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Diana Jones Emerging Designer, Ennie-nominated tabletop game designer and visual artist. Featured in Polygon, Rascal, Dicebreaker and more. She/her 👹 Games: ARC, The Magus, The Marvelous Children of Inang-Uri 📌 Learn more http://momatoes.com #RPGSEA

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momatoes @momatoes.com · 24d

The Deluxe Edition of What Dust Remains is now out!

52 haunting pages for a game of legacy and sacrifice. In this sweeping narrative game, build the life of a Pioneer struggling to achieve meaning in their life.

momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re...

A promo material for What Dust Remains, showing a mockup of the book and a glowing review at the top: "Impassioned and intriguing card-prompted questions along with focused, intense moments of dice rolls that helped move the story along, What Dust Remains challenged me to discover, explore, and sit in moments of despair and desperation."

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momatoes @momatoes.com · 2h

Street food kiosks in the Philippines can magically appear out of nowhere, serving fishballs, taho, kikiam, and a hundred other things to hungry passersby.

I used to pass this one on my walk home. I remember the warmth of the lamp and the food as I would walk by.

The side of a busy road. The central focus of the photo is a cart serving fried nuts. Its lamp casts a circle of light in the night, and a commuter carefully selects which type of nuts she'd like to buy.

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Lauren Walsh @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 8h

I saw something recently that said a strategy for adhd is you just need to commit to doing 30%. The full scope of 100% of a project is just too overwhelming. So just start with some thumbnails or sketches for now and then commit to another 30% another day or week. Any progress IS progress

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Grid @isbergillustration.bsky.social · 5h

I Think It's All Over Now
#inktober #fantasyart

ink painting. two small figures in the foreground, tall jagged mountains like candles, with glowing eyes. a desert

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momatoes @momatoes.com · 11h

Hello #portfolioday ! Aside from game design, I also draw digitally.

I haven't drawn in a long while, but I would love to pick up the stylus again.

A 3x3 grid of artworks, featuring femmes looking off-camera in various weird fantasy scene dressings.

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momatoes @momatoes.com · 11h

Hello #portfolioday ! Aside from game design, I also draw digitally.

I haven't drawn in a long while, but I would love to pick up the stylus again.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13h

Her despair grew so great that it burst her breast open and like a bird of fire shattered the stone and broke out into the light of day--the light of day, faint in her windowless room.

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 13h

Hey #PortfolioDay! Nice to see you again. My name is Aimee, and I'm a dark-beautiful #DarkArt freelance #illustrator. My current wishlist for projects is: 📚 Book covers and 🃏Trading/Playing card games, but I'm open to anything!
💼: AimeeCozza.com
✉️: [email protected]

An illustration of a person from the chin down. They have both their arms around black wolves, which are asleep and cuddled against the person. Two more wolves are asleep and piled on top. The person and the animals are all smeared and smattered with blood, indicating they had a great meal together.

A man curled over onto his elbows, his head in his hands, amidst green leaves. A glowing, luminous dagger dangles above his neck and spine. His hands are cupped and outstretched towards the sky. Luminous liquid slips through his fingers.

A small child holding a bunny rabbit stuffed animal standing in front of a line of darkened forest. Inside the forest are lots of glowing sets of eyes

An oil painting of a foggy, monochrome forest with a singular man with glowing eyes standing in front of it. Before him are multiple shadows of wolves, their eyes glowing in the darkness as well.

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momatoes @momatoes.com · 23h

We DO have banshee vampire demon babies from hell, so at least it's partially true.

A meme image showing differences between European, American, and Filipino cryptids. While European cryptids are portrayed as whimsical, and American cryptids are pitted against hunters with tactical guns and armaments, the typical Filipino says "fuck. That." to a twisted, horrific demon baby.

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Catino @catinoworld.bsky.social · 1d

sometimes u gotta push thru and make the art

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Katha @taxkha.bsky.social · 17h

Heard it's time for #portfolioday again...

hi, I'm Katha, a game design graduate from Germany.
The art industry is in shambles but I still hold on to a sliver of hope that I will get a chance to work on a video game as either a concept artist or character designer.

contact: [email protected]

digital illustration of dimitri, byleth and hedgemon husk edelgard from fe3h. Dimitri is ascending the stairs with his lance in hand to take out Edelgard at the top. Byleth is standing behind him.

digital illustration of Apollo and Klavier standing on a balcony of a skyscraper. Apollo is a small young man with brown hair and Klavier a taller young man with long blond hair. Apollo is looking at the distance and Klavier has his eyes closed and is smoking a cigaratte. The skyscraper has a glass surface which is reflecting the cities skyline and the sunset. The drawing is drawn in fisheye perspective.

fanart of ping pong the animation. In the front is the main character Tsukimoto who has the back to the viewer. Hes holding his racket in on hand. Hes standing in front of a ping pong table. In the background are 4 of the other characters, Peco, Kong Wenge, Sakama and Kazama. They arent colored and are only drawn in lineart.

digital illustration. In the foreground is water from which a white and blue serpent is emerging. Behind is a young man in dark clothes and long dark hair holding a spear. Behind him are a bunch of white birds taking flight and in the background are mountains.

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momatoes @momatoes.com · 17h

I think I have the core of the solo rules for Inang-Uri. I'm very happy with it. You get to draw where the dice lands.

momatoes @momatoes.com · 19h

Does this involve innovative bidet mechanics

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momatoes @momatoes.com · 22h

Amazing how a morning habit can prepare me for the rest of the day. Unfortunately, I keep refusing to do it

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Alex MJ 🎲🎃 - Fight or Fright out now! @mixuppixels.bsky.social · 1d

Our TTRPG Charity Bundle has raised over $7000 for Legal Aid!

Read about it here on @rascal.news

www.rascal.news/hello-goodby...

HELLO//GOODBYE Charity Bundle for Legal Aid is Live on itch.io!

Tabletop game designers from around the world join forces to help raise money for legal aid in Virginia with an itch.io charity bundle!

www.rascal.news

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snow @snow117.bsky.social · 1d

Songbirds is my dungeon crawler game that is more persona and disco elysium than it is DnD. Look at this shit: weird classes, survival-horror style dungeons, body mods and magic.

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John Harper @johnharper.bsky.social · 23h

Just 3 hours left! This game is great. 💪

Necro’D Howletta 👻 ndpdesign 🦄 Unwritten Earths Symposium @ndpdesign.com · 1d

Final Day! Campaign ends this evening. Thanks so much for keeping World Wide Wrestling... world wide!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ndp...

World Wide Wrestling 2E: Repackaged

Reprinting the Premier Pro Wrestling ttrpg of Narrative Action - In Hardcover For the First Time!

www.kickstarter.com

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momatoes @momatoes.com · 23h

We DO have banshee vampire demon babies from hell, so at least it's partially true.

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Deb JJ Lee 🔜 Lightbox 112 @jdebbiel.bsky.social · 1d

[inktober day 13] the boy in the woods

an inktober of a winged boy looking down at the camera in front of a tree

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 1d

What is the best or most impressive 2 player RPG you've played? 📢

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momatoes @momatoes.com · 1d

I had the delight of visiting Singapore earlier this year to celebrate a dear friend's wedding.

We stayed in the red light district, which is importantly a place where I could eat frog for the first time in my life.

A lively eatery glows in the dark night.

A group of students take up most of a street covered by colorful canopies.

Two windows open side by side; the walls are wooden and painted in bright colors.

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Swan and Raven Studio @swanandravenstudio.com · 9d

Drumroll please...

HELLO//GOODBYE is a charity bundle containing 203 games for only $12. Every dollar goes directly to Virginia charities providing free legal aid to people facing injustice. Available now until November 5th.

itch.io/b/3276/hello...

HELLO//GOODBYE Charity Bundle for Legal Aid. available until November 5th, 6PM EST

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 1d

I have checked all the links and they work again!

Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · Feb 4

I have 11 books about games out as author or editor. Ten of them are available as free pdfs. Check out the full list here: jaakkostenros.wordpress.com/books/

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Jason Pitre @genesisoflegend.bsky.social · 2d

We are looking for panels for Metatopia Online 2025 which will be taking place on December 6 and possibly December 7, 2025. If you can't attend Metatopia in person this year for any reason, please join us at this online event and spread the word! forms.gle/aTqCs7bBJpfC...

METATOPIA ONLINE 2025 Panel Proposal Form

METATOPIA is Double Exposure, Inc.'s Game Design Festival, an event for people who are passionate about the design, publishing, selling, or playing games of all types. This year, the Double Exposure...

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momatoes @momatoes.com · 2d

In the Philippines, sari-sari stores sell knick-knacks and food items, acting as low-cost community shops.

This particular sari-sari store is mobile, sitting atop a cart, and appeared overnight near a construction site.

A dazzlingly colorful array of snacks frame a vendor.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

The WHO has verified the elimination of both measles & rubella in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows 2 decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional surveillance, and high routine vaccine coverage. buff.ly/EpFb7HK
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Rubella elimination verified in Japan, and measles and rubella elimination verified in Pacific island countries and areas

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that the 21 Pacific island countries and areas that are part of the WHO Western Pacific Region have collectively been verified as having eliminated…

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