iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Alex MJ 🎲🎃 @mixuppixels.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

2026 has been the year I put a lot less focus into "staying in the know" with the hobby and I am enjoying so much more of my games than I was before. My podcast queue is over 60 episodes long now, and my unread blog feed is much longer. But my games are fun, and memorable. My community is alive!

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm very excited to make more Rascal Reading Club. It's a fun show to do (especially the talk back episodes) and I'm not-so-secretly very proud of the first season. Help me decide what season two should be about via the magic of ranked-choice voting.

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Thomas M, Full-time Rascal @newmadras.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

It's been such a privilege to write for Rascal, to write for you, and it would be really nice if I could do it next year as well. If you can sign up, please do. I would do so much better, the work world be so much better, if the site wasn't precious.

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Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The amazing QQ Discord mods have arranged a review jam for the month of September! Super excited to offer tips and help give some awards at the end. (August can be for playing stuff you might wanna review, but it's not mandatory)

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KiwiRPG @kiwirpg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

HUGE CONGRATS to the wonderful @serorpg.com and @mrthetrog.bsky.social who created and run the @solorpglist.com - which just brought a SILVER ENNIE to Aotearoa! Tumeke!!

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The ENNIE Awards @ennie-awards.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Silver for Streaming Content goes to Cozy RPG Reviews, Cozy RPG Reviews

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Alex MJ 🎲🎃 @mixuppixels.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Looking for the perfect Halloween Game? Want to play as a kid in a magical costume fighting possessed decorations? Check out Fight or Fright at the @plusoneexp.bsky.social booth at Gen Con this weekend! Booth 449!

The cover of Fight or Fright, featuring a hooded skeleton and small icons of wrapped candy

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Alex MJ 🎲🎃 @mixuppixels.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

On holiday so these are my plans every day basically!

At a beach club in Spain - a mango cocktail and a copy of The Fundamentals of Tabletop Miniature Game Design sit on a table

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 22/07/2026

RPG Trader’s digital storefront wants to be the creator-friendly, RPG-focused alternative www.rascal.news/rpg-traders-...

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

SEVEN-PART PACT, my fantastical ornate TTRPG about powerful wizards, asymmetrical board games, and the pressures of masculinity is now launching on kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

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Seven-Part Pact

A fantastical, ornate TTRPG from Possum Creek about the might and folly of powerful wizards bound by a venerable Pact.

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Alex MJ 🎲🎃 @mixuppixels.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I spoke at Vienna's Spielefest about Playstorming, our Monthly RPG playtesting event here in the city On this slide, I talked about our joke (but not a joke?) goal to make Vienna the RPG Design capital of Europe! But all we really want to do is make a community space for sharing the joy of design

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Explorers Design has been nominated for Best Online Content in The Ennies 2026! Not sure who to vote for? Let me win you over. Today's post is a special edition of The Explorateur. It features my favorite nominees and a long list of non-rpg design links. 🍻🎉 www.explorersdesign.com/explorateur-...

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The Explorateur: Ennies Special

The Ennie Awards, my campaign pitch, and the best graphic design links so far.

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

NEW: A special TTRPG charity bundle to help designer Rae Nedjadi offset their medical expenses after serious illness and a month-long hospital stay. Includes Apocalypse Keys plus a terrific selection of other games. Get over $285 in games for just 25 bucks! 👇 www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

On the left, an illustration of Rae Nedjadi with short curly black hair and horn-rim glasses, wearing a purple and pink striped robe. Next to that, the covers of the games in the Rae Nedjadi Recovery Bundle: Our Haunt, Apocalypse Keys, Doomsday Delights, Brindlewood Bay, Defy the Gods, Once More Into the Void, Blue Rose, Raccoon Sky Pirates, Glow, The Love Balloon, The Wildsea: Ships Gardens, Paragons, Gingerbread Kaiju, The Hunger in the Void, Space Post, Seers & Roebuck, For Coin & Blood, Dynasties & Demagogues, Party Beach Creature Feature, Heroic Maps - Villages (Summer), Quantum Entanglement, and Infestation at Devil's Glade.

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Plus One Exp @ 🔜 Metatopia @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

What a wild fucking list for the Ennies! The collaborative nature of the games, adventures & books on display here is real I could not be more proud than to see: Zine Club Yeah 2 win Judges Spotlight Tomb of 1000 Doors get two noms See 3 distribution partners on the list See dozens of friends 1/x

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Team Gaovl Power Rangers

ALT: Team Gaovl Power Rangers

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Alex MJ 🎲🎃 @mixuppixels.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Zine Club Year Two from @plusoneexp.bsky.social won a Judges Spotlight Award at the Ennies!! That includes my game Fight or Fright, which I released with them in October of Last Year. Massive congratulations to the entire 2025 cohort, it is an absolute honour to see my game alongside yours!!

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The ENNIE Awards @ennie-awards.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

📣 THE 2026 ENNIE AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE OFFICIALLY HERE! 📣 ennie-awards.com/2026-nominees/ New Category Spotlight -We are incredibly excited to debut the new category for Best Solo Game! Solo gaming has exploded with creativity, and we can’t wait to highlight the nominees!

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2026 Nominees – ENNIE Awards

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JellyMuppet @jellymuppet.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou... ATRAPOS is coming soon, my most thoroughly autistic game yet, filled with poetry, hot+sad people and the kind of subtext that Garth Marenghi would call cowardice.

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Coming soon: Atrapos: A Roleplaying Game of Odyssey

A doomed mythic fantasy roleplaying game of defying fate in an epic world of Gods and heroes.

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Alex MJ 🎲🎃 @mixuppixels.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Fun project I've been helping out on at work - getting to talk to space scientists makes the little me very very happy!

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Alex MJ 🎲🎃 @mixuppixels.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Round two of Playstorming, our Monthly playtesting meet-up in Vienna, was a success! So many people showed up, even during a record heatwave. Will have a write up on mixuppixels.com soon!

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Robin J @cozyrpgreviews.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Some subtle (?) indie propaganda this week. A video about how smaller #TTRPG contain the secret to GMing big trad games without the pressure and workload of prep. This is a dastardly plan to show D&D players that other games exist and might even be good. youtu.be/o_avAU642Jg

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The Secret To Zero Prep GMing Is Not Improv

YouTube video by Cozy RPG Reviews

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 31/05/2026

Had a lovely conversation with @laurieoc.bsky.social who is the organizing energy behind @playtestmaterial.bsky.social — I’m really optimistic about this one. We desperately need a space that neither journalism nor academic journals cover (as awesome as @analoggamestudies.bsky.social etc. are.)

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Sam D @sam.diceexploder.com · 26/05/2026

This week on Dice Exploder Lady Tabletop is back to help close out my Band-Aids & Bullet Holes influences series with the show's first episode about a video game: Signs of the Sojourner, a deckbuilder rpg about having conversations on a trade route. Might even be my favorite video game!

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Transcript: Deckbuilding (Signs of the Sojourner) with Lady Tabletop - Dice Exploder

Listen to this episode here. Further Reading Signs of the Sojourner by Echo Dog Games Band-Aids & Bullet Holes by Sam, on Kickstarter now Slay the Spire 2 by Mega...

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Evie Moriarty @eviemoriarty.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Unfortunately one of the panelists we had lined up for the panel on the impact of generative AI on the tabletop industry at #UKgamesexpo has had to drop out. If you're going to be at #UKGE2026 on Saturday at 10:30 and are in the industry or an academic and want to take part, please DM me!

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Alex MJ 🎲🎃 @mixuppixels.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A cool RPG marketplace created by a fellow @kiwirpg.bsky.social member, @hlashbrooke.bsky.social! Looking forward to getting Fight or Fright up on there :)

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Sam D @sam.diceexploder.com · 22/05/2026

I was on Alex's podcast for one last dip into Band-Aids & Bullet Holes before the campaign starts wrapping up next week. Love this show, and this was a good record!

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Alex MJ 🎲🎃 @mixuppixels.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Do you need to playtest a game's art? How essential is community to game design? Who is the mysterious figure that inspired the now-iconic Barf artwork? All this and more on the latest episode of Wait, Roll That Again with @diceexploder.com open.spotify.com/episode/7EIr...

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Playtesting the Art of Band-Aids and Bullet Holes (ft. Sam Dunnewold)

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Alex MJ 🎲🎃 @mixuppixels.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Just wrapped up a beautiful, 3 session mini campaign of City of Winter with 4 of my friends last night. What an absolutely beautiful game!! Such an Emotional roller-coaster and the perfect ending for our characters

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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

all kickstarters are governed by the interplay between two equations: (# of backers) x (average backer pledge) and (product MSRP) = (manufacturing cost) * [at least] 8

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SoulMuppet Publishing @soulmuppet.co.uk · 18/05/2026

📣We're trying something completely NEW today and sharing our first customer survey! We want to learn a little bit about the folks that follow us, which of our games they play and enjoy, what they want to see from us in the future etc. Share your thoughts here: forms.gle/8XoqhgeSGNec...

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SoulMuppet Publishing Customer Survey (2026 Edition)

Hi fans of SoulMuppet. This is a survey for us to learn more about you as a customer and help support you (and others) better in the future. We want to learn a little about who you are, what your le...

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satah 🛸 @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online · 17/05/2026

these episodes are So Good, please go round out them out by submitting your thoughts on turning these movies into games so we can chat about them!!!!!

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Alex MJ 🎲🎃 @mixuppixels.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

This absolute gem of a podcast is a new favourite of mine!! So excited for these episodes and a good excuse to watch these films

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Alex MJ 🎲🎃 @mixuppixels.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I just discovered a new third-party reaper plugin that would speed up my podcast editing sooo much... ...right in the middle of my current editing process. New episode of Wait, Roll That Again! out this week! I'm chatting with @diceexploder.com (my first return guest!) about his new game!

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Alex MJ 🎲🎃 @mixuppixels.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Looking great today, Vienna! (At the Song Protest against Israel's participation in Eurovision here in Austria)

In front of the Art Historical Museum Vienna, a protest group stands in front of a stage holding many Palestinian flags

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Em @ema-acosta.com · 15/05/2026

Save the date y’all!

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Sam D @sam.diceexploder.com · 13/05/2026

Let's track the character sheet for Band-Aids & Bullet Holes over the course of design. "But wait," you say. "The game doesn't have a character sheet!" Well then this should be extra interesting.

A pile of character sheets laid out on a black table, each for a chicken-headed fella named Lockhart. Playing cards with writing on them are interspersed throughout the sheets.

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Alex MJ 🎲🎃 @mixuppixels.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

@goodenough.us hey team, is there any way to share a preview of a pika blog before it is published? I'd like to share a copy with friends before it goes live!

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I was just saying to a friend in Reform-laden UK that the worst thing about the turn to fascism everywhere is that every piece of “the establishment” has at best shrugged and let it happen, if not promoted and normalised it. NZ government must raise hell about this. Our own future depends on it!

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Alex MJ 🎲🎃 @mixuppixels.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Writing a blog post right now trying to reckon with the future of my design podcast Wait, Roll That Again. I'm struggling quite a bit with the show, and my computer's recent decision to slow down and interrupt my ability to edit has prompted me to think about the direction I want the show to go...

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BenjiWentBananas 🎲🎮 @benjiwentbananas.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Come check out our event here in Vienna that I run together with the prolific @mixuppixels.bsky.social in collaboration with Paradice.wien

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Sam D @sam.diceexploder.com · 01/05/2026

Wrote a follow-up piece to this where I took all these design questions I sometimes kick around while working on a game and applied them to Band-Aids & Bullet Holes: diceexploder.com/posts/a-doze...

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A Dozen-ish Questions for Designing Your Game: In Practice - Dice Exploder

A month ago or so I wrote this post about some questions I like to ask myself throughout the design process. One of my big mantras from doing Dice Exploder...

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Wes Franks @carrion-comfort.com · 29/04/2026

Less than 48 hours to go for #FormulaInfiniti and we are only $1k away from our next stretch goal featuring The Wanderer solo rules adapted for F-Infiniti by @moreblueberries.bsky.social and there's more @plusoneexp.bsky.social has in store for you www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...

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F-Infiniti

Break the Speed of Sad with this standalone racing supplement for Orbital Blues.

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