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Orestis F
@balthuk.bsky.social
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Game designer in the making 🤓 Based in Greece. https://balthuk.itch.io/
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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · Nov 27
Thrilled to have completed my first game jam submission, for #Arcjam2024!

You can play the game at: balthuk.itch.io/awaken-proto...

Many thanks to my wonderful collaborators as well as the @arcweave.com team for organising the jam and supporting us.
Awaken Protocol by balthuk, niTo
You need to wake up
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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 6d
Some #MÖRKTOBER soundtrack for all you sickos (complimentary)
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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 6d
Oh damn, that's a wikipedia page to use as inspiration (and education). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artific...
I also like the sacrificing your stats idea, it's risky and thrilling in a way I would usually expect in videogames.
Artificial cranial deformation - Wikipedia
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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 6d
That's a damn cool idea.
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D6 Learning @d6learning.bsky.social · 9d
🇬🇷 Ο διαγωνισμός Speed Game Design παίρνει παράταση!

Στείλε την πρότασή σου για ένα πρωτότυπο TTRPG concept στο [email protected] μέχρι τα μεσάνυχτα της Παρασκευής 17/10!

Θα ακολουθήσει ψηφοφορία και οι τέσσερεις καλύτερες προτάσεις θα κερδίσουν επιτραπέζια, RPG και μαθήματα.
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Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 17d
#MÖRKTOBER day 5: STAIN

THE STAINED FIELD
"Just to the east of the Múr, where the land grows flat and swollen with damp, there sits a stretch of dry, flaking soil, a scab on the face of the earth."

Writing by @loottheroom.bsky.social
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MÖRKTOBER day 5: Stain The Stained Field Just to the east of the Múr, where the land grows flat and swollen with damp, there sits a stretch of dry, flaking soil, a scab on the face of the earth. This is the Stained Field, and it is the domain of Isak Skarvlund. His workers stamp the fields in metal boots lined with sharp studs seven inches long. They stab them into the scabbed earth, then siphon the liquid that seeps from the wounds into clay cats strapped to their backs. Occasionally their masks slip and the vapours overwhelm them. Those who fall are subsumed by the earth. Under cover of darkness, the fresh wounds scab over again, ready for another day’s harvest. Scar Wine Fermented for three years in clay jars, it is a powerful intoxicant when diluted and a deadly poison when ingested neat. A bottle of the worst vintage costs 300 silver. The rarest, best years cost much more. The illustration shows a swamplike field with two characters on what appears to be long stilts. They wear backpacks and strange masks covering their entire heads. In their hands are sticks ending in bells and pearls.
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subotai, microplastics golem @subotaii.bsky.social · Jul 29
Ogre knight and his squire, looking for buried relics in the burnt wastes.
A giant knight figure, covered in red robes and wearing a golden-accented armor, kneeling in the dirt as he points forward ; He directs his much smaller squire, carrying a heavy bag and a giant sword. The background is dire and desertic, save for a few houses on the horizon.
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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 22d
It's remarkably similar in tone and setting. Apocalyptic events, famines, sickness, the indifference of god, etc. Monstrous beings, devils, all the good stuff.
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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 23d
Between two Fires
I decided to start reading this book as a way to keep me in the #mörktober mood and it sure does.
A dark fantasy story where so far, everything is an idea straight from a MÖRKBORG campaign and a muddy, plague riddled world💀
Definitely keeping notes on character and enemy design👀
Between Two Fires
His extraordinary debut, Those Across the River, was ha…
www.goodreads.com
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towershade @towershade.bsky.social · 29d
The vicar of Illwind Cemetery
#fantasyart #grimdark #dungeonsynth #osr #ttrpgart
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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 25d
Overall, this a grand, ice cold experience, on an 80% discount at the moment store.steampowered.com/app/1266030/... , and I'm excited to see the next game from this studio,
@saltstonestudios.bsky.social .
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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 25d
The game interestingly turns to look inwards, to its genre and dynamic storytelling during its finale and utilises that in a surprising way.
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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 25d
Same with its loyalty system and the dialogue choices, most of the time you could easily play along with expectations with no real penalty for being inconsistent as a captain, whereas I might prefer a 'stricter' game that directs you to roleplay a specific character, warts and all.
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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 25d
I did find some story moments clumsy in execution, even though the game hits some highs in terms of characterisation and I was always on board with what it was trying to do.
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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 25d
I am not someone who is interested in going back to find just how reactive the game is, though I do enjoy the knowledge that I am shaping the story, and you do get an easy way to visit earlier points in the game and move it in different directions.
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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 25d
The game is mostly about resource management and decision making, with you having to balance food, fuel for warmth, decorum (a mix of morale and respect towards you), and the crew, with their own moods and afflictions.
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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · 25d
Some words on The Pale Beyond.
A survival game, set on a ship on a polar expedition across the seas and ice, in order to find a lost ship.
Save 80% on The Pale Beyond on Steam
You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and moral...
store.steampowered.com
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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · Sep 21
Add this onto the looks delightful list as well 😁
rogue.site Rogue @rogue.site · Sep 18
Screamer should've just been called Street Fighter, but turns out that name was already taken

www.rogue.site/editorials/s...
Screamer is a fighting game on four wheels
A literal Street Fighter
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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · Sep 21
Well now, this looks delightful!
rogue.site Rogue @rogue.site · Sep 9
Tiny Bookshop, an adorable game about selling books out of a small trailer, draws inspiration from some unexpected places. We interviewed developer David Wildemann to learn more.

www.rogue.site/editorials/h...
How Tiny Bookshop became a cozy love letter to literature
Tiny Bookshop, an adorable game about selling books out of a small trailer, draws inspiration from some unexpected places.
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Eduardo Valdés-Hevia 👁️ @valdevia.art · Sep 10
Devil Sharks (Pseudomobula tartarus) are highly specialised hunters that attack land prey by leaping, then plunging with them into the water.
Several jump at once to improve their chances. The pack waits below, ready for a feeding frenzy. They are known to target fishermen by seeking their lines.
Two fishermen drift in a small wooden canoe. Behind them, two large sharks with enormous wing-like fins leap out of the water. They have horns similar to devil rays ready to grab them. A third shark waits below.
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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · Sep 16
Last few hours to back Full Send: A Tarot-Powered Mountaineering RPG on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/lau...
Full Send: A Tarot-Powered Mountaineering RPG
A tarot-powered, trick-taking tabletop RPG where you'll ascend some of the world's legendary peaks, and risk everything in the process.
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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · Sep 14
I'm still getting through the issues, and this is a super interesting, highly recommended magazine.
wyrdscience.bsky.social Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · Sep 14
So, our test packages to the US have so far all got through without grief and so the great distribution of issue 7 begins, I’m going to say probably towards the end of next week just to be safe.

But now’s a great time to order a copy and/or pick up our mega bundle with issues 3-6

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The cover to wyrd science 7, a wonderfully garish illustration of techno barbarians exploring an ancient vault A collage of the four covers of wyrd science issues 3-6
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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · Sep 7
This is reaaally interesting and evocative.
Have you managed to run any playtests at all?
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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · Sep 4
Oh that's a good idea!
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Orestis F @balthuk.bsky.social · Sep 3
Last bandcamp friday, I knew this dungeon synth album would be handy, only 1 month of listening to it till #MÖRKTOBER 🗡️🧙
grangrumpmedia.bandcamp.com/album/pathwa...
Pathway to Under, by Potioner
7 track album
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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · Aug 31
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them. Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!” Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.” Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face. Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.
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