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Andrea (CuriousCat)
@curiouscat.bsky.social
Andrea Rick (she/her). Award-winning game designer (Indie Groundbreaker and others), graphic designer, editor, translator, and TTRPG publisher @plotbunnygames.bsky.social in Germany. 🐰 Queer femme, nonbinary, ADHD, chronically ill. DE + ENG 🌈
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Hurra, hurra, zu Ausgabe 15 gibt es wieder eine Live-Folge!

Nämlich am 24.11. um 19:30 Uhr über Zoom - Link posten wir kurz vorher. Es sind wieder mehrere Autor*innen dabei, die aus ihren Texten lesen werden. 😊Also Save the Date und seid dabei, wenn ihr mögt!
#GermanBookSky
November 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Hey y’all! Just in case you werent aware, I have a Kickstarter coming up in February. Want a #TTRPG about kids with powers on the run from danger? Back Extra Ordinary! #indierpg #TTRPGCommunity www.kickstarter.com/projects/jaz...
Coming soon: Extra Ordinary TTRPG Softcover Print Run
Physical copies of Extra Ordinary, a TTRPG about kids with extraordinary powers on the run from danger in the ordinary world!
www.kickstarter.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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"Schaut man rein auf die Korrektheit der Antworten, beinhaltet ChatGPT zu 51,5 Prozent, Copilot zu 45,4 Prozent, Gemini zu 50 Prozent und Perplexity zu 45,7 Prozent wesentliche Fehler oder Ungenauigkeiten."
www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/d...
Warum Künstliche Intelligenz nicht als Suchmaschine taugt
Die Hälfte der Deutschen verwendet mittlerweile ChatGPT & Co. als Google-Ersatz. Gleichzeitig arbeiten auch die klassischen Suchmaschinen immer mehr mit KI. Warum das ein Problem ist. Von Till Bücker.
www.tagesschau.de
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Did you know you can get four of my games at #PAXU at #Booth3701 from the good folks of @ipr.bsky.social?

👹 Against the Monster
🐰 Bunny, We Bought a Dungeon
🐱 Catcrawl
🌈 Viva la QueerBar

#PAXUnplugged #TTRPG

More info about the games: plotbunnygames.itch.io
November 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Da bei einem #DreieichCon Panel leider sehr viel Unsinn über Viva la QueerBar geredet wurde (von Leuten, die das Spiel weder gelesen noch gespielt haben 🙄), hier nochmal ein Thread mit allerlei korrekten Informationen zu diesem jurypreisgekrönten Bestseller-Rollenspiel... 😁⬇

#pnpde #VivaLaQueerBar
In "Viva la QueerBar" von Sandra Dahlhoff und @curiouscat.bsky.social erzählt ihr Slice-of-Life-Momente aus dem Leben einer Queerbar und ihrem Team.

Wo und wann eure Queerbar existiert, entscheidet ihr selbst! Ob historisch, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Jetztzeit - alles möglich!

#pnpde #3JahrePlotbunnyGames
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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The Micro Fiction Games Jam is running again!

This year's theme is Absorb, Repose, Recursion.

Can you write a recursive game about absorbing in just 280 characters? Now is the perfect time to find out!

Go to the website and read/ create games

microfictiongames.neocities.org

#MFGJ #TTRPG
Micro Fiction Games
microfictiongames.neocities.org
November 22, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Hier, bitte ⤵️

Bevor das nächste Mal wieder alle entsetzt sind über die Zustände im Osten: Das wird nicht besser, wenn denen niemand hilft, die den Rasssismus, die Behindertenfeindlichkeit, die Nazi-Gewalt abkriegen.

Bitte nehmt Euch die paar Minuten.
Die einzige allgemeine und unabhängige Antidiskriminierungsberatung in Brandenburg steht vor dem Aus. Der Grund: Das Land Brandenburg stellt die nötige Finanzierung nicht zur Verfügung.
Bitte unterzeichnet unsere Petition an die brandenburgische Landesregierung!
weact.campact.de/p/antidiskri...
November 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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it was written by two women and it really shows!!! very interested in the intricacies of relationships, both emotional and material. there were moments where i just had to pause to be like damn what a picture of a character you’ve created here. it’s really such a good time
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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do you guys know about consider the consequences, the first ever choose your own adventure book from 1930? it’s free on itch and i just read through a couple of routes with friends and had a blast, highly recommend geetheriot.itch.io/consider-the...
Consider the Consequences by geetheriot
The first ever Choose Your Own Adventure (style) book from 1930 is back! In Interactive Fiction form!
geetheriot.itch.io
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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There are losers out there using gen AI to create the most soulless thing that nobody ever even bothered to imagine

Get up and make that thing you're scared youre gonna mess up with. Practice that skill you fear you'll be bad at. Your worst attempt is miles above their "best" effort at foul mimicry
November 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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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...
November 18, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Did you know you can get four of my games at #PAXU at #Booth3701 from the good folks of @ipr.bsky.social?

👹 Against the Monster
🐰 Bunny, We Bought a Dungeon
🐱 Catcrawl
🌈 Viva la QueerBar

#PAXUnplugged #TTRPG

More info about the games: plotbunnygames.itch.io
November 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Grippe-Impfung 2025 ✅
Covid-Impfung 2025 ✅

Auch dieses Jahr wieder im praktischen Doppelpack, weil ich das letztes Jahr besser vertragen habe, als beides einzeln.

Kriege ich eigentlich was Leckeres umsonst, wenn ich 10x die gleiche Impfung voll habe? 😆
November 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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These real humans are raising $40,000 to provide health benefits to staff and volunteers. Info below on how to support the Scarleteam as they make health CARE accessible for health EDUCATORS.
Scarleteen is, has been, and always will be 100% people powered! Never AI, no way, no how, only real articles written by real humans, and real direct services provided by real people without bots or other automations. Here’s a promise from us: we never have been and never will be AI.
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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No, using AI generated stuff as a "placeholder" on your crowdfunding campaign is not OK either.

If the visuals are THAT important to getting your project funded, then you need to pay a person up front for those key visuals and deliver a consistent end product to your backers.
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Carved in Stone is officially out!

In this comprehensive setting guide you'll be able to see, touch, taste, hear and smell your way through everything that modern-day scholars currently know of the enigmatic culture of the Picts, from the perspective of someone living in the late 7th Century.
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Cover reveal for Mud Ghost Estate Redux! 👻
Mud Ghost Estate is a TTRPG inspired by folklore and urban legends of Hong Kong, where you play as teenagers in the 90s exploring a haunted public housing estate.
Launching soon on Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I'm posting this because I don't want freelance artists to get shafted by people who don't know how this works. If a publisher (especially a small press publisher!) is asking for copyright transference without paying you correctly for that - DO NOT WORK WITH THEM. They DO NOT need to 'own' the work
November 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Ich habe "Critter Combo" von @curiouscat.bsky.social gespielt und Hieronimouse Shrike gebaut, der eigentlich nur seine Korrespondenzen lesen möchte. Es ist ein cooles Solo Spiel bei dem ein Geschöpf in Collagen entsteht.
Auch aus dem Barcosa Game Jam.

plotbunnygames.itch.io/critter-comb...

#pnpde
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Noch 45 Minuten! #pnpde
Letzte Runde! Nur noch 1 Stunde, dann fegen wir durch und spülen die letzten Gläser und Teller!

Noch habt ihr also Zeit, reinzukommen und euch euer Exemplar #Stewpot mitsamt tollen Extras zu sichern!

Letzte Chance, das Crowdfunding zu unterstützen: www.gameontabletop.com/cf5701/stewp...

#pnpde
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Mit dem Minispiel "Der Lauf der Zeit" beendet ihr eure Spielrunde. Eure Figuren haben mit der Taverne ein neues Zuhause gefunden.

Ihr blickt zurück auf die Zeit seit eurer Ankunft hier. Wie ist euer Leben jetzt?

#Stewpot im Crowdfunding unterstützen: www.gameontabletop.com/cf5701/stewp...

#pnpde
November 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Und schon erreicht! 🎉💖

Mehr offizielle Bonusziele für #Stewpot gibt es von mir nicht - aber 13.000 € sind ja auch einfach so ein schönes Ziel, dem sich bis 22 Uhr noch weiter genähert werden kann! 😁

Kurz nach Halloween ist die 13 ja auch sicher noch eine Glückszahl... 1️⃣3️⃣🍀

#pnpde
Ich habe heute noch schnell ein letztes #Stewpot-Bonusziel dazugepackt, weil die Kampagne so gut läuft: Bei Erreichen gibt es noch mehr Geld für zukünftige Projekte von Plotbunny Games! 🐰📚

Es fehlen nur noch 181 € - das schaffen wir doch noch, oder?
www.gameontabletop.com/cf5701/stewp...

#pnpde
Stewpot (Plotbunny Games)
Crowdfunding: Stewpot (Plotbunny Games)
www.gameontabletop.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM