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Kyle Tam is Climbing Mt Moriah @percypropa.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I am so absolutely stunned and proud to say that We Wander Beneath Radiant Lights has been nominated for Best Setting in the Indie Groundbreakers! www.igdnonline.com/groundbreakers

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Indie Groundbreakers Awards — Indie Game Developer Network

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Kyle Tam is Climbing Mt Moriah @percypropa.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

So much love and care to @alamhigo.bsky.social my editor, @jnb.art who did the wonderful cover (and who has also done the work for multi-nominee Little Wolves), @neonrot.bsky.social who did the fabulous layout, and to @shoutingcrow.bsky.social for the original moon game jam.

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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 26/03/2026

Make your very own Plato’s Mech, a featherless biped armed with guns and lasers! Color it. Cut it out and customize as much as you'd like. Art by @shoutingcrow.bsky.social! BEHOLD: exeuntpress.itch.io/platos-mech

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Plato's Mech by Exeunt Press

Skeleton Code Machine MECH WEEK coloring contest

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Asa Donald | Backwards Tabletop @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Here's a link to the original essay. And if you enjoy this one, I recommend the essay that I wrote to conclude the series, which has had the most traffic. A Defense of Reading (or Reading as Play)🔗👇🧵

backwardstabletop.com

Essay: Bookplay in TTRPGs

An essay on how we play with books in ttrpgs, also SPINE the ttrpg

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Knave of Cups @knaveofcups.com · 30/12/2025

REMINDER: WE'RE ON WINTER BREAK! ⚠️THE ONLINE SHOP'S OPEN BUT WE WON'T SHIP AGAIN UNTIL JANUARY 2026⚠️ (You can also find us IRL - our vending machine mini-boutique awaits you during TPK Brewing Co's regular operating hours, 5051 SE Hawthorne PDX OR)

An arrangement featuring a meditating mushroom with a green cap and a humanoid body sitting in lotus pose. A tarot card featuring similar colors and a many-armed, glowing being hovers over the mushroom's shoulder

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SoloRPGList @solorpglist.com · 23/12/2025

New to the #SoloRPG List: This Frog is Ruining My Dungeon Crawl by @shoutingcrow.bsky.social You have to escape a horrible dungeon, armed with nothing but a magic frog! CLICKY: solorpglist.com/search.php?i...

Cover for the solo TTRPG: This Frog is Ruining my Dungeon Crawl. Cute illustration of a frog wearing a pointed hat and holding an antique key

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Shouting Crow @shoutingcrow.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Hey guys? For reasons, I'm gonna need you to go like the post I've quoted below. I need this adorable dragon.

A screenshot of two posts. The top post is made by Juniper, saying "I think sometimes it is important to draw a dragon the way your 9 year old self would have appreciated. Look at her. She's dreadful. What a splendid beast."
Below is a scrabbly-looking dragon in green.

The comment below this post is Tangent Joy, saying "If this gets 100 posts I'll add it to the game."

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Seth Johnson @inkslinger.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

DAY 1, GAME 7: This Frog is Ruining My Dungeon Crawl by @shoutingcrow.bsky.social is a silly and fun solo dungeon crawl game where you race to escape a failed dungeon raid, aided (and hindered) by a magical frog. A good quick play mix of story and strategy. @shoutingcrow.bsky.social

Cover art for THIS FROG IS RUINING MY DUNGEON CRAWL, featuring said frog wearing a fancy pointed party hat. Probably because he’s expecting you to bring him cake.

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Shouting Crow @shoutingcrow.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Haven't been online much, but here's a doodle I did recently of a CATAPHRACTS character I'm playing. They're... a really different vibe, for me. Usually I play big old dudes. Anyway, I swear I'm still alive!

A pretty blonde with a magician's wand sticking through their updo covers their mouth, looking surprised. They are wearing star-shaped jewelry and a high-necked tunic.
The light is soft and warm.

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Exeunt Press 💀🎲 @exeunt.press · 13/11/2025

For MECH WEEK last year, I teamed up with @shoutingcrow.bsky.social to release a Plato's Mech free paper doll coloring page. That's going to be hard to beat for SKIRMISH WEEK this year. Suggestions welcome. Wrong answers appreciated. exeuntpress.itch.io/platos-mech #skirmish #wargames

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Plato's Mech by Exeunt Press

Skeleton Code Machine MECH WEEK coloring contest

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Katt Kirsch @kattkirsch.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

"In that moment, the immersion, the *feeling* of play, was unlike anything I could have imagined a month ago, when I let my buddy cajole me into trying out Cataphracts in Space." OVER/UNDER: The Bleed Machine, a preview of thoughts to come. kattkirsch.bearblog.dev/overunder-th...

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Shouting Crow @shoutingcrow.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Picking up a pen and drawing something every day is a great way to build yourself up, especially when you don’t think of yourself as an artist. One day, you’ll feel like you’ve earned the title. Eventually you’ll realize you earned it the moment you picked up the pen. I’m proud of you, Exeunt.

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Michael - InnocentGoblin TTRPGs @innocentgoblin.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

A lot will be happening over on my Itch page, including a ton of print at home foldable versions of my games inspired by @shoutingcrow.bsky.social But until they are uploaded, from now you can grab a physical copy of Pirouette and Grotty Gobbo's Tea Grotto! These are VERY limited, only 7 of each

innocentgoblin.itch.io

Pirouette: A Solo Horror Ballet TTRPG by InnocentGoblin

The show must go on, even if it kills you!

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 08/11/2024

A comic about making comics (the alt text took longer to write than the comic did to draw * I drew this a few years ago)

A 14 panel comic, a top tier of five panels shows a drawing of me, and in each of the subsequent panels the drawing of me gets simpler and simpler, with a cartoony drawing, a crude cartoon, then a stick man, then a smily face then a simple blob. Each time I'm saying "Hi"
Tier two, panel one, the smiley face is sad and saying "PJ! I can't draw!" "How can I make comics"
Panel 2, me as a simple cartoon "Oh that's ok, comics work..."
panel 3, me as a very crudely drawn figiure my head tilted at a funny angle and Im saying "No matter your skill level"
Panel 4 more simplistic drawing of me holding a ruler "As long as you can (sorta) draw a straight line " "(I use a ruler)"
Panel 5 even more simple drawing "And a bubble"
next (final) tier
Panel 1
A simple circle with two dots for eyes and a small line for a mouth and a balloon coming from his mouth saying "People can be quite forgiving about the artwork"
Panel 2 the round simple face meets a spikey simple face, spikey says "I'm not - I like GOOD artwork" me - "Oh"
Panel 3 me (still a smiley face, but straight line mouth ) I have two stick arms raised up with little stick fingers and I'm saying "...Sorry..."
Spike says "Bah"
Panel 4 (last panel) Me, slightly better drawn (but only just) "OK - not everyone is quite forgiving about art" "BUT I AM" "Good luck!"

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Been a year. Time to repost this.

YOUR PORTFOLIO CRIT
THINGS I'D TELL YOU IF I WERE LOOKING AT YOUR WORK IN PERSON
1 Violating the 180 degree rule makes this sequence hard to follow
2 A few more incidental overlaps will make this foreshortening clearer
3 Symmetrical compositions with a character dead center imply an important moment. Don't draw every panel like that?
4 This __ looks kind of fake. Take the time to look at reference instead of just making it up
5 An establishing shot will help the reader understand where this takes place.
6 Find a life-drawing session to attend, or practice from photos online.
7 Show these pages to someone who doesn't know the story and ask them to tell the story back to you.
8. Nudge this part over a bit to eliminate that tangency.
9 You flattened out the depth by rendering the foreground, middle ground, & background with the same values. Create depth and direct the eye by organizing them into overlapping planes of light & dark.
10 there are better ways to use your time than rendering every brick.
11 these characters look like they're floating (or falling). Draw figures and bg from the same eye level.
12 Unless this will be a wordless comic, leave more room for the lettering

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Shouting Crow @shoutingcrow.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Oof, this one’s so heavy, I haven’t been able to commission art for it or finish the work myself. If you wanna feel some kinda way, check out this stream. Good luck, Wyvern!

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Shouting Crow @shoutingcrow.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Interrupting my summer of inactivity to say: oh holy crap, one of our blue pearl neocaridina shrimp is carrying eggs! There’s a little yellow shrimp just below her, to the right. Li’l bonus for ya.

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Shouting Crow @shoutingcrow.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Got a lot of new followers today, but I haven’t been very productive this summer. Please enjoy this (invasive) mollusk shell that my kid found in the river. We spend a lot of time outside this time of year, but I’ll be back to posting bookbinding, publishing, and TTRPG stuff in September!

A gold triangular bivalve shell with brassy stripes leaning against a piece of driftwood. It probably belonged to a zebra mussel before it was found as a half-shell in a local riverbed. After a boil and scrub, it is now decor in a sandy, well planted, but otherwise unoccupied fish tank.

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Plus One Exp @ 🔜 Metatopia @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

We bully people into great things in the Plus One discord. Also if you want to support @vidityavoleti.bsky.social's Longsword @hipolita.itch.io's RAD @apesofwrath.bsky.social's Down We Go Tony's Through The Void Or one of our other house systems we would love to help you

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Lone Archivist @lonearchivist.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I think about this a lot and definitely feel that a game is not truly complete until it has at least one adventure supplement to support it and show what playing that game is actually like. It's like a video game with no story. Cool mechanics but how do I use them?

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Shouting Crow @shoutingcrow.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

So you’re a game designer who wants people to write adventures for your system. Here’s how you facilitate that:

Captain America sits backwards in a chair in a school hallway, about to drop a public service announcement like a cool dude

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Plus One Exp @ 🔜 Metatopia @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Plus One is looking for 4 "Zine Weight" #TTRPS to help support next year in a very particular way. We want to run 4 titles by newer creators through 4 different "funding platforms" & track the process for each one. The platforms are: -Kickstarter -Backerkit -Gamefound -Zine Club 1/4

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Shouting Crow @shoutingcrow.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Write an adventure for an indie system you read or played recently. Go on, do it. Even if you don’t think of yourself as a game designer. It doesn’t have to be great— it just has to be playable. One page, back and front. Three pages. An unformatted google doc. A postcard dungeon. Doesn’t matter.

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Shouting Crow @shoutingcrow.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I try not to put spiders into my games, out of consideration for my arachnophobic friends, but I am making a terrarium for my girlfriend and look what I found while misting it today… webs! (This shot was selected because it does not have a visible spider) What a productive little dude.

A top-down shot into a not particularly well-established glass aquarium, featuring a cool rock, a few species of moss, and some dead root from a maple tree. Most of the image is occluded by a veil of fine webbing, which is only visible because it has been misted with a spray bottle.

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Isaac Williams @losing.games · 20/06/2025

A long time coming, but Mausritter now has an SRD! There’s a nice website where you can get the rules or download a markdown file, plus they’re now released under a CC-BY license so you’re free to use the rules text in your own projects mausritter.com/srd/

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Game Rules | Mausritter

The Mausritter SRD is a complete, free, and open-source reference for the Mausritter, the sword-and-whiskers roleplaying game.

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Shouting Crow @shoutingcrow.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

All my friends are running ads for their projects and I can’t be arsed to charge more than $5 for a PDF simply because the rat race takes all the fun out of making stuff. Ho hum.

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Adam Bell @adambell.games · 17/06/2025

play games outside your discipline, even if you don't like them. engage with why you do or don't like them. it's great practice! you should try to experience OSR, trad, storygame, gmless, solo, fkr, larp, etc and see how they warp your idea of what our goofy little hobby is

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Elizabeth Little @liz-shrikestudio.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Did you know that you can fit ~40 standard sized playing cards, five dice, and a rules sheet printed on the back of a J-card inside a cassette case without posts? Do something with this knowledge.

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Shouting Crow @shoutingcrow.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

It’s summer, so we’re enjoying the best of the season. I got some worm castings for the terrarium, too!

A heart-shaped strawberry sits on the tip of my juice-stained fingers. Behind it, a flat of berries, slightly out of focus.

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Shouting Crow @shoutingcrow.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

You can draw with shape tools in any layout program. Or sunlight and stencils and vegetable juice. Collage is a legitimate art form. You can paint with coffee. You can burn a stick to make charcoal. You don’t have to be “good at art” to make art. There is no gatekeeper. The process is the point.

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Alex Graudins @toonyballoony.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

The cover spread from a one page zine printout. The left (back cover) features images of a scale and gavel, with notes on First Amendment and filming rights, and the advice to “shut the fuck up.”

On the right is the cover, a megaphone with the title text “PROTEST SAFELY.” Behind it are faceless protestors. The subtitle notes, “A brief collection of tips from around the internet.”

A spread from one page zine printout.
On the left is an illustration of a protestor with the title “What to Wear,” including a helmet, goggles, ear plugs, gloves, a mask, a backpack, and layers/long sleeves/pants. Each have additional notes explaining their use.

On the right is “What to Bring,” featuring illustrations of a backpack, money, water bottles, a mask, a granola bar and bag of trail mix, a first aid kit, folded shirt and pants, and an ID, with “DIY Defense” listed underneath it showing one protestor using a luggage case, one holding a trash can lid, and one using an open umbrella as a shield.

A spread from one page zine printout.
On the left is “Protect Your Identity,” advising to cover up identifying features, avoiding photography of protesters, deactivating biometric phone-unlocking tools, and writing emergency contact and counsel numbers on your arm.

On the right is “Be Like Water,” the motto of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, and the text “BEWARE THE BAIT” with images of a palette of bricks and a masked man holding a crowbar toward a protestor with a sign, “Psst, free crowbar?” encouraging the reader not to engage with traps and undercover agents.

A spread from one page zine printout featuring the hazards of protest opposition, including tear gas, rubber bullets, and LRAD sound cannons and flash bangs. Caution tape images accompany the text explaining the dangers of each, how to flush out eyes that have been maced/etc, and how to extinguish a gas canister with a traffic cone.

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Shouting Crow @shoutingcrow.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Hey TTRPG crew. If you can't afford to hire a great artist like Evlyn (she's worth it, though) and you use Affinity Publisher to lay out your games, I can teach you how to draw this little bird using nothing but shape tools. You don't need fancy equipment to make half-decent art and I'll prove it: 🧵

A super zoomed-in picture of a chubby brown sparrow sitting on a wooden deck. He is perched directly on top of a scattering of seeds.

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Plus One Exp @ 🔜 Metatopia @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

HELLWHALERS: The Book of Leviathan is live Based on our best selling #ttrpg of dammed sailors on the seas of hell hunting demon whales, this zine expands play with content by the original team! @mossdaggar.bsky.social @boguscheesecake.bsky.social & crew have made something amazing! ttrpg.link/bol

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HELLWHALERS: Book Of Leviathan

A companion book of expanded content for the original TTRPG of nautical and Christian-religious horror, HELLWHALERS. Fish for new horrors in hell's oceans, discover new consequences for gambling with ...

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Moss Powers, with Eyes to PaxU @mossdaggar.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Digital 'What If' rules for tactical skirmish wargaming against the Hellwhale with every backing of the book. A deadly naval combat against hell's foulest sea beast. Entirely tables of procedural events for every roll of the dice. New scraps of horrific lore, and two haunting epilogues.

A sic bo board with illustrations of whales, harpoons, and skeletons in the marginalia.

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Roque Romero - Comms closed @roqueromero.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

1/ Pues no había leído todavía 24XX de Jason Tocci, pero la excusa de un artículo sobre tablas para crear acervo, me ha empujado a ello, con más razón teniendo traducción pagaloquequieras de @laesquinadelrol.com y ocupando lo básico un folio por las dos caras... #lodelrol

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24XX SRD by LA ESQUINA DEL ROL GAMES

Un SRD para crear juegos tipo Lo-Fi Sci-Fi

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Sam Langford @samsighs.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Making a poster for your TTRPG Actual Play or cast announcment? Can I please recommend using a colour contrast checker? I see so many graphics which don't pass accessibity checks. colourcontrast.cc

colourcontrast.cc

Colour Contrast Checker

Check the contrast between different colour combinations against WCAG standards.

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Robin J @cozyrpgreviews.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

New review up! A double feature this time: Wands & Laserguns, and This Frog is Ruining my Dungeon Crawl by @no-name-games.com and @shoutingcrow.bsky.social Two short and silly little solo zines that helped me enjoy RPGs even when I didn't feel up to my usual games. youtu.be/c8zIN0GGmpM

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Wands & Laserguns and This Frog is Ruining my Dungeon Crawl | Double RPG Review

YouTube video by Cozy RPG Reviews

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Shouting Crow @shoutingcrow.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Genuinely worth checking out, folks. Very much something I’m looking for the right group to play with me.

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Shouting Crow @shoutingcrow.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Nobody will make you do worldbuilding faster than a new player. What books are on the shelf? Can I read them? Can I find a book about the origins of magic? Why does spell crafting work like that? How does one go about making custom spells, anyway?

media.tenor.com

Indianajones Raidersofthelostark GIF

Alt: Indiana Jones shrugs at a companion, saying “I don’t know, I’m making this up as I go.”

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Sticky Doodler 🖍️ Color Jam @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The Bonsai Diary is now live on Kickstarter. Grow a tree with pen and ink and play to find out: What does it mean to leave a legacy? 💚 It's a meditative and tranquil drawing and journaling experience. Please consider backing it: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sti...

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the Bonsai Diary

Find tranquility with this meditative draw-and-journal game.

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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 01/06/2025

New journal INTERLACE devoted to mathematics & fiber arts: interlace-journal.org 🧮 #mathart

interlace-journal.org

Interlace home page

Interlace: A Journal of Mathematics and Fiber Arts

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Moss Powers, with Eyes to PaxU @mossdaggar.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... Tell your friends. Tell your priests. Tell your shipmates. Book of Leviathan drops into BackerKit on June 10th. Hell awaits us all.

backerkit.com

Get Ready for HELLWHALERS: Book Of Leviathan

From Plus One Exp - Get Ready for HELLWHALERS: Book Of Leviathan

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Shouting Crow @shoutingcrow.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

New mosses, from my father’s garden. My desk collection is slowly growing…

A ziploc bag with two different types of moss inside, as yet unidentified.

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Chelsea G. Summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Yes, it's long. Yes, it's complex. Yes, it's detailed. And yes, it will make you sad unto nihilistic depression. But it's also necessary to read because AI is going to fuck the planet beyond expression. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

technologyreview.com

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

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Katt Kirsch @kattkirsch.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Zungeon #5! Thanks to everyone who's been loyally supporting this zine series. Five months in, no signs of slowing down! katt-kirsch.itch.io/a-simple-req...

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A Simple Request by Katt Kirsch

An adventure for rookie referees and first-time dungeoneers

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Matthew John | Yuigaron @yuigaron.itch.io · 30/05/2025

If you see this tired old backpack at #UKGE, ask me for a free copy of my solo murder mystery investigative game Sworn by Ghostlight.

A tired, old backpack covered in patches for such TTRPGs as Mörk Borg, Mothership, Eat the Reich, Blood Borg, and Runecairn.

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Shouting Crow @shoutingcrow.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

In the UK? Want a physical copy of one of my games? Compose Dream is carrying Hedge Witch, This Frog is Ruining My Dungeon Crawl, Fallow Ground, and Wands & Laserguns.

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Shouting Crow @shoutingcrow.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

My DMs alternate wildly between people saying: “I didn’t know you were the guy who made HedgeWitch!” and “Oh my god, you’re the Print It Yourself guy!” So, uh, yeah. This is just a post to say I am both of those people, and I make other things, too: shoutingcrow.itch.io

A cover for a solo journaling game called Hedge Witch, drawn in a cutesy simplified style in the original gameboy palette of all green. A little witch wearing an apron and flowers on her pointed hat holds a star in her hand, eyes big with wonder and worry.

The cover of issue 2 of Print it Yourself, which centers heavily on basic zine production. It features a greyscale illustration of a clipboard with a target drawn on it being punctured through the bullseye with a pencil while coins spill out.

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