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Ben M | Periapt Games
@periaptgames.bsky.social
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🦆 New Zealand indie thing-maker, he/him
🦆 TTRPG, RPG, D&D, art
🦆 I make #devlog posts!
🦆 I blog! bit.ly/periaptb
🦆 Weird wizards from wiki articles! bit.ly/weirdwiz
🦆 Psychic detective puzzle duo game! bit.ly/SMAL
🦆 Games, books, resources! bit.ly/periaptg
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"I eat vegetables in case I'd feel worse otherwise"
November 16, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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QUAIL BEFORE ME
Quail wandering around out on the deck, viewed through a screen door
November 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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A golden era, of sorts

(okay not all of these were shareware I guess but anyway)
These are the weird 90s shareware games / Which I blame for my aesthetic sense. I see these colours on the back of my eyelids. (Picture of gameplay)
November 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Things to do today: Manifest oneself in reality.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/periaptgames/overzealous-your-cult-has-no-chill/
What you need: A dozen competent, dedicated worshippers. What you've got: cultists who hold grudges, have heretical ideas, are brainwashed or very creepy.
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Why is wired dot com threatening me
Text: You've read your last free article.
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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I've been listening to a lot of classic Canadian folk rock for their upbeat island themes
Album cover of "Give Yourself a Wumpa" by the Crash Test Bandicoots. A plush Crash offers up a fruit.
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Oh no sorry I'm not pondering you, I just have resting wizard face
Just the part of the 'wizard pondering orb' image which shows the pondering.
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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It's new look November
#newmayornewme
Cartoon of new retro neon pfp throwing old black and white pfp in the garbage can. Text says 'upgrabe' [sic].
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Some pages in progress from #Overzealous for #WIPWednesday. I'm going for minimalist colour & maximalist cartoon mayhem!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...

#Kickstarter #devlog
Page spread. Title pages for Overzealous in black and white with a touch of red. Page spread. Chapter heading: Orison. Picture of altar. Example of play. Page spread. Section laying out the stats: Imminence, Cultists, Divergence, Fervour, Monstrosity. Winning and losing the game.
November 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Overzealous: The game where it's tough to be a benevolent god just trying to become manifest in reality

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Gru plan meme. Be a kind-hearted outsider god. Have grand plans for being summoned into the world. Your cultists do nothing but violently squabble.
November 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Did some work on the stat tracker for Overzealous (my cartoonish cult mayhem game). Really trying to find that line between 'busy' and 'preposterous'

#Overzealous #devlog
Black-and-white page with numeric paths for five stats to follow: Imminence, Cultists, Divergence, Fervour, Monstrosity. Numerous strange embellishments, such as a tentacle windings its way around one path.
October 30, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Book cover displayed against partial spread of pages.
October 29, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Example 2

After these changes, you had three bad stats (Fervour, Divergence, and Monstrosity) which you want to keep a lid on and two good stats (Imminence, Cultists) which you need to get high enough that your cult can manifest you in reality.

If a bad stat exceeded 20, it's game over. They crept
Cult-related symbols for the five stats. For example, Fervour is represented by a happy cultist with a dagger.
October 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Old architectural diagram with monks; one sitting, one standing with hands on hips. Text says: "1. Getting up to go to the kitchen. 2. Trying to remember why I'm in the kitchen."
September 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Okay last ones. Including my favourite, Solomon Bigwig the gossip retailer. (1892 #font jokes from a catalogue of type)
Solomon Bigwig, Retailer of Gossip. Counsellor in Matters the most Frivolous or Momentous Requirements: Cash and credulity Summary of trickery - 25 instructions in gerrymandering Quixotic tiltings, peculiar and original
September 27, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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More fun from the 1892 font catalogue
Whitewashing Association: Tarnished Reputations Polished Speedily Daintily Attired Hobgoblins Butterine & Sausage: Furnishers of indigestible edibles useful to entertain numerous unwelcome visitors
September 27, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Type foundry catalogue from 1892 having a giggle
Type specimen. DISTINGUISHED DISINTERESTEDNESS - Skimpole Mundivagant, Esq. Devotes his Undivided Energies to the Friendless Type specimen. RARE DELICACY - Kidneys Rolled in Sawdust Type specimen. POCKET BATTERY Thoroughly Paralyzes Pickpockets
September 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Book title with golden embellishments. Steps to a Hero.
September 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Messing around colourising grays with gradient maps.
Green lich knight with red burning sword. Stylised colours. Original art via Adobe Stock.
September 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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We need to Bing back the Crosbytop
Bing Crosby themed laptop computer from Homestuck. Sadly never actually a real thing.
September 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Spring has sprung.
(Peach blossom ✅, plum blossom ✅, plumcot blossom ✅)
Peach blossom. Close-up of pink flowers. Plum blossom. Middle distance shot of white flowers, trees, edge of paddock with sheep. Plumcot blossom. White flowers on lichen-hung tree against sky.
September 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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I recently made HOARDING, a one-page RPG about being a hoarder and maybe finding what you were looking for: periapt-games.itch.io/hoarding

I also currently have a 33% off sale running on lots of game books and resources! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

#selfpromosaturday
The title "HOARDING" set against enormous amounts of cramped text.
September 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Lots more tweaks. Plus I've been working on my tiny 8-page zine to go with it!
#devlog #Overzealous
Four table entries showing things happening at a cult. Cartoon artwork by Gordy Higgins.
September 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Having fun just arranging groups of these little guys
#devlog #Overzealous
Eight bloodthirsty hooded cartoon cultists. They have sickles, staves, bows, daggers, books, severed heads, etc.
September 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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In the accompanying adventure, goblins are stealing brainwaves to fuel up a spaceship in a warlock's lair.

This takes place in the game's setting: "Vanth, a fantasy world of adventure". It comes, of course, with a map.
Partial map in cartoon style. Landmarks include The Limb Traders, Dino Island, Amazon And Wooky Freeholds, and Wonderlands.
September 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM