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Nishaant! ➡️ PAXU
@artbyrecluse.bsky.social
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Indian American Game Dev, Writer, Musician and Sound Designer! @tamasha-rpg.bsky.social‬

Currently working on: Tamasha! Hindu Myth & Hip Hop post post apocalypse TTRPG!

https://artbyrecluse.carrd.co/
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Preparing a little treat for sale/trade at PAXU

shouts out to @gnarlyghost.bsky.social and @surejanel.bsky.social !
The cover of my pamphlet game "So you want to start a goblin band!" Picture of a bunch of punk rock goblins skanking
November 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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so much of project management is this
it's a stock photo of a guy in an office smiling at his computer, it says EMAIL SENT in the dark souls victory text.
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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I 100% want to say some of the art I've commissioned from you and not post it like a stinker but honestly this piece is so gorgeous I can't not acknowledge
October 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Pretty close to the funny number!
Screen shot of my bluesky profile, I have 664 followers
August 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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I had this one saved on my phone for a moment just like this
It's the Treachery of Images pipe and below it is a way bigger drawing of a pipe and it says C'EST une pipe.
August 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Yeah man
A screen shot of One Piece character Dalton saying "what's so wrong... About wanting your country to have a heart"
August 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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No cheating, post your lock screen

Art by @holloswallow.bsky.social
My lock screen
July 29, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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It's still in the oven while we do playtesting but I post updates on my account all the time so feel free to follow if interested!

Here's a little elevator pitch
Tamasha! Is a Tabletop Role Playing Game and Setting inspired by my childhood growing up in LA as an Indian transplant. I had first wanted to make a RPG that I could play with my friends that were moving away but it evolved as I wanted to make a new kind of fantasy that would appeal to us. We were spoilt for choice when it comes to traditional European fare but I wanted new stories, more compelling settings and different protagonists. So I made a new world, built on a foundation of Hindu Myth, the LA hip hop scene and 2000s cartoons and anime. For the system I wanted to target adults who are new to the TTRPG scene, so I focused on letting players express themselves more and keeping it simple mechanically. Inspired more by new indie darlings rather than older classics, Tamasha! is a vibrant and breezy system taking place in a new world made for bombastic adventures. And who better to show you around than the character responsible for creating the world? Take it away!
May 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Incredible, no notes
Stank face
May 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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I made a few presentations to help Play-testers learn and run the game! I even have a little getting started guide and a copy of the full rulebook if necessary! So excited to get this out to the people! #TamashaRPG #indieTTRPG #gamedev #RPGwriting
Screenshot of some Presentations and Documents in the Playtest folder of my Table top Role Playing Game Tamasha!
April 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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I'm working on my Tabletop RPG Tamasha! It's currently waiting for beutification and art but I am proud of my writing check it out!
Picture of text that says Elevator Pitch: Hello, incredibly attractive reader! I am the last God left alive and I need your help. 50 years ago, Earth was being destroyed by humans… what a twist, huh? Well this time was super extra bad and the Gods got all moody and depressed about it. So hopeless they became they fell into decline with their favorite anxiety ridden primates. I, most beautiful and knowledgeable God of Chaos and Chance (you can call me CC), decided that was a fucking stupid idea. So, I decided to save (some of) humanity out of the “kindness” of my “heart.” I brought them to a new planet and gave them magic so we could carve out a new home on this hostile world. And after 50 years…We did it! We’ve got amazing cities, globe spanning trade routes, radios, cell phones, airships, oh my! Sure, the people I saved aren’t really humans anymore, they’re better! Stronger and kinder to each other AND to their fellow intergalactic refugees (I hired some extra help, don’t worry about it). Society had rebuilt from the ashes in a more harmonious and productive way. And I can’t have that! I. So I made you a fun little Tabletop RPG and I'll even walk you through the whole thing so you can cause problems on purpose even if you’re new. So… are you ready to make some noise
March 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Here's the intro to my TTRPG Tamasha! #IndieDev #TTRPG #IndieTTRPG #ttrpgcommunity
Elevator Pitch! Hello, incredibly attractive reader! I am the last God left alive and I need your help. 50 years ago, Earth was being destroyed by humans… what a twist, huh? Well this time was super extra bad and the Gods got all moody and depressed about it. So hopeless they became they fell into decline with their favorite anxiety ridden primates. I, most beautiful and knowledgeable God of Chaos and Chance (you can call me CC), decided that was a fucking stupid idea. So, I decided to save (some of) humanity out of the “kindness” of my “heart.” I brought them to a new planet and gave them magic so we could carve out a new home on this hostile world. And after 50 years…We did it! We’ve got amazing cities, globe spanning trade routes, radios, cell phones, airships, oh my! Sure, the people I saved aren’t really humans anymore, they’re better! Stronger and kinder to each other AND to their fellow intergalactic refugees (I hired some extra help, don’t worry about it). Society had rebuilt from the ashes in a more harmonious and productive way. And I can’t have that! What do I look like? God of Reasonable Compromises and Public Transportation? NO! THEY’RE DEAD! So I want you and your friends to start making some mayhem in my new world so I can have some fucking entertainment. So I made you a fun little Tabletop RPG and I'll even walk you through the whole thing so you can cause problems on purpose even if you’re new. So… are you ready to make some noise?
March 19, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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We have fun over here #indieTTRPG
A section of writing detailing a type of player character in an RPG it says: Made of Plants Yes you can be the perfect wood carved gunda, loitering at the street corner, wearing sunglasses over your carved eyes, scratching out your ex’s name from your arm, eating with your mates and getting drunk on root beer. But at the end of the day you look at yourself in the mirror and can you really say… wood you do it all again? HAH! Optional attributes: Plant communication (not that they’ll do much for you) Launching spikes/poison/spores (not 10,000 needles but a few) Poison resistances (it’s cool, my daddy’s a nightshade) An attribute that feels natural ya’know?
March 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Writing is my passion and so is the first person perspective lmao
a screen shot of text that says: Who’s on first? You fucking clown I hate you, stop trying to be funny. That’s my job, YOU TRYIN TO TAKE MY JOB? I’LL KILL- Who goes first? OHHHHHHHHHHH, I’m so sorry I thought… I’m so embarrassed, that’s so ugly of me.
March 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Sea breeze, some chai and a book in the nook are fixing new me
February 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Writing is fun. (the comment is on the semicolon)
#indieTTRPG #TTRPGDev #GameDev
picture of text that reads: How are you doing this? This game is more expressive and free form than most, if you take the time to consider you options, abilities, situation, crew-mates etc. and use those to your advantage in your character’s actions; you’ll be able to be much more effective than Sandra Spice-less who just wants to roll dice and not role play. then in bold, italics and underlined it says: This game should be affected by your choices more than your rolls! there is a google docs comment on a semicolon that says: yeah I used it, fuckin sue me
January 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Drop the lock screen!

Some wonderful art from the incredible @holloswallow.bsky.social
A cool as heck album cover as my phone's lock screen
December 19, 2024 at 3:27 AM
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Some strong stuff coming up
December 18, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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Yeah boiiiiiiii
Picture of the offical Pyre (by supergiant games) tshirt lit with red light
December 9, 2024 at 10:58 PM
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That's right nerds! I'm gonna start marketing over here, hope y'all are ready...FOR SYSTEM DESIGN FLOWCHARTS!
🎉🎉🎉

(This one is for player progression lol I'll be better about labeling in the future)
November 15, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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Certified old lol
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #300,826, Nishaant! ‪@nishaant.bsky.social‬, joined on Jul 14, 2023"
September 28, 2024 at 2:08 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #300,826!
September 17, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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If you see this, post your 4 fav games!
September 4, 2024 at 3:37 PM