This Should Be a Game!

@onemoretimearound.bsky.social

12 Mar

ANNOUNCING: This Should Be A Game! 🎲 A new podcast 🎙️ about that moment where you're watching something & go...this should be a game! On it, hosts @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online & @jessfrom.online work with guests to design games based a movie 📼 Releasing Monday 3/16, our 1st episode will be...

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Camp Mike-asma

This trailer goes so hard! The House Edge is so exciting, I hope it inspires more designers to work together on crossover TTRPGs.

satahshanks the kale gay cat 🛸@posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online

yall did watch the trailer right because holy shit caleb's performance + shannon's editing + michael's models & design + hte visuals from kodasea AND b. dutton AND ben tobitt AND ben mansky .................................................... magic. in real life

youtube.comThe House Edge TTRPG Trailer | Paranormal Jailbreak TTRPGYouTube video by Haunted Table

itch.ioThis Should Be A Game Jam 02: John Carpenter's Halloweenless Hallowe'enA game jam from 2026-10-19 to 2026-11-20 hosted by wicked glitch games & Jess Levine | Jumpgate Games. This Should Be a Game! is a podcast about adaptive media and filtering 90% of your life experienc...

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Ciera "Panda" 🔜 PAX U@ragepandapajamas.bsky.social

A bookmark game that compels you to share the book once you finish reading. I may be cooking something for the game jam @thisshouldbeaga.me

Quick update: @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online's internet went out for a few days, so recordings had to be cancelled, and rescheduling around crowdfunder duties is going to be a trial. It'll likely be a couple extra weeks before any new episodes! But that means extra time to submit the mailbag 🛼

This Should Be a Game!@thisshouldbeaga.me

Our next double-feature: ROLLIN' WITH IT 🛼 The mechanical mailbag is open from now until the end of October!! Watch our upcoming movies & submit a related TTRPG idea (a thematic dice mechanic, overall elevator pitch, module, table...) & we might discuss it on the pod! 🔗 forms.gle/n3eBBJbT6HeQ...

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rss.comThe Thing (1982) - 03 - Mechanical Mailbag | This Should Be A Game!Responding to listener submissions about how to make 1982's The Thing into a TTRPG.

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We're responding to listener submissions about turning THE THING into a TTRPG!

kickstarter.comThe House Edge, Paranormal Jailbreak TTRPGBeat the odds and break containment as superpowered mercenaries fighting through the depths of an 80s casino full of myths & managers.

Check out this project from host of the show @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online!

Haunted Table@hauntedtable.games

Welcome to the Pyramid Casino. THE HOUSE EDGE is funding now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hau...

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Camp Mike-asma

@onemoretimearound.bsky.social

Very excited to see what everyone else has to contribute to this jam! Join in, folks! (I am working on a The Thing thing.)

This Should Be a Game!@thisshouldbeaga.me

With the release of the final episode of this series, submissions to the second #TSBGJam are now open!! Make something inspired by IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, THE THING, the conversations we had about them on the show, or something related. You have until November 19th!

rss.comThe Thing (1982) - 01 - with Alyssa | This Should Be A Game!Talking with Alyssa (@adisasterqueer) about how to turn 1982's The Thing into a TTRPG.

We're turning THE THING into a TTRPG with @adisasterqueer.bsky.social to round off the John Carpenter's Halloweenless Hallowe'en double-feature!

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satahshanks the kale gay cat 🛸@posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online

omg i just figured out these popsackles have jokes... scrambling to recover all my sticks... now pitch me a ttrpg that uses them & possibly also the act of eating a popsicle

rss.comThe Thing (1982) - 01 - with Alyssa | This Should Be A Game!Talking with Alyssa (@adisasterqueer) about how to turn 1982's The Thing into a TTRPG.

We're turning THE THING into a TTRPG with @adisasterqueer.bsky.social to round off the John Carpenter's Halloweenless Hallowe'en double-feature!

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rss.comThe Thing (1982) - 03 - Mechanical Mailbag | This Should Be A Game!Responding to listener submissions about how to make 1982's The Thing into a TTRPG.

We're responding to listener submissions about turning THE THING into a TTRPG!

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Jumpgate Games

@jumpgategames.itch.io

More beautiful box set proofs! Plus, you only have about two weeks left to upgrade to the Acknowledgement tier-- get your name in the book and donate FIFTY community copies to be made available for free when the game releases! More info in the latest update: 🔗 www.kickstarter.com/projects/gal...

Jumpgate Games@jumpgategames.itch.io

Meanwhile, proofs continue to roll in for the box set components, like these TRAIT CARDS, designed by @oieuoshi.bsky.social-- which will be so fun to build NPCs with at the table-- and their tuck box, designed by @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social!

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rss.comThe Thing (1982) - 02 - with Seraphina Garcia Ramirez | This Should Be A Game!Talking with Seraphina Garcia Ramirez (@seraphina.diceexploder.com) about how to turn 1982's The Thing into a TTRPG.

talking about games with seraphina is one of the loveliest joys to be found on this earth & we end on a pretty great discussion of what it even meansss to do gamey adaptation at all!!!!!

This Should Be a Game!@thisshouldbeaga.me

YOU DONT TRUST ANYBODY. YOU WANT TO SURVIVE. YOU WANT EVERYONE TO TRUST YOU. YOU WANT TO ESCAPE. YOU DONT WANT YOUR ENEMY TO ESCAPE. YOU ONLY REVEAL YOUR VIOLENT NATURE WHEN PUSHED TO YOUR LIMIT. with @seraphina.diceexploder.com 🧊

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Seraphina Garcia Ramirez 🔜 Metatopia

@seraphina.diceexploder.com

Satah and Jess were wonderful hosts, and I deeply adored the excuse to spend two hours going “wouldn’t it be cool if” over and over. this bit hit me like lightning rewatching the movie, and I’m delighted it stuck with them as well. What makes us not Things? Listen to us try and figure that out!

This Should Be a Game!@thisshouldbeaga.me

rss.comThe Thing (1982) - 01 - with Alyssa | This Should Be A Game!Talking with Alyssa (@adisasterqueer) about how to turn 1982's The Thing into a TTRPG.

We're turning THE THING into a TTRPG with @adisasterqueer.bsky.social to round off the John Carpenter's Halloweenless Hallowe'en double-feature!

As a reminder, the mechanical mailbag for the next double feature is open to listener submissions from now until about the end of October!

This Should Be a Game!@thisshouldbeaga.me

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rss.comThe Thing (1982) - 01 - with Alyssa | This Should Be A Game!Talking with Alyssa (@adisasterqueer) about how to turn 1982's The Thing into a TTRPG.

impishly proud of myself for making this about twenty times harder by immediately saying "soooo i don't want this to be a social deduction game"

This Should Be a Game!@thisshouldbeaga.me

We're turning THE THING into a TTRPG with @adisasterqueer.bsky.social to round off the John Carpenter's Halloweenless Hallowe'en double-feature!

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rss.comThe Thing (1982) - 01 - with Alyssa | This Should Be A Game!Talking with Alyssa (@adisasterqueer) about how to turn 1982's The Thing into a TTRPG.

We're turning THE THING into a TTRPG with @adisasterqueer.bsky.social to round off the John Carpenter's Halloweenless Hallowe'en double-feature!

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rss.comThe Thing (1982) - 01 - with Alyssa | This Should Be A Game!Talking with Alyssa (@adisasterqueer) about how to turn 1982's The Thing into a TTRPG.

Replying to @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online

i can't remember if it's this episode or the next one, but i know it's definitely one of the ones in this series that stood out to me as something i LOVE about this show from a design standpoint: very open & careful consideration about what a GM role brings to a game & what we'd be asking of them

This Should Be a Game!@thisshouldbeaga.me

We're turning THE THING into a TTRPG with @adisasterqueer.bsky.social to round off the John Carpenter's Halloweenless Hallowe'en double-feature!

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Dusty Hill ➡️ the Homonarrative

@dustehill.bsky.social

YEAHHH

This Should Be a Game!@thisshouldbeaga.me

We're turning THE THING into a TTRPG with @adisasterqueer.bsky.social to round off the John Carpenter's Halloweenless Hallowe'en double-feature!

rss.comThe Thing (1982) - 01 - with Alyssa | This Should Be A Game!Talking with Alyssa (@adisasterqueer) about how to turn 1982's The Thing into a TTRPG.

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jess

@jessfrom.online

i promise you that we go direction with a “The Thing” game that you would have never guessed in a thousand thousand years

This Should Be a Game!@thisshouldbeaga.me

We're turning THE THING into a TTRPG with @adisasterqueer.bsky.social to round off the John Carpenter's Halloweenless Hallowe'en double-feature!

rss.comThe Thing (1982) - 01 - with Alyssa | This Should Be A Game!Talking with Alyssa (@adisasterqueer) about how to turn 1982's The Thing into a TTRPG.

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Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰

@computerjames.bsky.social

18 May

the only video worth rescuing from my deleted twtter

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queenregnant.bsky.social@queenregnant.bsky.social

Skating not walking to tell my one friend who loves Xanadu

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20 Sept

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satahshanks the kale gay cat 🛸@posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online

making myself laugh in the mid-draft layout sesh

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Rook

@boxen.bsky.social

rss.comIn the Mouth of Madness (1994) - 03 - Mechanical Mailbag | Podcast Episode on RSS.comResponding to listener submissions about how to make 1994's In the Mouth of Madness into a TTRPG.Join the second This Should Be a Game Jam! & get ready for submissions to open up next month!Follow...

I am enjoying this podcast and you almost certainly will too

This Should Be a Game!@thisshouldbeaga.me

While responding to listener submissions about turning IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS into a TTRPG, we discuss its Mountain Dew brand tie-in, reading comprehension questions but scary, & creating a game that wants to make you want to stop playing 📚🎃

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Ciera "Panda" 🔜 PAX U

@ragepandapajamas.bsky.social

I love this podcast so very much and I am getting an extra boost of happiness from the conversation around the pitch I sent in! I've had a lot of thoughts about bookmark games thanks to @exeunt.press.

This Should Be a Game!@thisshouldbeaga.me

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jess

@jessfrom.online

@posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online & i truly go off the deep end at the end of the episode. what if there was a game that was designed to make you feel bad and didn’t stop until it got bad enough that you stopped playing. would that be fun. does anyone want that. it was such a fun design space lol.

This Should Be a Game!@thisshouldbeaga.me

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i guess i'd describe my energy in this one as "shredding a tidal wave of novelty mountain dew on a surfboard made of apartment hunting"

This Should Be a Game!@thisshouldbeaga.me

rss.comIn the Mouth of Madness (1994) - 01 - with Kendrick Smith | Podcast Episode on RSS.comTalking with Kendrick Smith (talesyettold.com, @kendomakesfilms) about how to turn 1994's In the Mouth of Madness into a TTRPG.Follow the show at thisshouldbeaga.me to keep up with game jams & mec...

📚🎃 As an editor, what's the ethical imperative if your client's work starts ending the world? John Carpenter's Halloweenless Hallowe'en begins by talking with @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social about turning IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS into a TTRPG!

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rss.comIn the Mouth of Madness (1994) - 02 - with Briar Sovereign | Podcast Episode on RSS.comTalking with Briar Sovereign (weregazelle.com, @weregazelle) about how to turn 1994's In the Mouth of Madness into a TTRPG.Follow the show at thisshouldbeaga.me to keep up with game jams & mechani...

14 Sept

Our series turning IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS into a TTRPG continues with @weregazelle.bsky.social 📚🎃

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29 Aug

theyre putting ginseng in the dew ?

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cheese

@cheeseplus.biz

20 Sept

this might be one of my favs and was rich with design approaches I’d never conceived of

This Should Be a Game!@thisshouldbeaga.me

20 Sept

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satahshanks the kale gay cat 🛸@posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online

making myself laugh in the mid-draft layout sesh

itch.ioNOIR-VEMBER TTRPG JAMA game jam from 2026-11-01 to 2026-12-01 hosted by Jellyfishlines & Tyrastafr. The rain hits the pavement as the shadows grow long. The streetlights, ever silent watchers, flicker to life. She walks u...

19 Sept

Genre jam alert!

🪼Ghost Jellyfishlines 🔜 PaxU🪼@jellyfishlines.itch.io

#Noir-vemberJam now has a discord server! The link is on the jam page! itch.io/jam/noirvemb...

19 Sept

This will overlap with the submission period for the second #TSBGJam & I gotta say that IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS is particularly ripe for a peak jam efficiency crossover entry 🕵️‍♀️

This Should Be a Game!@thisshouldbeaga.me

A new double feature also means a new #TSBGJam! Submissions open at the end of the series, but you can start working on your entry any time. Our first episode on IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS already went in multiple incredible directions, so I can't wait to see what people get up to for this one.

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14 Sept

the previous episode did have a lot of realis influence but this one feels overwhelmingly realispilled & that's very good imo

This Should Be a Game!@thisshouldbeaga.me

Our series turning IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS into a TTRPG continues with @weregazelle.bsky.social 📚🎃

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briar, duke of dykes

@weregazelle.bsky.social

14 Sept

it's MY turn. come listen to us continue to convert a good movie into an excellent ttrpg, and marvel how with uncanny precision i intuit exactly what was discussed in the first episode despite not having heard it

This Should Be a Game!@thisshouldbeaga.me

Our series turning IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS into a TTRPG continues with @weregazelle.bsky.social 📚🎃

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i love this movie, i love that we accidentally brought kendo into a weird metafiction horror because of what tales yet told has been exploring, i love how the entire direction of this episode suddenly changed bc of a single comment from kendo, POD GOOD, GOOD POD

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plus this!! i've been idly thinking about the eldritch solo self care larp i'm going to be making for this series' game jam for weeks. heavily looking forward to the weirdness everyone else gets up to

This Should Be a Game!@thisshouldbeaga.me

Dusty Hill ➡️ the Homonarrative

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@dustehill.bsky.social

4 Sept

Oh this is an incredible crew to talk about these future games.

This Should Be a Game!@thisshouldbeaga.me

📚🥶🎃 On Monday, we're back from our summer break with JOHN CARPENTER'S HALLOWEENLESS HALLOWE'EN-- talking about turning some of his non-Myers horror flicks into TTRPGs with @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social, @weregazelle.bsky.social, @adisasterqueer.bsky.social, and @seraphimseraphina.bsky.social!

4 Sept

itch.ioThis Should Be A Game Jam 01: Problems In Space + Loopin' TimeA game jam from 2026-08-03 to 2026-09-04 hosted by wicked glitch games & Jess Levine | Jumpgate Games. This Should Be a Game! is a podcast about adaptive media and filtering 90% of your life experienc...

4 Sept

Quick witching hour post to say thank you so, so much to everyone who participated in the inaugural #TSBGJam 💛💜🩵

This Should Be a Game!@thisshouldbeaga.me

The first-ever This Should Be a Game! Jam begins in two weeks and runs for a month-- make a TTRPG or supplement inspired by any of the movies we've covered so far, or by the conversations we've had about them on the pod!! #TSBGJam

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