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CJ Tucker

@crackerjackalope.bsky.social
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Writer, game designer, welsh, queer they/them crackerjackalope-games.itch.io

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 55m
15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:
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Clastic Artistic @clasticartistic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A selection of stuff that has gone through my flatbed scanner for use as texture assets.
Elastic bands on a flatbed scanner (photocopier)

Find this in Scanned Textures - PlasticsDried moss on a flatbed scanner (photocopier)

Find this in Scanned Textures - OrganicsSteel washers on a flatbed scanner (photocopier)

Find this in Scanned Textures - MetalsShredded paper on a flatbed scanner (photocopier)

Find this in Scanned Textures - Papers
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NYAHALLO 🐈‍⬛ @nyahalloshop.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Pumpkin garden sketches 🎃 Pick your fave!
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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 6h
⚡️IT’S HERE!⚡️ Ruined temples, living myths, riddles and enigmas, Medieval mystics, a gas-lit world of secret societies and energy grids, psychedelic revivals, and sonic experiments at the City of the Dead. 👉🏼 Gaze into the eyes of the sphinx and pre-order The Mystery Issue on helleborezine.com
A woman standing by a sphinx, the wind beating her cape
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Sticky Doodler 🖍️ Color Jam @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every piece of art in Color Jam is lovingly crafted by artist Erin Laue. We also carefully numbered each to give strategic depth. In fact, from a designer POV I think of them more like "levels." For example, numbering spaces in the same object the same is tricksy! youtube.com/shorts/dlkK5...
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Tricky "terrain" in this color-by-number game
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tor-in-the-mud @toothandshore.bsky.social · 23h
Kraldum: a solo fantasy mudlarking RPG is live on Gamefound! create your mudlark, descend to the foreshore, uncover treasures & ancient mysteries, & do your best to survive. here begins a megathread where i go on about this thing until all targets are obliterated 💙 gamefound.com/en/projects/...
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Kraldum: Solo Fantasy Mudlarking RPG by tooth & shore - Gamefound
Go down to the shore below the city. Collect what you can. Survive what lurks there and beat the rising waters to make it home.
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Art SilverGlass ~ Sophie Grunnet @silverglass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
👉 Free Art for Three Days 👈 I’m not pointing any fingers...but if you are, then I have made the perfect stock art bundle ^^ Free download for 3 days. Free for personal and commercial use. www.patreon.com/SilverGlass/... or ko-fi.com/s/f9cdee8279 Tell your friends! #ttrpg #stockart #lineart
Shows 8 different pointing hands icons, mostly in fantasy/medieval theme. All made by me.
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Mærgeist @miregeist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Doggy wizard
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Thursday Garreau @keftiu.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
i've had this idiotic joke in my head for way too long and needed to exorcize it
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rock robster @plounce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#catcrumb
a simple drawing of a black and white cat looking irritated, captioned "i am angry because you paid a lot of money to save my life. it disrupted my routine."
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🪼Jellyfishlines 🔜 PaxU🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io · 28/09/2026
STARTING AT 5PM EST TODAY! I'm having a sale on some of my biggest hits to pay for PaxU mystery expenses that may pop up, any outstanding debt I owe to folks that have helped me out, and taxes to start the year (if I'm lucky)! Yes, Augury is in here. :3 itch.io/s/202366/pax...
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PAX U SALE by Jellyfishlines
A bundle by Jellyfishlines, $23.68 for 5 games
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Ellian @thisisellian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'M DONE My little game for #FallingBlockJam is finished Well, sort of. It has no audio, half the features I wanted, is incredibly poorly optimized... but it's cute! ellian.itch.io/longestini
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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tor-in-the-mud @toothandshore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
can't believe it's tomorrow 😱 excited and nervousssssss
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Francesca Baerald @francescabaerald.com · 26/09/2026
Maps come in many forms, one of which is my Map token for Magic: The Gathering 😊
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CJ Tucker @crackerjackalope.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ahhh this is so cool!! Good luck with the game!
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🪼Jellyfishlines 🔜 PaxU🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io · 26/09/2026
What if I got a bunch of ttrpg designers and writers together for a poetry workshop? What if I made them analyze the process of their craft and they wrote a personal essay on the matter? How about we write a little bit of speculative lit-fic together?
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woke dog 🐺🖤🌙 @wolfgirlcassie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
cassius green from sorry to bother you with a partial speech bubble edited in below him
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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Playtest Material is at 71/75 subscribers. This is genuinely amazing; thank you to everyone. I think we'll pass 75, and will keep the drive going! The bigger our base is, the more we can support everyone involved with the magazine *and* think about lowering the cost of future issues.
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CJ Tucker @crackerjackalope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Another banger from People Make Games
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Geek Native @geeknative.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
UK Games Expo has banned generative AI art, text, and merchandise across all NEC exhibition halls, bringing the convention in line with broader British tabletop standards. Standholders face removal or bans if their products aren't made by humans. #UKGE
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UK Games Expo bans generative AI art and text across all trade halls
UK Games Expo has introduced a mandatory policy prohibiting generative AI art and text across all NEC trade halls, requiring exhibitors to sell only human-made games.
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せきはん @sekihang.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Duel💥
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Clastic Artistic @clasticartistic.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
With the Scanned Textures tagline being "Real textures from real objects for your projects", it does create some absurd situations. Behold hay on a scanner. #artassets #designassets #gameassets #assetpack #indiedev #graphicdesign #textures #design #art
Hay on a scanner.
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Clastic Artistic @clasticartistic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thanks for the recent sales on this! Can we hit the $500 goal on itchio in the remaining twelve days? #sale #textures #gamedev #art #design #ttrpg #graphicdesign
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James Stafford @jpstafford.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Anyone who enjoys pop culture, sports history, NFL and art (or collects sports programmes) needs to check out this blog. Fantastic stuff from @beautyofagame.bsky.social
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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
season's changing
A collection of season-themed knightly helmets.
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World Champ Game Co @worldchamp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Now available at worldchamp.io/store: 🔫 I AM A GUILLOTINE: a solo game of enacting political violence against a fascist figurehead. 📝 MANIFESTO: a solo journaling game of political extremism and news biases after the violence. 💀 HORROR GAMES: a compilation of 15 new terrifying tabletop games
three books propped up against a metal garage door. Left to right, the titles are Horror Games (an orange screaming face on white background), I Am A Guillotine (a dynamic drawing of a politician in crosshairs with a masked assassin on black background), and Manifesto (a wolf in black ink atop a photo of a person in a balaclava).
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Lunarpunk Games @lunarpunk.games · 22/09/2026
The Color Jam Kickstarter is now live! 🖍️ We're very excited by the design work Gene Koo and Joe Kell put into this game, along with the beautiful art by Erin Laue, and are honored we get to share it with you. We can't wait to see the incredible art you make through this cozy, puzzle-y game.
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Color Jam: A Print-and-Puzzle Coloring Game
Enjoy cozy and clever coloring at your next game night. Craft the story of each hand-illustrated picture with creative color choices!
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shafer brown @shaferbrown.com · 07/04/2026
The CRYSTAL SORCERER blocks your path (2022)
RPG Battle Portrait (originally commissioned for a beer label)| A Crystal Sorcerer Wields their staff, eyes squinted in a smile or sneer, crystal floating in their other hand.
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Hatchlings Games ~ Shop opening soon! @hatchlingdm.itch.io · 21/09/2026
🧶We’ll be selling these crochet dragon hatchlings from day one at our in-person SPARKS store. Each will come with a unique name and teal d20 and will kick off #BSLBristol, an initiative in Bristol city centre to encourage British Sign Language learning, especially in young people! More on that soon.
Crochet dragon orange and yellow
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Lur Noise @lurnoise.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Low altitude maneuvers. Another illo I did for a book about shmups~*
Color illustration, a sleek white, blue and red hero-ship charges its shot while evading enemy fire, flying just above the surface of the sea. It's being flanked by two enemy ships.
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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A collection of armour studies from this year. I’ve really enjoyed these
Digital art, my work. A suit of armour realistic rendered with illustrative snakes Digital art, my work. A suit of armour realistic rendered Digital art, my work. A suit of armour realistic rendered with illustrative human skulls and the text ‘cry baby’
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Playtest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A serious one today. "This is a call to our readers and future readers: please, consider before scrolling away, if you think our magazine is worth £18+postage. It is not just an investment in a bundle of paper, but in meaningful critique in the ttrpg space." playtestmaterial.org/playtest-mat...
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Playtest Material launches its first ever subscription drive
Playtest Material needs 75 subscribers to break even — one of those could be you.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Here's the rest of the (non-green) troupe.
Medieval helmets that look like Gonzo, Kermit, Miss Piggy, Animal, Fozzie, and Sam The Eagle
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Joe Merrick @joemerrick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
To commemorate the collaboration between Pokémon and the ESA, a special Pikachu plush was sent to the International Space Station from April 11th through June 17th What a picture. Absolutely stunning
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Ben Fleuter @benfleuter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wiccanery - a short comic about a witch and a vampire.
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3446 is not left-handed
Bunnies re-enact the duel between Inigo and Wesley in "The Princess Bride", with a masked bunny fighting against a dashing shaggy bunny with a gold sword. The masked bunny is cornered, near the edge of a rocky cliffside, but still has a trick up his sleeve
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🪼Jellyfishlines 🔜 PaxU🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io · 16/09/2026
LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
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alex.art @threedcks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
trying out something new #deadlock #deadlockfanart
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Tim Denee @olddog.games · 16/09/2026
I go all over the place with hulls, but some images I have variously used in games:
A suited figure with a sort of chrome mask and hand. Cover artwork for the science fiction novel Who? by Algis Budrys, illustrated by Alun Hood.Mad Gallant, from MegaBeast Investigator JuspionK from Robot DetectiveA blue-skinned man's face comes off, revealing skull-like circuitry beneath. Cover art by Davis Meltzer for Philip K. Dick’s Clans of the Alphane Moon.
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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I hate to do this again on the heels of his kidney obstruction but Onion got into a dangerous amount of garlic powder and I have to take him to the emergency vet. If you’re able to help us out a little, my Venmo is Jeeyon-Shim, and my PayPal is jeeyon.shim@gmail.com
A light Siamese cat in bed
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Logan Dean @logandean.games · 15/09/2026
Honestly love how shitty and creepy these are coming out
A number of poorly made magic proxies
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Reynaldo @naldodrinan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Look ma, I'm a pull quote!
A quote where Reynaldo recommends Gridshock
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Roll Gothica (that emo dice shi) @rollgothica.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Debrief 👀
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Alexander the Fine @alexrineh.art · 13/09/2026
Sunlight breaks through the clouds, birds chirp as if for the first time. The smell of hope fills the air.
Comment on itch.io
I am new to TTRPGs, what is 5e?
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Brian Ruh @brianruh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Art that doesn't take a political point of view is a political point of view.” Exactly! Also, that’s a shame about the Cosmoknights project. I hope something still happens with it.
I think all art is political.
Absolutely. Art that doesn't take a political point of view is a political point of view. I've said this before, but if I never make another movie again, I'm fine. I'm getting old. But in my experience of pitching stuff, I've pitched a lot of wonderful, cool queer stories and trans stories, and Hollywood didn't want any of it.
There was this TV show based on this comic book
"Cosmoknights" that I was going to direct, and it was from me and Emily Andras, who made "Wynonna Earp." It's "Star Wars" with lesbians in space. Amy Poehler was producing it, and we pitched it all around town. We had a cool bible that Emily had written, and I put together a jazzy video for it, and everybody passed. We had this cool adaptation of
"Manhunt" by Gretchen Felker-Martin, which was a bestseller on all these top ten lists, and couldn't get that going. This is around 2022, and now it's four years later and I haven't made a thing. I cannot find a studio that will do any of it.
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EUphoria Actual Play @euphoriaap.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
NOW CASTING - BIPOC applicants always prioritised! Will you be The Heir, the weight of expectation on your shoulders? The Veteran, hardened by years of conflict? Or The Dandy, striding to the beat of your own drum? Join us and forge a collaborative story of Fortune and Doom! tally.so/r/4461Db
An off white background with a soft floral pattern, reminiscent of fleur de lis.
Casting call - The Gallant and the Virtuous. 
A scroll unfurling from a trumpet - BIPOC Applicants prioritised!
A black and white illustration of a knight on horseback
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026
You know, when you find out that the art you like is made by people you've learned hold views you find wholly repugnant, I don't think you need to disavow ever having enjoyed the art. It's okay to acknowledge you liked or loved that art, but are now putting it aside. That was then, this is now.
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Jonas-Merlin Schumacher @jonasmerlin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
5/100 of "doing design 100 times to get better at it" This time with an alternative cover for the BREAK!! Core Rules by @greywizard.bsky.social Orginially wanted to do it for the new Chosen One class, but couldn't get the text to line up in a way I liked (it's in the answers below for comparison)
White text reading "Break!! Core Rules" on a blue background. A golden sword in the middle.
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