I think it's time to dust off the blog again.

I plan to have a playtest copy for my upcoming solo game The Crown and The Crow in this! I've been picking away at it for a long while and I'm very excited. You play as a line of 13 rulers of a nation, forward and back through time, leaving legacies both amazing and terrible. Also there's a crow.

Whimsy Machine@whimsymachine.bsky.social · 4d ago

Launching a new game jam all about the amazing ttrpg community I'm proud to be a member of! The TTRPG Collective is an incredible place full of excellent and supportive folks, plus cool resources readily shared. I'd love to have you (YOU!) join up! #ttrpgs #indiedev itch.io/jam/ttrpg-co...

Launching a new game jam all about the amazing ttrpg community I'm proud to be a member of! The TTRPG Collective is an incredible place full of excellent and supportive folks, plus cool resources readily shared. I'd love to have you (YOU!) join up! #ttrpgs #indiedev itch.io/jam/ttrpg-co...

TTRPG Collective 3rd Anniversary Jam

A game jam from 2026-08-01 to 2026-09-17 hosted by Whimsy Machine. The TTRPG Collective was founded in October 2023, and it is full of awesome people. For three years, we've been supporting each other...

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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

Enjoy this list of yearly TTRPG events, community rituals, and celebrations that are known to generate a buzz on social... Cover photo by Nika Benedictova Greetings, friends! Emerging into this glorious new space, I've stocked...

Enjoy this list of yearly TTRPG events, community rituals, and celebrations that are known to...

Cover photo by Nika Benedictova Greetings, friends! Emerging into this glorious new space, I've stocked the shelves of this kitchen with all sorts of resources for the tabletop RPG and...

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There's 2 weeks left to grab the Summer of Mermaids Bundle! 📦📚 Reel in these 32 projects, including my 5 page full color, traditionally painted comic, the Cutest Squid, for $30 while you can 🎣 itch.io/b/3728/summe... #comicoop

I know functionally nothing about artfight but what a treat it is to see so many cool ocs and art.

Looking for @itch.io charity bundle advice. I've sent a few emails and discord messages since May to get the bundle set up. I might have the charity account add a dummy project so I can finish it myself. The only response I've gotten is to not do that, though. Anyone else with charity bundle exp.?

Happy Monday! 🧁 #Art #Comic

This is very funny to me because my 3yo loves Catboy but I definitely would not consider it a children's book recommendation. Anyway, buy Catboy!

Silver Sprocket @silversprocket.net · last mo.

😸 Children's Book Council Graphic Novel Recommendations CATBOY by @benjinate is in the @childrensbookcouncil's Summer 2026 Newsletter!" 😻 Catboy is available online and in stores, along with adorable, irresistible merch! Get your copy today! ⚡

💭💭💭 💭 ✏️ 🧶 💭 💭 💭 💭 💭 🦐 Shrimp dreams of creating.

Cool tech hack! You can easily "cartoonify" your photos with this awesome trick!! No skill required, just write a description of what you want and then HIRE AN ARTIST.

Doing one more push to get over the finish line for Taiga's Eviction Bundle (fun fact, I'm getting evicted at the end of August)! itch.io/b/3745/taiga... Help a queer disabled creative out and pick up 30 projects for only $12 #ttrpg #mutualaid

I'm still very excited to eventually launch this bundle! We're waiting on support approval from itchio before we can go live. While we wait, we're still accepting cat-themed games, comics, and projects to manually add to the bundle. Just reply with your link and be ready to approve when we launch.

Whimsy Machine@whimsymachine.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I'm hosting a new jam and bundle: Cat Jam! Open to all project types, so long as they feature CATS! The jam runs through April, accepting new and existing cat-themed entries. itch.io/jam/charity-... All proceeds for the subsequent charity bundle go to Seattle Area Feline Rescue. #catjam #gamedev

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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Wake up babe, the perfect #drawyouroc shirt just dropped 👕 #aoba #ocsky #comicoop

🪓 Cry for the Slaughter by @whimsymachine.bsky.social In this compelling solo rpg you play a cursed forester driven to chop down trees when faces appear in them, which causes that person to die. How will you be free of this curse? Available in the My Lone Summer bundle! itch.io/b/3705/-my-l...

🪄 hellooooo fantasy lovers! 🪄 the World Beyond the Wand #transmasc #fantasy #zine is officially open for preorders--and boy, have we got a lot to share this time around! here's the order form: forms.gle/zCRXc6riTLaL... ...and read on in the thread for a little more detail! 🧵

Introducing writer @whimsymachine.bsky.social! Taylor is writing the story of one of our suspects: Squire Tidwell, an American veteran war doctor, who wants to play at solving mysteries and is pushing himself into the case.

Thank you everyone who's recommended my work on @rpg-trader.bsky.social ! I really appreciate you taking the time to do so 💜 The 60% off everything sale is running for a few more days so if there's anything you want, now's the time: rpg-trader.com/creator/16/k... #ttrpg

Kelly Whyte on RPG Trader

A solo TTRPG dev from Aotearoa New Zealand, best known for Lineages of the Long White Cloud .

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🫀 Found Parts by @whimsymachine.bsky.social A beautifully illustrated solo horror rpg which explores themes of body horror, mortality, and ability. Look critically at yourself and the parts you’re made of; explore your fears. Get this and more in the My Lone Summer bundle: itch.io/b/3705/-my-l...

Mulling over some things I wish I'd had early in my indie TTRPG design career. Would you rather download: 1. A short guide (trifold size) on little things to improve your game's readability with examples of do/don't? or 2. A one-page checklist of things with no examples? or 3. Neither, you're good.

Looking for a graphic designer for a paid gig. I need a title/logo/cover dressing for a ttrpg project. The cover art is already finished. In a couple months, I'm launching crowdfunding for it and will need book layout (print and web). Extra stuff like interactive PDF character sheets are a plus.

you said it snufkin #sketchbook

Littledigits@littledigits.bsky.social · 2mo ago

a #sketchbook snufkin cuz i gotta warm up my drawing hand if i actually want to get to my drawing work.

Really like Saturn in the Backrooms movie. Glad he's still getting work devouring his son.

Discover great Solo and Duet TTRPGs on solorpglist.com With 1,145+ games listed and more titles added every day! If you've enjoyed playing a solo or duet game, or made and published one, feel free to submit it to our site so we can share it with others. #soloTTRPG solo RPG journaling game TTRPG

Solo RPG List - Find Solo and Duet TTRPGs

Discover amazing solo and duet tabletop role-playing games that can be played with—or without—dice, tarot cards, playing cards, pen and paper, etc.

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This would be such an incredible feature and would wholly trounce itchio for me (people have been asking them for it for *years*).

RPG Trader@rpgtrader.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Oh, yes - missed that one. We don't have that quite yet, but we're working on that now, and we'll have that feature ready before launch.

The Review Something! TTRPG Bundle is now recruiting. This is going to be a PWYW bundle, all profits split equally between contributors, with the additional sub-theme that in order to buy it you should review a game on itchio. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We'll be taking inspiration from Spell: The RPG today by @whimsymachine.bsky.social and playstorming with Scrabble tiles! whimsymachinegames.com/Spell-The-RP...

Spell: The RPG - Store - Whimsy Machine Media

All of existence and nonexistence, reality and surreality, is spoken in a Universal Language. It describes all the laws of the universe: what is and what is not, everything that ever happened and ever...

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It really is that simple❤️ #studioghibli #ghibli #hayaomiyazaki