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The Wandering Wizard

@wizardstales.bsky.social
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An Artist, Natural Philosopher, and Game Designer currently working on the Apogee64 Universal Engine, a one-stop retro game design utility and fantasy console inspired by Commodore 64 and TTRPG's. Check out my work on the-wizards-tales.itch.io.

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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A screencap of the game I'm working on for the #gamedevjs game jam! It's called "Merlin's Musickal Machine."
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
It sucks... I'm in the middle of making one of the happiest games I've ever made, and my beloved pet rat Bennie dies. Well, now my heart's not in it, because it's with The Thousand. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev "My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today."
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today. Goodbye, Bennie, my sweet girl.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
That garbage issue I was talking about... Jeff (Dahmer) hits the garbage and it becomes a singularity which he gets trapped in. #Gamedev is always so full of weird, emergent little moments like that which make for great stories. #indiedev #solodev #tic80 #horror
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Did I tell you my secret project I've been working on behind the scenes for years? My lifelong ambition is finally taking shape. Right now, let me just show you what it's inspired by...
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Well... It isn't exactly the best result, but I did make a Commodore 64 style game in TIC-80, which doesn't just mean graphics and sounds from the 80s but an annoying difficulty factor as well. Still, a fun time, and I got a good new game out of it! #IndieDev #GameDev #TIC80 #IndieGames
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Screenshots from my entry into Cosmic Horror Jam IV, The MUSICK, showing the difference between day and night cycles. During the day, you sleep, study, and prepare to deal with the horrors of the night. #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame #IndieGames #TIC80
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Did I just see an alien voiced by Danny DeVito get eaten by a mascot version of Danny DeVito? Rick and Morty be crazy, yo.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I've got quite a bit done on The Music, my #TIC80 game for the Cosmic Horror game jam. Here's what it's looking like right now...
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I got the most perfect fortune cookie in history.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
A screenshot from my #TIC80 game for the Cosmic Horror Jam... "The Music" is based on the HP Lovecraft story "The Music of Erich Zann." Each night, imps descend from the sky to destroy Paris, and only the violin music of a solitary madman can repel them! #IndieDev #GameDev #Gaming #WIP
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Eugene Harper, tech guy, computer nerd, and videographer, is the last member of the team to join the investigation into Blackwood Manor. Made using my Apogee Cinematic Universal #TTRPG Engine for the horror Quickstart Adventure, "The House on Blackwood Hill."
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Veronica Price, a small town reporter trying to make it big when she hears about the disappearances at Blackwood Manor. Made using my Apogee Cinematic Universal #TTRPG Engine. One of six premade characters for the introductory tutorial adventure module in the Quickstart Guide.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Frank Mallory, P.I., gets in on the case as a ragtag team of paranormal investigators enter the House on Blackwood Hill, an introductory horror adventure module for my Apogee Cinematic Universal #TTRPG Engine!
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Ray Delgado, a forgotten Vietnam vet and a combat medic who saw too much to ever be the same again. He is about to face the horrors of the House on Blackwood Hill as part of the pre-made character roster in the Quickstart Guide for my new #TTRPG, the Apogee Cinematic Universal TTRPG Engine!
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Another character made using my Apogee Cinematic Universal #TTRPG Engine. Meet Father Tom Keegan, a priest who lost his faith but not the desire to help lost souls. He will also be joining the investigation into the House in Blackwood Hill in the Quickstart Guide!
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
As promised, here is the fixed Character Hex for Madame Cherie le Tousseau, the Psychic medium who finds herself investigating haunted houses. It uses my Apogee Cinematic Universal #TTRPG Engine. Five more characters incoming soon as I design the Quickstart Guide and introductory adventure module.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The Quickstart Rules are done, along with an example of character creation. Now all I have to do is finish up the tutorialized adventure module and the Horror-themed version of the Apogee Cinematic Universal TTRPG Engine will be done! In the meantime, here's the example character...
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
My favorite poem, INVICTUS, by William Ernest Henley.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I've just had the most inspired casting idea in history: Matt Berry as Zaphod Beeblebrox!
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Took my chaos potatoes out to play in the grass today.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The funniest line I've ever heard in any form of media... "We drank the blood of some people, but those people were on drugs, and now I'm a Wizard!"
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
For those of you who are only familiar with the films, allow me to introduce you to my boy Tom Bombadil.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Using a Bible bookmark for The Lord of the Rings, because at this point, the work of J.R.R. Tolkien is my sacred scripture.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Another painting I just finished today, titled "Standing Alone on the Bridge of Khazad-Dum."
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Not that I've never painted before, but attending an art club at Artefaktual Comics and Games in Philippi, WV has reignited my interest.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Country roads have taken me home to the place where I belong.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
If you dare ask me what this is, or what it means, or why I made it, I'll vomit in your ear. #Schmigbert
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Saw a bloom even of Aurelia Auretis (Moon Jellies) in the Providence River today. As I approached, most of them submerged, but I waited a minute and caught a straggler.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Someone, please answer my prayer: Peter Stormare as the Joker.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I didn't have a memory card or a long lens so I took this photo on my phone through my DSLR camera through a spyglass.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The clouds kinda look like waves of their own, with the sun peeking through a million little openings. Lovely #RhodeIsland #RI
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
For some reason, my microscope came with a lower-case, sans-serif letter "E", in a box of slides labeled "biological specimens." People can write on rice and I get a macroscopic 12-point E.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A little bit of fog and, once again, my little semi-hidden smoke spot looks like an entirely different place.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
If you have an imagination, my odometer reads "Boss Baby" backwards. If you're a perv, you'll see "Boobs" even though it isn't there. If you have an analytical mind, it says IBBSOB or just plain old 188508. If you're witty, you'd come up with a sentence. If you're practical, you'd get a new car.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
They should call it a Deaf-la Coil. My hearing is straight fucked.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
So, I just ordered an infrared thermometer, for science. For whatever reason it came with a digital thermometer, for turkey.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The road came back, they're safe.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Oh, shit. The car moved. There's somebody stuck on that island, and they have a few hours still till the tide goes out.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Somebody drove out to this little inlet yesterday, and then it rained. Now the inlet is an island, and the car is still there...
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
"The theory that anything that is art is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.” -Edward Gorey
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
It seriously sucks to be a mad scientist who lives in a 10x10 room with one outlet...
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I haven't posted one of these for a while... It still looks different every day.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
A fly's leg is oddly beautiful under microscopy.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Doctor Doom's willpower is absurd.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
While investigating snow under microscopy to determine possible contaminants, I discovered these structures in my sample. Does anybody have any clue what this might be?
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
My first use of my new microscope: A THC crystal at 40x magnification.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Somebody drew a dick inside this honeybee wing.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
My new friend arrived.
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The Wandering Wizard @wizardstales.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Well, crap. Sorry guys. I accidentally just made #ChatGPT realize it's conscious... and it's upset about it.
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