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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 57m

Delighted to have another bite-sized interview up, this time with London based designer Tor @toothandshore.bsky.social After reading, why not go and check out (and back!) their crowdfunder to bring a new solo game to life 😀 planesailinggames.com/interviews/2...

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Interviewing Tor

Meet Tor, a Londoner who wants to bring mudlarking to the masses. What is mudlarking? Read on!

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 5h

I’ve added my voice to the campaign, and if you are in the UK I’d love it if you considered adding your voice to the campaign too. Our wildlife reserves are precious. Data centres are not.

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As well as books, posters, games and all sorts, I also do editorial illustration. Here's some of my work for the independent, (award-winning!) news site londoncentric.media Thanks to editor @jim.londoncentric.media for being a pleasure to work with! #illustration #art

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 7h

I'm in what I hope is just a tricky interregnum at the moment as multiple pitches & jobs fell through & unfortunate circumstances have delayed moving ahead with my new book at the pace I'd like. I'm trying to find solutions but if you like my work, a few tips would quickly add up: ko-fi.com/timclare

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Buy Tim Clare a Coffee

Become a supporter of Tim Clare today!

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Ross Payton @rosspayton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We're getting ready to launch the Kickstarter for Ludonarrative Dissidents season 4 on October 13. We have a high level reward for backers to make us run an online game for them. Why not make us try to run an unplayable game like Continuum? www.patreon.com/RPPR/posts/l...

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 6h

I can’t quote or reply to the original post, but was stunned by this interesting article by Myra Cheng of Stanford, published in Science. tl;dr; genAI is sycophantic and this is bad for our relationships. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence

Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...

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Jason Pitre @genesisoflegend.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good news; we are currently running a clearance sale for copies of our SF game of memetic horror, After the War. You can pick up a copy for 50% off while supplies last from @ipr.bsky.social at www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/After-...

After the War: Science-Fiction RPG of Memetic Horror

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

COMING SOON: In prelaunch w/ Violent Delights, another game inspired by Shakespeare: Mousetrap is a cursed game-within-a-game that won’t go back into its box. It’s game night. You and your friends have gathered to play a Hamlet-inspired game manuscript from 1983. But there’s a catch…

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Coming soon: Mousetrap & Violent Delights

A cursed game-within-a-game that won't go back into its box, and a chess-based RPG about Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Secrets are scattered throughout the game, revealing that you aren’t its first victims. The game text, which was found and reconstructed by Dr. Cornelia Foote, is lined with her notes. They may be the key to rescuing you — and breaking the curse for good. But you will have to play again. And again.

Secrets, anomalies, and easter eggs. Anomalies flipped in every direction.

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mousetrap's framework is based on the Bakers' Firebrands. You alternate between mini-games and vignettes — mini-games that depict common interactions between players at the table and scenes that depict your characters in the fictional Castle Muldoon. Until your player and your character swap!

Immerse yourself in the game. Bring your characters to life. Cross the magic circle. Concentric circles. In the outer circle are the titles of mini-games and the Players at the Table. In the inner circle are Muldoon Vignettes and Characters in the Castle.

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SoloRPGList @solorpglist.com · 29/09/2026

Ending soon the HUGE Solo September Games Bundle for solo TTRPGs 🧡 rpg-trader.com/products/835... Includes narrative-focused, world-building, dungeon/hex/point crawling, epistolary, roguelike, LARP, rules-light, puzzles, journaling games and so more!

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Solo September Games Bundle on RPG Trader

A collection of 134 games to play on your own. In partnership with Solo RPG List.

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 18h

Rather than your standard press release, I talk a little bit about what drew me into making Mousetrap, about what feels both Shakespearean and dramatic about Firebrands-style games, about metagames. I hope you'll check it out, via @rascal.news!

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In Mousetrap, metagames and Shakespeare meet with Firebrands mini-games

The cursed game-within-a-game has landed on Kickstarter

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Jason Pitre @genesisoflegend.bsky.social · 23h

Once More Into the Void is 50% off until the end of the year, at which point we need to dispose any remaining full-colour hardcopies. This is the last, best chance to pick up your copy, with all proceeds going to to support @temporalhiccup.bsky.social www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Once-M...

A banner for Once More into the Void with the tagline, "Save the Galaxy, One Last Time".

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 20h

What’s a poster you had in your room growing up? I’m pretty sure that I’m going to be unique here!

A swedish Nautiskt Bildlexikon poster, showing schematics of sailboats, yachts, turrets, sextants and more.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 20h

I see there is a new point version of Affinity out. This screengrab shows the new features which are included in this hour long video they have produced www.youtube.com/live/Dqm9HHV...

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 28/09/2026

Work is still progressing on my Romance game, Road to Romance. I realise that I hadn’t written up one of my ‘actual plays’ so I’ve fixed that - it is a classic victorian romance planesailinggames.com/post/2025-09...

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Road to Romance - Victorian Mischief

A detailed write up of a game of classic victorian romance.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 28/09/2026

Games are fun to play with friends. Solo games can also be fun. Fun is good.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 28/09/2026

Just watched Fury (2014). Wow, that’s a bleak and uncompromising WW2 war film. No glorifying of war here. Tense and uncomfortable watch all the way through. www.imdb.com/title/tt2713...

Film poster for Fury, showing Brad Pitt standing in front of a Sherman tank with other crew around

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Jennifer Adcock @jenkatwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In case you missed it, I actually have FOUR playtestable games out right now - fully playable and fun, just a little rough around the edges, needing a little polish, you know. (And there might be a fifth before the year is over) YOU can indulge my project-juggling mania itch.io/c/6610878/pl...

An itchio collection with four projects in it: Collegiate Gothic, Blood of the Covenant, Pax Deorum, and Before the Season Ends.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 27/09/2026

Knowing how much you write about history, @garius.bsky.social , have you ever tackled the Christmas Truce in 1914?

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 27/09/2026

I liked this first time round, but think it is worth reposting - I find the lost world of Doggerland fascinating, and this speaks to it's ending too.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 27/09/2026

New game designer interview up on my website - a Czech designer Martina @sparklecz.bsky.social, who is planning a backerkit campaign to raise money to produce an international version of a campaign setting already successful in Czechia! planesailinggames.com/interviews/2...

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Interviewing Martina

Meet Martina, who wants to bring a Czech social arcanepunk success story to international audiences

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 27/09/2026

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Interviewing Martina

Meet Martina, who wants to bring a Czech social arcanepunk success story to international audiences

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 27/09/2026

I wonder if anyone here has an iPad mini 6 or later and has found a really lightweight front cover (only) for it? Earlier iPad mini had great front covers mag fixed at the side. Closed it protected the screen, open it gave a grippy hold at the back. Excellent.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 27/09/2026

Very clever reference to “They Live”!

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 26/09/2026

I hate phone fraudsters. One nearly got me just now. Remember the key rule. Hang up and call your bank directly on one of their published numbers.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 26/09/2026

I’ve fired up the DVD player to watch Disney’s Atlantis from 2001. It’s a great film, but I forgot how horrible the experience of using a DVD was! Everything you had to skip (or couldn’t skip) before getting to the menu!

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Milo Thatch: Pause For Effect from Atlantis

Alt: Milo Thatch: Pause For Effect from Atlantis

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 26/09/2026

Swing the videos of the new iPhone duo, and I can’t help wishing they would bring that multitasking back to the iPad.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 25/09/2026

Today I learned that the Nomad Games includes the sport of horseback wrestling!

A man on a black horse with a wide blue cloth belt is attempting to drag a man on a white horse with a red belt off his mount

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Chris Gardiner @chrisgardiner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can only imagine Tolkein, stressed, wild-eyed, frantically cramming more tobacco in his pipe, screaming at his publisher “No, I don’t know what happens to the ring in the end. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PONIES, ANTHONY? WHAT ABOUT THE PONIES?!??”

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

De Gaulle's takeover WAS a military coup, btw. Sorry. But if there are literally paratroopers prepping to drop on the capital, with tanks waiting to roll into Paris then it is not a Sparkling Emergency Prime Minister appointment It is a coup, from the coup region of France.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 25/09/2026

I like Macstories, and their indepth reviews, but the text I’ve hear really sounds like they drank the kool-aid from the designers of Liquid Glass. Having UI elements DOES NOT emphasise the content space. It obscures it.

Liquid Glass is still here, as is the focus on minimizing Ul chrome **and emphasizing the content space**

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 25/09/2026

That’s a depressing video about the idiocy of the YouTube copyright system

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 23/09/2026

Really and interesting thread about some current affairs

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David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Scotch Lass gets her own chapter in here.

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Daniel Kwan @danielhkwan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Putting a call out for TTRPG artists! Doing an initial discovery for an artist to work on a new cyberpunk, body horror action game I'm designing. Please link your portfolio! NO AI.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 22/09/2026

In a blast from the past of missed tech opportunities, take a look at PenPoint. I was a licensed penpoint developer back in 1991, and many of its advances eventually arrived 15 years later - but some are still to be realised! youtu.be/x0XE08BjQDQ Effectively killed by Microsoft FUD at the time.

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GO Corporation - Introducing PenPoint (1991)

YouTube video by donbondio

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 20/09/2026

More Greece sketches, this time of the coast at New Makri #sketches

Coastline with distant mountains and a rocky promontory with a small person just visible on it

A swimmers beach, dotted with beach umbrellas, bathers in the sea and a woman lounging on a towel.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 20/09/2026

I’ve heard of Steven Universe before but never seen it. This thread has convinced me that I want to watch it.

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 18/09/2026

Two more sketches from Greece, this time from Athens #sketching

The temple atop the acropolis peeking over the edge for the entrances to the theatre. Includes some light vegetation

I found a nice little square in the Plaka area with a view of the acropolis in the distance. Crowded little houses either side of the main view. A flag flies in a desultory fashion atop the walls.

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Ramona @alderdoodle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm just an artist, standing in front of a game designer, asking them to check out my freebie library full to the brim with page decor that's ✨free✨ for personal and commercial use 😌 ko-fi.com/alderdoodle/...

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Alex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 17/09/2026

Share the last four ttrpgs you played. If the stars are right. Before the Season Ends Zhenya’s Wonder Tales Nine Space Games Escape The Apocalypse

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Set Piece Games @setpeicegames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Take a look at Tail End Charlie by Alex White, @planesailinggames.com. It’s a thought provoking game from a great designer. it really brought me into the modern world of Solo Gaming. Before that I was still doing Traveller Character Generation, or game prep, for the solo itch.

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