Graham Walmsley ➡ Adventure X

On Thursday, we'll prelaunch our latest game on Kickstarter. We've been calling it Alien Archaeology, but that's not the real name. We get to announce what it really is on Thursday. See you then.

This is the loveliest introduction to Cthulhu Dark. Thanks, @heartofthedeernicorn.com.

We're prelaunching the Alien Archaeology Kickstarter on Thursday, which means we're announcing what Alien Archaeology is! I can't wait for you to find out. I've been sitting on this for 18 months.

The scheduling demons deploy their twice yearly bullshit to throw off your gaming plans. Don't let them win! Clocks went back last night in European timezones. This makes time differences wobbly for a while. Always try to use unicodes (like hammer.time or Discords @time function) to avoid mix ups!

Random question for @ecfriedman.com or anyone else who knows: how would I find a good history book on the enclosure acts of the 18th century? I'm finding it hard: lots of sweeping histories on the history of the landscape or the concept of enclosure generally, not much that's specific.

It's lovely to see Cosmic Dark in this list, alongside two other games I've heard good things about.

Did I...just finish a first draft of Alien Archaeology? Maybe I'll scroll back and forth a few times in disbelief. It's been a beautiful thing to write. I'll miss it. Lots of editing to go obviously.

NEW OPPORTUNITY: Short fiction writer? Love the world of Heaven's Vault? ... then come play in the waters. We're looking to commission 20 short stories set in the Nebula for a new anthology. Paid, obvs. Full details and a link to the form on the blog: www.inklestudios.com/2026/10/24/t...

This event at Eclectic Games, about ancient games, looks incredible. I can't be there, because it clashes with AdventureX, but I hope it happens again.

I'm a little Greek café, with an espresso and a massive Greek pastry, writing the last-but-one scene of Alien Archaeology. It's a lovely start to the morning.

Grab TR-49 and a bunch of other thinky games in this puzzling bundle! www.humblebundle.com/games/puzzle...

James also writes The Weird Stuff, so keep an eye on this distinctly weird-sounding project.

This is a fascinating article. Mark was around in the 2000-2010 indie golden age, but Magpie has grown hugely and does licences now. ("Golden age" is half-ironic, but also half not, because...that's how...halves work.)

We are in the last three days of the campaign for Lonely Timbers - Tire-toi une bûche over on Kickstarter. Now is a great time to spread the word before the campaign ends. www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jag...

I'm so happy when people play the Cosmic Dark campaign. I think they're some of the best horror scenarios I've written.

“There’s something more here, I’m sure of it.”

We played Arkham Horror, in which we shot down a chandelier which fell on Deep Ones! Enormous fun. I do play story-ish games too.

Hey, the CMU Press Games series is live. We've been planning this for a couple years, but it's amazing to be at this point. Submit your Anthropocene-themed games about humans + nonhumans + technology in our weird (post)modern/future times, for a new *peer-reviewed* anthology series.

I'm at @adventurex.bsky.social this year. Give me a shout if you are too! Or if you have recommendations of what I should see or do, since it's my first time there.

I'm writing Alien Archaeology, which is a really beautiful thing to write. I am perhaps milking all the different descriptions of light. Light here, light there, prismatic light refracting through stuff, pools of light like spotlights, etc etc.

As you can see (ought to have posted this myself really) we programmed a horror movie narrative into our injury/trauma results as determined by which archetype you’re playing

You know how people double fry chips, or double butter toast, well, I’ve just double boiled some green beans and I can’t wait to taste the results

The final episode of Ludonarrative Dissidents season 3 is up, and it's been worth the wait. We present a three-hour actual play of classic map-based community game The Quiet Year, with two special guests: @ecfriedman.com and the game's designer @lackingceremony.bsky.social. This is an absolute treat

I'm really proud of the various Cosmic Dark scenarios.

15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:

Go and follow this: @bananachangames.bsky.social always writes the weird horror shit you are looking for.