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Alfred Valley

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ttrpg maker and zine defiler (Lay On Hands, Thousand Empty Light, Cycles of the Eye) - alfredvalley.itch.io

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Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 17d

I'm Alfred of the Haus of Valley. I make analog games – y'know, things you play on a real life table. I'm based in London, UK.

I'm best known for solo games and the messy intermingling of analog and digital.

My newsletter is a good way to stay updated: www.hausofvalley.com/subscribe

distorted pixellated head shot in black and white

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Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 5h

Every week I get at least one email from someone asking where they can buy Thousand Empty Light / when it's going to be back in stock. I'm so glad that folks are still seeking it out. It was a real labour of love.

It's also available digitally here: alfredvalley.itch.io/thousand-emp...

Thousand Empty Light by Alfred Valley

A solo Mothership adventure set in an underwater tunnel

alfredvalley.itch.io

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Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 5h

🚀 Shipping to US is expensive right now (same price as the zine itself)! A bunch of copies are flying over to Tuesday Knight Games very soon.

Photo of 5 splayed copies of Thousand Empty Light (with salmon pink covers) on top of a green cutting mat

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Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 5h

⚠️ Thousand Empty Light, Mothership RPG's first solo adventure module is now back in stock

🍣 This printing has salmon pink covers with black staples

www.hausofvalley.com/product/thou...

Thousand Empty Light

The digital version of this module is available to download on itch.io. Note: this listing is for the 2nd printing of the zine - the...

www.hausofvalley.com

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Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 5h

This is something!

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Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 8h

God, I feel this. Every so often I have a US customer ask, "do you have a tracking number for my order?" and I get a twinge of guilt, which is ridiculous because it costs so much more than they would have paid to send a zine to the states with tracking. Sucks

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Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 11h

My local post office said they're no longer accepting deliveries to the US unless they're tracked. Might be irrelevant to you, just figured I'd mention in case

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Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 2d

not me uploading an unfinished version of the image...

Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 2d

#MÖRKTOBER day 8: WIZARD

I made a video of the making of this one vm.tiktok.com/ZNdnPGJMd/

Pulpy poster of wizard with their face behind an technicolour orb. Words read: THE WORLD IS YOUR ORB

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 2d

Right, now I have some time (and a copy myself!) it's time to share some internal pics from the new issue, my thoughts on the relevant features & perhaps persuade a few more of you to buy a copy (because it's swell)

shop.wyrd.science

So today let's start with @malcolmcraig.bsky.social's one, as...

a photo of the latest issue of Wyrd Science, open to a spread on a feature about Cold War RPGs, one the left hand side is a full page picture of an atom bomb test, on the right the headline Playing Games in the Shadow of the Bomb

a photo of the latest issue of Wyrd Science, open to a spread on a feature about Cold War RPGs, it shows a still from the film Red Dawn with Russian soldiers posing in front of a McDonalds, the subhead for this section reads The Paranoid Style in American Gaming

a photo of the latest issue of Wyrd Science, open to a spread on a feature about Cold War RPGs, one side is taken up with the cover art for Greg Costikyan's Price of Freedom

a photo of the latest issue of Wyrd Science, open to a spread on a feature about Cold War RPGs

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Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 3d

the devil!

Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 3d

Very relatable.

Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 4d

Only thing I've seen is someone from the Mothership discord using it to run the MoSH module Residue Processing. I can ask them if they're alright for me to share with you if you're interested

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Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 5d

WAIT A MINUTE that should say DAY 5

Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 5d

#MÖRKTOBER DAY 4: STAIN

Was about to skip this one when I stumbled on the perfect source image

Pulpy poster showing a decapitated head sitting in a pool of red blood with the word STAIN underneath, also in red. The rest of the image is black and pale yellow

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Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 6d

#MÖRKTOBER DAY 4: HOWL

Safe to say, I'm just doing whatever I feel like now

faded and grungy-looking brown paper poster with a picture of a snarling wolf in red with blue eyes, and highly stylised text reading (vertically): "HOWL"

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Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 6d

Love the off-kilter theme tune for this one

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SprintingOwlDesigns @sprintingowl.bsky.social · 6d

Ttrpg design is wild because half the time you're thinking "I wonder if I can make people do vector calculus to resolve an attack check" and the other half of the time your game is called Monster Butts and the rules are that if a monster hits you with its butt you become a monster.

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Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 7d

#MÖRKTOBER day 3: DAGGERS

Got the paints out last night.

(reuploaded in the correct file format)

Pulpy retro bitmap-inspired image in limited colour pallette of skeletal figure whose head is surrounded by daggers. Text beneath reads: "And then came whistling the blades of marrow."

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Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 7d

As god intended. Honestly I love the sounds of this. And the title 'hideous destructor' goes seriously hard. Off to find videos...

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Goblins and Gardens @goblinsandgardens.bsky.social · 7d

Hey it’s bandcamp Friday and our band just put our new EP

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Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 7d

Broadcast Spawner – my experimental EP of dungeon synth, as Ultra Medium Frequency

ultramediumfrequency.bandcamp.com/album/broadc...

Broadcast Spawner, by Ultra Medium Frequency

6 track album

ultramediumfrequency.bandcamp.com

Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 7d

Bandcamp is waiving its revenue share and passing funds directly to artists today.

Here's some music you can support:

Sleeping in a Drowning Stone – Gus BC's impeccable soundtrack for Thousand Empty Light. Seriously this is just a great record.

chalicesofthepast.bandcamp.com/album/sleepi...

Sleeping In A Drowning Stone, by Gus BC

10 track album

chalicesofthepast.bandcamp.com

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Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 7d

Ah I see you got hit by the adult content label too!

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · Apr 16

super mario, fanart (1992) archive.org/details/Tota...

a picture of super mario with a carrot(?) in his hand. a mushroom is looking up at him. a star with a face isn't far away. a love heart is on his other side, and a key is on the ground but it looks like a snake is slithering over the key. there is also a character, holding a pitchfork. water is below the platform mario is standing on, along with the text 'super mario 2'.
caption:
this picture of mario is a stunning achievement from six year old ross weszka of blackpool.

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Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 8d

Grain Engulfment Hazard for Mothership RPG