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The full BINGO board, rules, and prizes have been posted in my discord server! The game officially begins on Monday, but folks can start looking at the prompts, asking questions, discussing, etc. today. Prizes you say? Free games are on the table!

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There was one near my place in St. Paul, but it closed up a few months ago.

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I hope the joy of seeing the streetsweeper trundling by never diminishes for me.

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

IPR continues to be amazing. Thanks y'all ❤️

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Graftbound Press 🔜 PeopleCon III @graftbound.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Check out this Panel from @ttrpgkids.com at Origins about using skills from your Dayjob to move into the ttrpg space and the crossover within! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JloR...

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Dayjobs x TTRPGs Surprising Ways to Apply Your Skills from Origins Game Fair 2026 Hosted by TTRPGkid

YouTube video by TTRPGkids

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Graftbound Press 🔜 PeopleCon III @graftbound.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We'll be in Takoma Park for a local con at @peoplesbooktakoma.com on October 17th. This event is full of DMV Game Designers! Come by anytime between 12-5. The event is totally free to attend! More info: withfriends.co/event/290173...

"We'll be at People's Book. Saturday, October 17th from 12-5. PeopleCon 3. 7014 Westmoreland Ave, Takoma Park. MD

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is something @bridanann.bsky.social and I might be interested in. We both cut our teeth in RPGs working on anthologies for the Far Horizons co-op so they've also got a special place in my heart.

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Decided to go run with all my gold gear in Marathon solos for the hell of it and met 2 other guys at exfil, also completely gold. High fived each other, wished everyone a happy wipe day and exfilled together to go feed our respective vaults to the worm.

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Graftbound Press 🔜 PeopleCon III @graftbound.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So what is our next project? We are doing a Make 100! Emily is hand collaging 100 unique cards each with prompts on them. They are works of art, but also we'll be including a list of ways to use them to enhance your ttprgs. Follow to make sure you can get one of the 100 cards!

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Coming soon: 100 Collage Prompt Cards

Individual handmade collage cards to aid, enhance, and inspire your game play. Use as MTG tokens, Wildsea whispers, & Carta tableaus.

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Co-designing is a blast, and I think it's produced all of my best work that we've published through Bright Bard! Bonds Between is a labor of love from Emily, Bri, Lucas and I, and Trash to Treasure was equal parts Bri's love of magical girl media and my minigame design by the end.

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Bright Bard Games 🔜 Gamehole Con @brightbard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So proud to be able to make a game that gets to help real life wildlife through play ❤️

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Find Out Productions @findoutproductions.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Soon! Axolotls are critically endangered in the wild, so on October 15, we'll raise money for Adopt Axolotl, an initiative by the National Autonomous University of Mexico. And to help the axolotls defend themselves, we will give them GUNS, as we play Axolotl With A Gun by @brightbard.bsky.social

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You simply love to see it. Also, I love to see Hinokodo's Human Made icon! It's in literally all of our games.

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 01/10/2026

Just heard #PaxUnplugged is going full Human Made. Proud of em, it's my favorite gaming con. And it's nice to know they'd prefer to present the works of real creative human beings. That's one less sign booths need to make, but if you'd like to anyways, here's a free icon hinokodo.itch.io/human-made

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Human Made by HINOKODO

An icon pack made by humans

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This would rule so hard, I'm always glued to my booth all weekend

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I guess I'm getting my violin out, huh

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Knowing the content of that show, they very much belong there. The show and the soundtrack have some real range

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Boo de Danann @bridanann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This year my goal is to post a Stock Art Pack every month! Because I was unable to post a pack for July or August, I'm posting 3 for September! The third pack is another Space-Scape Background Pack! Available now for all your Sci-fi needs! bridanann.itch.io/space-scape-...

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Space Scape Background Pack 3 by Bri de Danann

3 space background images

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, I think something for a walk would have to be memorizable, although it could be fun to have it be an audio prompt? Like you snap a CD into your walkman and the game prompts you every couple minutes. 🤔

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'll hopefully be posting it in the next month or two! Bri and I have some plans for regular blog posts from the pair of us.

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Man I haven't opened Minnesota ELA common core standards in years, this is taking me back lol

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've been rolling around a blog post in my head for a while about this, and I think it'd be fun to write, just to talk about information delivery and implicit bias in your game rules.

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Really for me it's the act of starting at an high-level experience (Running a campaign of Axolotl with a Gun or writing a 5 research-driven paragraph essay), and then deciding what granular skills and combinations thereof are required to achieve that experience for the person reading the book.

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What I do now: Write a game book that (ideally) can teach an excited 10 year old and their slightly confused, maybe-played-D&D-once-in-college parents how to pretend to be axolotls with guns or trash goblin magical girls in the context of my game.

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've just been noticing a lot of the similarities in my thought process between what I used to do: Teach my 10th grade English students how to read, research, form a opinion, and write about it and then structuring a semester's worth of lessons about the necessary skills to do that. versus—

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, I think the analogy starts to fall apart a bit once we arrive at the actual act of teaching vs. playing a roleplaying game. I think the thing that struck me as most similar was the top-down lesson design method I was taught for planning K-12 units and lessons from common core standards.

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What are the first few years of teaching for if not intensive playtesting? Legit though I remember sitting at our kitchen table as a kid helping my mom pack and repack activity kits for her education classes after she'd run them and was changing stuff up in response to her classes that semester.

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Thread Theories @thread-theories.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The axolotl I made for @brightbard.bsky.social inspired me. We need more angy plush 🤣😡

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Y'all both worked on games that we were nominated for or won awards for this year! I simply could not do it without y'all.

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

D6 random manuscript encounters: 1️⃣Uh-oh! You need a pull table here 2️⃣Time to make a style decision (Roll again on punctuation table, PG XX) 3️⃣Past you: [WRITE SOMETHING COOL HERE] 4️⃣You Shift Keyed Too Close To the Sun 5️⃣This bit just rocks, actually 6️⃣You have entered the "holy fuck" zone. Good luck

A comment by me, reading: Uh oh! You've created the need for another pull table or two (Or a list that invites the GM to consider these questions during the other steps).

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's tough! And the longer or more complex the project, the harder it gets to separate yourself from it. It's part of why editors are so important (Thanks @willjobst.bsky.social and @phophos.bsky.social).

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Of all the game OSTs I listen to while I work, Hollow Knight and Silksong feature the most often appearances. Sometimes it's nice to imagine I'm just chillin' with Quirrel in the City of Tears and writing while he broods.

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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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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Structuring your rulebook is functionally indistinguishable from structuring units and lessons as a teacher. Challenging your own implicit biases (Your knowledge of your game and TTRPGs/games in general) is essential to creating an accessible player experience in your game.

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Graftbound Press 🔜 PeopleCon III @graftbound.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Coming soon to Kickstarter: We're celebrating our love of collage with a make 100/zine month project coming at the start of 2027 The core of this project is 100 individual unique hand made cards, each with a text prompt on them to enhance your games, or get inspired to create with. Follow the KS👇

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Coming soon: 100 Collage Prompt Cards

Individual handmade collage cards to aid, enhance, and inspire your game play. Use as MTG tokens, Wildsea whispers, & Carta tableaus.

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Elliot Davis | Pre-Save To Feel Your Warmth @moreblueberries.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To Feel Your Warmth is coming to BackerKit on October 20th. A duet vampire TTRPG about love, trust, and the decision to move forward together or say goodbye forever. It is an evolution of the mechanics behind The Time We Have, but what specifically is changing? ⬇️

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To Feel Your Warmth - A Tragic Vampire Duet TTRPG

Get notified when To Feel Your Warmth - A Tragic Vampire Duet TTRPG launches on BackerKit!

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love when minigames. unique minigames for everyone

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Axolotl with a Gun by a WIDE margin, followed by Terminus and LGBT over the last 4 years (though the AwaG and LGBT only released 2 years ago). Trash to Treasure is our 2nd biggest earner after AwaG, if not the most popular (likely because of the higher price point). Also: Pins. So many pin sales.

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh like you wouldn't believe. And Axolotl with a Gun has a straight up gravitational pull

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Bright Bard Games 🔜 Gamehole Con @brightbard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Rocking the corner booth set up at Hello Boba today!

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's one of my favorite design spaces to explore! I think it's fun to observe and imagine magic in our everyday mundanities (and I think it helps us ground ourselves and think like artists). Terminus, Bonds Between, and I Crave the Loop all do a little bit of this kinda thing.

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bri and I wrote a little game called Missives from the Void for people to play in exchange for a free sticker and it's been the most charming thing in the world. A group of 3 children played it with us and watching them scavenger hunt for interesting items was the cutest thing I've seen all month

The cover of missives from the void, a scavenger hunt game about discarded items

The instructions for missives from the void, in which you tell stories about discarded objects in your vicinity at a market or convention.

An interior space in the games pamphlet layout to draw and write

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, I think it's really enchanting and carefully made fantasy. The characters have really rich inner lives and those are reflected in both their magic and the conflict in the world. The soundtrack struck me almost immediately, I've found it really unique and interesting, but I'm also a music nerd

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Jon Boo-yle 🎃 @residentbard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's a great show! I've been thinking a bunch about it too (and listening to the soundtrack, Zoltraak is a banger)

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