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Eileen Kai Hing Kwan 🦇 @whereiseileen.bsky.social · 10h

Icarus and the Sun 🌞🪶🕯️🪽 (I’m hoping to find time to finish the collection and draw a Medusa and Theseus and the Minotaur as well 💛)

My illustration of the Greek Myth Icarus and the Sun. This is the moment Icarus realises his doom due to his arrogance. He’s flying upwards towards the Sun, depicted as a woman’s face with sun rays as long trailing hair. His wings have large melted droplets of wax and feathers are falling away into the ocean below him. He cranes his neck upwards toward the Sun’s face, she is crying for him, their lips almost touch before his incoming death.

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sam “ludonarrative disinterest” sorensen @samsorensen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

[rings bell] theoryslop! theoryslop! come get yer theoryslop while it's still hot!

one page. header reads "RPG DESIGNER THEORYSLOP ALIGNMENT CHARTS & SHEET." gray text under the header reads "You have 20 points to assign to each stat array, Pendragon-style. For tri- or otherwise multi-polar arrays, express the stats as ranges, e.g. “Gamist 1–7 / Dramatist 8–9 / Simulationist 10–20.”
subheaders followed by lines for writing read: "Designer: / Project: / Link:"
subheader reads "Binary Traits," followed by a list of silly game studies paired descriptors and space to write stats: "Ludologist / Narratologist // Game-as-Activity / Game-as-Object // Proceduralist / Anti-Proceduralist // Diegetic / Endogenous // Suitsian / Non-Suitsian // Closed Lusory Goal / Open Lusory Goal // Toy-Game / Meta-Game // Character-Locked / Authorial // Problem-Solving / Story-Telling // Rulebooks / Adventures."
subheader reads "Special Twinned Binary Traits (the Bartle Zone)," followed by gray text reading "Assign 20 points to each axis, but make a single roll when testing the combined traits." following is a two-axis chart, north-south reading "Social / Non-Social" and west-east reading "Aggressive / Passive."
in the second column, a subheader reads "Multi-Polar Traits" followed by shapes with stats at their corners: triangle, "Dramatist / Gamist / Simulationist"; square, "Agon / Alea / Mimicry / Ilinx"; hexagon, "Classic / OSR / Trad / Nordic larp / Neotrad / Storygames"; square, "Gamer / Actor / Socialite / Immersive."
a subheader reads "Skills," followed by a big list of 32 skills, with space for stats next to each: Academia, Acting, Art Direction, Blog, Cartography, Copyediting, Credit Rating, Day Jon, Game Studies, Graphic Design, Illustration, Layout, Line Editing, Livestream, Marketing, Networking, Operations, Organizing, Podcast, Printing, Production, Proofreading, Shitpost, Shortform Video, Social Media, Thirst Trap, Video Essay, Web Dev, Writ. (Adventure), Writing (Lore), Writing (Rules), Other: "
gray text reads "Sam Sorensen, September 2026"

same theoryslop designer sheet as before, this time filled out in handwritten green, for me, Sam. I skew towards problem-solving, goal-driven play, as well as towards adventures, imaginary worlds, and simulationism. the notable inclusions in my skills lists are a +6 in game studies, a +4 in academic, blog, layout, line editing, and adventure-writing, and a +2 in "museum," my "other" skill

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Shux @shux-44.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Post dawg now!

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zach | J. Stephenson @strawbeehouse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

hi i need money so im opening up discounted commissions! art: $5 for a doodle; $15 for a loose sketch; $20 for a polished sketch; $25 for flat color; $30 for painterly colors upcharge of $3 for nsfw doodles, and 20% for all other nsfw art pieces the analog art is for examples of my style

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional is $5.39 on Steam buff.ly/mDG1HPE

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 29/09/2026

It's nice to see a 'cozy' game in a setting that doesn't sugarcoat things. Ecological collapse, crime and stress abounds, but you also get to run a street corner restaurant or nightclub and hang out with the regulars. Word is this one's a performance hog, though.

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George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

found in a ditch on the way to the station digital painting

of iron bacteria underwater with conker leaves

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Sasha Reneau @22to22.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thinking abt Say When, which I first played when I had not met many interlocking systems yet and was also extremely unmedicated kait_zilla.itch.io/say-when

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Sasha Reneau @22to22.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I do not want to hear about camera moves in your audio medium.

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Merely Matt is crowdfunding I NEED A MIRACLE s2 @merelymatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Let's go steal a god. Jeff Stormer and I play Spindlewheel: The Mountain, telling the story of a double reverse combination divine heist/jailbreak. A blessed heist crew team up to bust their bountiful god out of its taxonomic prison and claim the power to BECOME CRAB. pca.st/episode/45fc...

A mountain-shaped spread of Spindlewheel oracle cards including Mermaid's Purse, Prince of Fate, Dandelion Seed, Fogbank, Princess, Tender of Blooms, Luck, Duchess, Bandit, and Ferryman's Toll.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Insomnia" by concept and visual artist Vincenzo Lamolinara

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

COMING SOON: In prelaunch w/ Violent Delights, another game inspired by Shakespeare: Mousetrap is a cursed game-within-a-game that won’t go back into its box. It’s game night. You and your friends have gathered to play a Hamlet-inspired game manuscript from 1983. But there’s a catch…

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Coming soon: Mousetrap & Violent Delights

A cursed game-within-a-game that won't go back into its box, and a chess-based RPG about Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.

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Plus One Exp @ 🔜 Metatopia @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think we should stop calling them safety tools and start calling them calibration tools. Safety is only a partial aspect (possibly an illusory one), but all of them are helping calibrate for the type of experience we want to have around the table. Calibrate your play.

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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Formal affordances are the elements that pull a player toward certain actions, they “cry out” for the player to take those actions. Material affordances are the actions a system actually allows the player to take. Agency occurs when the two are in balance. (Mateas 2001)

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Jax Romana, Bimbo Reprobate ✨🌹🌈 @rufflejax.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

introduce your loved ones to Ursula K LeGuin early so they have plenty of beautiful and profound quotes on hand when they inevitably find themselves in a rumination spiral in the bath of a Monday night

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Sasha Reneau @22to22.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

not playing a game at all is better than playing at a bad table. if it sucks, truly, sincerely, hit da bricks

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look

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emil aka werewolf @werewolf.mov · 17/04/2026

please share - offering some 3.5 hours single character full body print commissions at a flat rate of $50 each, with the option to extend to 7 hours for $100 total. NSFW is OK. DM to claim a slot. no payment required until after sketch approval. more samples @ : drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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Ailantd Sikowsky @ailantd.com · 27/09/2026

Flying van.

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Sasha Reneau @22to22.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Artist! Quote with your most cursed artwork 🖤

a portrait of a brown haired man with two overlapping puppies for a face.

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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of my favorite and most effective design patterns is "tell the player exactly what you're gonna do to them, then do it." You can be SIGNIFICANTLY meaner to the player if you simply tell them ahead of time that that's exactly what you'll be doing, and also the suspense of the warning is a delight

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WHODUNNIT @whodunnitvn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

happy to share that WHODUNNIT was selected to be part of the Game Devs of Color Expo! 🥳🫶 go check out all the amazing games that are part of it in the official Steam sale: store.steampowered.com/sale/gdocexp... thanks for the support @gdocexpo.com 💚 that's very kind

Participation announcement for the 2026 Game Devs of Color Expo, featuring WHODUNNIT's key art

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Making the DLC for I Am Your Beast required breaking the game a little bit first – and it's because of the invisible work that pops up when players bring their own wonderful, horrible logic to your game's world!! store.steampowered.com/app/4578110/...

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Sasha Reneau @22to22.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

does anyone remember the name of an indie game where you're helping someone untangle a long horrible thread by pressing and holding keyboard keys in sequence? you end up in these awful contorted positions, it's great

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Tapling: Queer Zines 🏳️‍🌈 @taplingzines.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Since today is an International Day Against Trafficking, we wanted to talk about ethical production of art & merch. All our projects are co-led by a trafficking survivor, so this is really important to us! We also hope this inspires you to follow these guidelines in your own art too. 🧵

A graphic showing digital mockups of the merch from the Moments of Euphoria project. Text reads, "Ethical merch production: tips for creating merch without forced labor and negative environmental impact. Tip 1: Search printing companies for 'forced labor' and 'modern slavery' policies. Tip 2: Ask companies directly if they avoid forced labor. Tip 3: Consider environment-friendly alternatives (paper merch, paper sleeves, wooden pins). Tip 4: Buy local whenever possible! Share to help other artists create more ethical merch!"

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Sasha Reneau @22to22.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

finding "how do i get better at art?" to be a v frustrating question to field these days. well, is your problem philosophy or draftsmanship? getting an answer for one when you're asking about the other is counterproductive.

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Dr. Kill Everyone (Eclipse) @eclipse.gay · 11/09/2026

I just released a new, free, system agnostic playbook called "The Cuck"! darlingdemoneclipse.itch.io/cuck

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The Cuck by Darling Demon Games

A system agnostic playbook

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Hampus Flink 🐷💢 @hampus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In the near future the only viable, unshittified and affordable gaming platforms will be Linux machines without dedicated graphics cards, and that, my friends, is when point and click adventure games will finally make their comeback

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Latest from me for @lataco.bsky.social x @lapublicpress.bsky.social: Los Angeles County Supervisors voted 4-1 to delay the vote on a motion that’d publicly identify deputy gangs within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. lapublicpress.org/2026/09/lasd...

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LA County supervisors delay vote to identify deputy gangs in sheriff's department

A new proposal is the latest effort to address LA's notorious deputy gang problem.

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 24/09/2026

the reporting on this stuff is a form of pareidolia. all this is explicable by a set of automatons stochastically exploring a state space and host environment with whatever predictive capacity an LLM affords them. absolutely no intent is required, they do not "know" what they are doing

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Sasha Reneau @22to22.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i wish i liked watching livestreams. lots of people doing extremely cool shit on twitch including in the AP scene. idk what changed!

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You ever see a post that, for professional reasons, you want to print out and laminate

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

L.A. TACO embraced the puppet within and let out their inner child to enjoy this year’s Bob Baker Day! 🎭🎪🎠🤹🏽‍♂️ Hosted by the Bob Baker Marionette Theater, this annual event could be considered the most whimsical day of the year. 🎥: Michael McDermit and Lauren Bethke

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Random Bummer Generator @unknownstory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this is ALSO Gavin Newsom

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Auk @aukkenopsia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

star gazer

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

at the end of the day, its US law that is gonna be twisting ANY platform into complying panicking does nothing. if you want to make a diference, contact your senators and demand they vote no on KOSA, as an example of one such bill www.badinternetbills.com

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Bad Internet Bills

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

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Helioscope @helioscopepdx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Now accepting applications for the Helioscope mentorship program, January- April 2027. Details at: helioscopepdx.com/mentorship

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Mentorship — Helioscope

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Kelly Brack @kellybrack.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The Question

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