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@anarisis.dylangrinder.com

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Game designer, artist, & all-around nerd. Author of Become: Artificial Investigation & Spoken Magic. Explaining design & narrative through play at twitch.tv/anarisis — She/He — 📧 [email protected]

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Dylan Grinder is back to streaming! @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · Aug 18

Hey there, Bluesky! I'm Dylan, a game designer and graphic designer for tabletop and indie projects.

I also use those skills to design free supplements for RPGs and analyze the games I stream!

Games on: anarisis.itch.io
Streams on: twitch.tv/anarisis
Freebies funded by: patreon.com/anarisis

Gold metal lettering is set in a dull blue leather, itself framed in more ornate metal. The text reads "Spoken Magic by Dylan Grinder".

Glowing green lines on a black background trace a circuit-like pattern. Dramatic glassy letters replete with a similar pattern spell out "Become" with a subtitle in glowing typewriter-style lettering says "artificial investigation".

Highly stylized picture of a hand reaching up with a knife pointing down, the point of the knife a small space away from the fingertip. The lighting is pure red with blue highlights. Along the blade is the title "Blood On My Name" in bold yellow text. The author names Kienna Shaw & Jason Cutrone are at the bottom in bold white text.

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Levon Jihanian @forkfrenzy.bsky.social · 17h

Hi #portfolioday I'm Levon Jihanian, and art director and background painter for tv and feature animation. I'm looking for work starting in December!

A frog guy, or ask i like to call him, a ferg, and his giant bird companion with a goblins face, or ask i like to call it, a berg. They're in a muddy pathway next to a big wall.

Wirt, Greg, and Beatrice walking through a forest, haloed by a warm light. This is the key art from Over The Garden Wall.

A spooky river and fields. A sinister tower is in the distance, along with a red glowing moon.

A fallen tree in a grove. It has smashed a wooden shack. A path winds by.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 20h

I don't find "real" ghost stories interesting because ghosts don't exist and so ultimately every story boils down to "I thought I saw a thing but was wrong or misinterpreted what I was seeing" which is not an interesting story!

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Brandon O’Brien, low on Action Points @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 1d

a ttrpg but it’s all tables. The cover is a table you roll on to determine which art is on the cover. There’s a table to determine who was its lead designer. there’s a table for who becomes the GM and instead of rolling dice it’s decided by how many snacks are present

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Pb @pbplaysinside.bsky.social · 1d

🔴LIVE!

Working on this topographical map remake, how far will I actually get today?!

twitch.tv/PbPlaysInside

PbPlaysInside - Twitch

Game Prep: Asher's Ridge Map| Join the Meat Circus Jam!

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Dylan Grinder is back to streaming! @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 2d

This is the last surprising turn of events but that only makes it worse 😭

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Client files are JPEGs.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Kienna is sometimes a scary goose @kiennas.bsky.social · 2d

*gasp* another co-op stream this weekend?

Playing Bread and Fred for the first time with @anarisis.dylangrinder.com, a game we definitely will be very chill about

(You get it? Chill? Because penguins?)

twitch.tv/anarisis

Promotion image for Bread and Fred streaming on twitch.tv/anarisis. It features artwork from Bread and Fred and an illustration of Dylan and Kienna both holding one controller by dragonsparkz.bsky.social.

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Dylan Grinder is back to streaming! @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 2d

Congratulations!!!! 💙🎉💙🎉💙🎉

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Ghoula RPGs @gilarpgs.bsky.social · 3d

Want to grab one of my games and want to save some cash?

Browse the imperfect book collection! These games have small blemishes on the outside, but are full of the same great rules on the inside.

I just updated the stock with some more titles!

gilarpgs.myshopify.com/products/imp...

Imperfect Books

Sometimes books get a little dinged up during travel. Why waste a perfectly good book? All imperfect books are completely readable and ready for play. They just have some cosmetic damage, such as a be...

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Dylan Grinder is back to streaming! @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 2d

Doing some digging it looks like the common workarounds for CS5 were either to lay the type out in Illustrator/InDesign, or to use the Windows Character Map tool which is (near as I can tell because I'm away from my workstation right now) functionally equivalent to the glyphs panel.

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Kienna is sometimes a scary goose @kiennas.bsky.social · 3d

Me earlier today: I don't remember why I usually halve this stock recipe, but I need a lot so I'll just do the full portion

Me now with a pot full to the brim and with only half the required water in it: oh

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Kienna is sometimes a scary goose @kiennas.bsky.social · 3d

Weekend cult time!

We have the Twitch extension on if you want to join the Cult of Spouses, or if you want to help (or hinder) our cult management!

twitch.tv/anarisis

Promotion image for Cult of the Lamb streaming on twitch.tv/anarisis. It features artwork from Cult of the Lamb and an illustration of Dylan and Kienna both holding one controller by dragonsparkz.bsky.social. Dylan has red eyes and wears a red crown while Kienna has purple eyes and wears a purple crown.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 3d

I don't think that every Republican in this country, including Republican voters, are stupid. And I don't think they're all evil. Some of them are only stupid and some of them are only evil and then the rest are both

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Kienna is sometimes a scary goose @kiennas.bsky.social · 4d

Very excited to be working on a chapter for this very cool Wyrd West game!

Check out the Backerkit 👀

Huckleberry RPG ➡️ BackerKit is ALIVE! @huckleberryrpg.com · 4d

We've just announced Huckleberry's $40,000 stretch goal! We'll be expanding the book with an ENTIRE new chapter on the Maverick's home base - a Hole-in-the-Wall.

It's written by @anarisis.dylangrinder.com and @kiennas.bsky.social - two VERY talented designers that I'm excited to have on board!

Art from Huckleberry: A Wyrd West RPG. It depicts an artistic sculpture made of twigs, roots, and copper wire, with heavy folk horror vibes.

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Huckleberry RPG ➡️ BackerKit is ALIVE! @huckleberryrpg.com · 4d

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Dylan Grinder is back to streaming! @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 5d

In fairness, I think this is still a bit of a stretch from what The Forces actually are in that series, but still 😅

Thank you for coming along on my poor-memory-induced bout of madness!

Dylan Grinder is back to streaming! @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 5d

I FIGURED IT OUT! IT'S MY FAVORITE ACTUAL PLAY PODCAST OF ALL TIME: DAMES & DRAGONS BY @legendlarkpod.bsky.social

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The forces!🔮

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I'm just sitting here in the living room saying "✨The Forces!🧙" at Kienna over and over, and I don't think either of us want that to continue

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Dylan Grinder is back to streaming! @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 5d

Today's edition: a setting where the world was made up of The Forces™ (very specific term) but the gods monopolized those, now someone's 💀ing gods to release them back into the world.

Is this a thing that exists?? I can think of several properties that do similar stuff, but not this specifically 🤔

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Dylan Grinder is back to streaming! @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 5d

I hate when I have a distinct memory of a story, but no way of identifying it or checking if the memory is of a thing that even exists 😭

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Charlie the Half Time Orange @clementinedanger.bsky.social · 6d

work work

Tumblr post:

video games are all about meeting a little elf
outside the city gates that says 'ah... the pernicious
weed!' when you give him a healing herb and then
finding yourself fifteen years later saying "ah... the
pernicious weed!" to yourself in the shower

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Dylan Grinder is back to streaming! @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 6d

What is it about the brain that makes it deal psychic damage to itself? Bruh, that's literally you. Stop hitting yourself!

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Kienna is sometimes a scary goose @kiennas.bsky.social · 6d

me trying to use CSS is like navigating a Miyazaki poison swamp - there's a sense of accomplishment working out the problems, but I'm taking tick damage the entire time

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Dylan Grinder is back to streaming! @anarisis.dylangrinder.com · 6d

Trying to make my way through a permadeath playthrough of Majora's Mask today!

twitch.tv/anarisis

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, twitch.tv/anarisis
An illustration of Dylan (made by @Dragonsparkz.bsky.social) in a blue tunic puzzling over a map is superimposed over the key art for Majora's Mask 3D.

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