Not Writing Games
@notwritinggames.bsky.social
Writer and game designer. Neon Black | A Torch in the Dark | RIG | many many more! I love telling stories and hate capitalism!
Contact: notwriting.net
Support my work: https://www.patreon.com/notwriting
Get my games: notwriting.itch.io
Contact: notwriting.net
Support my work: https://www.patreon.com/notwriting
Get my games: notwriting.itch.io
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Coming soon: Card Drives
Turn playing cards into a cyberdeck in this cyberpunk rogue-like deckbuilding solo RPG!
www.kickstarter.com
A “souls-like cyberpunk Balatro” coming December 2nd.
Follow along and get the word out.
Free demo on release.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Follow along and get the word out.
Free demo on release.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Seeing the outpouring of love for Tom Stoppard today and I don't think I've ever seen one of his plays. Glad I can now rectify that.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) is on YouTube.
Gary Oldman and Tim Roth star in Tom Stoppard's big screen adaptation of his own stage play, itself a play on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
#TomStoppard
Gary Oldman and Tim Roth star in Tom Stoppard's big screen adaptation of his own stage play, itself a play on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
#TomStoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 1990
YouTube video by Rolo Tomasi
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Seeing the outpouring of love for Tom Stoppard today and I don't think I've ever seen one of his plays. Glad I can now rectify that.
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Sri Lanka is hit hard by Cyclone Ditwah with severe flooding across the island. Over a hundred and fifty are dead, and tens of thousands are displaced. Some ways you can help:
vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...
vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...
Cyclone Ditwah Flood Relief Sri Lanka
How to donate to Sri Lankan flood relief initiatives in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah.
vajra.me
November 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Sri Lanka is hit hard by Cyclone Ditwah with severe flooding across the island. Over a hundred and fifty are dead, and tens of thousands are displaced. Some ways you can help:
vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...
vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...
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"It's arguably most productive to view public action against an oppressive force specifically as a game — not as a trifle, but as a series of moves with an end state."
Contributor @therisingtithes.bsky.social connects RPG prep with the increasingly vital labor of public protest.
Contributor @therisingtithes.bsky.social connects RPG prep with the increasingly vital labor of public protest.
What does Session Zero of a protest look like?
Games as rehearsal for the streets.
www.rascal.news
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"It's arguably most productive to view public action against an oppressive force specifically as a game — not as a trifle, but as a series of moves with an end state."
Contributor @therisingtithes.bsky.social connects RPG prep with the increasingly vital labor of public protest.
Contributor @therisingtithes.bsky.social connects RPG prep with the increasingly vital labor of public protest.
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Would love to get to at least 100 followers on the project page for Card Drives. It goes live on December 2nd.
It's a single player cyberpunk rogue-light deckbuilder where a deck of playing cards is your character sheet.
Share it around?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
It's a single player cyberpunk rogue-light deckbuilder where a deck of playing cards is your character sheet.
Share it around?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Coming soon: Card Drives
Turn playing cards into a cyberdeck in this cyberpunk rogue-like deckbuilding solo RPG!
www.kickstarter.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Would love to get to at least 100 followers on the project page for Card Drives. It goes live on December 2nd.
It's a single player cyberpunk rogue-light deckbuilder where a deck of playing cards is your character sheet.
Share it around?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
It's a single player cyberpunk rogue-light deckbuilder where a deck of playing cards is your character sheet.
Share it around?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
This was a real 90's knock-off of a knock-off movie. Not quite Blade Runner or Terminator or Alien and a budget of approximately $12 USD.
But do yourself a favour and look up all the poster and box art for Split Second. Best thing about it.
letterboxd.com/film/split-s...
But do yourself a favour and look up all the poster and box art for Split Second. Best thing about it.
letterboxd.com/film/split-s...
Split Second (1992)
In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since — but he soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human.
letterboxd.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:04 AM
This was a real 90's knock-off of a knock-off movie. Not quite Blade Runner or Terminator or Alien and a budget of approximately $12 USD.
But do yourself a favour and look up all the poster and box art for Split Second. Best thing about it.
letterboxd.com/film/split-s...
But do yourself a favour and look up all the poster and box art for Split Second. Best thing about it.
letterboxd.com/film/split-s...
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Want some human made grotty scanline goodness sci fi spaceships for your ttrpg? Interchangeable backgrounds for mix n match fun!
Check out my artpack SPACESHIPS VOL 1
From A-F INDUSTRIES (Chief executive idiot: Me)
carlydraws.itch.io
#art #ttrpg
Check out my artpack SPACESHIPS VOL 1
From A-F INDUSTRIES (Chief executive idiot: Me)
carlydraws.itch.io
#art #ttrpg
November 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Want some human made grotty scanline goodness sci fi spaceships for your ttrpg? Interchangeable backgrounds for mix n match fun!
Check out my artpack SPACESHIPS VOL 1
From A-F INDUSTRIES (Chief executive idiot: Me)
carlydraws.itch.io
#art #ttrpg
Check out my artpack SPACESHIPS VOL 1
From A-F INDUSTRIES (Chief executive idiot: Me)
carlydraws.itch.io
#art #ttrpg
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A deckbuilding solo RPG, what a cool concept! 👀
Would love to get to at least 100 followers on the project page for Card Drives. It goes live on December 2nd.
It's a single player cyberpunk rogue-light deckbuilder where a deck of playing cards is your character sheet.
Share it around?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
It's a single player cyberpunk rogue-light deckbuilder where a deck of playing cards is your character sheet.
Share it around?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Coming soon: Card Drives
Turn playing cards into a cyberdeck in this cyberpunk rogue-like deckbuilding solo RPG!
www.kickstarter.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
A deckbuilding solo RPG, what a cool concept! 👀
Would love to get to at least 100 followers on the project page for Card Drives. It goes live on December 2nd.
It's a single player cyberpunk rogue-light deckbuilder where a deck of playing cards is your character sheet.
Share it around?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
It's a single player cyberpunk rogue-light deckbuilder where a deck of playing cards is your character sheet.
Share it around?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Coming soon: Card Drives
Turn playing cards into a cyberdeck in this cyberpunk rogue-like deckbuilding solo RPG!
www.kickstarter.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Would love to get to at least 100 followers on the project page for Card Drives. It goes live on December 2nd.
It's a single player cyberpunk rogue-light deckbuilder where a deck of playing cards is your character sheet.
Share it around?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
It's a single player cyberpunk rogue-light deckbuilder where a deck of playing cards is your character sheet.
Share it around?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Great coverage of #Over/Under. It looked like a lot of fun, but I spent my time in the Far Verona and Blaseball discord servers. Saw the same bleed and effect on people. Folks getting upset, folks losing sleep, folks getting burnt out. It's fun but it can be A Lot.
"Players reported dreaming about Over/Under, losing sleep, even forgetting to eat."
@lincodega.com writes about the intensity of Mothership Month's hyperbaric roleplay experience and the bleed that resulted from a lack of conventional safety tools.
@lincodega.com writes about the intensity of Mothership Month's hyperbaric roleplay experience and the bleed that resulted from a lack of conventional safety tools.
Thirty Days of Bleed
Within a high-pressure, nonstop roleplaying game, denizens of Over/Under found it difficult to extricate their character’s emotions from their own.
www.rascal.news
November 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Great coverage of #Over/Under. It looked like a lot of fun, but I spent my time in the Far Verona and Blaseball discord servers. Saw the same bleed and effect on people. Folks getting upset, folks losing sleep, folks getting burnt out. It's fun but it can be A Lot.
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Let's get an indie ttrpg HYPE TRAIN going and recommend some cool games for people to buy/gift.
If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below.
🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟
If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below.
🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Let's get an indie ttrpg HYPE TRAIN going and recommend some cool games for people to buy/gift.
If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below.
🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟
If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below.
🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟
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Celebrating this by having a 25%-off sale on all my stuff. Starts this Friday, the 28th!
November 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Celebrating this by having a 25%-off sale on all my stuff. Starts this Friday, the 28th!
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today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
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If you're anything like me you've got Magic the Gathering cards and fancy tarot and what not laying around.
In Card Drives those can become game pieces, adware cards that can be modified into powerful drives, and can inspire your own suits and new programs!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
In Card Drives those can become game pieces, adware cards that can be modified into powerful drives, and can inspire your own suits and new programs!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If you're anything like me you've got Magic the Gathering cards and fancy tarot and what not laying around.
In Card Drives those can become game pieces, adware cards that can be modified into powerful drives, and can inspire your own suits and new programs!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
In Card Drives those can become game pieces, adware cards that can be modified into powerful drives, and can inspire your own suits and new programs!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
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Say hello to our next #TTRPG!
Biophage is the newest game from Studio Hex, a biopunk horror TTRPG where two players take the role of a Host and a Parasite, fighting for control over their shared body.
If you are interested, give its #Kickstarter a follow!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/stu...
Biophage is the newest game from Studio Hex, a biopunk horror TTRPG where two players take the role of a Host and a Parasite, fighting for control over their shared body.
If you are interested, give its #Kickstarter a follow!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/stu...
November 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Say hello to our next #TTRPG!
Biophage is the newest game from Studio Hex, a biopunk horror TTRPG where two players take the role of a Host and a Parasite, fighting for control over their shared body.
If you are interested, give its #Kickstarter a follow!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/stu...
Biophage is the newest game from Studio Hex, a biopunk horror TTRPG where two players take the role of a Host and a Parasite, fighting for control over their shared body.
If you are interested, give its #Kickstarter a follow!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/stu...
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Another holiday in the books.
November 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Another holiday in the books.
Love when I do some contract work and the feedback is "I really love this but I don't know if we can get away with some of it on Steam."
Aim high, folks.
Aim high, folks.
November 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Love when I do some contract work and the feedback is "I really love this but I don't know if we can get away with some of it on Steam."
Aim high, folks.
Aim high, folks.
If you're anything like me you've got Magic the Gathering cards and fancy tarot and what not laying around.
In Card Drives those can become game pieces, adware cards that can be modified into powerful drives, and can inspire your own suits and new programs!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
In Card Drives those can become game pieces, adware cards that can be modified into powerful drives, and can inspire your own suits and new programs!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If you're anything like me you've got Magic the Gathering cards and fancy tarot and what not laying around.
In Card Drives those can become game pieces, adware cards that can be modified into powerful drives, and can inspire your own suits and new programs!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
In Card Drives those can become game pieces, adware cards that can be modified into powerful drives, and can inspire your own suits and new programs!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Imagine this was the song that played after the heroes each confronted their abusive mentor, sealed the demon tyrant behind a golden barrier, and became allied with the persecuted and dispossessed rather than... well...
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Imagine this was the song that played after the heroes each confronted their abusive mentor, sealed the demon tyrant behind a golden barrier, and became allied with the persecuted and dispossessed rather than... well...
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My experience with piracy is if someone who was never going to pay for my work turns into a fan that is worth more financially than what I’d lose from that first transaction
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 AM
My experience with piracy is if someone who was never going to pay for my work turns into a fan that is worth more financially than what I’d lose from that first transaction
Making bad art never stops rich people, so it shouldn't stop you either.
November 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Making bad art never stops rich people, so it shouldn't stop you either.
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
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i am going to need a lot of B-roll for my upcoming video. If you have an AP, animatic, TTRPG fanart, or other video/picture related to roleplaying games that you wouldn't mind being featured in a YouTube video, please let me know if I could use it!
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
i am going to need a lot of B-roll for my upcoming video. If you have an AP, animatic, TTRPG fanart, or other video/picture related to roleplaying games that you wouldn't mind being featured in a YouTube video, please let me know if I could use it!
Celebrating this by having a 25%-off sale on all my stuff. Starts this Friday, the 28th!
November 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Celebrating this by having a 25%-off sale on all my stuff. Starts this Friday, the 28th!
There are several hazards in CARD DRIVES, like ICE.
ICE cards have no suit, no value, and can't be modded. They clog up your deck and if you ever have 3 or more in hand, you flatline.
Find out more next week: www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
ICE cards have no suit, no value, and can't be modded. They clog up your deck and if you ever have 3 or more in hand, you flatline.
Find out more next week: www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
There are several hazards in CARD DRIVES, like ICE.
ICE cards have no suit, no value, and can't be modded. They clog up your deck and if you ever have 3 or more in hand, you flatline.
Find out more next week: www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
ICE cards have no suit, no value, and can't be modded. They clog up your deck and if you ever have 3 or more in hand, you flatline.
Find out more next week: www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
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No. The Thing is a movie about a bunch of people who all distrust and hate each other trapped in one building as the tension between them slowly builds until it reaches a breaking point. It's a Thanksgiving movie.
Should John Carpenter's THE THING be officially classified as a Christmas movie? Let your voice be heard!
Is John Carpenter’s THE THING A Christmas Movie? Have Your Say
Should John Carpenter's THE THING be officially classified as a Christmas movie? Let your voice be heard!
dlvr.it
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
No. The Thing is a movie about a bunch of people who all distrust and hate each other trapped in one building as the tension between them slowly builds until it reaches a breaking point. It's a Thanksgiving movie.