I'm finally back to designing after a spell. I'm calling this Re:Memory, and it plays sorta like reverse memory. I hope to playtest it soon.

Recently on Craig's show I talked about poetry as the not-game media I enjoy. I think a lot of y'all would enjoy this collection of poems: ✍️ Failed Chat GPT ✍️ For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper ✍️ Things Artificial Intelligence Can't Do 🔗 www.instagram.com/p/DeKeJ3pEiy9/

Craig (Third Floor Wars)@thirdfloorwars.bsky.social · last wk.

Can an RPG have coloring as its main mechanic? Yes! I got to talk with @stickydoodler.bsky.social about their newest game COLOR JAM. Listen via the link or find Tabletop Talk on your favorite pod platform. #ttrpg spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/4zkeQh7uT6b

Oh, and this gorgeous game display? Made possible by @ipr.bsky.social . We might be local game designers, but we ain't crazy. Fulfilling via hand-delivery doesn't scale, even when we're nearby (and some of us are on the other side of the Potomac)

Matt B, People's Book@mattbormet.com · 2w ago

@stickydoodler.bsky.social ready for peoplecon

We'll be in Takoma Park for a local con at @peoplesbooktakoma.com on October 17th. This event is full of DMV Game Designers! Come by anytime between 12-5. The event is totally free to attend! More info: withfriends.co/event/290173...

See you at People's Books October 17th to meet the creators behind many of these amazing games including Emily!

Matt B, People's Book@mattbormet.com · 2w ago

@stickydoodler.bsky.social ready for peoplecon

The Designed in the DMV catalog started as a small dream: I wanted to see local designers featured in the zine section* of my local bookstore. On our way to creating that catalog, we ended up creating an event that is now PeopleCon 3. Then all of a sudden we came together as Designed in the DMV...

Matt B, People's Book@mattbormet.com · 2w ago

@stickydoodler.bsky.social ready for peoplecon

You voted a three-way tie, so I broke it in favor of coloring red in 3 (making it part of the flower, perhaps?). Which means purple is still in 1. Please vote in the comments! 1🟣 - fox tail 2🔵 - not fox, not flower...??? 3💿 - sky 4🟤 - under fox 🎦 youtube.com/shorts/psvZk...

Next Saturday*, you can find me alongside my favorite local designers at ♦️🎲 PeopleCon 3 🎲♦️ the DMV's premiere festival of locally-crafted independent games 📅 Sat, Oct 17 🕛 12pm-5pm 📍 @peoplesbooktakoma.com

So excited! My next game, Tideward, is out in January with Avalon Hill! It's an absolutely gorgeous, strategic, family-weight game that takes a light ruleset and packs a ton of strategic punch! It's even got a rotating board.😎 See me talk about it here: www.facebook.com/reel/1623187...

Heck yeah, thats what we're talking about

Joseph Arthur Ellis@jarthurellis.bsky.social · 3d ago

Introducing the BrumbleCast, a 3 part series that's an excuse for me to chat with cool 🎲✂️ folks like @dxdydz.northsky.social who create games as experiences and art first instead of as products. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR3L...

El premio Elizabeth Magie de la temporada 25-26 es para @downtowntbrown.bsky.social creadora del juego #VotesforWomen y activista social y feminista Si queréis conocerla más, podéis recuperar la entrevista que le hicimos en el último DAU www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIf3...

Come play board games with us on the patio! This Sun. 10/11 from 2-5pm @gamesunbound.bsky.social will facilitate three different RPGs for ages 9+ - they'll provide everything, just bring your imagination! Will we see you at the table?! Grab a spot; sliding scale tix: withfriends.co/event/296573...

10/11 - Family RPG Afternoon! by People's Book

Get tickets and support People's Book by becoming a member

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I had a blast podcasting with @stickydoodler.bsky.social this week! Check out our discussion of game design, components you can destroy, and his upcoming PAXU event about unpublishable games! youtu.be/v2XRqXOOpEs?...

Beyond Solitaire Podcast 251: Gene Koo on Ephemerality in Games

YouTube video by Beyond Solitaire

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Y'all voted for "1" so watch these pencils roll! Color Jam is doing great on Kickstarter; back it now! youtube.com/shorts/54xu-...

Watch pencils roll because y'all voted for "1" in this #ColoringGame

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Sticky Doodler 🔜 PeopleCon 3@stickydoodler.bsky.social · 5d ago

No seriously guys I need your votes or else I'm playing this game all alone. Where should I color next?

When I talk about the Bonsai Diary, I underline anyone can play, even people who "aren't good at drawing." (By the way, no one is bad at drawing.) But that doesn't mean you have to hold back if art is your thing! These watercolors by Ariaflore (Instagram) are just stunning. What a gift!

"Nature" is, appropriately, the results of years of iteration from "Evolution." During that time @dcrapuchettes.bsky.social has taken the game in a direction I rarely see when systems evolve: stripping away rather than adding complexity. The result is faster and more accessible than the...

No seriously guys I need your votes or else I'm playing this game all alone. Where should I color next?

Sticky Doodler 🔜 PeopleCon 3@stickydoodler.bsky.social · 6d ago

The vote went to "2" so I broke symmetry and colored the top-left of the gate BROWN. That's different! Vote on where I color next! We're in the Color Jam mid game, and multiplayer is very different than solitaire! youtube.com/shorts/1pzZ9...

Another video some folks here might spot themselves in! A recommendations list thinking about what solo TTRPGs can offer to newcomers, and what games are accessible and representative starting points. Hope someone finds it useful! Or at least interesting. youtu.be/edGC97xaV94

How to pick your first solo TTRPG

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The vote went to "2" so I broke symmetry and colored the top-left of the gate BROWN. That's different! Vote on where I color next! We're in the Color Jam mid game, and multiplayer is very different than solitaire! youtube.com/shorts/1pzZ9...

CHAOS: you voted for it! Multiplayer #ColoringGame on #Kickstarter now

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Sticky Doodler 🔜 PeopleCon 3@stickydoodler.bsky.social · last wk.

Play Color Jam with me and VOTE on where to go next: 1. Green in the upper-right tree: all the colors change numbers 2. Brown in the gate: break symmetric monotony 3. Purple next to the fox: give it more tails 4. Dark blue on the steps: make it winter Explainer: youtube.com/shorts/iO79P...

If sharp definitions cut off debate, then hand us blank paper to scribble on. And to make games out of.

lumpley@lumpley.bsky.social · 6d ago

As a game thinker, personally, I'm not interested in distinguishing games clearly from other kinds of behaviors and activities. I'm interested in finding and learning from the games that are hiding, unidentified, unrecognized, unacknowledged in the other things we do.

If this post excites you the way it excites me, you gotta come to PeopleCon 3, where Talia Rosen, designer of First Monday in October, will discuss how a tabletop game can capture the essence of the Supreme Court. (Post by @judgedillard.bsky.social from The Other Place) ⚠️ @fortcircle.bsky.social

This November we're hosting our first solo RPG game jam at @itch.io! Solovember 2026: All flavours of solo TTRPG welcome: tactical, journaling games, dungeon crawls, experimental, etc. A fun alternative to NaNoWriMo or to do as part of NaGaDeMon 🧡 itch.io/jam/solovemb...

Solovember 2026

A game jam from 2026-10-31 to 2026-12-01 hosted by Sero. We've all been waiting all year, and it's almost finally November. Just like SoloSeptember we have another month all about solo and solo-friend...

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Zack Strebeck of Legal Moves Law Firm is putting on a free workshop: 🗓️ Thu Oct 15 🕗 8pm ET "I'm putting a full game publishing agreement on screen and marking it up live. For each problem clause, I'll explain what it does to you and what I'd ask the publisher to change." speedrun.legal/teardown/

I talk a bit about poetry and touch on lyric games at the end of this conversation, and guess what? Today is National Poetry Day in the US. So go read/play/embody a lyric game! (But listen to this chat first)

Craig (Third Floor Wars)@thirdfloorwars.bsky.social · last wk.

Can an RPG have coloring as its main mechanic? Yes! I got to talk with @stickydoodler.bsky.social about their newest game COLOR JAM. Listen via the link or find Tabletop Talk on your favorite pod platform. #ttrpg spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/4zkeQh7uT6b

If it's not human made, it's not art

Hinokodo@hinokodo.com · last wk.

Just heard #PaxUnplugged is going full Human Made. Proud of em, it's my favorite gaming con. And it's nice to know they'd prefer to present the works of real creative human beings. That's one less sign booths need to make, but if you'd like to anyways, here's a free icon hinokodo.itch.io/human-made

Just heard #PaxUnplugged is going full Human Made. Proud of em, it's my favorite gaming con. And it's nice to know they'd prefer to present the works of real creative human beings. That's one less sign booths need to make, but if you'd like to anyways, here's a free icon hinokodo.itch.io/human-made

Human Made by HINOKODO

An icon pack made by humans

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I wonder if this is how it used to feel to be on television? Appearing on Third Floor Wars' Tabletop Talk has been a Big Goal since I discovered the show and Craig's perfect radio voice. And great questions! (I seem pretty serious for a guy so in love (with coloring))

Craig (Third Floor Wars)@thirdfloorwars.bsky.social · last wk.

Can an RPG have coloring as its main mechanic? Yes! I got to talk with @stickydoodler.bsky.social about their newest game COLOR JAM. Listen via the link or find Tabletop Talk on your favorite pod platform. #ttrpg spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/4zkeQh7uT6b

I just backed Color Jam: A Print-and-Puzzle Coloring Game on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/lun...

Color Jam: A Print-and-Puzzle Coloring Game

Enjoy cozy and clever coloring at your next game night. Craft the story of each hand-illustrated picture with creative color choices!

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Now with interior color pages! We have Making a Tabletop RPG for YOUR Particular Kid (full color) www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/

Play Color Jam with me and VOTE on where to go next: 1. Green in the upper-right tree: all the colors change numbers 2. Brown in the gate: break symmetric monotony 3. Purple next to the fox: give it more tails 4. Dark blue on the steps: make it winter Explainer: youtube.com/shorts/iO79P...