Calvin Ross Carl
@calvinrosscarl.com
Creative Director — Parliament
Ex-Art Director — Invision
Artist — SEASON
Ex-Gallerist — Carl & Sloan
Board Games — Good Goblet
PDX 🌈
https://linktr.ee/calvinrosscarl
Ex-Art Director — Invision
Artist — SEASON
Ex-Gallerist — Carl & Sloan
Board Games — Good Goblet
PDX 🌈
https://linktr.ee/calvinrosscarl
Sending this to every copywriter I’ve ever worked with
New Blog Post! I (Emily) wanted to put down some tips for those of you who are hiring layout designers to layout your games.
Thanks to the Explorer's Design discord also for their thoughts.
Thanks to the Explorer's Design discord also for their thoughts.
How to Deliver your Game Copy to a Layout Designer - Graftbound
Make layout design faster, more efficient, and less prone to mistakes with tips for TTRPG writers on delivering your manuscript to your layout designer.
graftbound.com
January 21, 2026 at 6:50 AM
Sending this to every copywriter I’ve ever worked with
Reposted by Calvin Ross Carl
Announcement: STEAM DEMO OUT NOW!
The early dungeons of Forbidden Solitaire are now open to those bold - or foolish - enough to explore them.
How badly do you wish to live forever? 👁️🩸
👇👇👇
store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...
Please wishlist and share - thank you!
#indiedev
The early dungeons of Forbidden Solitaire are now open to those bold - or foolish - enough to explore them.
How badly do you wish to live forever? 👁️🩸
👇👇👇
store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...
Please wishlist and share - thank you!
#indiedev
January 16, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Announcement: STEAM DEMO OUT NOW!
The early dungeons of Forbidden Solitaire are now open to those bold - or foolish - enough to explore them.
How badly do you wish to live forever? 👁️🩸
👇👇👇
store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...
Please wishlist and share - thank you!
#indiedev
The early dungeons of Forbidden Solitaire are now open to those bold - or foolish - enough to explore them.
How badly do you wish to live forever? 👁️🩸
👇👇👇
store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...
Please wishlist and share - thank you!
#indiedev
Wild news! So excited to see all the new weird worlds these folks make
January 13, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Wild news! So excited to see all the new weird worlds these folks make
I'm accidentally doing dry January thanks to a flu that started on new years day
January 7, 2026 at 7:13 PM
I'm accidentally doing dry January thanks to a flu that started on new years day
Reposted by Calvin Ross Carl
Art by • Gage Lindsten
December 28, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Art by • Gage Lindsten
Reposted by Calvin Ross Carl
Hear me out. Mario Kart 64s Block Fort as a 4x4 skirmish games table.
January 3, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Hear me out. Mario Kart 64s Block Fort as a 4x4 skirmish games table.
Reposted by Calvin Ross Carl
My final video for 2025 compiles the lessons I learnt about games design this year, from rethinking how I work, what I want to design, and the people who I couldn't have done without.
Thank you everyone who has supported the channel this year, and have a wonderful 2026!
youtu.be/62zLZONQc4Q
🎲✂️
Thank you everyone who has supported the channel this year, and have a wonderful 2026!
youtu.be/62zLZONQc4Q
🎲✂️
Game Design Lessons from 2025
YouTube video by Matthew Dunstan
youtu.be
December 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM
My final video for 2025 compiles the lessons I learnt about games design this year, from rethinking how I work, what I want to design, and the people who I couldn't have done without.
Thank you everyone who has supported the channel this year, and have a wonderful 2026!
youtu.be/62zLZONQc4Q
🎲✂️
Thank you everyone who has supported the channel this year, and have a wonderful 2026!
youtu.be/62zLZONQc4Q
🎲✂️
Christmas is over.
December 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Christmas is over.
Another holiday, another brutal loss of Spots at the hands of my wife. @perryjon.bsky.social @cmyk.games
December 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Another holiday, another brutal loss of Spots at the hands of my wife. @perryjon.bsky.social @cmyk.games
Vacation begins 🤓 @sorcerytcg.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Vacation begins 🤓 @sorcerytcg.bsky.social
Caught the last day of the show at PICA. This one is by Cameron Clayborn
December 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Caught the last day of the show at PICA. This one is by Cameron Clayborn
Today’s workout song youtu.be/N7V6DGOPrKQ?...
-(16)- - Misfortune Teller (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by RelapseRecords
youtu.be
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Today’s workout song youtu.be/N7V6DGOPrKQ?...
Today I wish all influencers a very happy broken jaw
December 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Today I wish all influencers a very happy broken jaw
YOB IS LOVE
A perfect show to end the year.
A perfect show to end the year.
December 20, 2025 at 7:26 AM
YOB IS LOVE
A perfect show to end the year.
A perfect show to end the year.
I was going to post about my favorite sludge and doom metal albums from 2025 but I got distracted by these idiots
December 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I was going to post about my favorite sludge and doom metal albums from 2025 but I got distracted by these idiots
Sorting cards is a special kind of hell. But I guess @sorcerytcg.bsky.social is worth it
December 18, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Sorting cards is a special kind of hell. But I guess @sorcerytcg.bsky.social is worth it
Obsessed with this @sorcerytcg.bsky.social art by Juan Machuca
December 18, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Obsessed with this @sorcerytcg.bsky.social art by Juan Machuca
Lies! Harbinger is number 1 just because of the look on your opponent’s face when you roll their starting site
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Ranking all avatars in @sorcerytcg.bsky.social’s new gothic set www.tcgplayer.com/content/arti...
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Ranking all avatars in @sorcerytcg.bsky.social’s new gothic set www.tcgplayer.com/content/arti...
TCGplayer
www.tcgplayer.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Lies! Harbinger is number 1 just because of the look on your opponent’s face when you roll their starting site
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Ranking all avatars in @sorcerytcg.bsky.social’s new gothic set www.tcgplayer.com/content/arti...
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Ranking all avatars in @sorcerytcg.bsky.social’s new gothic set www.tcgplayer.com/content/arti...
Great peek at how one of the most interesting publishers out there right now looks at games
🎲✂️ I am in a bit of a rut so I am processing what is getting me stuck on games being 'not finished'. So I typed up those thoughts, for what they are worth. Which is not necessarily much.
Here is how we hope to make games that Hook, Flow, and Twist:
dvc.games/blogs/news/g...
Here is how we hope to make games that Hook, Flow, and Twist:
dvc.games/blogs/news/g...
Game Design Question: The Three Goals
This is an entry in a series about game design, and what tools we as a design collective use when assessing and deciding what to create, develop and publish. I am having a bit of a day, and sometimes ...
dvc.games
December 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Great peek at how one of the most interesting publishers out there right now looks at games
Reposted by Calvin Ross Carl
12 hours left, hackers.
Turn your deck of playing cards into a cyberdeck. Use it it to navigate The NUWESTPAC Seaboard and other cyberpunk networks as you upgrade your cards, dodge ICE, and free communities from corporate tyranny.
CARD DRIVES: www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Turn your deck of playing cards into a cyberdeck. Use it it to navigate The NUWESTPAC Seaboard and other cyberpunk networks as you upgrade your cards, dodge ICE, and free communities from corporate tyranny.
CARD DRIVES: www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Card Drives
Turn playing cards into a cyberdeck in this cyberpunk rogue-like deckbuilding solo RPG!
www.kickstarter.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:18 AM
12 hours left, hackers.
Turn your deck of playing cards into a cyberdeck. Use it it to navigate The NUWESTPAC Seaboard and other cyberpunk networks as you upgrade your cards, dodge ICE, and free communities from corporate tyranny.
CARD DRIVES: www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Turn your deck of playing cards into a cyberdeck. Use it it to navigate The NUWESTPAC Seaboard and other cyberpunk networks as you upgrade your cards, dodge ICE, and free communities from corporate tyranny.
CARD DRIVES: www.kickstarter.com/projects/not...
Played a 46 year old Spider-man game tonight with @wordblanket.com. The box had never been opened and everything was immaculate inside
December 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Played a 46 year old Spider-man game tonight with @wordblanket.com. The box had never been opened and everything was immaculate inside
We are in full blown Sorcery mode at our house this week. @sorcerytcg.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 7:54 AM
We are in full blown Sorcery mode at our house this week. @sorcerytcg.bsky.social
I wanna know more about this neighbor
December 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I wanna know more about this neighbor
Some book designer in the 1990s did Octavia Butler dirty
December 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Some book designer in the 1990s did Octavia Butler dirty