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Publishing imprint for the works of Derek Schraner, including Hikikomori and the Operation CanCon series: LockdownLudonaut.com
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Lockdown Ludonaut @lockdownludonaut.bsky.social · Jul 24
Hey #Canada, are you feeling a little ...angry about the way a certain 🍊politician talks about us and our beautiful country?

Us too.

#Canada has the best people and #music in the world. We wrote a trilogy of #gamebooks designed to celebrate the glory that is #Canadian 80s, 90s and classic music.
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✈️ Ready to conclude the Break system series of international #heist #gamebooks?

Start your winter holiday #interactivefiction journey through #Switzerland and grab your copy now at www.amazon.ca/Winter-Missi...

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REVEAL of The Winter Mission: A Holiday Heist to Remember!
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November 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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⛰️ 📚 Get the exclusive first look at THE WINTER MISSION, the highly anticipated conclusion to our BREAK system series of gamebooks.

👭 You're going to need some allies! The Winter Mission combines branching choices with dice-based microgames.

#interactivefiction

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November 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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🎄 🏂 ❄️ The math says no. The season says yes.

🏔️ An impossible opportunity lures you from the streets of Toronto to the treacherous peaks of Switzerland. You can’t resist the target but traps lie in wait. The enemy knows you’re coming.

#interactivefiction

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November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Interested in an #interactivefiction book set in a #haunted #casino in #Ontario?

Inspired by the daring #heist at the Louvre?

Check out the #FallAffair
October 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Want to explore #Ontario in a choose-your-own-adventure #CYOA #Halloween #heist?

Check out The Fall Affair

#interactivefiction

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October 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Hey, #Canada! Ready for some homegrown frights and chills this #Halloween? Check out The Fall Affair...

The #heist in a #haunted #casino in ...#Ontario.

www.amazon.ca/Fall-Affair-...
October 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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🎉☕We are thrilled to be covered by the wonderful #CoffeeWithKilroy.

Subscribe to their channel, they rock!

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Coffee with Kilroy - The Fall Affair (Schraner)
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October 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Down for some creepy chills in a #Halloween #heist set in #Canada?

You are in luck!

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October 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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The 2025 edition of ECTOCOMP, the interactive fiction community's annual spooky competition, is here! Submissions open on October 1, but you can begin working on your spooky IF now.

Rules and more info on the jam page: itch.io/jam/ectocomp...
ECTOCOMP 2025
A game jam from 2025-10-01 to 2025-12-01 hosted by rubereaglenest & alyshkalia. There's a full moon rising Let's go dancing in the light We know where the music's playing Let’s go out and feel the nig...
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September 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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🤽‍♂️🤿And here's our deep dive into this haunted casino heist set in beautiful #Ontario, #Canada

#Gamebook #InteractiveFiction #ChooseYourOwnAdventure #Heist #Horror #Halloween #SpookySeason #Canada #Ontario #GameDesign

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Deep Dive into The Fall Affair, a haunted casino heist!
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September 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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🎃🧛‍♀️🦇Here's a tutorial for The Fall Affair, the haunted casino heist #gamebook! In this video, you learn how to play this immersive, decision-driven gamebook, where your choices take you to a long-abandoned casino in #Ontario.

🎲Get your copy now: www.amazon.ca/dp/B0FP5D3YK4

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How to Play The Fall Affair
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September 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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🦇🧛‍♀️🍂We just made SO MANY videos about our new book!!!

🎃This one is just IN TIME for Halloween, all about a haunted casino heist.

The Fall Affair is a standalone trip in the Break system series. A six-sided die is recommended, but not required for your journey.

#CYOA

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Reveal of The Fall Affair, a haunted casino heist!
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September 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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hello new followers! i'm anna, a game writer / narrative designer and a game design educator, all of which are fields that are extremely hard to find work in right now! if you'll allow me a brief thread, i will list some of the shenanigans i am currently engaged in to try and make ends meet
September 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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if you missed it i posted my lesson plan and materials from when i ran AD&D: Tomb of Horrors in my history of rpgs class for my students! yesterday i posted Diplomacy – tomorrow will be a seminal indie rpg from 2010!
cyborgurl.bsky.social Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · Sep 2
Today's RPG is AD&D! I created a compact (but still overwhelming) version of 1978's Tomb of Horrors. The goal was for students to try and find the compromise between an abundance of rules and reference material and creating an actual playable experience at the table.
AD&D: Tomb of Horrors
Tomb of Horrors was created by Gary Gygax originally for
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September 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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🎃🧛‍♀️🦇🎰How about a haunted casino, a shadowy underworld crime network, and a ...heist?

🍂If your answer is, "Yes, please!" Check out The Fall Affair!

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Reveal of The Fall Affair, a haunted casino heist!
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September 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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🍁🍎🏫Back-To-School Giveaway Time! We are giving away 10 signed copies of the Operation CanCon 80s gamebook, the 1980s music shopping simulator, to folks who leave a comment about their favourite music shopping experience under this video here.

Shipping to #Canada only.

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Operation CanCon: How to Play
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September 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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ICYMI: The One Minute Music Book Club: How Does It Sound Now? Legendary Engineers and Vintage Gear #musicnews
The One Minute Music Book Club: How Does It Sound Now? Legendary Engineers and Vintage Gear
This is a deep-in-the-weeds book for many, but if you’re into recording studios and the process of capturing audio for all time, How Does It Sound Now? Legendary Engineers and Vintage Gear by
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August 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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🌸Our in-house game designer #DerekSchraner has been busy. This is his FIFTH book this year, another intricate, wholly original take on interactive fiction, this time a heist in #Kyoto #Japan

You solve the puzzle of how to do the job without getting caught ...or worse

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A Foreign Syndicate. A Heist In Kyoto. All In A Single Interactive Gamebook. The Summer Job.
August 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Hey #Canada, are you feeling a little ...angry about the way a certain 🍊politician talks about us and our beautiful country?

Us too.

#Canada has the best people and #music in the world. We wrote a trilogy of #gamebooks designed to celebrate the glory that is #Canadian 80s, 90s and classic music.
July 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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I'm in BBCs "Not by the Playbook" podcast about sports...and this episode, on "boards" --surfing, D&D, and board games! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

#gamedesign #boardgames #socialimpact @elizaskinner.bsky.social
So bored!
Podcast Episode · Not by the Playbook · 07/18/2025 · 1h 15m
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July 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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The next episode of our DM’s Book Club series is out!

Episode #10: What A Con! UKGE 2025 (and anecdotes from a Renaissance Fair) 🎲 🎙️ 🎧

🎧 linktr.ee/dmbc

#RPG #ttrpg #dmbc #ukge #renfaire
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July 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Investigations into the family of Cunobelin, who played our game of Aquila 2000 years ago, drew us to Mersea Island and a new mystery involving some Romans buried there. Spinning off from this was an interesting find from Roman times: what this is we do not know. Photo by Callum Allsop / ADAS.
Between a thumb and finger held up to a blue sky is an orange coloured face carved in amber from the Roman period.
July 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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📺 🎧 Woot! #OperationCanCon is featured on the amazing Salt and Sass #Twitch stream.

🍁 We are HONOURED, Mandi, the leading voice in Canada about all things #boardgames and #gamebooks, is the BEST.

Buy this celebration of #Canada on #Amazon

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New Gamebooks and Having a Chat I Salt and Sass Games #solo #new #justchatting - saltandsassgames on Twitch
saltandsassgames went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Just Chatting VOD now.
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July 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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🚨 🎸 Remember the 1990s? Now you can relive the 1990s with a new #Canadian #gamebook, shop in iconic #Ottawa and #Toronto music stores.

🎶 Which songs are featured in #OperationCanCon 90s?

💪💪🍁Find out! And #ElbowsUp, #Canada

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Q+A: What artists/songs are in Operation CanCon: Eighties? 56 top Canadian music hits of the 1980s!
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July 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM