iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This has been a labor of love! What started as a small game hack has expanded over two years into a 200-page horror tome with a TON of moving pieces. It's our most ambitious game and it's not done, but this is a milestone. It's creepy and unsettling and I hope folks will read and play it!

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Turtlebun @turtlebun.com · 29/07/2026

Hi! We have been super not active on Bluesky 1. Because we’re bad at it & 2. Because we’ve been working on the public beta rules for our uncanny horror game, Escape from Wonderland. They’re ready! Read! Play! We’d love feedback and are thrilled to finally share them. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Escape from Wonderland: Rules Beta 0.5

ESCAPE from WONDERLAND RULES BETA 0.5 Before you begin: Dynamic beta: This document will be occasionally updated as we incorporate feedback into the game. We’ll include a changelog, but it's possibl...

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Turtlebun @turtlebun.com · 20/02/2026

Join us for an online playtest of Escape from Wonderland! We're running a four-session campaign on the following dates: Sunday 3/1, 12pm Thursday 3/5, 6pm Sunday 3/15, 12pm Saturday 3/21, 6pm (all times in EST) Send us a DM or reply if you're interested and available!

Escape from Wonderland: Playtest with us! 2 open slots for a March campaign.

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Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Not only do we get to design our first horror game, we also get to incorporate my dream/nightmare mechanic of losing symbolic teeth!

A snippet of a character sheet with a space to fill in a goal, to track ticket quantities, and a space with three teeth images that can be filled in.

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Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

New Design Doc today! In the episode @adrawnnovel.bsky.social and I talk about how even the ToC of a roleplaying game can help tell the game’s story and set the tone. open.spotify.com/episode/3Sfs...

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The Rules Tell a Story

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Turtlebun @turtlebun.com · 28/05/2025

The latest Design Doc is about epilogues! How do you end a game on the best possible note, while also letting the players pick the tune? Is it unbearable to introduce new rules at the end of a long session? Why do games need to end, anyway??

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Turtlebun @turtlebun.com · 14/05/2025

The latest episode of Design Doc is about how mechanics can swing from one extreme to the other. Adjusting your rules *just enough* is an art form in itself! You can find it here: pod.link/1298080097/e... ...or wherever you get your podcasts!

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LycanthrEppy @epidiah.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Heading into the final week of the Kickstarter with just under 15% to go!

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Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

New Design Doc today 🎧 Ep 91. Don’t Stop Making Art! I’ve been feeling disconnected from making art and my values after having to get a full time job. I sat down with @JoshuaACNewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy to talk about art as a nonnegotiable. It helped! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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Don’t Stop Making Art! (Feat. Joshua A.C. Newman)

Podcast Episode · Design Doc · 04/09/2025 · 1h

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Turtlebun @turtlebun.com · 21/03/2025

The latest Design Doc is about pacing in TTRPGs! We talk about session counts, story arcs, and how to linger on the best moments. You can listen to Design Doc wherever you download podcasts!

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Turtlebun @turtlebun.com · 27/02/2025

Our latest episode of Design Doc is about rewarding players with information. When making rules for intangible rewards, it's tough to make sure they'll match the mood at the table. We discuss and do some designing on the fly! Out now in all the podcast places 💡

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Turtlebun @turtlebun.com · 14/02/2025

Our latest episode of Design Doc is about rewards and prizes! We talk about the difference between character and player-level rewards, and do a little live design for claw machine prizes! Listen wherever you get podcasts! Or here, on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4lFH...

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Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Good morning! It’s my birthday and we have a new Design Doc up about Rewards and Prizes in roleplaying games! 🎁 Your character can be getting absolutely walloped while you as a player are like Hell Yea. Give it a listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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Rewards and Prizes

Podcast Episode · Design Doc · 02/12/2025 · 45m

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Turtlebun @turtlebun.com · 02/02/2025

Our latest episode of Design Doc is about perfection in art - what people expect of artists, and how we can define perfection for ourselves. You can find it here on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3R8N... Or listen wherever you get your podcasts 🎨

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Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

We made a dedicated account for Turtlebun news and updates. Nothing there yet but follow if you’d like to keep current with our things! @turtlebun.com

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Evan @adrawnnovel.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

A few stills for an animation I made

A black and white illustration of a mountain and forested valley with dark clouds overhead.

A black and white illustration of a cluttered bedroom, starkly lit from an opened door. A silhouetted bearded man stands in the doorway.

A black and white illustration of a forest clearing, with silhouetted trees in the background and densely rendered foliage in the foreground. A bearded man lies on the ground beside the remains of a campfire. He appears sickly or deceased.

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Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

One of the pieces of art @adrawnnovel.bsky.social made for Noirlandia that never made it into the book. It’s still one of my favorites and we’ve been trying to think of something we can do with it for years

Black and white image of a line-drawn city on a forced perspective grid. Above the city is an illustrated sketched skull surrounded by a circle of flower and root flourishes. Below the image is the title Noirlandia

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish

excerpt reads: "I hear stories about directors who scream at actors, or they trick them somehow to get a performance. And there are some people who try to run the whole business on fear. But I think this is such a joke -- it's pathetic and stupid at the same time.
When people are in fear, they don't want to go to work. So many people today have that feeling. Then the fear starts turning into hate, and they begin to hate going to work. Then the hate can turn into anger and people can become angry at their boss and their work.
If I ran my set with fear, I would get 1 percent, not 100 percent, of what I get. And there would be no fun in going down the road together. And it *should* be fun. In work and in life, we're all supposed to get along. We're supposed to have so much fun, like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. It's supposed to be great living; it's supposed to be fantastic."

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Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Our newest Design Doc is about navigation in games! It asks a question we’re always asking: “Do we need a mechanic for that?” The answer is Yes, and No, and Only if we want people to ride cursed amusement park rides. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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Going Places! (or, Navigation Mechanics in Games)

Podcast Episode · Design Doc · 12/11/2024 · 43m

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Marty Chodorek 🇨🇦 @mchodorek.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Every time a new episode of Design Doc drops, it’s like a balm for my soul. @hanbandit.bsky.social and @adrawnnovel.bsky.social have the best hearts and the most soothing voices. 🎲🤓

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Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The rise of itchio is so potent. Our games have gone from 2014 “vaguely unspecific fantasy sandbox” to try and carve out a niche in the margins of D&D to 2024 “highly specific gay farming sim where you play as frog & toad,” and to my great pleasure, that’s the one everyone wants to play! 🐸

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Evan @adrawnnovel.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

A kingdom sketch drawn for Questlandia

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Quinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Cannot tell you how great it is to see Turtlebun ( @adrawnnovel.bsky.social and @hanbandit.bsky.social ) back at it! It was great to see them and meet @willjobst.bsky.social and buy some of their great games !

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Hannah Shaffer @hanbandit.bsky.social · 08/12/2024