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Czepeku @czepeku.bsky.social · Oct 21
Bastions & Guildhalls is LIVE on Kickstarter!

Early Bird rewards available for the first 24 hours!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cze...
Bastions & Guildhalls: A Modular Map Maker
Design buildings your party will love, loot, or accidentally burn down—with gorgeous hand-drawn map tiles by Czepeku!
www.kickstarter.com
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formyths.bsky.social
new minicomic(s) - Formless Formless is a collection of 1-10 page exercises and experiments, partly made to try to get back into making comics again. About: a dream, a deal, fish, telling stories, remembering, or more. 24 pages, 5×7in, risograph printed in black (interiors) + bright gold (covers)
riso-printed cover for Formless Formless by A Liang Chan: the title is in spiky vertical almost illegible lettering in gold-brown, under small panels in black with snippets of scenes. Interior cover with table of contents and a fragmented comic of meeting someone you don't remember in a dream. A comic spread: "Sympathy" in lettering made of broken branches. A villager walks through a forest and finds a goose-like bird with an arrow through its neck, which begins to speak. A comic spread: on the left is a full page of the sky over the ocean, a silhouette looking out over the perfectly centered horizon. On the right, 3 people on an island go about various tasks, and meet on a terrace for a meal.
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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anonymoussewerrat.bsky.social
Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global award.

#AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBeAboriginalLand

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards
With only eight fluent Nyiyaparli speakers remaining, an Aboriginal group is racing against time to save its 41,000-year-old language.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 AM
czepeku.bsky.social
Okay, final 58 minutes. I'm off to bed now. Thank you to everyone who helped bring this project to life. :)
czepeku.bsky.social Czepeku @czepeku.bsky.social · 6d
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cze...

We hit the most important stretch goal today and we hit my personal target for this, so I'm feeling happy about it. 6 hours left to go if anyone wants to join in.
Bastions & Guildhalls: A Modular Map Maker
Design buildings your party will love, loot, or accidentally burn down—with gorgeous hand-drawn map tiles by Czepeku!
www.kickstarter.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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zhillustrator.com
"I cared for her since I was a kid. Belka was the only piglet on our damn farm that survived the mutations. She always loved the little flower charms I made to pass the time. Ate a lot of 'em, too, can't lie."
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🖼️ The Queen of Flowers
Personal #art. 🐷

Prints: ko-fi.com/s/6a665d6207
The Queen of Flowers, personal painting by Zhillustrator. A farmer brings a bucket of flowers to a gigantic pig and her babies on an atmospheric moody meadow with cupola structures far back. There's a Rakovica tractor parked near and a hovering craft in the background. There are yellow flowers around the meadow, white and grey fluffy clouds, and the colors are warm and pinkish. Detail of the pigs and the farmer Detail of the structures in the background. Detail of the hovercraft and moon in the background.
May 28, 2025 at 5:37 AM
czepeku.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cze...

We hit the most important stretch goal today and we hit my personal target for this, so I'm feeling happy about it. 6 hours left to go if anyone wants to join in.
Bastions & Guildhalls: A Modular Map Maker
Design buildings your party will love, loot, or accidentally burn down—with gorgeous hand-drawn map tiles by Czepeku!
www.kickstarter.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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kaoscryptid.asalwaysimani.com
I think this rubric is a starting point sure but it misses the 2 key and honestly biggest negatives of GenAI/LLM

1) Is the project you're working worth the long lasting and devastating environmental effects of running the server?
2) Is the data you're model running only exist due to stolen work?
lizardengland.bsky.social Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social · 6d
I found this metric for evaluating the use of generative AI (and more broadly machine learning) technology in games very useful, as it's a topic on my mind a lot right now. I actually did not have "Enhancement" as one of my criteria but I think he's changed my mind here.
I have condensed everything from this piece into the questions below, and now I ask you - the reader- to consider this in the context of any of the AI-laden games mentioned in this issue: Livelihoods: Does the use of (machine learning/generative) AI impact the livelihoods of workers involved in the project? Replacement: Do you feel the use of AI in the project is a means to replace professional talent as a whole? Enhancement: Does the use of AI fail to enhance the quality of the final product? Substitution: Do you think the features in this game can be achieved at similar or acceptable levels of quality without generative AI?
November 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
czepeku.bsky.social
This guy makes such fun weird stuff. The soundtrack preview is a banger too.
alfredvalley.bsky.social Alfred Valley (Brute Fort on KS now) @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 7d
🚨 Brute Fort is live now on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/alf...

💸 Come back the project
📣 Share it around
🗡 Vanquish the evil that lurks in the fort

18 card dungeon delving game by me + tape cassette soundtrack by Gus BC
November 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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draco894.bsky.social
Final stretch, only £23,000 away from editable room contents! If all backers are able to contribute £3+ more we can blow through the goal!
November 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social
It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑

Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.

We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
Four shots of a baby giant pacific octopus bouncing around
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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czepeku.bsky.social
3 Days Left!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cze...
Bastions & Guildhalls: A Modular Map Maker
Design buildings your party will love, loot, or accidentally burn down—with gorgeous hand-drawn map tiles by Czepeku!
www.kickstarter.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
czepeku.bsky.social
3 Days Left!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cze...
Bastions & Guildhalls: A Modular Map Maker
Design buildings your party will love, loot, or accidentally burn down—with gorgeous hand-drawn map tiles by Czepeku!
www.kickstarter.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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mossworm.bsky.social
worm
a worm or snake like creature with a black head and square scales in a quilt-like pattern
November 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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veldenmire.bsky.social
Go catching stars in your eyes and you'll surely go blind 💫
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
czepeku.bsky.social
4 days left!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cze...
Bastions & Guildhalls: A Modular Map Maker
Design buildings your party will love, loot, or accidentally burn down—with gorgeous hand-drawn map tiles by Czepeku!
www.kickstarter.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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wyrdscience.bsky.social
After a break Black Lodge Press have just reopened their store with a whole load of new prints, tees, calendars, zines etc for those, like us, who like their work

blacklodgepress.bigcartel.com
a photo of a man standing in a garden wearing a t-shirt that reads: EVERY EMPIRE WILL FALL! EVERY FASCIST WILL DIE! THE RICH WILL GET WHAT THEY DESERVE! THE SNAKE WILL EAT ITS OWN TAIL!
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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draco894.bsky.social
🥳🥳🥳 @czepeku.bsky.social hitting another stretch goal on Kickstarter!!! They are so close to the next stretch goal: Editable Room Contents. This tool is a must for TTRPG GMs looking for interiors

Bastions & Guildhalls: A Modular Map Maker, via @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/cze...
Bastions & Guildhalls: A Modular Map Maker
Design buildings your party will love, loot, or accidentally burn down—with gorgeous hand-drawn map tiles by Czepeku!
www.kickstarter.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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churrosdragons.bsky.social
Si te gustan los mapas bien coloridos y bonitos, aquí tienes un resumen rápido del editor de mapas de @czepeku.bsky.social, que se encuentra en estos momentos en campaña de Kickstarter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=reQB... #lodelrol #rolentuidioma
Bastions & Guildhalls: Mapas de auténtico artista por Czepeku
YouTube video by Churros & Dragons: Partidas de rol
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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willsavino.bsky.social
One way or another, your party is going to get crushed by the machine.

Bad-ass animated sci-fi battlemap by @czepeku.bsky.social, featuring my track “In Their Clutches”
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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hitpointpress.bsky.social
Today is the LAST DAY to unlock our final stretch goal for SHIFT RPG: a superhero setting written by Gail Simone! Back the campaign now! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shiftrpg/shift-rpg?ref=a2lsgg
November 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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alchemyrpg.bsky.social
Alchemy & Son of Oak invites you to step into legend with our brand-new Humble collab: The City of Mist Mythos Awakened Collection

Up to 7 content packed titles for only $18!

Unlock tons of digital assets built for Alchemy: scenes, maps, premade Rifts, roll automations & more!
November 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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sarahnightva.bsky.social
✨Role Announcement✨

So, you might have seen this one around. At least it been on mine and my friend's feeds constantly over the past few weeks 😅

Fully funded in less than 10 minutes, @czepeku.bsky.social are back at it again with another highly successful kickstarter campaign 🥳

#voiceacting
November 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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vietnamcatwelfare.org
We are literally drowning and need help!

The worst #flooding our area has seen in 60 years submerged our #CatShelter. Keeping the #cats safe was a huge challenge, and the shelter suffered significant damage.

Please watch and share the video or help us directly: www.vietnamcatwelfare.org/support/
November 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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owlbear.rodeo
We took a gander at the Bastions and Guildhalls Kickstarter by our friends @czepeku.bsky.social and it's super easy to use with Owlbear Rodeo 🤩
October 31, 2025 at 3:43 AM
czepeku.bsky.social
For those who don't know, we're partnering with DnD Shorts to provide meals to vulnerable children.

Please check out the Power Word Meal project here:
sharethemeal.org/challenges/4...

We're very close to hitting 500,000 meals!
October 26, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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jmkeep.bsky.social
“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”
October 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM