Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
Colin/CoMoo - Sociable Turtle Games
@sociable-turtle.bsky.social
(he/him) TTRPG designer, music obsessive, tragically a sports fan. Check out my stuff - https://sociable-turtle-games.carrd.co/
#TedLasso is back tomorrow, and to celebrate I made a pre-made Club sheet for AFC Richmond, and character sheets for Sam, Dani, Isaac, Jamie, and Colin for you to use in my football TTRPG For the Badge! Grab them here for free! sociable-turtle-games.itch.io/afc-richmond...
AFC Richmond Club & Character Sheets by Sociable Turtle Games, by Colin Mancini
Supplementary material for use with the For the Badge TTRPG
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I have playtested this game, and even though I'm bad at it, I still love it. Go support Heather, one of the coolest indie designers out there! Yes you can get Big Walk, but this is a demo, it's free!! No excuses!!
The 500 FINGER FILLET demo is OUT NOW!!! 500 STABS. 20 MINUTES TO ESCAPE. A horror roguelite about stabbing yourself in the hand 500 times to escape a deadly trap. Can you make it out with all your fingers? Or will you bleed out on the table? store.steampowered.com/app/4973880/...
Newsletter more like NEWsletter, am I right? If you'd like to hear about developments for The Separation of Work & Self, the Ted Lasso Club and Character sheets I've just released, as well as musings on some new games I've been working on, read and follow below: mailchi.mp/e58ead2fbaa9...
Sociable Turtle Games Newsletter - Separation of Work & Self Updates, Ted Lasso sheets, and New Games!
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#TedLasso is back tomorrow, and to celebrate I made a pre-made Club sheet for AFC Richmond, and character sheets for Sam, Dani, Isaac, Jamie, and Colin for you to use in my football TTRPG For the Badge! Grab them here for free! sociable-turtle-games.itch.io/afc-richmond...
AFC Richmond Club & Character Sheets by Sociable Turtle Games, by Colin Mancini
Supplementary material for use with the For the Badge TTRPG
sociable-turtle-games.itch.io
Been seeing the “how do you break in” conversations floating around and I remember in my early days of just wanting to work in film all the conversations were about how to break in. Turns out the answer is just show up and do the work. Make friends. Be helpful.
Thinking about while on our honeymoon we were enjoying a session in an Irish pub, and an older man stood up, sat with the musicians, and the entire pub silenced itself as if on cue to listen to him sing by himself. It was magical
You don't have to tell me about the hill you're willing to die on. You can just do it.
I've just sent out my August 2026 newsletter which contains information about: 🕰️ Chronocide 👽 Xeno:Despair ♥️ Road to Romance 🎲 Playtests 🎤 Interviews ✍️ review of Castle Nightingale boardgame You can use this link to read online (and sign up!) plane-sailing-games.beehiiv.com/p/august-2026
August 2026
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airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
I will continue posting until BtSE stops being amazing. We discovered my character is obsessed with coffee (which she couldn't have because coffeehouses were gendered! Boo gender!!) & showed solidarity with the working class via undermining a rival through a mistreated maid. What can't this game do?
We had a shopping session in Before the Season Ends today and it ended up being the most "trad"-feeling, min-max-y session I think it is possible to have in this game 😂 absolutely incredible jen-adcock15.itch.io/before-the-s...
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Do not trust Elliot. It starts with "oh this is a lil game I made about two brothers" and it ends with you sobbing staring at your friend's bathroom door. Learn from my experience!!
Day One! Find me in the pink TTRPG hat and come buy some games at booth 449!
DEADBODY Games is a proud non-AI studio, if by "proud" you mean "kinda nonplussed that this was an issue to begin with"
DEADBODY Games does not use generative AI at any point in the development process. Instead, we will continue performing the Herculean task of... doing things how everyone was fine doing them five years ago.
In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...
I open my doc. I write the worst sentence known to man. I remember that Straight White Guys have written worse sentences with more confidence. I write an even worse sentence.
Getting reaaaaal fed up of that phrase being used as a get out of jail free card.
The attitude of so many in the comments section of the internet* is “it’s all bad, who cares, move on” You don’t look enlightened or elite because of your “knowledge,” you look lazy and sad for not trying. Be a good human. Make good decisions. Learn. Try again tomorrow. *I know
I think it's fucked up that every time my chest itches I scratch, think of Scavenger's Reign, and experience a fear that did not exist before watching the show
I am officially caught up, and yeah, it's fantastic. As someone who fell off the Actual Play wagon a while ago, this is like a breath of fresh air. Go listen to it!!
I had a lot of driving to do today, so I finally got around to @manysidedmedia.bsky.social 's much talked about Project ECCO podcast, and let me tell you, the hype is real. So, so cool, pushing boundaries on what we consider Actual Play, and engaging as a listener trying to keep track of it all.
Session 0 is coming at the beginning of Fall, with Season 1 following in late Fall / Winter. For more info on release dates, please follow - we will use Bluesky and Instagram for updates.
This was an amazing opportunity to talk RPGs. The other speakers in this series are a home run as well. Please give a listen.
Update: I am also discovering that the probabilities based on toying with a standard poker deck is...extremely difficult to calculate
Is this a safe space to admit it took me way more Googling than I'm proud of to confirm that rolling 2d10 as d% has the same probabilistic distribution as rolling 1d100
I was going to say "what if I made an RPG where one of the classes was 'BladeGun' but all of the ways they interact with the world are negative & escalatory, & every other character is comparatively positive & well adjusted" but then the entire game would be managing the worst player at your table
I've moved to Qobuz and don't regret it; significantly better on AI and also has the best artist compensation per stream rate out there!
Spotify doesn’t label AI music on its platform, so websites like SoullessMusic.com and SlopTracker.org do it instead.
“This “privacy for me, surveillance for thee” attitude feels like a perfect encapsulation of the future we’re already living in: one where wealthy elites can afford privacy, while the rest of us are forced to live in a corporate surveillance panopticon.” www.ms.now/opinion/tayl...
Opinion | Taylor Swift was able to buy her privacy at MSG. What about the rest of us?
Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.
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I've been working on Mousetrap since October. It's my most ambitious and complex game yet, so playtesting has been slow, in odd chunks, and with extra clunk. But I'm thinking the core pieces may have fallen into place today, thanks to collaborators/playtesters. More to go. But lots of progress.
Today @jenkatwrites.bsky.social @sociable-turtle.bsky.social and I playtested @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social 's new game, "Mousetrap." It was a fantastic experience and a mental workout - and yet another game I adore by Asa! Here are some preliminary thoughts (we are not done playing). 1/
Today @jenkatwrites.bsky.social @sociable-turtle.bsky.social and I playtested @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social 's new game, "Mousetrap." It was a fantastic experience and a mental workout - and yet another game I adore by Asa! Here are some preliminary thoughts (we are not done playing). 1/
Bad news: the brainworm won't leave, and I'm thinking about combining a real-time clock with a deck of cards or countdown clocks to represent the time limit and pressure of a shift
Oh thank god other people are making these so I can get the "The Bear TTRPG" brainworm out of my head