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When a level does get verified it's then made publicly playable, so he quickly went online to play it himself. But can you guess? Everyone in the Geometry Dash scene doing the same thing has crashed the servers.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 1h

My kiddo is flipping out right now. He just saw the hardest level in the history of Geometry Dash get verified (which means someone played it fairly to completion to prove it's do-able). A guy had been trying for two years and just did it. It took him 436,879 attempts.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 6h

Some people's lives and circumstances are so good from a young age that it's unlikely they'll ever become game designers.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 12h

"Hey Bryan Johnson, look, you could have done yourself in for a fraction of the cost with this one weird trick."

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 03/10/2026

ARRIVING NEXT FRIDAY: Devil Town by Long Tail Games with Portland band The Builders and The Butchers A card-based multiplayer storytelling RPG about your dark past and your strange present - can you beat the Devil at his own game?

An example card spread from Devil Town. Visible: game box, instructions, Fate Cards (relationships, objects), and poker-like hands of playing cards with song lyrics on them

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It absolutely was game design. I never lie about games.

A journaling game by Paul Czege titled Seeds and Honey written for this year's Pike's Peak Zine Fest Anthology. It's a two-page spread. You can't clearly read the text, but the art shows a woman baking bread and a black and white hen.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Six journaling games all published within a month. No author names on them. They're certainly AI. 🤮This is the second seller with multiple AI generated journaling games I've seen. The AI sloppers think journalgamers are an easy mark?

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula This guy was a collab by me and John Singer Sargent for the front of a journaling game by me and my son.

The front of Vampyres Are People Too, "a journaling game about being a vampyre and making your life better" by Czege & Son. the illustration is John Singer Sargent's Dr. Pozzi at Home, of the handsome gynecologist in a red robe, photoshopped to look like an un-handsome vampyre.

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It absolutely was game design. I never lie about games.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dickhead game designer makes game after game he just shows his friends and never publishes.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hoping to come across as healthy for my annual wellness appointment today.

A white guy with dark framed glasses and a close-cropped beard with some grey in it, wearing an Indianapolis Clowns t-shirt.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Someone gave Trump advice that being a wartime president during a midterm election would be an electoral asset.

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Anthony Ortega (he/him) @am0.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy Oct 1. It's my favorite time of the year, so I wanted to create something to get into the spooky mood. I made a #solojournalingrpg #zine you can print and play. It's called A Ghost's Story; you are a ghost answering a visitor's questions, but you can only use one word! Free at a0rtega.itch.io

a photo of a small form zine folded into its booklet form. It is standing on top of an unfolded version of the zine. In the background is the original artwork for the zine. Also in the background is a replica of a human skull underneath a lamp.

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In my personal newsletter this week: 16 thoughts on what happened at Cornell. amandalitman.substack.com/p/on-cornell

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16 thoughts on what happened at Cornell

I don’t have an essay. Just rage.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I take a fresh photo just like this too when I release a new journaling game/zine, and the subtext is always the worthiness of collecting them. In all other art spheres people collect the whole of a creator's work, knowing it's expressively related. For some reason games people buy onesy twosie.

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Quinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Been feeling frustrated (mostly with myself) about game design lately, so let me take a moment and take a small amount of pride in what ive released in the last couple of years. Here are my beautiful books/trifolds:

Four A5 sized books and four trifolds on a table

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Night Noon Games 🔜 ArcaneCon!!! @nightnoon.games · 01/10/2026

Another reminder that Zine Quest/Month is just FOUR MONTHS AWAY!!! If you're not already cooking something up, it's time to start. I'm working on something myself, but it's not quite ready to announce yet. Want a hint? It involves Mr. Perils & Princesses himself, @outridercreative.bsky.social !

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Three orders for The Ink That Bleeds in 24 hours, all from people in the U.K. Someone must have mentioned it somewhere.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

In several prior videos I've seen Kylie turn that spinner rack past copies of The Ink That Bleeds and Be With Me to find some other game he wants to talk about. But THIS TIME ‼️ he pulls The Balsam Lake Unmurders off the rack and talks about how much he loved playing it. #journalGaming

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When I write about playing journaling games, in The Ink that Bleeds, and in my other zines and games, with excerpts from my own play and summarizing of it, my goal is for readers to have both of two reactions: 1) A sense that journalgaming is affecting and meaningful 2) A belief they can do it

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How old were you when someone first attempted to bribe you with a life-changing amount of money?

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not one of these damn emojis captures my current state of political loathing, creative chaos, and complicated desire.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Look at that pointing journalgaming finger with the quill pen! You know you'll have a use for it.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 29/09/2026

What's on your bookshelf that the Internet Archive doesn't have? There's an app for that. Scan a book's barcode or ISBN to see whether the Internet Archive needs it for preservation and digitization. Scan your shelves. Save a book. help.archive.org/help/donate-... 🧵

Four "Tools You Can Use" Upload campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and yellow tile with a folder icon reading "Upload" and "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Upload digital materials to help preserve and share knowledge with people around the world." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive's Upload files page, with the "UPLOAD" nav link and "Choose files to upload" button circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Other game makers are way smarter about appealing to the consumer urges of gamers than me. Like what the hell am I even doing sometimes. 🫤

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Whoever provided the Cornell rape victim's identity to the doxx mob should be sentenced to pay for her tuition and healthcare and therapy for life.

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tor, mud skeleton @toothandshore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"What's he doing?" "Sure doesn't look like game design." "How would you know what game design looks like. You're a sheep." "It doesn't even look like breathing." "Good point. So game design looks like death?" "Seems so."

The faces of three of the sheep from The Sheep Detectives, looking down at someone who's dead

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

one of my most sacred & cringe book release rituals is to buy something that matches the cover and honestly i crushed it this time

a late-thirties white woman doing a bathroom mirror selfie. i'm holding an orange book and wearing an orange sweater, looking pleased with myself

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Phil, Ziapelta Games @gruefodder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lavender Hack kickstarter is live here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/lav... It's a short campaign, running for 10 days. Check it out for an interesting take on handling resources in fantasy exploration games!

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Lavender Hack RPG: Grindcore Edition — Book #1 (Core Rules)

You are not limited by your imagination. You are limited by crushing levels of debt.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was pretty sure Trump would take an axe to Title IX when he got re-elected, and that the Title IX USPS postage stamps would be an irritation to him, so I bought a bunch before they got removed. So as of today if you're in the US and you buy a game/zine from me you're getting a Title IX stamp.

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Emily Carding @emilycarding.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Special 23% off discount code for our Key of Dreams Halloween shows- SINISTER The Key of Dreams | One of a kind Lovecraftian immersive experience share.google/DgQKrBI7bI2T...

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The Key of Dreams | One of a kind Lovecraftian immersive experience

A one of a kind Lovecraftian experience. Immersive theatre, narrative puzzles, fine dining in an interactive occult macabre world which you help shape.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 18/09/2026

and they had the fucking brass balls nerve to act like I was being mean to them! that just overbakes my salmon just thinking about it. and the $1500 per title i get from anthropic is a slap in the face. I wouldn't have said yes for ten times that!

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Also, I love the presence of RPG creators at craft and art and zine events where they wouldn't have been just a few years ago. I bought a RPG last night with its own narrowly inspired original system. It's basically Jurassic Park and all your character stats are about escaping danger.

A RPG rulebook for a game of escaping from a dinosaur park by a creator in Colorado named Stacy Mitchell. It's clearly inspired by Jurassic Park. It has its own rulesystem called DODGE!. The cover art is a black and white drawing of a t-rex splashing in a stream. There's a square black and white sticker promoting the creator's other Mork Borg derived game WITCH.

The player sheet for the "Prehistoric Perils" DODGE! game showing the character stats are DODGE, DUCK, DIP, DIVE, DODGE!.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The NYT absolutely knows people in our awful Trump economy are trying to feed their families on charity food they've been given.

The top of a recipe in today's New York Times for a dry looking "Cheesy Carrot and Lentil Loaf". It's obviously aimed at people trying to figure out what to do with the six bags of dry lentils they were given in a charity food box. Lower in the recipe it recommends serving it with gravy.

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Heart of the Deernicorn @heartofthedeernicorn.com · 24/09/2026

Live on our YouTube channel and on our podcast, Momo interviews game designer Paul Czege. Together they chat about solo RPGs, tarot, and the subconscious mind. Watch the whole interview on our YouTube channel and wherever you listen to podcasts. #ttrpg #ttrpgcommunity #sologame #gamedesign #solorpg

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I literally just posted how much I love seeing RPG creators at craft and art and zine and other events where they wouldn't have been just a few years ago.

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Cassi Mothwin 🧟‍♀️ @cassi.mothwin.com · 26/09/2026

Hanging out at Tower Grove Pride in St. Louis this weekend!

Cassi Mothwin standing in a purple canopy full of roleplaying games.

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Sam Robson @dungeonofthedragon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Day 2 of #Wishcon! Here’s what’s we have left.

A game booth at Wishcon. A sign proclaims that these are tabletop games by kiwis, for you! Decorative leaves array the back of the stall.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My most interesting take-away from the night market at Creeporado yesterday was seeing that sellers have almost entirely switched away from business cards to stickers with fun art and their contact information. Totally makes sense. I just hadn't perceived it until was pretty much everyone doing it.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Texting with my kiddo while he's at the school pep rally. Kiddo: Why did you say to go to this. It's so boring. I should have skipped it. Daddy: It won't be too long. Kiddo: A kid said until 3:50. Daddy: No way. That's another 2.25 hours. It won't be that long unless they bring Trump out to speak.

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Paul Czege @paulczege.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I just don't know if I'm genrefluid or agenre.

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