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devin [👽 PALE DOT 2E OUT NOW 🛸] @devindecibel.bsky.social · 1d

I just dropped a big update to FALSE IDOLS, my 2 page Honey Heist/Lasers & Feelings style game about futuristic pop stars in a secret war against capitalism! It's free!

devindecibel.itch.io/false-idols

FALSE IDOLS by devindecibel

A 2 page game about rebel pop idols fighting cyberpunk megacorporations.

devindecibel.itch.io

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devin [👽 PALE DOT 2E OUT NOW 🛸] @devindecibel.bsky.social · 3d

Hell yeah brother.

an image of a notification from itch.io that reads "You sold Elf With A 10 Page Backstory for $4.20"

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devin [👽 PALE DOT 2E OUT NOW 🛸] @devindecibel.bsky.social · 7d

Why would a game I haven’t updated in a year suddenly pop up in the new releases on Itch?

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devin [👽 PALE DOT 2E OUT NOW 🛸] @devindecibel.bsky.social · 8d

I’m shocked Kimbra didn’t blow up in general! I saw her live when she toured that album and she had a wild prog rock backing band and a massive metallic dress. It was sick.

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devin [👽 PALE DOT 2E OUT NOW 🛸] @devindecibel.bsky.social · 11d

A selfie from Folsom St. Fair this weekend 😈

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devin [👽 PALE DOT 2E OUT NOW 🛸] @devindecibel.bsky.social · 14d

It’s so fun to see people try to outdo each other with silly edgelord characters.

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devin [👽 PALE DOT 2E OUT NOW 🛸] @devindecibel.bsky.social · 22d

Hello traveler! My greatest (?), dumbest, and free-est game now has a new version!!!

Play as edgelord adventurers and overcome challenges by revealing your dark tragic past. Be sick as hell, outdo your comrades, or go rogue trying. I've never run EWA10PBS without crying laughing at the table.

Elf With A 10 Page Backstory by devindecibel

A ridiculous 2 page game about edgy mysterious fantasy adventurers revealing their tragic past.

devindecibel.itch.io

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devin [👽 PALE DOT 2E OUT NOW 🛸] @devindecibel.bsky.social · 19d

New version of my David Lynch tribute game just dropped! I think it does a damn fine job of simulating a Lynch movie.

I printed some nice little zines of it (see my last post) so DM me if you want a copy!

NO MORE BLUE TOMORROWS by devindecibel

A collaborative Lynchian storytelling game.

devindecibel.itch.io

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devin [👽 PALE DOT 2E OUT NOW 🛸] @devindecibel.bsky.social · 18d

Technically originally from '23 but I just released a huge update with a second edition, tons of new art, and a physical book!

Outer Wilds meets Annihilation meets Fall of Magic meets Belonging Outside Belonging.

Also my David Lynch movie simulator: devindecibel.itch.io/no-more-blue...

Pale Dot by devindecibel

A game about non-human cosmonauts embarking on a whimsical, surreal, and existential journey through their solar system.

devindecibel.itch.io

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Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 19d

David Lynch from his 8/28/2020 "Weather Report" video, where he is wearing a black button down, black sunglasses, and saying: "what a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGqHREWzwnA

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devin [👽 PALE DOT 2E OUT NOW 🛸] @devindecibel.bsky.social · 19d

Yeah it rules! Another one I recently read that was short, extremely ominous, and beautifully written is I Who Have Never Known Men by Jaqueline Harpman (though it's a bit more post-apocalypse than sci fi).

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devin [👽 PALE DOT 2E OUT NOW 🛸] @devindecibel.bsky.social · 19d

Have you read the Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemison?

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devin [👽 PALE DOT 2E OUT NOW 🛸] @devindecibel.bsky.social · 19d

New version of my David Lynch tribute game just dropped! I think it does a damn fine job of simulating a Lynch movie.

I printed some nice little zines of it (see my last post) so DM me if you want a copy!

NO MORE BLUE TOMORROWS by devindecibel

A collaborative Lynchian storytelling game.

devindecibel.itch.io

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Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 20d

At Dagstuhl this summer @pyrofoux.bsky.social led a crew of us in a session called "Handmade Blaseball". For various reasons (we're all trying to find the guy who did this) we all ended up designing various physical game generators.

For the curious, here's mine: mguzdial.itch.io/game-generat...

Game Generator Generator Game by Matthew Guzdial

A game for making game generators and playing them.

mguzdial.itch.io

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devin [👽 PALE DOT 2E OUT NOW 🛸] @devindecibel.bsky.social · 20d

I looove DA, it completely unlocked Pale Dot’s design.

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devin [👽 PALE DOT 2E OUT NOW 🛸] @devindecibel.bsky.social · 20d

Tabling my games for the first time!!! Come through the Guildhouse if you’re in/near San Jose!

A spread of indie tabletop roleplaying zines.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 22d

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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devin [👽 PALE DOT 2E OUT NOW 🛸] @devindecibel.bsky.social · 22d

Hello traveler! My greatest (?), dumbest, and free-est game now has a new version!!!

Play as edgelord adventurers and overcome challenges by revealing your dark tragic past. Be sick as hell, outdo your comrades, or go rogue trying. I've never run EWA10PBS without crying laughing at the table.

Elf With A 10 Page Backstory by devindecibel

A ridiculous 2 page game about edgy mysterious fantasy adventurers revealing their tragic past.

devindecibel.itch.io

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devin [👽 PALE DOT 2E OUT NOW 🛸] @devindecibel.bsky.social · 25d

Bappy hirthday @gannon.bsky.social !!!

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kaipalin.bsky.social @kaipalin.bsky.social · 27d

Hell yeah, get Pale Dotted!

Thanks @devindecibel.bsky.social!

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devin [👽 PALE DOT 2E OUT NOW 🛸] @devindecibel.bsky.social · 29d

I just saw a person with a Labubu encased in a plastic mold like it was imprisoned in carbonite to be delivered to Jabba the Hut.

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devin [👽 PALE DOT 2E OUT NOW 🛸] @devindecibel.bsky.social · Sep 12

I’m a TTRPG designer musician! I’d love to meet more.

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Tabletop Bookshelf🔜Gamehole @tabletopbookshelf.com · Sep 9

NEW ARRIVAL: Pale Dot by @devindecibel.bsky.social is a collaborative storytelling game (GM-less/GM-full) for 2-5 players about a crew of dustlings, non- human cosmonauts journeying beyond their world in search of answers.

Physical copies, ready to ship 👇
tabletopbookshelf.com/products/pal...

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jex thomas @lastpinepress.com · Sep 8

Exciting mail day courtesy @devindecibel.bsky.social and @plusoneexp.bsky.social

Cover of Pale Dot by Devin Nelson. The image depicts a somewhat cat-like astronaut with tendrils and a space suit bathed in purple light. Inside the helmet, smaller, green tendrils are sprouting on the left side of the creature's head, some with white and pink flowers. The creature looks frightened or in awe. All around it, the strangely neon expanse of space, featuring strange planets. A collection of purple bubbles float near the edge of the image, containing small, zygote-like creatures curled in a ball. Across the bottom of the page is a forest silhouetted in black and a golden space ship with the game's title superimposed over it.

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devin [👽 PALE DOT 2E OUT NOW 🛸] @devindecibel.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hell yeah!!!

brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.com · Sep 8

congrats @devindecibel.bsky.social ! got my copies.

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