Binary
@binarystar.games
Game designer/developer, Binary Star Games. He/him. 🍉
Site: https://binarystar.games
Email: binary(dot)star(dot)games(at)gmail.com
Freelance: https://binarystar.games/docs/freelancing/
Site: https://binarystar.games
Email: binary(dot)star(dot)games(at)gmail.com
Freelance: https://binarystar.games/docs/freelancing/
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Binary
@binarystar.games
· Oct 28
Pinned posts/threads exist now! Also good god that's a lot of you, hi! Let me introduce myself.
I'm Binary, he/him. I run Binary Star Games, a TTRPG imprint with an eye for elegant mechanics, fast tactics, and support for long-term play. All of my stuff can be found at binary-star-games.itch.io. 🧵
I'm Binary, he/him. I run Binary Star Games, a TTRPG imprint with an eye for elegant mechanics, fast tactics, and support for long-term play. All of my stuff can be found at binary-star-games.itch.io. 🧵
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ICYMI!
"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 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
ICYMI!
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Apocalypse Frame by @binarystar.games
Tiny Tomes 1 & 2 and Tiny Libraries 1 & 2 from @long-tail-games.bsky.social features designers from everywhere, even DC, MD and VA in the USA.
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Tiny Tomes 1 & 2 and Tiny Libraries 1 & 2 from @long-tail-games.bsky.social features designers from everywhere, even DC, MD and VA in the USA.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Apocalypse Frame by @binarystar.games
Tiny Tomes 1 & 2 and Tiny Libraries 1 & 2 from @long-tail-games.bsky.social features designers from everywhere, even DC, MD and VA in the USA.
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Tiny Tomes 1 & 2 and Tiny Libraries 1 & 2 from @long-tail-games.bsky.social features designers from everywhere, even DC, MD and VA in the USA.
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A lot of Designed in the DMV artists distribute our games through @ipr.bsky.social. We love how they rep us at conventions like @PAXUnplugged that only some of us can attend.
Valiant Horizons by @binarystar.games
Fear and Panic by @lymerpg.bsky.social
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Valiant Horizons by @binarystar.games
Fear and Panic by @lymerpg.bsky.social
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November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
A lot of Designed in the DMV artists distribute our games through @ipr.bsky.social. We love how they rep us at conventions like @PAXUnplugged that only some of us can attend.
Valiant Horizons by @binarystar.games
Fear and Panic by @lymerpg.bsky.social
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Valiant Horizons by @binarystar.games
Fear and Panic by @lymerpg.bsky.social
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I am so in
November 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I am so in
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In CARD DRIVES you use a deck of cards as your cyberdeck and character sheet, pumped full of custom programs, adware, ICE, and more.
Live and die on the 'Net and pass on your deck to a new hacker and start the whole thing over.
Coming soon!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Live and die on the 'Net and pass on your deck to a new hacker and start the whole thing over.
Coming soon!
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 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
In CARD DRIVES you use a deck of cards as your cyberdeck and character sheet, pumped full of custom programs, adware, ICE, and more.
Live and die on the 'Net and pass on your deck to a new hacker and start the whole thing over.
Coming soon!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Live and die on the 'Net and pass on your deck to a new hacker and start the whole thing over.
Coming soon!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
#MFGJ25, Microfiction Games Jam 2025, is live again this week! Make a game in a skeet*!
*Technically a tweet's worth of characters but y'know.
*Technically a tweet's worth of characters but y'know.
The first game is up on the website!
microfictiongames.neocities.org/2025/
But we need more games. More tiny (in size but massive in cool) games.
Can you write a game in just 280 characters? Yes, you can.
#MFGJ25 #TTRPG
microfictiongames.neocities.org/2025/
But we need more games. More tiny (in size but massive in cool) games.
Can you write a game in just 280 characters? Yes, you can.
#MFGJ25 #TTRPG
Micro Fiction Games
microfictiongames.neocities.org
November 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
#MFGJ25, Microfiction Games Jam 2025, is live again this week! Make a game in a skeet*!
*Technically a tweet's worth of characters but y'know.
*Technically a tweet's worth of characters but y'know.
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The first game is up on the website!
microfictiongames.neocities.org/2025/
But we need more games. More tiny (in size but massive in cool) games.
Can you write a game in just 280 characters? Yes, you can.
#MFGJ25 #TTRPG
microfictiongames.neocities.org/2025/
But we need more games. More tiny (in size but massive in cool) games.
Can you write a game in just 280 characters? Yes, you can.
#MFGJ25 #TTRPG
Micro Fiction Games
microfictiongames.neocities.org
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The first game is up on the website!
microfictiongames.neocities.org/2025/
But we need more games. More tiny (in size but massive in cool) games.
Can you write a game in just 280 characters? Yes, you can.
#MFGJ25 #TTRPG
microfictiongames.neocities.org/2025/
But we need more games. More tiny (in size but massive in cool) games.
Can you write a game in just 280 characters? Yes, you can.
#MFGJ25 #TTRPG
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🚨 Brute Fort is live now on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/alf...
💸 Come back the project
📣 Share it around
🗡 Vanquish the evil that lurks in the fort
18 card dungeon delving game by me + tape cassette soundtrack by Gus BC
💸 Come back the project
📣 Share it around
🗡 Vanquish the evil that lurks in the fort
18 card dungeon delving game by me + tape cassette soundtrack by Gus BC
November 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
🚨 Brute Fort is live now on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/alf...
💸 Come back the project
📣 Share it around
🗡 Vanquish the evil that lurks in the fort
18 card dungeon delving game by me + tape cassette soundtrack by Gus BC
💸 Come back the project
📣 Share it around
🗡 Vanquish the evil that lurks in the fort
18 card dungeon delving game by me + tape cassette soundtrack by Gus BC
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My blogging compatriots at Random Ape Encounter and To Be Resolved have launched a small collab where we analyze the styles of play implicit to generic game systems. I volunteered to talk about my experience with Cortex Prime:
www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2025/11...
www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2025/11...
generic play: revisiting cortex prime
Earlier this month, fellow blogger soopersmert (Random Ape Encounter) proposed a mini-collab to investigate the style of play implicit in generic roleplaying games. Soopersmert has already tackled the...
www.fluoriteguillotine.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
My blogging compatriots at Random Ape Encounter and To Be Resolved have launched a small collab where we analyze the styles of play implicit to generic game systems. I volunteered to talk about my experience with Cortex Prime:
www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2025/11...
www.fluoriteguillotine.com/blog/2025/11...
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We're at PAX, and we've got games! Featuring work by @strautmaskreplica.bsky.social, @julienlegault.bsky.social, @trueryankhan.bsky.social, and @summoningpress.bsky.social!
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We're at PAX, and we've got games! Featuring work by @strautmaskreplica.bsky.social, @julienlegault.bsky.social, @trueryankhan.bsky.social, and @summoningpress.bsky.social!
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🚨 ALERT 🚨 NIGHT DRIFTERS: SECOND STAGE SIGHTED AT @ipr.bsky.social AT PAX UNPLUGGED. YOU HAVE TO BUY A COPY (IT'S MY BIRTHDAY) (THAT'S THE RULE)
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🚨 ALERT 🚨 NIGHT DRIFTERS: SECOND STAGE SIGHTED AT @ipr.bsky.social AT PAX UNPLUGGED. YOU HAVE TO BUY A COPY (IT'S MY BIRTHDAY) (THAT'S THE RULE)
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Get you an APOCALYPSE FRAME at PAX!
We'll be in #Booth3701 at #PaxUnplugged2025 this weekend in Philadelphia.
Here's a list of the 238 games from 119 member-publishers we'll have:
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/PAX-Un...
Here's a list of the 238 games from 119 member-publishers we'll have:
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/PAX-Un...
November 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Get you an APOCALYPSE FRAME at PAX!
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At PAXU? Go visit @worldchamp.bsky.social and @theweeklyscroll.com at Booth #3956. Maybe pick up Blood Borg while there. 🩸
November 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
At PAXU? Go visit @worldchamp.bsky.social and @theweeklyscroll.com at Booth #3956. Maybe pick up Blood Borg while there. 🩸
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For a limited time, the Salvage Union Core Book + all 3 adventure modules, are available at Bundle of Holding for just $19.95! bundleofholding.com/presents/Sal...
Salvage Union Bundle
Salvager! This all-new Salvage Union Bundle presents Salvage Union, the rules-light post-apocalyptic tabletop roleplaying game from Leyline Press about ragtag pilots who scour the ruined wasteland in ...
bundleofholding.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
For a limited time, the Salvage Union Core Book + all 3 adventure modules, are available at Bundle of Holding for just $19.95! bundleofholding.com/presents/Sal...
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I love the genre mashup. Give me all the Golden Girls/Cthulhus and WWII/Draculas you've got.
But I'm also looking for non-mashups. Sometimes it feels like the industry has an allergy. Westerns without magic. Drama without aliens. Detectives without Cthulhu.
www.explorersdesign.com/one-genre-ga...
But I'm also looking for non-mashups. Sometimes it feels like the industry has an allergy. Westerns without magic. Drama without aliens. Detectives without Cthulhu.
www.explorersdesign.com/one-genre-ga...
Dare to Play it Straight
The rarest tabletop genre is the simplest one. A call for more anti-mashups.
www.explorersdesign.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I love the genre mashup. Give me all the Golden Girls/Cthulhus and WWII/Draculas you've got.
But I'm also looking for non-mashups. Sometimes it feels like the industry has an allergy. Westerns without magic. Drama without aliens. Detectives without Cthulhu.
www.explorersdesign.com/one-genre-ga...
But I'm also looking for non-mashups. Sometimes it feels like the industry has an allergy. Westerns without magic. Drama without aliens. Detectives without Cthulhu.
www.explorersdesign.com/one-genre-ga...
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I won't be at PAX U, but the good folks at Pandemonium will have my games there via the magic of IPR. Look for player-friendly horror engine Fear & Panic and weird worldbuilding game Dawn of the Orcs at booth 3701! Other RPG friends will have their games at the Sidequest Games booth!
#PaxU #PAX
#PaxU #PAX
November 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Ritual Deck combines the intensity of anime like Yu-Gi-Oh and the vibes of Atlus games with a foundation of the Carved from Brindlewood in a unique and, frankly, badass way!
Thanks to @drlemons.itch.io for trusting us to release RD through Zine Club. Check it out:
plusoneexp.com/products/rit...
Thanks to @drlemons.itch.io for trusting us to release RD through Zine Club. Check it out:
plusoneexp.com/products/rit...
Ritual Deck
PREPARE TO DUEL!!! In This Supernatural Trading Card TTRPG. In Ritual Deck, play as teenage card duelistspossessed by amnesiac spirits, solvingmysteries and resolving threats both supernatural and mun...
plusoneexp.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Ritual Deck combines the intensity of anime like Yu-Gi-Oh and the vibes of Atlus games with a foundation of the Carved from Brindlewood in a unique and, frankly, badass way!
Thanks to @drlemons.itch.io for trusting us to release RD through Zine Club. Check it out:
plusoneexp.com/products/rit...
Thanks to @drlemons.itch.io for trusting us to release RD through Zine Club. Check it out:
plusoneexp.com/products/rit...
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To those who want to know:
Yes. We have new shirts for Pax
Yes. Also have hats
Yes. Adam Vass of @worldchamp.bsky.social designed them
Yes. There is a companion zine by @aaronmfking.bsky.social
Yes. @gilarpgs.bsky.social has said multiple times "I love they way they feel on my skin"
Come get them
Yes. We have new shirts for Pax
Yes. Also have hats
Yes. Adam Vass of @worldchamp.bsky.social designed them
Yes. There is a companion zine by @aaronmfking.bsky.social
Yes. @gilarpgs.bsky.social has said multiple times "I love they way they feel on my skin"
Come get them
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
To those who want to know:
Yes. We have new shirts for Pax
Yes. Also have hats
Yes. Adam Vass of @worldchamp.bsky.social designed them
Yes. There is a companion zine by @aaronmfking.bsky.social
Yes. @gilarpgs.bsky.social has said multiple times "I love they way they feel on my skin"
Come get them
Yes. We have new shirts for Pax
Yes. Also have hats
Yes. Adam Vass of @worldchamp.bsky.social designed them
Yes. There is a companion zine by @aaronmfking.bsky.social
Yes. @gilarpgs.bsky.social has said multiple times "I love they way they feel on my skin"
Come get them
Get you an APOCALYPSE FRAME at PAX!
We'll be in #Booth3701 at #PaxUnplugged2025 this weekend in Philadelphia.
Here's a list of the 238 games from 119 member-publishers we'll have:
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/PAX-Un...
Here's a list of the 238 games from 119 member-publishers we'll have:
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/PAX-Un...
November 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Get you an APOCALYPSE FRAME at PAX!
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We'll be in #Booth3701 at #PaxUnplugged2025 this weekend in Philadelphia.
Here's a list of the 238 games from 119 member-publishers we'll have:
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/PAX-Un...
Here's a list of the 238 games from 119 member-publishers we'll have:
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/PAX-Un...
November 18, 2025 at 4:24 AM
We'll be in #Booth3701 at #PaxUnplugged2025 this weekend in Philadelphia.
Here's a list of the 238 games from 119 member-publishers we'll have:
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/PAX-Un...
Here's a list of the 238 games from 119 member-publishers we'll have:
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/PAX-Un...
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1. Great, let's do this
2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators
3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators
3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
November 18, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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eucatastrophic.itch.io/downrooted
I am Itchfunding my Cairn module in order to pay for editing and get physical copies! I have worked on this game for two years and I would appreciate everyone giving it a look, sharing it around, or even contributing to the fund!
Let's get this game done!
I am Itchfunding my Cairn module in order to pay for editing and get physical copies! I have worked on this game for two years and I would appreciate everyone giving it a look, sharing it around, or even contributing to the fund!
Let's get this game done!
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
eucatastrophic.itch.io/downrooted
I am Itchfunding my Cairn module in order to pay for editing and get physical copies! I have worked on this game for two years and I would appreciate everyone giving it a look, sharing it around, or even contributing to the fund!
Let's get this game done!
I am Itchfunding my Cairn module in order to pay for editing and get physical copies! I have worked on this game for two years and I would appreciate everyone giving it a look, sharing it around, or even contributing to the fund!
Let's get this game done!
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I'm planning on running some game demos at my booth at PAXU this weekend!
If you want to learn how to play Dragon Slayers or RUNE, stop by booth #3958!
If you want to learn how to play Dragon Slayers or RUNE, stop by booth #3958!
November 17, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I'm planning on running some game demos at my booth at PAXU this weekend!
If you want to learn how to play Dragon Slayers or RUNE, stop by booth #3958!
If you want to learn how to play Dragon Slayers or RUNE, stop by booth #3958!
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NULL_SPACE IS COMING
ZINE MONTH 2026
MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW SOON
ZINE MONTH 2026
MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW SOON
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
NULL_SPACE IS COMING
ZINE MONTH 2026
MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW SOON
ZINE MONTH 2026
MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW SOON