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Vagrus by Lost Pilgrims Studios @lostpilgrims.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The roads of the Riven Realms have reached the @nintendousa.bsky.social Indie Sale. If you have been waiting for the right moment to lead your caravan across a broken world filled with desperate choices and hard-earned survival, now might be your chance.👇 www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro... #rpg

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

crimson desert was a "playground," but Witcher is a real "world." Can't wait for the next expansion.

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The Witcher @thewitcher.com · 27/05/2026

Medallion's humming... that can only mean one thing! It's time to announce The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past! ⚔️

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I built a small experiment while writing: What if you could talk to a character before locking the scene? Test case: StarCraft’s Jim Raynor. Write the background first, then let the character respond like an actor. Useful for: “Would this person really say this here?” Would this help?

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Vagrus by Lost Pilgrims Studios @lostpilgrims.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It is the last day of the GOG Post-Apoc Promo!! Do not miss this chance to get the game at a great price 👇 www.gog.com/en/game/vagr... #rpg #indiegames #dnd

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Quick map of solo story writer tools (2026): Obsidian — local notes + graph view Sudowrite — AI copilot, voice-matched scenes Scrivener — long-form manuscript classic Plottr — visual planner, timelines & arcs Your go-to? Why? #Writing #WritingTools

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Quick map of worldbuilding tools (2026): World Anvil — wiki + timelines + relations Campfire — character/plot modules Inkarnate — fantasy maps in browser Azgaar's FMG — procedural map, free Your go-to? Why? #Worldbuilding #Writing

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Engineers handle hundreds of thousands of lines with text and shortcuts, not fancy GUIs. Text is the one medium that fits in your head completely. Writers building vast worlds need the same. The fancier the tool, the more your story takes the shape of the tool.

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Reading game writers on Reddit, I kept seeing the same pain: branching stories break when drafts, choices, quest logic, and world notes drift into separate files. That’s the root of Flotter’s text-first bet.

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The Last Nordic Tribe @thelastnordictribe.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Ragnarök is over. But survival isn’t. The Last Nordic Tribe - May 7 Wishlist on Steam ↓ store.steampowered.com/app/3435710/...

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Branching stories or quests slowing you down? Try Arcweave — one of the most polished tools in the category. Free Basic available. arcweave.com I'm exploring a different angle: a vast world only needs imagination-driven text, shortcuts, a bit of mouse. Text fits in your head completely.

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Roll20 @roll20.net · 19/05/2026

Calling all Pathfinder GMs ⚔️ The Pathfinder Spotlight Sale on Roll20 has up to 60% off select VTT titles! Includes: • Pathfinder 2e Remastered • Iconic Adventure Paths, like Abomination Vaults • Pathfinder for Savage Worlds • And more! Save now: buff.ly/mXvQtqy

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Currently in Crimson Desert. The world is stunning, the combat actually clicks for me, story's not why I'm here. What are you playing this week? #Gaming #GameDev

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Game character you'd actually grab a drink with IRL? For me — Edér from Pillars of Eternity. Pipe lit, never in a rush, never judges. Been through everything and still says "wait for better days." I'd pull up a chair. You? #Gaming #PillarsOfEternity

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Honest question for gamers: What's the most memorable *choice* you ever made in a game? (not the most epic moment — the moment a decision actually weighed on you) I'm building narrative game tools, want to learn what real "weight" feels like. #NarrativeDesign #GameDev

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Quick map of narrative game tools (2026): articy:draft — heavy, IDE-style, pro teams Twine — light, web, prototypes & IF Ink — code-feel, branching-heavy Yarn Spinner — Unity, dialogue-first Your go-to? Why? #NarrativeDesign #GameDev #IndieDev

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Ondřej Purchart @ondrejpurchart.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

After 10 hours of pure joy I finished Cyclopean: The Great Abyss. This is what I call proper oldschool RPG, and it is definitely among my favorite games that came out this year so far. store.steampowered.com/app/2958790/...

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Calling all story writers, need some help — what's your favorite font size to write in? #writingcommunity #gamewriting

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UpfrontDev @upfrontdev.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The ultimate quest is over! ⚔️📜 I’ve spent years exploring isometric RPGs and navigating heavy stories to bring you the definitive list: The Top 25 Greatest CRPGs of All Time. youtu.be/HUHkPG7k7gY?... #CRPG #Gaming #RPG #RetroGaming #IndieGames #PCGaming

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Top 25 Greatest CRPG Games of All Time by a CRPG Veteran

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Ganna (The Cutest Era) @cdiganon.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Pillars of Eternity This was a very good crpg, with a world that feels so deeply developed and cared for. Each party member was interesting and had stories I want to experience, the DLC story was also a delight, and it had a real sense of escalating scale. #gannagaming

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the Asylum Art @yvesbroeckx.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I T H E B U R D E N O F B E C O M I N G I An abstract expressionist piece about transformation, exhaustion, and the unbearable weight of growth. Sometimes becoming who you are meant to be feels less like freedom… and more like surviving the collapse of who you were. — The Asylum Art —

$The piece captures the silent violence of transformation — the exhaustion that comes with carrying the weight of who we are trying to become. The bowed figure feels suspended between collapse and evolution, as if identity itself has become too heavy to hold. The fractured textures and dripping forms suggest memories, expectations, and unseen pressures accumulating over time, while the pale emptiness surrounding the figure leaves room for both despair and rebirth. The Burden of Becoming explores the fragile space between identity and dissolution. A solitary figure bends forward beneath an invisible force, surrounded by fractured architecture, smeared textures, and cascading drips that blur the boundary between body and environment. The muted palette of ash, ivory, charcoal, and weathered blue evokes emotional fatigue, while fragments of gold emerge like remnants of resilience hidden beneath ruin. Rather than depicting pain directly, the painting embodies accumulation — the slow layering of expectation, memory, grief, and self-construction. The figure is not merely breaking; he is being reshaped. The work asks whether transformation is ever graceful, or if becoming always requires a kind of destruction first. Art copyright ©Yves Broeckx This is digitally created art concept and execution by Yves$

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inkle @inkle.co · 13/05/2026

Venerable storyteller @edstern.bsky.social joins us to talk in great detail about understatement, and the craft of putting material in versus holding it back. Turn to www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope... to begin!

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This Mixtape rating reminds me of IGN's recent Crimson Desert review. The lack of story was a bit jarring, but playing it was actually really fun. At least, isn't a "review" something you say after actually playing? Hoping user-centered review culture and outlets gain more strength.

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

CRPG, 스토리 중심 게임 좋아하는 한국분들 없나요? ㅎㅎ

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Just finished Crimson Desert — had a blast. Worldbuilding's incredible. I kept hoping for some deeper mystical thread and pushed through to the ending. Didn't quite land for me — but the game itself is great. Maybe Planescape next to scratch that narrative itch >_<

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Bluesky에는 한국 사람이 없나요?

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Flotter (flotter.io, in dev). Slogan: "Let every gamer experience deeply narrative stories without language barriers." As a kid in Korea I cracked open game files just to translate and play. That's why stories made in Flotter get free AI translation — request order, not real-time.

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Reference shelf for Flotter(I'm making it ) — the narratives I keep returning to: — Pillars of Eternity I, II — Disco Elysium — Divinity: Original Sin II, I — Witcher 3 — Baldur's Gate 3, 2 What's on yours?

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Reading "writing tools" complaint threads on r/gamedev, r/RPGdesign, r/Screenwriting. Same pain everywhere: branching collapses. 30+ branches in, you can't tell what still resolves, what's broken, what you abandoned. Building Flotter to fix this.

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Vagrus by Lost Pilgrims Studios @lostpilgrims.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Our latest update introduces vignettes for Exploration Encounters — small ink-style illustrations inspired by classic Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, created to enhance atmosphere. Read about them in our latest article👇 vagrus.com/news/vignett... #darkfantasy #rpg #indiegames

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Question for narrative designers & game writers: What's the *one* thing in your current writing tool that makes you want to scream? (Asking because we're building an alternative — and I want to make sure we don't recreate the same pain.)

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Pillars of Eternity. Witcher 3. BG3. Divinity. Replayed all of them. Kept wondering what tools writers actually use. Plenty exist — Yarn Spinner, Arcweave, Twine. Building Flotter in this direction: text + keyboard shortcuts, branching stories faster. How do you write yours?

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Bright / flotter.io @flotterio.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Inspired by Pillars of Eternity, the Divinity series, and The Witcher series, we're starting from the ground up to create narrative tools that will help writers build their own unique stories. Have you ever been inspired by such worlds?

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