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Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 20h

Hey new followers! Have you wishlisted our game yet? You get to be a sneaky innkeeper, eavesdropping on your guests' conversations, charming them with jokes and erudition, and stealing from them while they sleep (for... reasons). 🤫

👇WISHLIST ON STEAM 👇

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Innkeep on Steam

Innkeep is an immersive job simulator with a mischievous twist. Run a lonely house in a lawless land. Serve ale. Cook ‘creatively’. Rob your guests. Uncover an arcane secret that may shake the world t...

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Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 20h

Basically, conversation options depend on what you know. So knowing something about medicine, for example, may provide you with an entirely new conversation option with a certain character.

Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 20h

But underneath "Scholarship" we can have a bunch of discrete things you might learn about, like specific theories about the stars, medicine, logic, philosophy etc. These are all things you have either heard about, or have not (a one-time unlock). These then feed into the storylet system.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 20h

For example, one of the skills is "Scholarship", one of the three "Contemplative" skills. Being good at "scholarship" is like your general ability to -pretend- to know something about learned subjects (the game takes place over just a few weeks so it's all about appearances.)..

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Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 20h

Something cool we are working on for Innkeep: Alongside the 12 conversation skills (grouped into 4 "mentalities"), you can also acquire discrete bits of knowledge that might help you impress people later on. These will all have their own icons. There might be as many as a hundred or so.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 20h

Hey new followers! Have you wishlisted our game yet? You get to be a sneaky innkeeper, eavesdropping on your guests' conversations, charming them with jokes and erudition, and stealing from them while they sleep (for... reasons). 🤫

👇WISHLIST ON STEAM 👇

store.steampowered.com/app/925500/I...

Innkeep on Steam

Innkeep is an immersive job simulator with a mischievous twist. Run a lonely house in a lawless land. Serve ale. Cook ‘creatively’. Rob your guests. Uncover an arcane secret that may shake the world t...

store.steampowered.com

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Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 1d

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Mythwright @mythwright.com · 1d

Bladesong has over 100k wishlists, thanks everyone for your ongoing support so far! ⚔️🥳

Huge congrats to SUN AND SERPENT creations 💖

Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 1d

Gamedev.

Discord message proclaiming "And it works!" It has an (edited) marker next to it, and has a line through the text.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 1d

My wife keeps receiving water bottles whenever she's at a conference so the latest one is mine. It's nearly 2 litres?? Regular largish mug for reference. Summer is coming so good timing though.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 1d

The bulk of works could be procedurally generated, for volume, but 1 in 10 might be hand-authored, with potentially significant secrets about the past being hidden anywhere. Scholars keep visiting and demanding you provide them with books about specific subjects.

Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 1d

Make the books readable, but the reading is like initiating a dialogue using storylets. Most you cannot understand much at all, as you haven't unlocked the requisite states (knowledge / language). As you learn more, you can revisit old books to discover new passages.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 1d

A game where the lord of a planar nexus orders the construction of a great library to hold the written works of all worlds. It's Wilmots Warehouse meets the ancient library from Book of the New Sun. You gotta learn dozens of languages to decipher titles and create your own organization strategies.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2d

Have you ever been so fucking delighted by a username/icon set that it made you follow a total stranger

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Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 2d

Pathologic 2 is a brilliant game. The follow up is looking very interesting as well.

Ice-Pick Lodge @icepicklodge.bsky.social · 3d

Pathologic 3 launches on January 9, 2026.

A new free demo — an introduction to the full game — is out now on Steam!

We’re also unveiling the first of three trailers, each offering a different perspective on Pathologic 3.

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Pathologic 3: Release Date Announcement

YouTube video by IcePickLodge

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 2d

Hi #PortfolioDay! 🎨

I'm a fantasy cartographer from Brazil working on hand-drawn maps for novels and RPGs.

I have a Patreon with maps + stock art for indie RPGs.

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+🔗 fernandosalvaterra.carrd.co

#cartography #ttrpg

fantasy map illustration depicting a landscape full of ragged mountains up and down, crossed by crooked roads, some on giant stone structures. There is a valley with hills and woods to the south, a desert with wretched lands just east of it, wetlands to the west and east with flooded cities and temples, snowy plains to the northeast with a giant skeleton and tree and an impossibly tall mountain in the northwest whose peak is obscured by dark clouds.

a fantasy map illustration depicting a continent with a bigger mainland and a large island to the west of it. the biomes go from snowy mountains, a vast wetland, grasslands with many hills. the prevalent features here is that it is crossed by many rivers in all directions and it is surrounded by a the shades of a vast submarine landscape that where part of this land before a big flood catastrophe.

colourful drawing of an island crossed by a mountain range, rivers and forests scattered around.

a planar map in the shape of a compass rose. The direction arrows are the four classical elemental planes with the material plane in the centre and several layers of other planes of existence around it.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 2d

Woops!

Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 2d

Ehehehe. Superwood.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 2d

News article title: Scientists create super wood that's ten times stronger than steel.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 2d

they should make another star trek as good as ds9

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Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 3d

Then I've done my job!

Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 3d

Words to live by.

Some in-game text from Innkeep. "You shouldn't trust water that's deeper than your ankles or wider than your belly."

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 3d

Today's great news: the Nighthawks demo is out! Huge congrats to @richardcobbett.bsky.social and @threeohfour.bsky.social for the most intriguing vampire game in ages.

Play it on Steam ⇢ store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/...

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Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 4d

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 4d

Picard: Wesley, I notice you’ve been requesting a lot of computer files from the early 21st century. Records from that time are… inaccurate at best. There’s a reason we call that era The Great Cringe

Wesley: You’re only saying that because you don’t eat enough beef tallow

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Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 4d

Co-written by Steven King apparently.

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