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Not Writing Games
@notwritinggames.bsky.social
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Writer and game designer. Neon Black | A Torch in the Dark | RIG | many many more! I love telling stories and hate capitalism!

Contact: notwriting.net
Support my work: https://www.patreon.com/notwriting
Get my games: notwriting.itch.io
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Hey Slugblaster fans! I'm helping make SCRAM CAT MAGAZINE, a Slugblaster fan zine! Got art, trippy fan fiction, or a small supplement you want to share with other fans of the Slugblaster TTRPG?

We're taking pitches until December 31st! Find out more and pitch here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Yellow, black, and white text surrounds a scared cat crossing dimensions on a hoverboard. The text reads "Scram Cat, upcoming Slugblaster fan zine, call for pitches, pitch deadline: December 31st, Art! Fiction! Supplements!"
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Welcome to the NUWESTPAC Seboard, the starting network in CARD DRIVES. In the real corpo goons fight for territory, while in cyberspace their chained dog WOTAN tears your world apart.

Wanna sling some drives to save the day?

Follow the Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Black and white map of a local network of severs, corporate businesses and a firewall protecting a fractal AI.
November 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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If you're anything like me you've got Magic the Gathering cards and fancy tarot and what not laying around.

In Card Drives those can become game pieces, adware cards that can be modified into powerful drives, and can inspire your own suits and new programs!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
A breakdown of what adware cards do in Card Drives, featuring a made up magic the gathering card called Card Goblin. It's a 1/1 that let's you draw 1 when you play it. It costs... 2 star mana???
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Celebrating this by having a 25%-off sale on all my stuff. Starts this Friday, the 28th!
Magenta and white text on a distressed black background says "Black Friday creator day sale 35% off November 28-December 3"
November 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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There are several hazards in CARD DRIVES, like ICE.

ICE cards have no suit, no value, and can't be modded. They clog up your deck and if you ever have 3 or more in hand, you flatline.

Find out more next week: www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Image of an isometric playing card called ice. Text around it shows how you get them, that they have no suit or value, and your represent them with jokers or other cards you can make yourself.
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Introduce yourself with four spaceships!
The Normandy SR1 from Mass Effect. The titular mothership from Homeworld Luthen Rael and his shop The Fondor from Andor The USCSS Nostromo from Alien
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Like any self-respecting hacker you will be customizing your deck as you play Card Drives. Cut, draw, and put stickers on your cards to improve their performance and unlock new programs.

The crowdfund goes live next week:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Art of an ace of spades playing card with cuts and modifications on it. These ram cards let you draw more cards as you play them, can have new suits, and different values.
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Words of encouragement from 3 years ago.
Words "There's more of us than them" written on the inside cover of a zine in felt marker.
November 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Culinary first: I made exactly enough pierogi filling for all the dough I made.
Photo of a large pot filled with cheesy mash potatoes. Photo of some light yellow dough in a large mixing bowl. Photo of two baking sheets covered in layers of pierogi on wax paper.
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Screenshot from the Letterboxd app showing my last 4 watched movies. Tron: Legacy (5 stars, rewatch) Thunderbolts (3 stars) Predator Badlands (4 stars) Hook (4 stars, rewatch)
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Thanks to whoever generously tipped while buying my Slugblaster supplement BIG SHINY SCORES, a collection of parties in and around the small town of Hillview.

I'm working on refurbishing that collection, imagining each as a poster, check it!

notwriting.itch.io/big-shiny-sc...
black and white art of a cartoon house next to a pool, styled like one of those street posters with the cut tabs you can pull at the bottom but instead of contact info it's snags and slams
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Watched Hook for the first time in a while and you know what fucking rules? Bob Hosksins as Smee in Hook.
Bob Hoskins as Mr Smee in Hook.
November 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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My therapist: the pet heating pad corgi is not real and can’t hurt you.

The Dead-Eyes Pet Heating Pad Corgi: I can see your sins.
Photo of the user manual for a pet heading pad with an unsettling illustration of a corgi on the cover.
November 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Many of us...
A custom MTG dungeon card called "The Game Design Dungeon" with the rooms laid out in rows going from top to bottom: Top layer - Brain Storm: Each player draws d6 cards, creates d6 treasure tokens, and loses d6 life. Second layer - Scope Creep: Each player gets d6 rad counters. - Test: Each player puts a permanent card from their hand into play. Third layer: - Collaborate: Target opponent becomes the monarch. - Kill Darlings: Goad each creature - Edit: Each player sacrifices a creature Fourth Layer - Deadline: All creatures enter with hate until the end of your next turn. - Iterate: Each player shuffles their graveyard into their deck. Final Layer - New Game: Each player gets an emblem that reads "At the beginning of your upkeep, clash with an opponent. If you win, your opponent takes d6 damage."
October 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Solve cold cases. Meet strange characters and stranger scenes. Survive your own bullshit, and probably get worse.

Kassandra King: Devil's Dice is out now.

Birthed from the External Containment Bureau.

Mechanics from @shawntomkin.bsky.social's Ironsworn.

notwriting.itch.io/kassandra-ki...
A page from the game describing clues, conspiracies, and contacts, along with polaroid photos of abstract things, a man in a suit, and a bloody hand. A two page spread from the game showing the prologue, rolling for your stats (name, health, gear, soul) and the contact associated with them. A polaroid photo of a cigarette in an ashtray is in the upper left. A two page spread showing two scenes from the game. Penthouse 55 and cult of glass, each have white text on dark photos. A two page spread of a character and a cold case in the game. Both have white text on dark photos backgrounds.
October 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Played some more Punk Magic the other day. Almost got my ass handed to me by a pack of Edge of Eternities.
Photo of some magic cards that have had stickers and other card parts affixed to them and a character sheet from the window player version of punk magic.
October 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Kassandra King: Devil's Dice comes out next week.

Navigate a neon-noir city full of occult nonsense and never enough cigarettes.
Two page spread from the Kassandra King: Devil's Dice game. On the left a photo of a woman in a leather jacket and bunny mask smoking, her eyes obscured with an overlay of white paint. The text describes a scene called Penthouse 55 and all the debauchery that can occur there. On the right a colour photo of someone with tattoos holding up a silver chain with an amulet at the end. This is a scene called the Cult of Glass, whose members see monsters in skyscrapers, and Kassandra can help solve mysteries involving them.
October 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Been tracking my RPG's played in 2025. At about 141 hours total across 16 games right now. Looking forward to putting together a year end review.

What are your years looking like?
Screenshot of a bar graph in Google Sheets. Hours of games played is the vertical axis, from 0-25. Games are on the horizontal axis, with 16 different games played so far. Time played goes from about 2 hours to about 23 hours.
October 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Itch is back.

All my games are on sale: itch.io/s/161618/39-...
black and red text on a creamy parchment background reads "39 damn years sale. 39%-off everything or $39 but it all"
October 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Got the print proof for Fire in the Spires. I’ve uh, got a few corrections to make 😅
Photo of a black TTRPG zine with white art of a stone tower on fire. There are several pink post it notes sticking out from the pages.
October 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Also doing a bundle with some other indie designers who have birthdays this month.

itch.io/b/3295/celeb...
Image showing a crow on top of a guillotine, text alongside the guillotine reads "The Fall (of the old world) Bundle, October 2025. The crow says "Celebrate Indie Creators" and the executioner at the bottom says "only $9.99"
October 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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New Blades in the Dark campaign starting tomorrow.
Photo of several playbooks and rules reference sheets from Blades in the Dark spread on grey bedding.
October 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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"You need great/expensive/eye catching cover art to be able to sell games."

My game Nasty Brutish & Long has a cover that is literally just words.

I have sold 100 copies. It is well-reviewed. I am very proud of it.

notwriting.itch.io/nasty-brutis...
Cover art of Nasty Brutish & Long showing the title in dark printed script with a bloody red ampersand. Below a that a revolution is described as if it was a broadsheet from the industrial revolution.
October 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Book Cover Artists, Quote Re Post with your book covers.

The cool thing about being a mostly one-person show is that in addition to doing layout and writing and design I also get to do cover art.
White woodcut style art of a burning tower with the title "Fire in the Spires" to the left with the subtitle in a one word column beneath reading "A single player tower climbing table top role playing game" all on a black background. Cover of Forge Horizons showing four planets in alignment above a person on a dark horizon. cover art for Killotine, showing a cybernetic corpse covered in magenta blood. Cover art for THE 55 showing a cyberpunk city with large megastructures in a hazy magenta sky.
October 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Celebrating The Fall (of the old world) with a TTRPG bundle featuring work with creators who have birthdays this month.

Support indie art, get a game about the old world dying, living forever, or being a bunch of bros trying to capture ghosts on film.

itch.io/b/3295/celeb...
Image with art of a crow on top of a guillotine, with an execution anda crowned victim below. Text at an angle next to the guillotine reads "The Fall (of the old world) bundle, October 2020. The crow is saying "celebrate indie creators!" and the executioner says "only $9.99)
October 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM