tabletopbookshelf.com · 6mo ago

NEW ARRIVAL: We Shall Be Monsters from @smolghost.bsky.social @goodluckpress.co is a solo game of creation, obsession, and playing god to assuage your loneliness. tabletopbookshelf.com/products/we-...

Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · 8mo ago

Give the gift of gaming this season with our holiday bundles! buff.ly/YJKdqWH

Exeunt Press 💀🎲@exeunt.press · 8mo ago

Make your own TTRPG bookmark! Exploring the different types of games that can fit on a bookmark, and how books can be used as part of tabletop mechanisms: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/ttrpg-book... Also, three new bookmark games for the TTRPG Bookmark Jam. #ttrpg #rpg #bookmark #solorpg

Make your own TTRPG bookmark

Exploring the different types of games that can fit on a bookmark, and how books can be used as part of tabletop mechanisms. Also, three new bookmark games for the TTRPG Bookmark Jam.

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Lorenmakesvideos @lorenmakesvideos.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Auspex has become my most watched solo gaming video! If you want to learn more about this tarot-based journalling game watch it here 👇👇👇 youtu.be/Tq7AN3a9CiM @goodluckpress.co

Auspex: The Tarot Solo RPG That Will Change The World

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Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · 8mo ago

This Sunday, we're going to be at the Little Ghosts spooky pop-up market from 12:00 to 4:00 pm, slinging our creepy wares!

A black and white image with illustrations of skeletons and ghosts sharing coffee. The text reads: Little Ghosts Books presents ... Spooky pop-up market, saturday and sunday, december 6th and 7th, from 12 - 4 pm, 930 dundas St. W, meet local crafters and support small spooky artists.

Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · 8mo ago

Never be alone again. The world is cruel and lonely, don’t you want to make one perfect thing? Just for you? We Shall Be Monsters is a solo game of making your perfect companion from the remnants of the dead. A surprise game drop, We Shall Be Monsters is available now! buff.ly/QudiP56

Witty Volkova @wittlegoblin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Don’t miss out on these, I find myself continuously gifting @goodluckpress.co to friends, often to people who haven’t gotten into games and aren’t sure where to start. I’ve only ever heard glowing praise when I do!

Good Luck Press@goodluckpress.co · 8mo ago

Looking to get a head start on your gift shopping? Check out our holiday gift bundles and give the gift of a good game! Treat your favourite gamer with a curated selection of games or pick up a bundle that has a little something for everyone. buff.ly/YJKdqWH

Salt and Sass Games @saltandsass.bsky.social · 8mo ago

@819Steph.bsky.social just released a new solo journaling RPG video, this time featuring Auspex by @smolghost.bsky.social. This game takes us to a world on the brink of destruction, as the player takes on the role of a diviner guiding the change through their advice. Curious?

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Good Luck Press @goodluckpress.co · 8mo ago