Jacob Marks
@jacobmarks.bsky.social
I make rpgs, programs, 3d art, and other weird things...
My largest projects are the Vaarn Atlas, Exalted Order Of The Mystic Moose, and Penumbral Oasis.
Find those, and my other games at: https://siofragames.itch.io/
Blog at: https://jacobmarkshasablog
My largest projects are the Vaarn Atlas, Exalted Order Of The Mystic Moose, and Penumbral Oasis.
Find those, and my other games at: https://siofragames.itch.io/
Blog at: https://jacobmarkshasablog
Reposted by Jacob Marks
Was in the mood to make a dungeon synth album cover.
November 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Was in the mood to make a dungeon synth album cover.
November 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Reposted by Jacob Marks
Reposted by Jacob Marks
ive struggles for ages to explain my deepset love for OSR design tools to other ttrpg folks and im grateful someone has finally written a blogpost that so clearly elucidates how OSR play is built. required reading imo
November 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
ive struggles for ages to explain my deepset love for OSR design tools to other ttrpg folks and im grateful someone has finally written a blogpost that so clearly elucidates how OSR play is built. required reading imo
Reposted by Jacob Marks
Almost six years ago, I approached Goran and said, "Let's do an Anticolonial Fantasy. Agents will hate it, marble statue avatars will harass us online." He said yes. UNBAN Goran.
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Almost six years ago, I approached Goran and said, "Let's do an Anticolonial Fantasy. Agents will hate it, marble statue avatars will harass us online." He said yes. UNBAN Goran.
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Reposted by Jacob Marks
Spent the last month mapping the blogosphere by its links. The graph is finally ready
Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map
What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?
elmc.at/mapping-the-...
To check out the graph directly follow this link:
graph.elmc.at
Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map
What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?
elmc.at/mapping-the-...
To check out the graph directly follow this link:
graph.elmc.at
Mapping the Blogosphere
An interactive graph of TTRPG blogs, showing who links to whom, how communities change over time, plus stats and how it all works.
elmc.at
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Spent the last month mapping the blogosphere by its links. The graph is finally ready
Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map
What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?
elmc.at/mapping-the-...
To check out the graph directly follow this link:
graph.elmc.at
Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map
What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?
elmc.at/mapping-the-...
To check out the graph directly follow this link:
graph.elmc.at
Reposted by Jacob Marks
Even if I'm still sceptical of the legitimacy of many Palestinian fundraising accounts, banning them without clear proof of malfeasance is wrong, and evidently banning people reposting them in good will is even worse.
Bluesky have terrible moderation and I have seen some shit in Mastodon!
Bluesky have terrible moderation and I have seen some shit in Mastodon!
November 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Even if I'm still sceptical of the legitimacy of many Palestinian fundraising accounts, banning them without clear proof of malfeasance is wrong, and evidently banning people reposting them in good will is even worse.
Bluesky have terrible moderation and I have seen some shit in Mastodon!
Bluesky have terrible moderation and I have seen some shit in Mastodon!
Reposted by Jacob Marks
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Reposted by Jacob Marks
Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.
The meat of my #PROCJAM 2025 entry will be these logs. As you sight different creatures and locations, different story tracks will move along in randomized ways. A limited set of crew members have random events and can die or be changed by the weird polar ocean.
#gamedev #pixelart
#gamedev #pixelart
November 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
![## BlueWhale 1
The men have spotted many whales spouting on our journey. They seem to be moving with us to the North.
The mournful song of the whales is haunting to me. Though some of the men find it beautiful. [Man] has told me he is writing the songs down to bring back to Bastion. I will request Doctor Grungefall check on him.
More blasted whales each day. That the council sent us without proper hunting equipment troubles me endlessly.
Some days the sounds of endless sheets of breaking ice, and the dreadful wind, mixes with the songs of the whales to an odious degree. I can longer tell the three apart. [Man] has been looking somber and stops his work every time he hears them.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rrbrrtqvb6qkvjkzabwrtlnd/bafkreihkujtrpppwycfbie75mpxivmsg735qsbb3ctockhnu6sitgumwqu@jpeg)
Oh my god I just got my Dolmenwood stuff. It's actually real.
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Oh my god I just got my Dolmenwood stuff. It's actually real.
Reposted by Jacob Marks
Reposted by Jacob Marks
All the main land masses are in place, so I'm adding some more details to the map now, this part is fun.
#GameDev #LevelDesign #CRPG #Lovecraft
#GameDev #LevelDesign #CRPG #Lovecraft
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
All the main land masses are in place, so I'm adding some more details to the map now, this part is fun.
#GameDev #LevelDesign #CRPG #Lovecraft
#GameDev #LevelDesign #CRPG #Lovecraft
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
November 24, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Working on a #PROCJAM 2025 entry. Reusing a bunch of my Archipelago of Monsters code to create a polar expedition game. Gonna get weird with it and take a lot of inspiration from The Iron Coral from Into the Odd.
November 23, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Working on a #PROCJAM 2025 entry. Reusing a bunch of my Archipelago of Monsters code to create a polar expedition game. Gonna get weird with it and take a lot of inspiration from The Iron Coral from Into the Odd.
Reposted by Jacob Marks
PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else!
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
PROCJAM - The Procedural Generation Jam
A game jam from 2025-11-21 to 2025-12-01 hosted by PROCJAM. Let's Make Something! PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is a creative coding jam about making things that make things. This normally...
itch.io
October 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else!
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
Reposted by Jacob Marks
Einfühlung: A Liminal Horror Starter Scenario is out now!
This new starter adventure gathers everything you need to bring the horror straight to the table! It also acts as a companion adventure to our free starter: Stopover at the Shelterwood Inn
goblinarchives.itch.io/liminal-horr...
This new starter adventure gathers everything you need to bring the horror straight to the table! It also acts as a companion adventure to our free starter: Stopover at the Shelterwood Inn
goblinarchives.itch.io/liminal-horr...
Einfühlung: A Liminal Horror Starter Scenario by Goblin Archives, Unenthuser
An Introductory Scenario for Liminal Horror
goblinarchives.itch.io
November 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Einfühlung: A Liminal Horror Starter Scenario is out now!
This new starter adventure gathers everything you need to bring the horror straight to the table! It also acts as a companion adventure to our free starter: Stopover at the Shelterwood Inn
goblinarchives.itch.io/liminal-horr...
This new starter adventure gathers everything you need to bring the horror straight to the table! It also acts as a companion adventure to our free starter: Stopover at the Shelterwood Inn
goblinarchives.itch.io/liminal-horr...
This article is really making me question whether I intend to put dialogue trees in my game because I want to, or because I'm following a cargo cult. Will have to give it a think 🤔
YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT! I HAVE WRITTEN A NEW ARTICLE!
this one's a bit weird; rather than doing my usual "trying to organize my thoughts and building a winding case that builds on itself," I decided to show you what my EARLY article creation process looks like:
docseuss.medium.com/some-loosely...
this one's a bit weird; rather than doing my usual "trying to organize my thoughts and building a winding case that builds on itself," I decided to show you what my EARLY article creation process looks like:
docseuss.medium.com/some-loosely...
some loosely organized thoughts about dialogue sysin games
think of this as me trying to find out what parts of dialogue choices are load bearing game design and what else can be done with dialogue.
docseuss.medium.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This article is really making me question whether I intend to put dialogue trees in my game because I want to, or because I'm following a cargo cult. Will have to give it a think 🤔
This is giving me chills and I'm only 11 pages in!
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 AM
This is giving me chills and I'm only 11 pages in!