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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 9h

I love the dichotomy of life where: 1) I spent the past few hours providing feedback on an academic article that better supports family understanding of accelerative practices, then 2) I turn around to book my next appointment to get my knees tattooed.

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not that I have time for this currently, but I (figuratively) have a list of people I’d love to co-design games with. I’ve never co-designed, and there are so many people who make cool stuff out here.

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I remember when the It tv miniseries came out. My mom and I watched it each night it was aired. I was 8 and didn’t want to shower for fear of Pennywise climbing out of the bath fixtures.

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I found an advertisement for things you carry with you and felt that the saying could be used for more. #collage #collageart

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

October will be such a busy and exciting month: • Hosting in-person convening for educators • 2 conference presentations, including 1 keynote • Facilitating 2 workshops/TTRPG game jams • BSG game day • 2 dear friends’ birthdays • immense work on this design I gotta get to the publisher 😬

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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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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Am I really toying with this idea? 🎲 ✂️

A black cat in front of a bunch of cubes, a deck of cards, a notebook, dice, and a copy of Pax Transhumanity

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Did you know that you can cover solo games (card, board, RPGs) without (1) making an excuse why it’s okay to play a game solo and (2) playing it off as if it’s just a silly thing because you “have no friends.” Solo gaming has been, and will continue to be, legitimate. It’s 2026, y’all.

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Listening to some old music today and thinking how gatekeepers are the worst types of “fans.” Outside of some hard science, most taxonomies are entirely made up and shift over time. Language and grammar do, same with music, arts, games, etc. Don’t be a gatekeeper. Be okay with change.

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 29/09/2026

Also, go buy games from @travisdhill.bsky.social. They are always thoughtful, little, poetic games presspotgames.itch.io

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Travis D. Hill

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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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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don’t know what possessed me (pun intended), but I’ve been thinking of David’s delightful-looking Pax Playground, which makes me want to design a Pax game about kids telling spooky stories around a campfire. Thinking about tying tales together, lore, storytelling, and realism as traits to explore.

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Celebrated life today by grabbing a bunch of magazines from Half Price so I could make more collages. Only ended up using one image of a bird and settled on doing a trio of images instead.

A stack of seven yellow National Geographic magazines.

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wouldn’t call this nuanced, but I dare you to branch out from making RPGs based on fantastical/sci-fi settings and try your hand at real life themes. And don’t make it based on a system. Just make your own thing. You’ll stretch yourself. Promise.

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As a perpetual creative living under capitalistic constructs, it finally happened. This morning I thought, “I wonder if I made a snail mail club that featured a couple collage prints, a letter, and a sticker. Would $10/month be ok? I wonder how many people would sign up.”

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merely rachel @merelyrachel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

After a bit of curiosity, creativity, and crafting I ended up with this. All because a big fashion mag we didn’t request arrived after seeing @travisdhill.bsky.social share his #collage work here

Collage made from magazine pages. A tiger in the middle ground looks off to the right. A red curtain drapes down the left side. A giant-sized fountain pen descends from behind the curtain, touching up a spot on the tiger’s head. The background is a cacophony of white and pink flowers in a garden.

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Spending this afternoon working on my presentation for the @meaningfulplay.bsky.social conference. Figured I should go with something rather austere for the topic. 🤷

a black and white geometric pattern image with the title, "Let's talk about death: processing grief through tabletop roleplaying game design" on it

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Been watching Frieren recently. Thinking of an RPG that’s core concept/mechanic is time—not necessarily the passage of it or its fleeting nature—but rather how time influences the way we think and the decisions we make, how time can be a burden or a joy. Oh game design…

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Telling y'all. (1) If I was better at layout and graphic design, and (2) if I would stop saying "yes" to academic adventures (probably the biggest thing stopping me from doing #1), I would be UNSTOPPABLE in making RPGs. I'm always so impressed with the work that @hinokodo.com creates.

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kill ghost @willjobst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

don't be shy gen con go ahead. don't be shy pax unplugged go ahead. don't be shy origins go ahead. don't be shy gamehole go ahead. don't be shy gary con go ahead. don't be shy page go ahead. don't be shy breakout go ahead. don't be shy dragon con go ahead.

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There are several downsides to jet lag. However, waking up at 3am today meant I knocked out designing a canvas module, doing mandatory training, and booking travel for the next conference.

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Moss Powers, with Eyes to PaxU @mossdaggar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Travis, these are incredible! So fuckin’ cool!

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Finally back to collaging again, and I’m continuing with these card-sized #aceos. I continue to love this format.

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Last week for the first time ever, I received an email from someone I don't know through my site form asking if I accepted submissions. I barely have time to make my own games, much less someone else's. But also, like, I have absolutely nothing to offer publishing someone else's game.

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World Champ Game Co @worldchamp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Now available at worldchamp.io/store: 🔫 I AM A GUILLOTINE: a solo game of enacting political violence against a fascist figurehead. 📝 MANIFESTO: a solo journaling game of political extremism and news biases after the violence. 💀 HORROR GAMES: a compilation of 15 new terrifying tabletop games

three books propped up against a metal garage door. Left to right, the titles are Horror Games (an orange screaming face on white background), I Am A Guillotine (a dynamic drawing of a politician in crosshairs with a masked assassin on black background), and Manifesto (a wolf in black ink atop a photo of a person in a balaclava).

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Lunarpunk Games @lunarpunk.games · 01/07/2026

Make your next work of art in Color Jam, a cozy, print-and-puzzle coloring game launching on Kickstarter later this year. Grab your favorite crayons and play solo or with friends. Follow along here for when the project goes live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/lun... The night is for creativity. 🖍️

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Coming soon: Color Jam: A Print-and-Puzzle Coloring Game

Enjoy cozy and clever coloring at your next game night. Craft the story of each hand-illustrated picture with creative color choices!

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m going to design 300 nature-themed RPG zines after this trip.

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Went on a boat bird tour. Took 50+ pictures of birds.

A bird flying in front of the sun and a rock in the ocean

A bird on a rock with its wings up and beak down

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Travel pictures are the best pictures. Only two days more.

An old house with red and green ivy all o er the front.

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This Korean Fir looked super rad. Like little sentinels observing the world around them. I’m just snapping pictures for future games. This is so great.

A Korean for which has loads of upright black pinecones in a bed of green

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is like metal scraps covered in moss IRL

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Rare personal picture + traipsing through the Isle of Skye. Excited to trek more today.

A photo of a man with glasses and plaid and tattoos at a restaurant

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robyn @robynie.com · 18/09/2026

metal scraps covered in moss has landed in New Zealand! I’m so excited to play! @travisdhill.bsky.social

the rulebook for “metal scraps covered in moss: a solo game of uncovering what once was” in front of a grassy overgrown background

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just kidding. This is it.

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Snapping pics for the cover of my next spooky gothic rpg zine.

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Edinburgh has some rad-looking views at night.

A dope-ass castle in orange on top of a mountain with people in the foreground

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Am I now exploring turning all of these collages into a deck of cards? Yes. Will it mostly be for my own entertainment? Also yes. Will I probably try to make a deck of 50 collages and use the last 4 cards as a space to create rules for a game? Yeah, probably. Will it "work"? Probably not.

a screenshot of a card that has an image of the earth on it.

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Witty Volkova @wittlegoblin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Fun mail day! @travisdhill.bsky.social 🌱

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Now that some life things have cleared up, I guess it’s time to finally double down on this next game design.

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The 2027-2028 Higher Ed application cycle has begun in the Hill Household with the successful submission to two positions. Last year, I went 0/27. Let’s see how this year stacks up! #higheredwoes

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Complex Oscillator @mfelps.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@travisdhill.bsky.social They arrived! They look and feel fantastic, and the faint green paper wrapping was a nice touch.

Three zines, Metal Scraps Covered in Moss and two Artifact Logs, along with a sticker, a business card, and a piece of magazine.

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whitney @heyitswhitney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just know that people are out there making cool things independently and you can support them. Got cool mail from Robin Sloan (www.robinsloan.com) and Press Pot Games (presspot.games)

Two booklets, one labelled "metal scraps covered in moss: a solo game of uncovering what once was" and the other "artifacts log". On top of the booklets is in a photo of a large group of people, a sticker depicting a man with a beard and glasses, and the back of a business card with an image of a black cat and short rules about a game about being a black cat fucking shit up

A red booklet with a printed symbol on the front depicting two hands held out with the thumbs in the outside on top of the outline of an open book. The red booklet is sitting on a typewritten letter from Robin Sloan/Penumbra Industries

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The first copy of my latest game is in the wild! Across 10 in-person days, a player collects scraps of the What Once Was and chronicles their learnings in their Artifacts Log as they return to the Old Growth. Part solo journaling, part junk journaling, all breaking 4th walls. Excited for this one!

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Travis D. Hill, Ph.D. ☕️ @travisdhill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What are your go-to cozy fall animated series/movies? Over the Garden Wall is in that mix, but I’ve also begun watching Hilda, and it has been purely delightful. What about you?

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