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@jenshaus.bsky.social

I‘m mostly here for civilised discourse on literature. Much obliged.

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Grant Howitt@gshowitt.bsky.social · 4d ago

Looking for someone who can do 90’s point-and-click style pixel art for a commission. Short notice but it’d need to be done in the next two weeks. Lemme know if that’s you, and share your portfolio please!

Tea Vampire@stras.bsky.social · 2w ago

When you write a game you never know who will play it or what it will mean to them. It can be someone's first game. It can be someone's last game. And if you're very very lucky, you'll sometimes get to hear about it.

Rascal News@rascal.news · 2w ago

In Australia, a teacher runs Band of Blades every day for more than 30 students. @newmadras.bsky.social tells that story, alongside his personal recollections of the game and what makes it unique. It's not just a single narrative, it's...

The World of RPGs@theworldofrpgs.bsky.social · 3w ago

Picture Monday: This might just look like a German translation of a Werwolf 5E sourcebook, but I want to point out that "storyteller" is in the feminine form here. We discuss the issue of gendered nouns and pronouns in many episodes, especially for translations (depending on the language of course).

screenshot of Instagram, showing Ulisses Spiele's Werwolf: Werkzeuge der Erzählerin
Skullboy@betterlegends.bsky.social · 3w ago

Clayton makes a great point here that I think a lot of people dont realize. People pay attention when all you have to say is negative. You are digging yourself a grave made of your own discontent- the internet isn't actually a good place to complain.

Clayton@explorersdesign.bsky.social · 3w ago

Musings about the industry. Talks about the town. Caning my shins. Playing the bagpipes. It's a new issue of the Explorateur; a newsletter of design links by game designers for game designers. www.explorersdesign.com/explorateur-...

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve never seen this Harryhausen quote about why stop motion animation is its own aesthetic form & trying to make it feel like smooth live-action is a category error. ❤️

As Harryhausen summed it up in 1981: To me, the ultimate aim in making our films has never been the smoothing out of stop-motion animation. To try to duplicate live action in every way seems to me like asking a painter to paint a landscape so it will appear like a photograph. Our pictures are more of a surrealistic experience rather than an excursion into technical perfection. I’m certain technical perfection has its place and its advantages, but could you really make a sequence such as the skeleton swordfight in Jason and the Argonauts … with a computer?
Animation Obsessive@ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...

Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I've written a few books and checked all the quotes (deleting some bangers because I doubted their authenticity) and if you're letting fabricated ones slip through then you're cutting corners in an egregious way. It is not the copy-editor's job to check every source, it's yours. Do the damn work

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Clayton@explorersdesign.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Public Domain Art is the lifeblood of small tabletop rpgs, but it can be a nightmare trying to find the right art and license. This week, I’ve re-uploaded my old list from 2020 (with updates) of public domain websites. That's 500,000+ public domain paintings, photos, maps, and film. Link below 🔗👇