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Max Moon Games

@maxmoon.bsky.social
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Game designer, publisher, printmaker, musician, and anti-rationalist

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Strange Attractor Press @strangeattractor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We still have a few Austin Osman Spare’s Tarot Museum Edition decks available for purchase. No similar bespoke edition of the cards will ever be produced, making this a unique opportunity to own a piece of tarot history. strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/aos-taro...
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
We are doing a play-by-poll of The Black Spire Pact on Backerkit. Just pop on over to the Community tab and vote on the daily poll to compel Voth! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/f...
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The Black Spire Pact
The Black Spire Pact is a slipcased pair of PvP adventure books where one player is a mortal sorcerer, the other a demon lord. PvP Gamebooks use a streamlined system built on and fully compatible with...
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Thanks to Hunter and Ryan for letting me join them and for playing an early draft of The Black Spire Pact! The campaign launch is this morning!!!
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madebygare @madebygare.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I'm really excited to announce the latest version of our demo is now live! We've worked really hard on this and would love feedback from anyone that tries it out. store.steampowered.com/app/2626080/... Release Notes: madebygare.com/posts/corvia... Discord: discord.com/invite/xsq2F... #gamedev
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Corvian Curse on Steam
Corvian Curse is a roguelike platformer that offers a new experience on every run with randomized levels, potions, and items. Can you find and defeat the source of the curse that's causing the worlds ...
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
An excerpt from today’s @flaminghand.bsky.social newsletter:
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Crumbing James @crumblingjames.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Demons, devils, portals, and a lot of booze. We're putting it out tomorrow for free. Guess what it is? (Post your guess in the comments) Don't want to miss it? Click the link to get it as soon as it's out. mailchi.mp/crumbling...
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I have been working on something special. A new system for 2 player competitive adventure gamebooks based on Old School Essentials! Coming to Backerkit in May!! Play as a great Demon, Marax, or as the high level sorcerer Voth! Art by Arik Roper and Skinner!! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
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The Black Spire Pact - Player Versus Player Adventure Gamebooks
From Flaming Hand - The Black Spire Pact - Player Versus Player Adventure Gamebooks
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Ensign Ro(wan) @rowanchurch.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The synthesizer is, culturally, a transgender instrument.
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
We still have these on the Flaming Hand website! Perplexing Ruins always kills it.
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The Weekly Scroll @theweeklyscroll.com · 08/04/2026
A wonderful review of Death Cut In Stone from Zach over at Short Rest Press. Ran into him at Adepticon and traded zines. First time anyone has written about something I've put out and it feels pretty fucking good.
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Always fun to get to rant.
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Ben Kirman @ben.kirman.org · 23/03/2026
Great to finally sit down and play Twelve Years at Sea, by @maxmoon.bsky.social . My first crew, two captains and two pacifists on a raft, spent 3 years lost in the fae mists, fled from a dragon, finally discovered a marshy island and immediately got eaten by crocodiles. 10/10 🐊
A photograph of a tabletop showing a hex map with lots of sea spaces filled in, and one small island space with the marking "RIP". Also on the table is pages of charts and tables from the game "12 years at Sea" and expansions by Max Moon games. It is open on the page "Marsh creatures"
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
It is risen. flaminghand.com
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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Now I have 2 shirts with my art printed on them out in the world! Thanks @maxmoon.bsky.social for the wonderful opportunity 🙏 The green one for the band @bigthiefmusic.bsky.social on this year’s Double Infinity tour 😮 I hope folks wearing these out get some cool looks & 2nd takes
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Chaoclypse (Brandon Yu) @chaoclypse.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Going live with Caustic, a good buddy of mine and fellow TTRPG artist, in about 24 hours!! We'll be drawing some horrid shit so be sure to tune in! www.youtube.com/watch?v=phzg...
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Chao x Caustic DRAWING BONANZA!!
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
More graphic design play/venting. Protesting has been the best medicine for all the fear, anxiety, outrage, grief, and aggression I feel. But this also helps a little. #minnesotaproud #fuckice
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Did you know that all Minnesotan made buffalo check contains a hidden message?
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Reminder: when they say no one is above the law, they forget that the people are above the law. The law gets its authority from the people. We grant authority and we can take it back.
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
We mourn with power. We continue strong.
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The Weekly Scroll @theweeklyscroll.com · 12/01/2026
New episode! Ryan sits down with prolific illustrator, art director, and generally awesome guy @davidhoskins.bsky.social to talk art, games, the year behind us, the year ahead us, and more.
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EP 301 | We interview DAVID HOSKINS
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
My favorite books of fiction I read this year: -The Neverending Story: Michael Ende -The Old Gods Awaken: Manly Wade Wellman -Phantastes: George MacDonald -The King of Elfland’s Daughter: Lord Dunsany -The Princess and the Goblin: George MacDonald -The People that Time Forgot: Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The Weekly Scroll @theweeklyscroll.com · 16/12/2025
New update for my Death Cut In Stone, my brutal old west skirmish game that hacks Violence from @lukegearing.bsky.social. Some tweaks throughout, including changes to Deployment, as well as Injuries in Melee combat. This is probably the last update before I drop the "final" full art version.
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Update v1.2
Made some small tweaks. The biggest changes are to Deployment, and determining Injuries in Melee. Small clarifications and punctuation changes throughout Change to Deployment Gunslingers now start wit...
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I am a recluse. I don’t want anyone to know what I look like. But also, I am a firm believer that if I am afraid of something, that is a good reason to do it. So I thought, well if I don’t want people to see my face, then I think I should design a shirt with my face on it. Stoked to print these.
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Jón Kristinsson @jonkk.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I still hear people talking about how good AI is for prompting creativity and helping with ideation. This comes from a highly uninformed position on the topic of creativity. Here we go. 🧵 Creativity isn’t about quantity of ideas. However, creative folks do tend to have more sparks of ideas. But..
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
In this world that increasingly devalues physicality and craft, we are conversely motivated to produce beautiful objects. Physicality matters. It impacts our experience. Disembodied content reinforces Cartesian duality and the hierarchy of mind over body. Ink is good. The body and mind are one.
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I got a chance to play this recently and it is so damn good. Highly recommend giving it a go!
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Brad Kerr @bradkerr.net · 19/11/2025
OSE Month is coming. I've been working on the DEMONIC GRIMOIRE, coming to Backerkit along with more fine infernal tomes by other old-school luminaries in May. www.backerkit.com/c/collection...
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Old-School Essentials Month on BackerKit
Prepare your spirit for OSE Month: a group-collab project led by Exalted Funeral and Necrotic Gnome, featuring a new 176-page OSE book — the Demonic Grimoire — and sister projects from other renown...
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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
We learned today that all the brakes need redone….nearly $1000. If rotors, than $1400. 😔 So reworking some old originals to put up for sale soon cause that kinda bill puts me back 3 months… Hope to have about 5 pieces available
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Highly recommend this. Texting some folks right now. Thanks to @theweeklyscroll.com and @explorersdesign.bsky.social for practicing community generosity by taking the time do do this episode and sharing their insights. Amazing.
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Loved getting to play some Rumpus with TWS!
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MÖRK BORG @morkborg.com · 20/10/2025
"No fonts? We'll make them. Other publishers said it's too much trouble? We'll still do it. … No electricity because of airstrikes? Our designers plug into generators and keep going. That's the spirit of the game, defiant. And that's the spirit of Ukraine right now. So… perfect match.”
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Go give a listen to Dark Valley’s Twelve Years at Sea soundtrack! It turned out so damn good. darkvalleyds.bandcamp.com/album/twelve... #dungeonsynth
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Twelve Years at Sea, by Dark Valley
12 track album
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
We have a fascination for the Hand of Glory. So, we had to make one…or 100. These are available for preorder now. A collab with Mithras Candle. Made with black beeswax and tallow. Includes a ghostly zine of 5 rituals and a new translation of an excerpt from Le Petit Albert! flaminghand.com
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The Weekly Scroll @theweeklyscroll.com · 26/09/2025
Oh hey, we're live to review WEIRD HEROES OF PUBLIC ACCESS from @joeyroyale.bsky.social, a ttrpg that lets you and your friends step into the shoes of quirky public access TV personalities to save your beloved town of Fairhaven. go here 👇 twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Our new publishing company and store is up and running. If you haven’t already got Sölitary Defilement…there aren’t a lot left….again. We try to keep this in print but demand is constantly surprising us with being even greater than the last run.
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Perplexing Ruins NPC illustrations for Abyss of Hallucinations are absolutely perfect. Decadent, psychedelic, and weird as fuck. Thank you for your vision!
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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Throwback to one of my favorite commission art pieces! I drew this for the solo game Twelve Years by @maxmoon.bsky.social I was so proud at how i captured this weird fae exploration vibe
Spread for game twelve years
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Flaming Hand @flaminghand.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
✨🔮 Unlock creativity with Occult Strategies, your pocket grimoire for breaking blocks and summoning inspiration. Draw a card, cast a spell, and transform the everyday. Perfect for witches, artists, and seekers. Get yours now!
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Last chance to back Twelve Years at Sea and get in on the free stretch goal content! The Sea Wizard’s ritual has begun. Can you stop him before it is too late? I bet you can’t. www.kickstarter.com/projects/moo...
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Sophie Paige 💖 @paige-turner.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
In 2021-2022 I absolutely adored 12 Years, playing it multiple times and even doing a live play on a private discord server. Then I apparently went to live under a rock and remained completely unaware of its MULTIPLE EXPANSIONS. Just stumbled across the latest one in its final hours on Kickstarter.
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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I've been working on a soundtrack for Twelve Years at Sea: a game by my friend @maxmoon.bsky.social. Only 3 days left on KS! It's an epic seafaring expansion for the game Twelve Years, & adds a huge amount of narrative depth to what was already a fantastic work! www.kickstarter.com/projects/moo...
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Update 9: Soundtrack Preview! Final Stretch Goal Unlocked! Twelve Years on Lone Adventurer! · Twelve Years at Sea: Into the Unknown Islands
Dark Valley has been hard at work channeling the aural atmosphere that looms above the tides.  Here is a preview track!  This tape is going to be so damn good.  And for those of you who don't have a c...
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I gotta admit I am pretty stoked to wear some @perplexingruins.bsky.social ruins art daily! Yes, I do wear my own merch. For some reason when I was in bands I would never do it, but I love the shirts we make far too much to not wear them!
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Remember when you paid for a service to access the internet and the whole internet was free? Increasingly we pay for subscriptions to access the ability to pay for subscriptions to be able to upgrade our subscriptions from preview to functional service, hidden behind paywall after paywall.
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The Weekly Scroll @theweeklyscroll.com · 28/06/2025
New Episode! We sit down with friend of the show and one of our favorite people in the world, @maxmoon.bsky.social! Max is here to talk about TWELVE YEARS AT SEA, the epic seafaring expansion for Twelve Years inspired by classic weird fiction, mythology, and Harryhausen films.
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EP 268 | Twelve Years at Sea with Max Moon
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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Yo, check out the new expansion for Twelve Years by @maxmoon.bsky.social !! Also, just for kicks, I've got some art on a tshirt in this!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/moo...
t shirt for 12 years rpg with perplexing ruins art12 years rpg crowdfund
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Tony @tonydoesnerdystuff.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
You should back this if you like rad ass TTRPGs you can also play on your own. @maxmoon.bsky.social makes the coolest stuff. (Check out that sweet shirt by @perplexingruins.bsky.social ! Can’t wait for that to come in too.) www.kickstarter.com/projects/moo...
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Twelve Years at Sea: Into the Unknown Islands
An epic seafaring TTRPG for one or more players, inspired by classic weird fiction, mythology, and Harryhausen films.
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
We are launching Twelve Years at Sea tomorrow!!! Sitting down alone with pencil and paper and playing an epic fantasy game is my number one way to get my head out of the doom scroll and to engage in catharsis. Put on a tape. Draw some hexes and dungeons. Sail off beyond the horizon.
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Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 17/06/2025
Dig RPGs? How about fantasy art from the 70s and 80s? Zines? Comic books? Heavy metal? The occult? Bizarre shit? Join the Vintage RPG Newsletter! It's like walking into the local weirdo book shop circa 1986! www.vintagerpg.com/newsletter/
A barbarian type in black armor with an impressive red braid holding a runesword and encouraging you to join the Vintage RPG Newsletter, where there are no ads, no algorithms and all adventure!
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Max Moon Games @maxmoon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
If you haven’t heard of or played Twelve Years yet, then here you go! Twelve Years is a solo or multiplayer procedurally generated rules light ttrpg focused on classic archetypal fantasy positioning the epic quest as central rather than any one character. It’s also a hexcrawler and dungeon crawler!
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