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@alphachar.bsky.social
making Sparrow Warfare with @martinpi ~ writing games ~ teaching writing & yoga ~ 'when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro' ~ alphachar.com
Yeaaaahhhhhhh! Thanks @caseyexplosion.bsky.social!
Me & @martinpi.bsky.social are making SPARROW WARFARE, a mahjong-inspired deckbuilder with a ton of birds! We'll have a playtest coming next week, so excited to welcome folks into our bird kingdom 🙌🦜🦉🦤🦆🕊️
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
Me & @martinpi.bsky.social are making SPARROW WARFARE, a mahjong-inspired deckbuilder with a ton of birds! We'll have a playtest coming next week, so excited to welcome folks into our bird kingdom 🙌🦜🦉🦤🦆🕊️
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
November 4, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Yeaaaahhhhhhh! Thanks @caseyexplosion.bsky.social!
Me & @martinpi.bsky.social are making SPARROW WARFARE, a mahjong-inspired deckbuilder with a ton of birds! We'll have a playtest coming next week, so excited to welcome folks into our bird kingdom 🙌🦜🦉🦤🦆🕊️
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
Me & @martinpi.bsky.social are making SPARROW WARFARE, a mahjong-inspired deckbuilder with a ton of birds! We'll have a playtest coming next week, so excited to welcome folks into our bird kingdom 🙌🦜🦉🦤🦆🕊️
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
I really enjoyed this Halloween spooky bird collection from the @rspb.bsky.social, so I had to share one from our Sparrow Warfare coop: world, meet Howl!
October 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I really enjoyed this Halloween spooky bird collection from the @rspb.bsky.social, so I had to share one from our Sparrow Warfare coop: world, meet Howl!
Thank you for hosting #TurnBasedThursday!
We're working on Sparrow Warfare, a wild little deckbuilder with a hell of a lot of birds. We'll have a new playtest coming very soon, so looking forward to sharing with folks ❤️
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
We're working on Sparrow Warfare, a wild little deckbuilder with a hell of a lot of birds. We'll have a new playtest coming very soon, so looking forward to sharing with folks ❤️
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
October 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Thank you for hosting #TurnBasedThursday!
We're working on Sparrow Warfare, a wild little deckbuilder with a hell of a lot of birds. We'll have a new playtest coming very soon, so looking forward to sharing with folks ❤️
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
We're working on Sparrow Warfare, a wild little deckbuilder with a hell of a lot of birds. We'll have a new playtest coming very soon, so looking forward to sharing with folks ❤️
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
This one always gets me:
October 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This one always gets me:
Hi there @GOG.com & #TurnBasedThursday friends!
If you:
🦜 love birds
🤺 love strategic shenanigans
🪷 love getting your brain in white-noise mode
Sparrow Warfare might be for you! We're not on GOG yet (out mid 2026), but you can keep up with development here:
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
If you:
🦜 love birds
🤺 love strategic shenanigans
🪷 love getting your brain in white-noise mode
Sparrow Warfare might be for you! We're not on GOG yet (out mid 2026), but you can keep up with development here:
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
October 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Hi there @GOG.com & #TurnBasedThursday friends!
If you:
🦜 love birds
🤺 love strategic shenanigans
🪷 love getting your brain in white-noise mode
Sparrow Warfare might be for you! We're not on GOG yet (out mid 2026), but you can keep up with development here:
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
If you:
🦜 love birds
🤺 love strategic shenanigans
🪷 love getting your brain in white-noise mode
Sparrow Warfare might be for you! We're not on GOG yet (out mid 2026), but you can keep up with development here:
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
Hi folks! & thanks for hosting today's #TurnBasedThursday!
We're working on our next playtest for Sparrow Warfare: daily flight mode with different modifiers. Here's today's results from our 2-person team (ahem, I am literally last in the world right now).
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
We're working on our next playtest for Sparrow Warfare: daily flight mode with different modifiers. Here's today's results from our 2-person team (ahem, I am literally last in the world right now).
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
October 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Hi folks! & thanks for hosting today's #TurnBasedThursday!
We're working on our next playtest for Sparrow Warfare: daily flight mode with different modifiers. Here's today's results from our 2-person team (ahem, I am literally last in the world right now).
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
We're working on our next playtest for Sparrow Warfare: daily flight mode with different modifiers. Here's today's results from our 2-person team (ahem, I am literally last in the world right now).
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
100%! We're a team of two with no artist working on our game Sparrow Warfare at the moment & I'm having the BEST fun remixing, collaging, recolouring & vectorising public domain art to make our bird tiles! It also feels like bringing little fragments of the past into the future.
October 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
100%! We're a team of two with no artist working on our game Sparrow Warfare at the moment & I'm having the BEST fun remixing, collaging, recolouring & vectorising public domain art to make our bird tiles! It also feels like bringing little fragments of the past into the future.
Our gameplay (super weird deckbuilder) isn't retro, but our art sure is: 2-person team, no artist, so I've been making our bird tiles by collaging, remixing, recolouring, & vectorising old public domain pics of birds. Sparrow Warfare: new playtest up next week:
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
October 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Our gameplay (super weird deckbuilder) isn't retro, but our art sure is: 2-person team, no artist, so I've been making our bird tiles by collaging, remixing, recolouring, & vectorising old public domain pics of birds. Sparrow Warfare: new playtest up next week:
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
I’m knitting a really huge shawl at the moment and it’s giving me a lot of joy. Each stitch is such a tiny step, and yet and yet and yet as they add up one by one it becomes something glorious. Maybe by Christmas I’ll be able to wear it 🙏
October 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I’m knitting a really huge shawl at the moment and it’s giving me a lot of joy. Each stitch is such a tiny step, and yet and yet and yet as they add up one by one it becomes something glorious. Maybe by Christmas I’ll be able to wear it 🙏
Hey there @mantisgames.bsky.social & thanks for hosting this #TurnBasedThursday!
@martinpi.bsky.social & I are making a weird deckbuilder with lots of birds called SPARROW WARFARE, & we'll have a new playtest next week - come sign up on our Steam page!
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
@martinpi.bsky.social & I are making a weird deckbuilder with lots of birds called SPARROW WARFARE, & we'll have a new playtest next week - come sign up on our Steam page!
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Hey there @mantisgames.bsky.social & thanks for hosting this #TurnBasedThursday!
@martinpi.bsky.social & I are making a weird deckbuilder with lots of birds called SPARROW WARFARE, & we'll have a new playtest next week - come sign up on our Steam page!
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
@martinpi.bsky.social & I are making a weird deckbuilder with lots of birds called SPARROW WARFARE, & we'll have a new playtest next week - come sign up on our Steam page!
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...
André Breton, Surrealist Manifesto ❤️
October 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
André Breton, Surrealist Manifesto ❤️
Take a look at this little talisman that we brought back from our trip to China earlier this year. We're doing it! And, every now and then it's nice to look back and see the path we forged to get to here. It makes looking ahead into the unknown jungle of the future a tiny bit less scary.
September 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Take a look at this little talisman that we brought back from our trip to China earlier this year. We're doing it! And, every now and then it's nice to look back and see the path we forged to get to here. It makes looking ahead into the unknown jungle of the future a tiny bit less scary.
We're on a dairy farm for the weekend! What time is it? It's cow time 🙌
September 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
We're on a dairy farm for the weekend! What time is it? It's cow time 🙌
Our early playtesters have already been testing out the leaderboard. It'll be one global leaderboard for the next few weeks so it's going to get screechy!
September 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Our early playtesters have already been testing out the leaderboard. It'll be one global leaderboard for the next few weeks so it's going to get screechy!
Continuing my excellent summer of horror, @martinpi.bsky.social got me "I Gave You Eyes & You Looked Toward Darkness" by Irene Solà and I INHALED it over the weekend. Lots going on in a small amount of pages, highly recommended for my fellow horror homies.
August 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Continuing my excellent summer of horror, @martinpi.bsky.social got me "I Gave You Eyes & You Looked Toward Darkness" by Irene Solà and I INHALED it over the weekend. Lots going on in a small amount of pages, highly recommended for my fellow horror homies.
Oh man, I WISH I could send you a pic from Chiang Mai right now! The best I've got is this snap I took of a very jazzy cormorant from Abbekås in Sweden last weekend 😀
August 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Oh man, I WISH I could send you a pic from Chiang Mai right now! The best I've got is this snap I took of a very jazzy cormorant from Abbekås in Sweden last weekend 😀
And the tablecloth, well it can’t be yours, but you can share in the glory:
August 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
And the tablecloth, well it can’t be yours, but you can share in the glory:
But what WAS it called, Gavin?! As question tax I give you this picture I took last night at the Swedish cabin I’m staying in (note: there is no dog here, and I’m not sure who Elther is 😁)
August 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
But what WAS it called, Gavin?! As question tax I give you this picture I took last night at the Swedish cabin I’m staying in (note: there is no dog here, and I’m not sure who Elther is 😁)
I am 44 years old & I still think this is one of the best messages I ever got from a movie.
July 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I am 44 years old & I still think this is one of the best messages I ever got from a movie.
I will have a video talk at the Chinese Game Developers Conference this year! Next year, I hope to get to go in person 🙏
en.chinajoy.net
en.chinajoy.net
July 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I will have a video talk at the Chinese Game Developers Conference this year! Next year, I hope to get to go in person 🙏
en.chinajoy.net
en.chinajoy.net
Woohoo, they have fantasy football for the Women’s Euro this year!! If you want to join our league, please do!
July 2, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Woohoo, they have fantasy football for the Women’s Euro this year!! If you want to join our league, please do!
Finally time again to "let July be July & let August be August" 💖 - thank you @morganhnichols.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Finally time again to "let July be July & let August be August" 💖 - thank you @morganhnichols.bsky.social
Flowing river, singing birds, breathe in, breathe out, alive 🛶
June 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Flowing river, singing birds, breathe in, breathe out, alive 🛶