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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 22h

good morning! all my bones hurt, how spooOOooky!! there are 16 days left in the Art & System backerkit campaign and if we hit our stretch goal, my journaling game Princess with a Cursed Sword becomes an actual journal.

Art & System: Games for Expanded Play

A new indie game series from Central Michigan University Press launching with a lineup of three games: Princess with a Cursed Sword, Dog Eat Dog, and the Mountain Witch

www.backerkit.com

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takuma @noroadhome.itch.io · 1d

kind of a personal one! thanks ben!

Ben Macready @macreadymusings.bsky.social · 1d

Here's my interview with Takuma Okada (@noroadhome.itch.io), the designer of Stewpot, as well as a loads of other great indie TTRPGs.

Takuma discusses their creative process and the themes of identity, belonging, and exploration that recur in their work.

SUPERJUMP @superjumpmagazine.com · 2d

Interviewing ENNIE-nominated TTRPG designer Takuma Okada on their process, inspirations, and more.

Interview by Benjamin Macready.

➡️ https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/stewpots-and-space-travel-an-interview-with-takuma-okada/

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Deb JJ Lee 🔜 Lightbox 112 @jdebbiel.bsky.social · 2d

please dont let him have the martini

a cat on a table full of bottles and martinis. His reflection is distorted behind some glass

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ceej @ceej.online · 2d

caught my vampire neighbor creeping through my front door. he claims my saying “for sure dude, we should definitely hang out sometime” the other night counts as an invitation, but I disagree. we’re on hold with the etiquette hotline

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Michael @onemoretimearound.bsky.social · 3d

Oh is it now? 👀👀👀

I know what I'm watching later

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 3d

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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MegueyB @megueyb.bsky.social · 3d

History repeats itself. It has to; nobody listens.

👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 3d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Alistair Aitcheson @agaitcheson.bsky.social · 3d

Had a really interesting conversation with an improv friend today. He sees himself as trying to play the audience like an instrument.

Meanwhile I try to offer myself up as an instrument for the audience to play. But what was obvious is that we're both trying to achieve a very similar thing.

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 4d

A big update to the @friends-table.bsky.social Perpetua soundtrack on Bandcamp, with combat themes for indoor scuffles and a boss fight with a sniper added. The big ticket item, though, is Beachminton, a new minigame theme! notquitereal.bandcamp.com/track/beachm...

Beachminton, by Jack de Quidt

from the album Perpetua: Friends At The Table Soundtrack, Season Nine

notquitereal.bandcamp.com

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 5d

In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life

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Alistair Aitcheson @agaitcheson.bsky.social · 6d

1 week until Pierce Brosnan and I find love in Weston-super-Mare! ✨

Come see the love affair that audiences have called "the most unhinged thing I have ever seen" 💕

Type into your phones to decide what Pierce Brosnan says during our date! Will he win my heart? 💖

BOOK NOW alistair.games/tickets

Poster for My Date with Pierce Brosnan at Weston-super-Mare, 7:30pm 15 Oct 2025

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Michael @onemoretimearound.bsky.social · 7d

I *immediately* picked up the BSG vibes from the soundtrack in the last episode's trailer, so great work Dylan!

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Michael @onemoretimearound.bsky.social · 8d

I will always repost Normal Dog.

Si F Sweetman @sifsweetman.bsky.social · 8d

Normal Dog. Personal work, 2021.

A normal-looking dog with all the regular features: big, scaled tail longer than it's body. Yellow speckles over purple skin. Gelatinous neck and head. Visible brain. Human teeth. Regular stuff.

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Cezar Capacle @capacle.bsky.social · 9d

I'm running a Spooky Season Sale for the whole month! 👻🎃

All my spooky games are 30% off, and there's a bundle with all of them with an even greater discount!!

itch.io/s/132745/-sp...

SPOOKY SEASON SALE
ALL MY SPOOKY GAMES 30% OFF

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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 10d

in abt 15 minutes, jack and i will kick off our annual tradition: playing a horror game thru the month of october & engaging critically with what scares us, what we like about the genre, and what makes horror game classics tick. it is one of my favorite things & you should come twitch.tv/katbamkapow

katbamkapow - Twitch

i got a phd and i still play video games on the weekends

twitch.tv

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Michael @onemoretimearound.bsky.social · 10d

It's that time of year!!!

Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 10d

. @katbamkapow.bsky.social and my yearly celebration of horror games and talking—Hallowstream—begins tonight at 6.30 ET on twitch.tv/katbamkapow

Twitch

Twitch is the world

twitch.tv

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Si F Sweetman @sifsweetman.bsky.social · 10d

Hallowstream is the best streaming series going, which sometimes plays a game and sometimes sits on the pause screen for an hour and a half to have a discussion about contemporary art, or archival practice, or what if there was a tiny Michel Foucault.

Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 10d

. @katbamkapow.bsky.social and my yearly celebration of horror games and talking—Hallowstream—begins tonight at 6.30 ET on twitch.tv/katbamkapow

Twitch

Twitch is the world

twitch.tv

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 12d

In an absolutely WILD year for indie games I am honored for Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector to be among the nominees for ✨BEST INDIE✨ at the Golden Joysticks!

If you enjoyed the game, please consider giving it your vote 🙏

👉Vote here: goldenjoysticks.com

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Casper Pham @ Shortbox Comics Fair (The Luminary Lark-Mirror) @marcheriest.bsky.social · 12d

here is an excerpt from my comic — thanks to all present and future readers 💎

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 12d

we're so close to funding in less than 48 hours and i am trying to be normal about it but i am losing my mind

Central Michigan University Press @cmichpress.bsky.social · 14d

LAUNCH! Our BackerKit crowdfunding campaign for the Art & System series is LIVE! Go to https://bit.ly/4gMqNvA to pledge NOW!

Yellow banner with red text PLEDGE NOW across a background of the three game books for Dog Eat Dog%2C The Mountain Witch%2C and Princess with a Cursed Sword.

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If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · 13d

Episode 45: How To Win Friends And Influence People

89 years ago, Dale Carnegie taught Americans how to live like Leo Tolstoy, give speeches like John Rockefeller and neg like Calvin Coolidge.

How To Win Friends And Influence People

Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 10/02/2025 · 1h 10m

podcasts.apple.com

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Michael @onemoretimearound.bsky.social · 13d

So beautiful!

ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · Aug 27

One of the most visually innovative and stunning comics you'll see this year, 'Guts Of the Crab God' is a new 84-page comic from @arrhenotoky.bsky.social!
When Aranth embarks on a quest to obtain what he truly desires, he is tasked with killing and eating the Crab God.

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Randy⛵🐟🦖 @ ShortBox Comics Fair 2025 @arrhenotoky.bsky.social · 14d

My comic "Guts of the Crab God" is out now at @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social !
84 full color pages, sea-themed transgender yaoi.

Read it here:
www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/shop-sq4wj/p...

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Casper Pham @ Shortbox Comics Fair (The Luminary Lark-Mirror) @marcheriest.bsky.social · 13d

The Luminary Lark-Mirror, my 52-page comic about pinball crimes in 1960s America, is now live at Shortbox Comics Fair! 💎🕊️💥 #sbcf25

buy here: www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/shop-sq4wj/p...

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Cosimo Galluzzi @cosimog.bsky.social · 13d

Brightness behind the eyes

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Michael @onemoretimearound.bsky.social · 13d

Dog Eat Dog is one of the first RPGs I can remember hearing about that bucked the trends (mechanical and political) of trad games, so that's also exciting. But Princess with a Cursed Sword is my favourite solo journalling game!

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