Calum Grace

Calum Grace

@calumgrace.bsky.social

Player, writer, designer, muck-abouter, lesser duke of hell. https://thysane.itch.io/ and patreon.com/calumgrace 🇮🇪

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Gilgamesh Bot
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He ate his roasted rabbit and drank his oil and prepared to dream that night in the Holy River Ulaja. Then was the roaming full of courage.

Calum Grace
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anyway now I'm strongly considering returning to Baldur's Gate 3 but maybe simply starting over, because I left my playthrough off somewhere in the third act and the last time I attempted to continue with it I was thoroughly overwhelmed and had totally lost the thread of what was going on

Calum Grace
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and I also have thoughts about how I might approach the game differently in terms of my character, respeccing companions, quest lines, etc. after messing around in multiplayer

Calum Grace
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since I'm watching Dark and greatly enjoying it, I'm gonna recommend for any fellow Dark enjoyers my game ABKRONOS, a 3-page mini-rpg about being rebellious time travellers, based on Continuum and World of Dungeons thysane.itch.io/abkronos

thysane.itch.ioAbkronos by Calum Gracea 3 page rpg about rebellious time travellers
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decided to do my usual thing, which is to get into a series almost a decade late. The current contender: Dark! I've somehow remained more or less spoiler free. In any case my thoughts so far are mostly "damn, these are some good caves"

Calum Grace
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like the old Continuum ttrpg & other time travel things I enjoy, Abkronos assumes a single-timeline version of time travel, so I tried to make it as simple as possible to encourage most of the game to happen in the meta making-diagrams-with-straws stuff. I *want* you to argue about cause and effect

Calum Grace
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(from HIRUKO THE GOBLIN, which is a really fun horror-fantasy movie directed by Shinya Tsukamoto, the guy who did the TETSUO films and also has an acting role in Martin Scorsese's masterpiece SILENCE)

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Calum Grace
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so pleased I watched this because I was already in the October mood but this sent it into the stratosphere, full ghosts and ghoulies mode engaged

Calum Grace
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decided to do my usual thing, which is to get into a series almost a decade late. The current contender: Dark! I've somehow remained more or less spoiler free. In any case my thoughts so far are mostly "damn, these are some good caves"

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Calum Grace
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it is interesting though, that this is held up as a poster child of "puzzle TV" but that honestly feels a little unfair to Dark, there's so much juice here beyond the mechanics of the thing

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Thursday Garreau
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reposting some Outland (1981) screenshots from my first time through it. might be even more perfect Mothership inspiration than the Alien films themselves!

Calum Grace
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When you're so close to the metal on these things it's hard to see, I have to keep reminding myself that yes, A Nocturne is 200 pages long and and somewhere in the order of 20,000 words on its own.

Calum Grace
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decided to do my usual thing, which is to get into a series almost a decade late. The current contender: Dark! I've somehow remained more or less spoiler free. In any case my thoughts so far are mostly "damn, these are some good caves"

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70s Sci-Fi Art
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Wow, that's an incredible easter egg... The mother and kid from The Exorcist are in the crowd fleeing Martians in Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds.

Tom Graham@tulseluper.bsky.social

Don’t know if this is an art swipe or merely reference material - but I spotted it recently having known the artwork since it first came out many many many years ago!

Calum Grace
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I personally know at least one person who refuses to watch movies older than they are and I cannot sanction their buffoonery (though I do love them as a person, it is difficult)

Calum Grace
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gonna carve out a wee bit of time this weekend to do more writing, I have to write about one of my poor unwitting protagonists witnessing a gruesome murder

Calum Grace
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a wee bit sick and light on actual work today so I've decided to relax by designing a megadungeon inspired by the underground Eternal Cities of the Nox in Elden Ring, and also a bunch of monsters from Essential Enemies, the Demonic Grimoire, and elsewhere