Luke Wildwoods
@wildwoodsgames.bsky.social
Game designer @ gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io.
Cooking enthusiast. Once an anthropologist and professional GM.
“Very witty and wise, like a mole underneath a tree".
Ace, aro, agender (they/them).
Cooking enthusiast. Once an anthropologist and professional GM.
“Very witty and wise, like a mole underneath a tree".
Ace, aro, agender (they/them).
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Reshare: Thomas shares how despite never enjoying a Belonging outside Belonging game before, Harvest became his Game of the Year. It's a combination of its lush prose, rock-solid structure, and bloody folk horror.
www.rascal.news/i-was-sacrif...
www.rascal.news/i-was-sacrif...
I was sacrificed for the land and all I got was this essay
On Luke Jordan’s Harvest, a masterpiece of folk horror
www.rascal.news
"You don’t spend the game wondering whether you’re a good person. You instead wonder if you are ready to kill for the island or die for it — whether it’ll be your friend, lover, or father who will hold the knife and whether they’ll smile as they do it."
gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io/harvest
gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io/harvest
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The physical edition of my solo game, Psalms for the Undertow, is now available for members of the Dirtgoblin Zine Club! Members get editions that include experimental materials. In this case that's a two player mechanic I'm currently testing, printed on vellum, and a piece of handmade paper (1/2)
November 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The physical edition of my solo game, Psalms for the Undertow, is now available for members of the Dirtgoblin Zine Club! Members get editions that include experimental materials. In this case that's a two player mechanic I'm currently testing, printed on vellum, and a piece of handmade paper (1/2)
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Harvest is a "beautiful cursed woodcut of a game" and Rascal writer Thomas Manuel's game of the year. GMless diceless period folk horror, it revolves around a golden paradise off Britain's coast preserved by generational ritual sacrifice, and which you'll choose: die for the island, or kill for it.
Harvest by gamesfromthewildwood
A bloody folk gothic RPG of tradition, necessity, and sacrifice
gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io
November 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Harvest is a "beautiful cursed woodcut of a game" and Rascal writer Thomas Manuel's game of the year. GMless diceless period folk horror, it revolves around a golden paradise off Britain's coast preserved by generational ritual sacrifice, and which you'll choose: die for the island, or kill for it.
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In light of Creator Day I wanna say if you can’t buy games even on sale there’s a great way to show appreciation to game designers and that’s leaving a nice comment/good review, which you can do directly on itch on the creator’s game pages!!
It’s Creator Day on itch today!! 100% of sales go to us creators!! It’s also a big day for sales so this weekend you can get my games 60% off OR as a bundle for $39.98 🩵
itch.io/s/170770/cre...
itch.io/s/170770/cre...
November 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
In light of Creator Day I wanna say if you can’t buy games even on sale there’s a great way to show appreciation to game designers and that’s leaving a nice comment/good review, which you can do directly on itch on the creator’s game pages!!
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STUPENDOUSLY BRILLIANT I FEEL LIKE THE BOOK ITSELF DEMANDS AND DRAGS ME TO READ IT BETTER, AGAIN AND AGAIN
Reshare: Thomas shares how despite never enjoying a Belonging outside Belonging game before, Harvest became his Game of the Year. It's a combination of its lush prose, rock-solid structure, and bloody folk horror.
www.rascal.news/i-was-sacrif...
www.rascal.news/i-was-sacrif...
I was sacrificed for the land and all I got was this essay
On Luke Jordan’s Harvest, a masterpiece of folk horror
www.rascal.news
November 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
STUPENDOUSLY BRILLIANT I FEEL LIKE THE BOOK ITSELF DEMANDS AND DRAGS ME TO READ IT BETTER, AGAIN AND AGAIN
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God Luke, we had such a great session of Harvest last week. The Wise One called the whole island together to 'forge the blade', with everyone pitching in a bit of metal from their homes. The voice of the last sacrifice sung out from the flames and the preacher Stranger was marked to hold the knife.
November 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
God Luke, we had such a great session of Harvest last week. The Wise One called the whole island together to 'forge the blade', with everyone pitching in a bit of metal from their homes. The voice of the last sacrifice sung out from the flames and the preacher Stranger was marked to hold the knife.
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"You don’t spend the game wondering whether you’re a good person. You instead wonder if you are ready to kill for the island or die for it — whether it’ll be your friend, lover, or father who will hold the knife and whether they’ll smile as they do it."
gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io/harvest
gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io/harvest
Reshare: Thomas shares how despite never enjoying a Belonging outside Belonging game before, Harvest became his Game of the Year. It's a combination of its lush prose, rock-solid structure, and bloody folk horror.
www.rascal.news/i-was-sacrif...
www.rascal.news/i-was-sacrif...
I was sacrificed for the land and all I got was this essay
On Luke Jordan’s Harvest, a masterpiece of folk horror
www.rascal.news
November 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"You don’t spend the game wondering whether you’re a good person. You instead wonder if you are ready to kill for the island or die for it — whether it’ll be your friend, lover, or father who will hold the knife and whether they’ll smile as they do it."
gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io/harvest
gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io/harvest
Reposted by Luke Wildwoods
Reshare: Thomas shares how despite never enjoying a Belonging outside Belonging game before, Harvest became his Game of the Year. It's a combination of its lush prose, rock-solid structure, and bloody folk horror.
www.rascal.news/i-was-sacrif...
www.rascal.news/i-was-sacrif...
I was sacrificed for the land and all I got was this essay
On Luke Jordan’s Harvest, a masterpiece of folk horror
www.rascal.news
November 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Reshare: Thomas shares how despite never enjoying a Belonging outside Belonging game before, Harvest became his Game of the Year. It's a combination of its lush prose, rock-solid structure, and bloody folk horror.
www.rascal.news/i-was-sacrif...
www.rascal.news/i-was-sacrif...
"You don’t spend the game wondering whether you’re a good person. You instead wonder if you are ready to kill for the island or die for it — whether it’ll be your friend, lover, or father who will hold the knife and whether they’ll smile as they do it."
gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io/harvest
gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io/harvest
Reshare: Thomas shares how despite never enjoying a Belonging outside Belonging game before, Harvest became his Game of the Year. It's a combination of its lush prose, rock-solid structure, and bloody folk horror.
www.rascal.news/i-was-sacrif...
www.rascal.news/i-was-sacrif...
I was sacrificed for the land and all I got was this essay
On Luke Jordan’s Harvest, a masterpiece of folk horror
www.rascal.news
November 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"You don’t spend the game wondering whether you’re a good person. You instead wonder if you are ready to kill for the island or die for it — whether it’ll be your friend, lover, or father who will hold the knife and whether they’ll smile as they do it."
gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io/harvest
gamesfromthewildwood.itch.io/harvest
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Eyyy, good shit, @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social!
Reshare: Thomas shares how despite never enjoying a Belonging outside Belonging game before, Harvest became his Game of the Year. It's a combination of its lush prose, rock-solid structure, and bloody folk horror.
www.rascal.news/i-was-sacrif...
www.rascal.news/i-was-sacrif...
I was sacrificed for the land and all I got was this essay
On Luke Jordan’s Harvest, a masterpiece of folk horror
www.rascal.news
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Eyyy, good shit, @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social!
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With We Contain Solitudes in the bag, I have moved into development and playtesting on a new project.
Here's my first pass at an intro for the game, as a little teaser for anyone interested.
Here's my first pass at an intro for the game, as a little teaser for anyone interested.
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
With We Contain Solitudes in the bag, I have moved into development and playtesting on a new project.
Here's my first pass at an intro for the game, as a little teaser for anyone interested.
Here's my first pass at an intro for the game, as a little teaser for anyone interested.
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Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
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when mamdani is mayor i hope he fixes all the changes they made to hadestown
June 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
when mamdani is mayor i hope he fixes all the changes they made to hadestown
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genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died
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With the close of spooky season, it is time to ring in the season of introspection by playing We Contain Solitudes, my new 2 player ttrpg.
sevencrowsgames.itch.io/we-contain-s...
sevencrowsgames.itch.io/we-contain-s...
We Contain Solitudes by Seven Crows Games
A 2 player TTRPG about troubled souls trapped in a time loop that plays out in prose and soliloquies.
sevencrowsgames.itch.io
November 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
With the close of spooky season, it is time to ring in the season of introspection by playing We Contain Solitudes, my new 2 player ttrpg.
sevencrowsgames.itch.io/we-contain-s...
sevencrowsgames.itch.io/we-contain-s...
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only huge dorks complain about tolkein's unrealistic plate tectonics. yes mordor is shaped like a bigass square but maybe thats because mordor's mountains were not formed the way mountain ranges in our world are
November 1, 2025 at 4:40 AM
only huge dorks complain about tolkein's unrealistic plate tectonics. yes mordor is shaped like a bigass square but maybe thats because mordor's mountains were not formed the way mountain ranges in our world are
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During the set up for my game of @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social's Harvest, we created such a tapestry of relationships I thought it would merit a map. As in any game, we'll see which bonds will float to the top and which will slowly become irrelevant, but it's nice to have a frame of reference.
October 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
During the set up for my game of @wildwoodsgames.bsky.social's Harvest, we created such a tapestry of relationships I thought it would merit a map. As in any game, we'll see which bonds will float to the top and which will slowly become irrelevant, but it's nice to have a frame of reference.
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A reminder that the original Hallowe'en jack o' lanterns date back to 18th century Ireland if not earlier, were based on a shady boozy blacksmith called Stingy Jack who cheated the devil & was trapped between 2 worlds, were carved from turnips and looked like this:
October 31, 2025 at 7:59 AM
A reminder that the original Hallowe'en jack o' lanterns date back to 18th century Ireland if not earlier, were based on a shady boozy blacksmith called Stingy Jack who cheated the devil & was trapped between 2 worlds, were carved from turnips and looked like this:
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“Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe. And their guides, the writers of fantasy, should take their responsibilities seriously."
From Elfland to Poughkeepsie, Ursula K Le Guin
From Elfland to Poughkeepsie, Ursula K Le Guin
October 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM
“Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe. And their guides, the writers of fantasy, should take their responsibilities seriously."
From Elfland to Poughkeepsie, Ursula K Le Guin
From Elfland to Poughkeepsie, Ursula K Le Guin
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Very proud of this one, would love for more people to check it out!
October 29, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Very proud of this one, would love for more people to check it out!
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T minus 11. An #ApocalypseWorldBurnedOver thread. In case you were wondering what we're cooking up in #AW3rd edition.
October 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
T minus 11. An #ApocalypseWorldBurnedOver thread. In case you were wondering what we're cooking up in #AW3rd edition.
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I can’t think of any indie TTRPG designers I know who want to be put up on a pedestal, be turned into some sort of icon by the people who read and play their games. They’re just people, with normal human wants and needs.
If there’s anything specific they want, it’s for you to buy their games.
If there’s anything specific they want, it’s for you to buy their games.
October 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I can’t think of any indie TTRPG designers I know who want to be put up on a pedestal, be turned into some sort of icon by the people who read and play their games. They’re just people, with normal human wants and needs.
If there’s anything specific they want, it’s for you to buy their games.
If there’s anything specific they want, it’s for you to buy their games.
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How the NYT and the Democratic establishment screwed up on Zohran Mamdani: An absolutely blistering, genuinely big-picture essay from Frank Rich, who still has plenty of heat left over for Cuomo, Trump, Ackman, Hegseth, et al. nymag.com/intelligence...
Zohran Mamdani, the Power Breaker
Why the Democratic Party, the New York Times, and the donor class got Zohran Mamdani so wrong.
nymag.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
How the NYT and the Democratic establishment screwed up on Zohran Mamdani: An absolutely blistering, genuinely big-picture essay from Frank Rich, who still has plenty of heat left over for Cuomo, Trump, Ackman, Hegseth, et al. nymag.com/intelligence...
5 films to get to know me:
- Pride (2014)
- Wolfwalkers (2022)
- A Monster Calls (2016)
- Jennifer's Body (2009)
- The Illusionist (2006)
- Pride (2014)
- Wolfwalkers (2022)
- A Monster Calls (2016)
- Jennifer's Body (2009)
- The Illusionist (2006)
5 films to get to know me:
- Meshes of the Afternoon
- Once Upon A Time In China
- Fire Walk With Me
- My Neighbour Totoro
- Orlando
- Meshes of the Afternoon
- Once Upon A Time In China
- Fire Walk With Me
- My Neighbour Totoro
- Orlando
5 movies to get to know me:
- The Company of Wolves
- Jacob's Ladder
- The Crow
- Se7en
- Willow
- The Company of Wolves
- Jacob's Ladder
- The Crow
- Se7en
- Willow
October 19, 2025 at 5:16 AM
5 films to get to know me:
- Pride (2014)
- Wolfwalkers (2022)
- A Monster Calls (2016)
- Jennifer's Body (2009)
- The Illusionist (2006)
- Pride (2014)
- Wolfwalkers (2022)
- A Monster Calls (2016)
- Jennifer's Body (2009)
- The Illusionist (2006)
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I wrote my thesis on magic in Middle-earth. This line from Fellowship is one of the fullest pictures of the "mechanics" of magic that we get.
1) There are many spells to accomplish similar things
2) Magic requires time to do properly
3) Counter-spells reverse or stop magic
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1) There are many spells to accomplish similar things
2) Magic requires time to do properly
3) Counter-spells reverse or stop magic
+🧵
October 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I wrote my thesis on magic in Middle-earth. This line from Fellowship is one of the fullest pictures of the "mechanics" of magic that we get.
1) There are many spells to accomplish similar things
2) Magic requires time to do properly
3) Counter-spells reverse or stop magic
+🧵
1) There are many spells to accomplish similar things
2) Magic requires time to do properly
3) Counter-spells reverse or stop magic
+🧵