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REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter! 55 Player Classes 150+ NPC Classes 29 Factions 20 Example Moons of Realis GMing and Prep Guidance Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

i put together a little video explaining 868-BACK for the curious! youtu.be/SU_67Y2Wb_0

JUST TWO HOURS LEFT TO BUY IT WHILE ON LAUNCH DISCOUNT!

I’ll be honest, I don’t think I *can* see everything… but I might have the capacity to see everything.

got to play House Edge & i have never seen a tabletop game so perfectly capture that "just one more run" feeling of roguelite video games it's an absolute blast, the writing is delightful, the mechanics are so clever, i immediately was like "ok so can we set up an ongoing campaign" it's SO good!!!

Middle-Earth goes nuts as SBG's new episode on The Silmarillion introduces vampires and werewolves (enough to populate a whole island), princesses locked in treehouses making ropes out of hair, and evil recurring side characters and their talking dog from heaven: rangedtouch.com/2026/10/23/t...

Hello. I reviewed the new compilation from Habibi Funk surveying Lebanon's '70s and '80s private-press tape scene. It raises some interesting questions about genre signifiers. Can something from Beirut be called "city pop" just because it's got similar influences? pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Game owns, get it while the gettin’s good!

Ali, Darcy, and Keith have all taken to the stars, visiting weird planets, learning alien words, and checking in on the now decade-old No Man's Sky. sidestory.show/37-thank-you...

This piece from @papapishu.bsky.social is so good. A survey of the desolation

Warren Spector’s talk, encompassing Deus Ex and Epic Mickey and much more, is streaming now at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter but ALSO by request, we are not recording or keeping this stream! Tune in if you want to see it.

Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.

Thank you everybody for supporting the game, I'm so happy so many of you vibe with my little dungeoning world! <3 If you feel like getting the game in front of more people, please consider leaving a review (either on steam or itch)! It genuinely helps a ton with visibility for the game!

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

Was just typing "this fucking industry" to a friend and instead typed "this fucking injury." and you know what,

from an FAQ EA published about the saudi deal last year aftermath.site/ea-saudi-ara...

I don't think it's an accident that @ko-op.com is committed to being AI free due to its democratic structure. The workers have made their stances very clear and their power to impact policy and workflows gives them the opportunity to define the workspace how they see fit.

"dont worry, we didn't use LLMs for real art, like writing, or graphics, or sound, we only used it for dumb gross useless basic shit like programming" always the funnest thing to read as a programmer, as someone whose whole career is based on code, whose handwritten library changed the industry etc

To Feel Your Warmth is LIVE on BackerKit! A tragic duet vampire TTRPG about two people in love, one of which has been cursed with vampirism, in the final hours before sunset. A conversation about love, trust, and the decision to move forward together or say goodbye forever. 🩸🚪🌅

The Locked Room Murder Mystery Game is live on Kickstarter now. Make your own murder mysteries with this hybrid board game + ttrpg! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ada...

My thoughts on the game!

A voice on a fell wind told me many grim decrees of fate but actually didn't mention you at all

wrote about penguin colony and boycotts meaning something

Alright, that final 48 hour email went out. Let's see if we can fund this thing. www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

What we really shouldn’t be doing is turning this into a “Jalen Hurts is so tough” story

RULES FOR DATING MY DAUGHTER: - Must have at least 8 characters - Include both uppercase and lowercase letters - At least one of these special characters: @#$%^&*- - Cannot contain your own username

There is some overlap here with a design idea that I’ve been trying to crack for a while and YET, the team and art and ideas are so cool that instead of being jealous I’m like hell yes hell yes hell yes. Cannot wait to back this in a couple of days.

Penguin Colony does the thing. Level 2 is a bear to get through: abuse the platforming to your advantage. Use Skyrim mountaineering + Sonic Adventure jumping. It's worth the push. There's some real OH SHIT moments waiting for you.

TWO DAYS until the launch of The House Edge on Kickstarter! Get ready for this deck-exploring roguelike where the cards are trying to kill you. It's a standalone game using the FIST system and a giant time loop adventure in the Triangle Agency setting! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hau...

watching @roguelike.club; this morning has been really good and I have been looking forward to @everest.bsky.social’s talk

Show goes live on YouTube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2NR...) and the playable ASCII convention center (chat.roguelike.club) imminently, I'm on in exactly one hour!

Umurangi Generation captured the collective angst of successive generations inheriting a broken world prepared for them like a shit sandwich. Here's my story for Remap about the developer's follow-up, Penguin Colony https://remapradio.com/articles/penguin-colony-wants-the-world-to-open-its-eyes/

Only one more sleep 'til Rooguelike Celebration! Before getting into the last batch of speaker shoutouts before the show, one more reminder that tickets are pay-what-you-can - we'd love for you to hang out and join us! ti.to/roguelike-ce...

Penguin Colony is now available store.steampowered.com/app/3695930/...

We are live on twitch with more Galaxy Princess Zorana! We have a wife now. She doesn't like us. twitch.tv/friendsatthetable

I sat down to write a little thread about Penguin Colony. At post 4 I decided I should probably just write something a little longer. www.clockworkworlds.com/digging-at-t...

For @jank.cool, I wrote about how Penguin Colony employs the proximity and distance of horror in a truly exceptional manner www.jank.cool/penguin-colo...

I wrote about my experience judging for the IGF for the first time, and shouted out some of the games I think people should play: brendanmcleod.dev/2026/10/16/b...

Aaand here it is! IGF Games I Want To Talk About 2027 is up on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2026/10...

What's it going to take to get more people to play Perfect Tides: Station to Station? What do we have to do? We talk about preparing for GOTY debates on The MinnMax Show. youtu.be/byuLVZqzgdA

EVERYONE READ @decassette.bsky.social'S A GARDEN OF SPHERES, NOW

In my second extended game of Caves of Qud, since I found myself with an abundance of a requisite reputation, on a lark I recruited Mayor Haddas of Ezra. Haddas is a tree. They cannot move.

to help smooth things over a bit i have put my entire itch library on same for the next *year*. consider me very, very available for freelance work. if you need playbooks, stretch goal content, anything, i'm your girl. itch.io/s/204730/fin...

Announcing Caves of Qud: Diaspora. 🌱 Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5249200/...

not exactly how i wanted to end my year, but i'll be looking for new work starting mid-November. if you're looking for a writer, level or game designer with a decade of experience in videogames & tabletop rpgs, get in touch