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Chris Longhurst

@potatocubed.bsky.social

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The best game designer you've never heard of. https://potatocubed.carrd.co/ He/him.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · Oct 17

Hello. My name is Chris (or potatocubed if you're From The Internet), I design games.

I am good at designing games.

Marketing, not so much.

Buy my stuff.

potatocubed.itch.io

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 15h

Aw, I was hoping it would be for people.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 17h

The answer to all things computer is "Yes, it *can* work, if you're willing to pay the price..."

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Jess Pendley, Werewolf Wrassler 💪🐺 @jesspendley.com · 17h

#ttrpg creating folks, does anyone know if there's a canva template out there that can be used for Drivethru card creation?

(Boosts for reach appreciated 💜)

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 20h

Hot damn.

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Rebecca McCarthy - Writing & Narrative Design @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social · 21h

I have a big backlog project written in Ink, which stalled a while back as I couldn't quite get everything I wanted working. I was looking through the InkJam resources list and this web template was listed.

Does pretty much everything I need!
remy-vim.itch.io/ink-template

Ink IF Story Template by Rémy Vim

A free template for Ink stories

remy-vim.itch.io

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 1d

I think it might have been Spirit of the Century.

Certainly, the way Fate let you just *describe stuff* and have it be true without needing to lean on mechanics really opened doors for me.

Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 1d

For tons of folks, there was that -one- game that blew the doors open and showed what #TTRPGs could be. The one that started the #IndieGame rabbit hole.

What was YOUR "gateway" indie #TTRPG? The first one that made you realize a whole other world was out there?

Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 1d

I was going to say the same thing. It's a fantastic touch.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 1d

See, I started by putting together the framework for a battle system and I've come up with some conflict stuff to justify that.

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Spheal Posting @sphealposting.bsky.social · 2d

orbjection

Phoenix wright from ace attorney has been replaced with pokemon rumble spheal but I've kept the arm and finger pointing so it looks like spheal has a long human arm

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 2d

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 2d

Washing up minimising. *nodnod*

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 2d

This is 'watching baseball' for me.

Or football. Or whatever this sport is.

Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 2d

I should play Monster Sanctuary again.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 2d

Getting an urge to design a monster tamer sort of game.

Not *entirely* because I want an excuse to release a supplement that's nothing but different kinds of slime, but not *not* that either.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, Bleak Spirit is very much my love letter to Dark Souls and was inspired by my DS3 playthrough.

Crucible is inspired by my favourite roguelikes: Dungeons of Dredmor and Stone Soup.

Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 2d

If video games frequently disavow their TTRPG heritage, we can at least proudly own the fact that TTRPG work is deeply inspired by video games. Most of us have an origin story or two.

SLAYER CAKE is inspired by Brütal Legend.
"Something to Drink With That, Sir?" inspired by dys4ia.

What's yours?

Levar Burton Hotling Bling Meme -- AI-inspired GMing vs Video Game-Inspired GMing

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 2d

Would also play this variant.

Although I reckon you could write an essay on how in Stardew Valley you *are* functionally a messiah come to save this town.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 2d

Free game idea: Stardew Valley but you're a mechanic instead of a farmer.

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 3d

I don't know quite why I'm reading your posts from two weeks ago, but: tabletop roleplaying games. Joined a local club, met lots of nice people.

Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 3d

No need to apologise! Just thought I'd mention it quickly in case you were preparing to send those files to print or something.

Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 3d

>.>
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Curtis McFoster seems to be missing his picture?

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Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 3d

Get summoned into the body of a ferret which you have to share with the spirit of an ancient lich.

Duffo @duffo.bsky.social · 3d

The Definitive Edition of isekai fantasy TTRPG This World Summons Too Many Heroes!! is now available! Play with ridiculous powers in a world where heroes have become way too common and are causing chaos in the fantasy world of Ceria.
duffhounds.itch.io/this-world-s...

This World Summons Too Many Heroes!! Definitive Edition by Nick Duff

The ultimate version of the isekai fantasy TTRPG

duffhounds.itch.io

Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 3d

Meta engineers leaving the company 5x faster.

404 Media @404media.co · 3d

NEW: an internal Meta message we obtained tells employees on its metaverse team that they should be using AI to “go 5x faster”. That's 5 times faster, not 5 percent more www.404media.co/meta-tells-w...

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

www.404media.co

Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 3d

It says you've been very lucky.

Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 3d

Bored apes are here (in the bin) to stay.