I'm making it official: Microscope second edition is in the works. Crowdfunding in October. I swear on this stack of game books arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/52...
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I'm making it official: a new edition of Microscope is in the works. I've looked in my crystal ball, laid out my schedule, and set crowdfunding for October. If you've been following this blog, you ...
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first day of the second "the browser is already a game engine" class with sfpc. excited for the next 10 weeks of talking and thinking deeply about online games
dawn chorus demo is free to play all year long 🫨 haraiva.itch.io/dawn-chorus-...
DAWN CHORUS [DEMO] by haraiva, isyourguy
tales of the pre-apocalypse
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It's deals season, so you can also get An Altogether Different River in the massive @rpg-trader.bsky.social Free RPG Day Bundle. Lots of great games in there! rpg-trader.com/products/102...
Free RPG Day 2026 Bundle on RPG Trader
Over $1,000 worth of digital and print content from more than 250 creators all across the RPG Trader community.
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It’s been a while, but Episode 22 of the Almost Bedtime Theater podcast is live, and we’re playing Exquisite Biome from @seaexcursion.itch.io and @sifsweetman.bsky.social. Catch our review and family-friendly actual play as we discover octopices, brightly-colored sharks, and a canyon-sized clam!
Exquisite Biome: Review, Actual Play (Ep 22) - Almost Bedtime Theater
A transcript of this episode is available via the episode page on Buzzsprout.In this episode, we review and play the tabletop roleplaying game Exquisite Biome.04:40 - Actual playExquisite Biome was wr...
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We're so excited to announce that our Marielda 10th Anniversary Vinyl Soundtrack Edition is available to pre-order now at lostincult.co.uk/marielda!
Marielda 10th Anniversary Vinyl Soundtrack — Lost In Cult
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Friends at the Table’s Marielda season, Lost In Cult are releasing 500 special edition copies of Jack de Quidt’s original soundtrack on vinyl. Each copy, signed b...
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OK, there it is. The Prisoners on Dozmary Craig, full edited .pdf, 191 p
reading about how zines were used to demonstrate "providing material support to terrorists" in the prairieland sentencing leaves a pit in my stomach. 30 years for zines you'd see tabled at almost any zinefest
Flavio Pessoa did an amazing job showing a selection of the files, like photos of Liz Soto and her husband Ines, a fellow defendant, tabling with their Emma Goldman Book Club. the Sotos had a printing press in their garage. the FBI came for it while they were in jail. that’s in the files, too.
lovely little review of bremen that really pops under the hood. this writeup speaks to many of the same questions i was considering when designing the game — liar's dice as a gameable skill, player/character diegesis, and pacing narrative arcs for a very short runway
Where we review lovely Liars-Dice-Meets-Faustian-Rock-Stars game Last Train To Bremen, and I decide today is not the day to back away from self-parody find time to interrogate it for its rockist tendencies.
The process of moving into a new place this month and rebuilding my life as a person living solo for the first time in over a decade has been expensive and hard. If you've been thinking about picking up any of my games, this would be a great time to go for it. store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
Buried Without Ceremony
My name is Avery Alder, and for the past eighteen years I’ve been designing tabletop roleplaying games. These are games about community, relationships, doubt, queerness, and the collapse of civilizati...
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i don’t really have anything worthwhile to post right now. i just felt like posting
lil comic practice ive been scribbling away at. its my first one ever! (1/3)
Announcing our lineup of writers and contributors for the inaugural issues of A4 2B D6! We will have copies available at the perfect hole productions table (H21-22) at Comic Art Festival KL on 13-14 June 2026, at Hextar World Empire City. Featuring cover art by @munkao.bsky.social, and (cont'd)>
MANIFESTO JAM 2026 An invitation/provocation for YOU to write a manifesto. Running for a full week from June 8th to June 15th (AEST). Participate and submit at: itch.io/jam/manifest...
Manifesto Jam 2026
A game jam from 2026-06-07 to 2026-06-14 hosted by haraiva. MANIFESTO JAM 2026 A Manifesto for Manifesto Jam, 2026: SEND ME YOUR ADDRESS SO I CAN VISIT YOU AND EXPLAIN MY PASSIONS I'm sick of talks. I...
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Now is a really great time to subscribe to my Patreon 'cause for $5 a month I'll be posting about my new comic once a week. I'm trying to manage $300 a month for meds and groceries. patreon.com/treelet
Did you miss the 2025 Indie Groundbreakers last week? Just want to see the Game of the Year? Here it is! youtu.be/qPbR4AZX50g #TTRPG #indiegames
2025 Indie Groundbreakers Award for Game of the Year
YouTube video by Indie Game Developer Network
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moons for the taking, as far as the eye can see
Just restocked 50 free copies of Collectible Trading Moon Game. Get 'em while they last.
Restocked! i’m sorry did you say street magic Sweet Revenge (Perils & Princesses) www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/
you, too, can introduce your friends to the wild world of indie rpgs by making up a fictitious nature documentary about some little animal freaks
showing some new friends the wild world of indie rpgs tonight. what’s my pick for the perfect intro? gotta be @seaexcursion.itch.io’s EXQUISITE BIOME (seaexcursion.itch.io/exquisite-bi...)
Weaver Walker, of Sports are Just Numerology and Together We Write Private Cathedrals (roswellian.itch.io), has a newsletter, and it's one of like three of the torrent of emails i get every day that i am always delighted to open. buttondown.com/weavers-coun...
Weaver's Country
boots on the ground reporting from a land worth living in updates on works in progress, research compiled, reflections and stories, game design, investigations, travel photos, exercises, pedagogy, som...
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they said it couldnt be done: playing street magic as fast as possible
How big of a city can we build in I'm Sorry Did You Say Street Magic in...hang on, just one hour? Join your favorite ttrpg players as they play @seaexcursion.itch.io's game on moonshot.mov!
How big of a city can we build in I'm Sorry Did You Say Street Magic in...hang on, just one hour? Join your favorite ttrpg players as they play @seaexcursion.itch.io's game on moonshot.mov!
two great games that game great together
Lilith (@blujayh.itch.io) and I are currently playing A Land Once Magic by @vidityavoleti.bsky.social for the purpose of playing a very weird, freeform spin on Lilith's game Gamma Girlz. When asked to make a creature, she HASTILY opened Exquisite Biome by @seaexcursion.itch.io.
This weekend we're streaming video and tabletop games, quiz shows, a table read of Moonstruck (1987), and more to raise money for Advocates for Trans Equality and their work supporting the legal rights of trans folks in the US! Watch the stream: moonshot.mov Donate: moonshotpods.com/donate
Pleased and proud to have helped design Maisey, the main character of Sonnet, which you can wishlist on Steam now: store.steampowered.com/app/4589630/... And follow: @sonnetgame.bsky.social
I had so much fun in this conversation I hope you can hear it I love Firebrands so much, it's a framework that I think Just Works and Makes Sense and I gush oops
This week on Dice Exploder! @vidityavoleti.bsky.social is on the show talking the Firebrands minigame scene structure from @megueyb.bsky.social and @lumpley.bsky.social. I love Firebrands! I love this structure!
five years ago today i published my senior thesis project That Which Faith Demands, an interactive fiction game about salvaging a fallen mech made from the body of a god jannouna.itch.io/that-which-f...
After running @vidityavoleti.bsky.social @superdillin.bsky.social @citadelofswords.bsky.social and @aaroncatanosaez.bsky.social through a speedrun of IM SORRY DID YOU SAY STREET MAGIC by @seaexcursion.itch.io all i can think of is how to speedrun other TTRPGs. This idea has awoken something in me.