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Hitchhiker Dave

@hitchhikerdave.bsky.social

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CS Student (He/Him)
Hobbyist Video & TTRPG Dev
Amatuer Artist
Everything 100% Human Made

Check out my stuff here:
https://linktr.ee/mrhitchhikerdave

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Hitchhiker Dave @hitchhikerdave.bsky.social · Apr 12

‪I've been slowly plinking away at making a Sokoban Dungeon Crawler. After a final round of polishing, you can play my new game for free!
#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #godot

Link: mrhitchhikerdave.itch.io/sokoban-crawl

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xkl

@xkl.bsky.social

November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM

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elmcat

@elmc.at

Spent the last month mapping the blogosphere by its links. The graph is finally ready

Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map

What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?

elmc.at/mapping-the-...

To check out the graph directly follow this link:

graph.elmc.at

Mapping the Blogosphere

An interactive graph of TTRPG blogs, showing who links to whom, how communities change over time, plus stats and how it all works.

elmc.at

November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM

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Rob Donoghue

@rdonoghue.bsky.social

I really don't like anything about D&D's alignment system, but I appreciate its power as a shorthand, and I'd love to do something that could work similarly, and this is a swing at that.
walkingmind.evilhat.com/2025/11/23/o...

Oops, All Heroes

Caveat before all of this begins – the material I’m about to use is sourced from a psychology paper on values which were used as the source for the diagram in a Common Cause article. I …

walkingmind.evilhat.com

November 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM

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Eduardo Valdés-Hevia 👁️

@valdevia.art

Today is my birthday! 🎂
If you like my work and want to make my day, I only ask that you share my art and stories with someone who might enjoy them :)
Or trick your gullible friend for a minute. That's also a good one.

$A single human skull lies on the overgrown floor. It has many faces, eyes, noses, repeating in a fractal pattern. From the cracks in the bone, a small fractal flower emerges. The water behind swirls in shimmering patterns.$ A picture taken from the floor of a hospital room. In the foreground, a person lies on the floor. Behind its head, their spinal cord, brain and eyes tumble outside, appearing to slither like a snake.

A picture taken from the floor of a hospital room. In the foreground, a person lies on the floor. Behind its head, their spinal cord, brain and eyes tumble outside, appearing to slither like a snake.

In the far distance, way behind the mountains, a face that is too large to comprehend looks back at you, eyes wide open.

A large 747 aircraft flies low close to a runway on a foggy day. The plane is completely dilapidated, with a missing cockpit area, several large holes in the fuselage and destroyed motors. It is surrounded by a coat of black smoke.

November 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM

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くりむん

@moffumofu0000.bsky.social

November 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM

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elmcat

@elmc.at

Added a community detection algorithm to the data and it found five clusters.

The layout now forms a pentagram unintentionally fitting for this little satanic panic hobby.

Here's a fun scroll through the years

November 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM

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@mindstorm.bsky.social

I blogged my musings about making little micro scenarios, check it out:

www.mindstormpress.com/pocket-sized...

Pocket-Sized Powder Kegs

A framework for building powder keg scenarios.

www.mindstormpress.com

November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM

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Galen Pejeau

@nightjargames.bsky.social

Boundless Space art for you all today, as I can't share commission work, just yet.

I'm thinking about putting some bright holographic billboards around the asteroid belt's little boomtown station. What kind of far future amenities do you all think that Railhead should have on offer?

A wheel shaped space station in bright yellow and black stripes. The text box proclaims it to be "Railhead Station" an asteroid belt boomtown.

November 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM

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Galen Pejeau

@nightjargames.bsky.social

Everytime I go to make a small game, I feel like I've got to give you all some really decent art to look at.

-and then I end up drawing the individual windows on a space city. This is going to take a minute.

A wheel-shaped space station with a long spire/antenna coming out the top. The text box declares it to be "Railhead Station" for asteroid miners.

November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM

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davi

@davi-remastered.bsky.social

A humanoid being casting some a magic spell with one hand and holding a book with the other. They're wearing a big spherical helmet and formal clothes.

November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM

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Kadabura

@kadabura.bsky.social

Nothing Feels Real Anymore

November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM

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Hitchhiker Dave

@hitchhikerdave.bsky.social

Happy Halloween!
In the mood for some Sci-Fi Horror? Wanna slot in some Ghostly encounter for an existing adventure? Then I have the thing for you!
wanderingdiejack.blogspot.com/2025/10/runn...

#ttrpg #scifi #rpg

Running Psychic Ghosts

Running Ghost Encounters for scifi / space games

wanderingdiejack.blogspot.com

November 1, 2025 at 2:42 AM

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Evil Bat Witch

@evilbatwitch.cryptoanarchy.network

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.