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Jim Rossignol

@rossignol.bsky.social
9.7K followers 3.6K following 7.6K posts

Writer. Makes books, games. Co-founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Big Robot (Sir, You Are Being Hunted). Now: TEETH RPG, MILESHIPS. And oldmenrunningtheworld.com email: jim at big-robot.com

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Rudolf Kremers @rudolfkremers.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Well, we finally announced Eufloria 2: store.steampowered.com/app/4415060/... My nerves are shredded but I'm relieved. "Ambient intergalactic floral conquest" "Full contact space gardening" Will come with a cool godot-based editor. #indiegames #cozy #rts #strategy #4x #godot
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Eufloria 2 on Steam
Eufloria 2 is the sequel to 2009's indie hit "Eufloria", featuring major gameplay additions and innovations, and a powerful level editor. Intergalactic floral conquest has EVOLVED to the nex...
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Being a despicable loudmouth giving you access to great riches seems like a serious flaw in the system.
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Incredible.
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Absolutely chilling.
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Post-twitter trauma is such that I have mute posts that do well because I get an anxiety attack when I see a lot of notifications.
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Computer games: not just for kids!
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Are we *sure*
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It employs more people, for sure, it just makes a lot less money.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 05/10/2026
Luke half-seriously wonders: What if...everyone just re-released old consoles instead of trying to sell $1000+ new ones? aftermath.site/ps2-xbox-re-re...
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
other day i was at david lynchs grave just having a moment of thought and admiration and lookin down at all the flowers, and coffee cups, and two cookies and a coke, and wow it just hits you like a thousand suns that art is immortal. creation is too radiant to contain in a body. we trot across time
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Giada Zavarise ➡️ AdvX @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The funniest/saddest reaction to this amazing article has been people going "wait, Stellaris has WRITERS?" Yes folks, if a game has words... someone probably got paid to write them... even if that game isn't an RPG or a visual novel...
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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The final episode of Ludonarrative Dissidents season 3 is up, and it's been worth the wait. We present a three-hour actual play of classic map-based community game The Quiet Year, with two special guests: @ecfriedman.com and the game's designer @lackingceremony.bsky.social. This is an absolute treat
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.
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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I wrote IN SEARCH OF THE ENGLISH #VAMPIRE for the special Darkness Issue of #HELLEBORE in 2023. A bespoke small press publication devoted to British folk horror, founded in 2019 by Maria J. Pérez Cuervo. Link to this back issue below! #Gothtober #31daysofHalloween
page from Hellebore's Darkness Issue, 2023.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"38% of 18-24 year-olds know someone who suffered serious harm from a health decision based on misinformation" Comrade @petewilton.bsky.social doing important work in the battle against misinformation the-spectrum-of-misinformation.ghost.io/health-under...
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snuurg @snuurg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
...or, in preference of the proper sort, and as there's apparently a #frogtober thing going on, here's a solid sculpture of one of our mate Merrick's multiple characters from #wyrdworld; his name is unutterable in the human tongue, the nearest equivalent being "Fftt-Shhing" - the supposed sound of >
sculpture of an anthropomorphic frog, posed in a crouch, equipped with a retractable fighting-spur on his left arm and wielding a sword in his right. Another sword is sheathed across his back, along with a backpack.
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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every month Failbetter invites a guest writer from the wider world of games and fiction to contribute a subscriber story. They’re brave and weird and funny and choice-driven and perhaps they could become a welcome part of your routine too. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/fa...
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Fallen London is where the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Dishonored and Stellaris come to let their hair down
These interactive short stories are too bold and surprising to stay secret.
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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"These are the first shoots of a future folklore emerging from an urban Britain that might look soulless and secular but under the surface remains very strange indeed, rippled with weird undercurrents." @garetherees.bsky.social
 A photo of a copy of the 2020 Elliott & Thompson edition of Unofficial Britain by Gareth Rees. The cover design is by Jack Smyth.
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Superb.
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Jon Juarez @harriorrihar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cover for a story by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social vandermeer , author of *Southern Reach*.
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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Best Of 2000AD cover what I did #dayofdredd
Digital painting, cover illustration for Best Of 2000AD book. A scene on the mean streets of Mega City One
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Nathan Hall (WIP A Fort in Winter) @nathanhallwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You ever think, what I want isn't to be a successful author. That would be cool, but no. What I want is a UBI that lets me write full-time. I'd be unstoppable.
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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Digital painting, floaty boat in yellow and rust
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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
thinking about this again and smiling
“james hennessy: it's sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing "OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers"... man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
Sep 27, 2023 at 9:32 pm”
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Truly, we just want to sell our little books about goblins and I am thinking about where I sign up to lobby the government over EU membership.
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The absolutely state of this. (Also I found myself thinking this morning about how I have become someone who worries about international trade conditions, fml.)
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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 22/09/2026
Nighthawks is OUT! When the sun sets, outcasts rise. Gather new friends, face old prejudices, and prepare to seize the night in Nighthawks, the vampire RPG where the secret is out... but the hunt continues. Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/... GOG: www.gog.com/en/game/nigh...
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh hello
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JellyMuppet @jellymuppet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou... I say without exaggeration that this project is the best writing I have ever done, and Klur's art is gorgeous. Please give it a look and a share, and maybe pick up a copy :)
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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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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Adjust the car seat to fit my longer legs and saying "ah, this takes me back."
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nothing is so good.
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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I do love teaching people how to create their imaginary cities using @inkle.co's ink...
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A year on from me starting it, I complete my list of 101 TTRPGs I played before my 50th birthday. How did you spend your birthday? I bet it wasn't doing your work and then hammering out 3.5k words about the chatgames with funny dice (or no funny dice, or no dice.) #ttrpg
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My 101 Favourite TTRPGS: 10-1 - Old Men Running The World
Lawks. We've only gone and done it. I set myself a year to write about my 101 favourite TTRPGs. In my tribute to freelancers everywhere, I do almost all the
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Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor @derek-lieu.com · 30/09/2026
This part kills me 🤣 - "fall of" (11,527 results on Steam) - "echoes of" (2,750 results on Steam) - "shadow of" (8,243 results on Steam) Excellent insight from @itshannahflynn.bsky.social about game naming (I contributed a few words, too)
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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Designers & Dragons: Origins tells the tale of *each and every* product TSR released for OD&D, Basic D&D, and AD&D 1e. @shannonappelcline.bsky.social takes us on a tour de force through the early TSR catalog and it's a ride you won't want to miss! Reserve your copy now: evilhat.com/product/desi...
On the left, a copy of Volume 1 of Designers & Dragons Origins, featuring a red and gold dragon egg on the cover. On the right, a slipcase with Volumes 2-4 inside. The slipcase is adorned with a fire-breathing gold dragon frolicking on a treasure hoard. Caption: Delve Deep into History. In stores Monday October 5th.
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's bright and blustery in the UK right now. You know what that means. grid.iamkate.com
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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026
We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs
Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.
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gob-1.bsky.social @gob-1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have a very small footprint on social media, but for those that see this could you take a look at this please and respond of you wish to. Google (former motto "Don't be evil") want to build a data center on an Essex wildlife reserve. action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/200909/...
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Defend wildlife in Thurrock from a data centre
The Thurrock Local Plan is the perfect tool to ensure development does not damage nature.
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George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
found in a ditch on the way to the station digital painting
of iron bacteria underwater with conker leaves
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 30/09/2026
“A group of US hedge funds” does not, on the face of it, seem likely to be the kind of owner which would reverse decades of under-investment and tackle the coming fresh water crisis.
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Jank @jank.cool · 29/09/2026
I didn't expect THAT in the new Plague Tale game. www.jank.cool/resonance-a-...
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Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy review
Magical mystery minotaur
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JellyMuppet @jellymuppet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tell me, oh muse, of the launch of a crowdfunding project! Speak now of ATRAPOS, the inevitable goddess whose hand doth cut the measured strings of fate, deciding that hallowed time when heroes fall to the dark mists of death and projects go live on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is it me, or does Michaelmas start earlier every year?
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Genuinely waking up in the middle night to note down TTRPG ideas, that's how much time my brain now devotes to working on this stuff. When it should be sleeping. Probably fine.
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Ben Austwick / BiggusBennus @biggusbennus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I still find it astonishing that Sir Ian Livingstone is the only person knighted for services to the UK games industry. Film, TV and sport are constantly recognised with knighthoods, yet one of Britain's biggest creative industries has had just one.
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Ludipe @ludipe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
October is approaching, so I'm once again recommending you to get A Night In The Lonesome October. It's like a Halloween advent calendar, with each chapter taking place on one day of October. I read a chapter each day during October. Such a nice book.
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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 29/09/2026
Andrey Surnov's concept work for Jusant in my brain again this morning. Can't think of a game set among ruins that made me more desperate to see more of its world. So few games manage such an original and rich aesthetic, so sad the team never got to make more.
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