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Alder (one of them)

@alder--s.bsky.social
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TTRPG/Videogame/Board game dev (sometimes)

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Alder (one of them) @alder--s.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
With way less spare time than I'd like, I've completed my entry for the Marathon game jam! First go at making a slightly fancy layout, so in that context I'm pretty happy with it. It's also the first time I make a game where spoilers are a thing. It's a strange feeling. alder-s.itch.io/phobos-2
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Phobos-2 by alder-s
A Marathon-inspired one-shot ttrpg
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Alder (one of them) @alder--s.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you haven't given a look to @sleepergames.bsky.social 's games yet, you should. They're a ton of fun and have really neat weird-ish concepts. If I had to recommend one, I'd say Red Tether, but you can't go wrong with any I've tried. Hell, Hyperspace Dogfight inspired the first videogame I made.
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Geoff Engelstein - The Universe Explained with Cookie out now! @gengelstein.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One of my all-time favorite rules, from Pea Ridge (1980). The designer's great-great-grandfather fought in the battle, and if his unit takes damage you roll a die to see if he survives. If he dies, the designer is never born, and the game doesn't exist, and so automatically ends in a draw.
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Alder (one of them) @alder--s.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Submission to the 2026 one-page jam is done! I'm pretty happy with this one I think. I have no idea if it'd work, but I'm happy! alder-s.itch.io/cracks-in-th...
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Cracks in the mirror by alder-s
A ttrpg for an increasing number of players
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Alder (one of them) @alder--s.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
For reasons unknown even to me, two days ago I just decided to start photobashing characters for the gun wizards project. So now I have a new temporary front cover.
Three characters (two in vaguely 19th century clothes, one in long elaborate robes) holding firearms. At the tip of each barrel, halos of various colors emanate from the weapons.
Above it all, the title of the game: Gun Wizards.
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Minærva McJanda 🔜Metatopia @minahoneybat.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
New release! The Illuminate is a delver class for @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social's HEART: The City Beneath, all about looking for the true sun. Not the one burning in the sky, but the one that brings about impossible colors and true enlightenment.
A precarious rock path leading up to a glowing sun haloed in red, against a dark ink wash background.The class' intro text:
There is a sun in the sky, and it brings us life – but it is not the true sun. Stare at it and then look away, and the truth will begin to unfold across your mind’s eye in impossible colors: stygian blue, self-luminous red, hyperbolic orange. That’s a start.
Go deeper. Into the mystery, yes, but also literally. Stare at the sun. Read the Spire’s doctrines. Learn the truths of the surface world and fill your mind with their light. And then: go deeper.
Down into the depths. Where the light of the sun cannot blind you. Where the light of truth cannot constrain you. Find the light that can only be seen against the deepest blackness. Find the seasons that can only exist with the heart’s pulsing. Find the divinity that is too real to exist among the constraints of the surface world.
Drink deep of the dark, Illuminate. And then ascend.
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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This rule? In the RPG Zephyr? Owns
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Alder (one of them) @alder--s.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Game design lesson of the day: if an ability lacks spice, make everyone explode at the end.
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Minærva McJanda 🔜Metatopia @minahoneybat.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
RELEASING TODAY: GlitchHeart Vermin: A TTRPG of desperate heists, cyberpunk grime, and weaponized neurodivergence. Available and playable now, and it'll only get better over time: minahoneybat.itch.io/glitchheart-...
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GlitchHeart Vermin by Minærva McJanda
Brain-breaking cyberpunk
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Alder (one of them) @alder--s.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Every month and a half or so, I get the sudden urge to add charged up ultimate attacks to my game, despite them not fitting into the design all that well. The appeal is just too much.
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Alder (one of them) @alder--s.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
No idea if I'll use this a lot, but I'll at least leave you all with the header for my current project.
Text reading "GUN WIZARDS - Elite missions in a post-industrial fantasy world"
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