iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'm writing Alien Archaeology, which is a really beautiful thing to write. I am perhaps milking all the different descriptions of light. Light here, light there, prismatic light refracting through stuff, pools of light like spotlights, etc etc.

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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As you can see (ought to have posted this myself really) we programmed a horror movie narrative into our injury/trauma results as determined by which archetype you’re playing

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 05/10/2026

You know how people double fry chips, or double butter toast, well, I’ve just double boiled some green beans and I can’t wait to taste the results

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The final episode of Ludonarrative Dissidents season 3 is up, and it's been worth the wait. We present a three-hour actual play of classic map-based community game The Quiet Year, with two special guests: @ecfriedman.com and the game's designer @lackingceremony.bsky.social. This is an absolute treat

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh, and you can safely ignore the theme, the ingredients and so on. Use them if they inspire you, don't use them if they don't.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And, as best you can, ignore the awards. It doesn't matter what the judges think: they're just a sackful of fighting kittens. Write something you'd like to play and call it done.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you haven't submitted to @goldencobra.bsky.social , I really encourage you to use it as a creative prompt and just do it. Don't think about winning, don't try to do something "good'. Just write a LARP you'd want to play. www.goldencobra.org

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Golden Cobra Challenge

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes definitely - I can already see the early indie games disappearing, so I basically want to stop that happening with anything else!

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think it's fine to leave it. You can't support everything, but you don't want them to disappear totally if people want them. (I'm the same with my weird early games)

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh God, push through. Hope you enjoy it

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's cool you're doing that. I go through phases of learning about my own history.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When I lose motivation, I usually just put the game aside for a year or so. I can't do anything else really. Eventually I get an urge to pick it up again.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

She can't love them all the same, though, surely. Nobody loves Blackstar in the same way as Station to Station in the same way as the first "David Bowie" album.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know people follow me for TTRPG stuff, but honestly, seeing art is part of the whole process for me. It helps me think of new things I could do. Here's Libita Sibungu's exhibit, which got me thinking about weird space ritual.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We got back from Penzance, which was beautiful, but I was especially blown away by Caroline Walker's paintings around mothering at Newlyn Art Gallery. They're so colourful, so skilful and so well-observed.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh Polperro, I love Polperro. We just got back from Penzance

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm really proud of the various Cosmic Dark scenarios.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In the early days after AW was published, it felt as though there was a rush to translate it over to all the major genres. There weren't exactly games called Cowboy World, Zombie World and Action World, but it felt like that. There's less of that now.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've often thought that, if you design a game around "10+ success, 7-9 success with complications, 6- bad", you're missing the stuff that makes Apocalypse World great. (I think something similar if you simply translate the original AW moves to a new setting, although there's less of that now.)

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How dare you. It is a laziness issue.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh gosh, that's how I signed the first ten or so.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No you won't - you'll be good at scribbling something that looks like a J followed by a squiggly line

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Go and follow this: @bananachangames.bsky.social always writes the weird horror shit you are looking for.

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K Lam (she/her) @ladylakira.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can learn a lot about design craft by reading and playing games that are not to your taste. This is work in the same way as marketing your game is work, so there's def a cost benefit analysis here. It might be worth it to miss out on this, but you *are* missing out.

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Keeper Mav @callmemav.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

To help with my beloved cat's extremely expensive medical bills, I've made a bundle of my #CallofCthulhu scenarios. I hope you will consider picking up my work at a discounted rate and helping me care for my furry little (adorable) eldritch horror. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

A tabby cat sits in front of a TV looking all majestic and adorable

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I love this one. There's a whole room of interwar art at Tate that makes you think "Oh God something bad has happened".

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

whenever people say “cancel culture isn’t real, it’s just facing the consequences of your actions” I think about all the people who were the target of the internet’s hate for things they didn’t do, or for things that had much more nuance. it can ruin lives, over things that often do not matter

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Jason Pitre @genesisoflegend.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The kickstarter for Lonely Timbers is now live at www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jag... and I would love your support. La campaigne sociofinancement pour Tire-toi une bûche est maintentant active. Merci pour soutenir ce projet franco-canadien et québecoise.

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Lonely Timbers - Tire-toi une bûche

A TTRPG about french-canadian lumberjacks in the early 20th century. Un JDR des bûcherons québecoises du début du XXe siècle.

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Colin Le Sueur | By Odin’s Beard RPG @byodinsbeardrpg.com · 23/09/2026

Explore a deadly world adrift from time and space, a genre crash of wild west, horror, fantasy, and sci-fi. We Deal in Lead is an 88-page combat-focused weird west gunslinger TTRPG inspired by Stephen King's The Dark Tower. The PDF is available on Itch. link.byodinsbeardrpg.com/lead-pdf

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well, I did a little dance after I said it, and they mainly focused on that.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I was in an awkward conversation today in which I had to think of a joke about liminal spaces. It took me a moment, but then I said "Let's not talk about liminal spaces, they're neither here nor there", and it may be one of my proudest achievements.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I did this with Cosmic Dark (art by @handiworkgames.bsky.social ).The logo is separate, so you can move it anywhere: the cover is the right hand side of the image with the logo on the centre.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is beautiful and also a textbook example of how to design an image so you can reuse it for a wraparound cover, a Kickstarter banner and much more. (Use the whole thing if you want landscape, use the right half if you want portrait.)

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I like that Kieron mentions the class aspect of Cthulhu Dark here. It's really important to me. Also mentioned: Night Witches, Agon, Baron Munchausen, oh look just read it.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Employees is one of my favourite books.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For example, the idea that play is a good thing, that games have a beneficial effect and so on.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My dissertation was on creativity. It was critical, suggesting that academics and practitioners both appealed to scientific evidence, but had very different ideas of creativity. It left me wary of things that seem obvious but don't have much evidence behind them.

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Megan Haddock Art @m-haddock-art.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

A timeline of my art over the past few months~ It's satisfying to look back on what used to be the best thing you'd ever made and see how it compares to the new stuff. Feel free to quote post your own progress, I'd love to see! #art #artprogress #landscapeart #nature #smallartist #artistonbluesky

A misty alpine landscape in purple and green. In the foreground, rolling hills are surrounded by pine trees, and a small farmhouse sits on a hill. A large, rugged mountain stands in the mist behind it.

An illustration of a scene from JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit. Barrels float quietly down a river, out of the elven forests and onwards towards Lake Town and The Lonely Mountain in the distance.

An overgrown industrial landscape. An old cargo train sits in the station upon an underpass. Stairs and buildings lay disused and covered in wildflowers and ivy. Blue butterflies flutter through the underpass and into the distance.

A hot summer's day in the French countryside. Dense tall grass coats the hills, broken up by the green and red of small bushes and rows of trees. Amongst the grass on the side of the road, something unpleasant lays.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I was half-thinking that this didn't seem to apply to you. What I've found in the UK is that, if I take Will That Be All? to a tabletop convention, people look interested but don't often buy it, and if I advertise it to LARPers, they don't either. But fair point about how you position it.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think it's the combination. TTRPG players will buy a game on cards, but don't want to play a LARP. LARP players will buy a ticket for an event, but not (generally) a game on cards.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Lear was good. It came across as a Game of Thrones-esque political struggle in a folkloric Britain. Ian McDiarmid was good, a fond old man losing his power, although there were bits of the production that didn't work for me (why are his trousers down?). But I liked it.

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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm so happy when people play Will That Be All?. I think it's one of the best things I've written, but it tends to get overlooked, because it's a LARP-on-a-deck-of-cards. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/1...

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