Tanya Floaker
@floaker.bsky.social
Game Designer ❖ Writer ❖ Consultant
https://floaker.carrd.co
(they/them)
Avatar: Headshot of a white person w. shaved head, a tuft of pink hair, round glasses, and pink surreal collage background (no AI)
https://floaker.carrd.co
(they/them)
Avatar: Headshot of a white person w. shaved head, a tuft of pink hair, round glasses, and pink surreal collage background (no AI)
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Tanya Floaker
@floaker.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Hello all, time for a #TTRPGIntro!
I'm an award-winning game designer currently based out of Edinburgh, Scotland. I create games from a queer anarchist communist perspective, help organize Edinburgh Indie Gamers, and actively build spaces to promote new creators.
Links in 🧵 below.
I'm an award-winning game designer currently based out of Edinburgh, Scotland. I create games from a queer anarchist communist perspective, help organize Edinburgh Indie Gamers, and actively build spaces to promote new creators.
Links in 🧵 below.
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Back in the mists of time when I worked on a building site, I remember that if a contracter didn't pay when they were supposed to all the lads would go round and ask for the money as a group. Starting to wonder whether that's going to be necessary in TTRPG circles.
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Back in the mists of time when I worked on a building site, I remember that if a contracter didn't pay when they were supposed to all the lads would go round and ask for the money as a group. Starting to wonder whether that's going to be necessary in TTRPG circles.
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The portal opened, and my safety line snapped, so I was pulled in and sent whirling across the multiverse...
"How did you get into ttrpgs?"
It was a jump to the left, and then a slide to the ri-i-i-i-i-ight...
It was a jump to the left, and then a slide to the ri-i-i-i-i-ight...
"How did you get into ttrpgs?"
My father wrapped me in a blanket and we watched Batman: The Animated Series and Jackie Chan Adventures
My father wrapped me in a blanket and we watched Batman: The Animated Series and Jackie Chan Adventures
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The portal opened, and my safety line snapped, so I was pulled in and sent whirling across the multiverse...
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A few of us designers have been privileged to follow along while @stoutstoat.co.uk chipped away at this project for the last few years.
It's something new. An interactive history book like the kind you'd maybe read as a kid, but with the combined powers of archaeology and game design.
It's something new. An interactive history book like the kind you'd maybe read as a kid, but with the combined powers of archaeology and game design.
Game designers bring to life to Scotland's mysterious Picts
Writers and archaeologists also worked on a new guide to a lost early medieval Scottish society.
www.bbc.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A few of us designers have been privileged to follow along while @stoutstoat.co.uk chipped away at this project for the last few years.
It's something new. An interactive history book like the kind you'd maybe read as a kid, but with the combined powers of archaeology and game design.
It's something new. An interactive history book like the kind you'd maybe read as a kid, but with the combined powers of archaeology and game design.
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Hey sorry our chatbot encouraged you to die by suicide but in our defense you were violating our terms of service because you died by suicide.
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Hey sorry our chatbot encouraged you to die by suicide but in our defense you were violating our terms of service because you died by suicide.
"How did you get into ttrpgs?"
It was a jump to the left, and then a slide to the ri-i-i-i-i-ight...
It was a jump to the left, and then a slide to the ri-i-i-i-i-ight...
"How did you get into ttrpgs?"
My father wrapped me in a blanket and we watched Batman: The Animated Series and Jackie Chan Adventures
My father wrapped me in a blanket and we watched Batman: The Animated Series and Jackie Chan Adventures
“How did you get into ttrpgs?”
Using a pair of tiny silver scissors, I unpicked the hem and climbed inside, where I proceeded to refashion the various pieces until they became a comfortable nest for my own dreams, then I cut star-shaped holes to let my dreams fly. Sometimes there’s a flamethrower.
Using a pair of tiny silver scissors, I unpicked the hem and climbed inside, where I proceeded to refashion the various pieces until they became a comfortable nest for my own dreams, then I cut star-shaped holes to let my dreams fly. Sometimes there’s a flamethrower.
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"How did you get into ttrpgs?"
It was a jump to the left, and then a slide to the ri-i-i-i-i-ight...
It was a jump to the left, and then a slide to the ri-i-i-i-i-ight...
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We're only 12 subscribers off of our first 100. Can you help us get there and grow?
As a little teaser, in the months ahead just some of our coming games include:
- Mum Chums
- The Time We Have
- Monsterhearts 2
- Dialect
- Stewpot
And an exclusive sponsored series!!
www.youtube.com/@whohurtyouap
As a little teaser, in the months ahead just some of our coming games include:
- Mum Chums
- The Time We Have
- Monsterhearts 2
- Dialect
- Stewpot
And an exclusive sponsored series!!
www.youtube.com/@whohurtyouap
Who Hurt You Actual Play
Sad stories for sad people. We create actual play content telling sad, melancholic and rage-filled stories using game systems from across the TTRPG space.
By Sam Langford
whohurtyouap.carrd.co
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
We're only 12 subscribers off of our first 100. Can you help us get there and grow?
As a little teaser, in the months ahead just some of our coming games include:
- Mum Chums
- The Time We Have
- Monsterhearts 2
- Dialect
- Stewpot
And an exclusive sponsored series!!
www.youtube.com/@whohurtyouap
As a little teaser, in the months ahead just some of our coming games include:
- Mum Chums
- The Time We Have
- Monsterhearts 2
- Dialect
- Stewpot
And an exclusive sponsored series!!
www.youtube.com/@whohurtyouap
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Anybody available to talk to me about SRDs?
Very practically speaking, how do you use one? What do you do with it when you have it open in front of you?
What's your favorite one that I should look at?
Very practically speaking, how do you use one? What do you do with it when you have it open in front of you?
What's your favorite one that I should look at?
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Anybody available to talk to me about SRDs?
Very practically speaking, how do you use one? What do you do with it when you have it open in front of you?
What's your favorite one that I should look at?
Very practically speaking, how do you use one? What do you do with it when you have it open in front of you?
What's your favorite one that I should look at?
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With Woke 2 you’re allowed to do racisms again as long as they’re woke racisms.
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
With Woke 2 you’re allowed to do racisms again as long as they’re woke racisms.
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From r/TransgenderUK: The BBC is putting together a hit piece against GenderGP.
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
From r/TransgenderUK: The BBC is putting together a hit piece against GenderGP.
Turning up to a house party with pizza used to be the classic option in Glasgow. If anyone questioned it, just say that Dave said it was OK. Y'know, Dave *gestures vaguely*
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Turning up to a house party with pizza used to be the classic option in Glasgow. If anyone questioned it, just say that Dave said it was OK. Y'know, Dave *gestures vaguely*
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Our wildlife deserves better.
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Our wildlife deserves better.
THREE YEARS ON STRIKE ENDS IN VICTORY!!!
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
THREE YEARS ON STRIKE ENDS IN VICTORY!!!
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This is some weighty stuff, and while it’s hard to talk about enjoying an article about this subject matter, I came away feeling like I had been quietly led to a bunch of questions that will eventually make me a smarter person. Serious content warnings apply.
I don't know how to introduce this one. After three titles about opium peddling, I figured the rest of SDHistCon would be breezy by comparison. I was wrong. The next day, I experienced one of the toughest board games I've ever played. Perhaps *the* toughest. spacebiff.com/2025/11/24/u...
Unnameable
After the first day of SDHistCon, where I played three games about opium peddling, I figured the second would be easier on my stomach. I could not have been more wrong. It has no name. Its designer…
spacebiff.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
This is some weighty stuff, and while it’s hard to talk about enjoying an article about this subject matter, I came away feeling like I had been quietly led to a bunch of questions that will eventually make me a smarter person. Serious content warnings apply.
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Thinking a lot about how when Schreier's exposé on R* working conditions came out, several mid-level devs I used to respect came out with very defensive "well *I've* never worked 90 hour weeks" as though it negated the fact that many contract and QA devs demonstrably were.
PMG understands Rockstar became aware of these messages after at least one non-union member of the server raised concerns about these discussions with management and this either kicked off, or contributed to, a wider investigation.
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Thinking a lot about how when Schreier's exposé on R* working conditions came out, several mid-level devs I used to respect came out with very defensive "well *I've* never worked 90 hour weeks" as though it negated the fact that many contract and QA devs demonstrably were.
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Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
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Five Fires, my love letter TTRPG to 80s/90s hip-hop, is launching in February. Join us! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Get Ready for Five Fires
From Thoughtcrime Games LLC - Get Ready for Five Fires
www.backerkit.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Five Fires, my love letter TTRPG to 80s/90s hip-hop, is launching in February. Join us! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
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I saw this letter a loooong time ago and no one believed me so I’m really glad someone posted it. The pandemic never ended, Biden just wanted PR. He’s helped kill millions and disable millions more, for polling. He wanted to kill you for vibes. Are y’all okay with that?
There seem to be a lot of #BlueMAGA voices that are outraged at any perceived maligning of what they believe to be Joe Biden's heroic management of the pandemic he declared "over" in '23 - the one that is, in fact, ongoing.
"He did the best he could."
No. He did what Impact Research told him to.
"He did the best he could."
No. He did what Impact Research told him to.
![The first page of a memo from a public relations firm, Impact Research, to President Joe Biden and his staff on February 24, 2022 (about a third of the way through the deadliest few months of the pandemic to date). In summary, the memo states that two years into the pandemic, people are over it and want to get back to normal, and that "nearly every American finally has the tools to protect themselves from this virus." The first two bullet points read "Declare the crisis phase of COVID over and push for feeling and acting more normal", and "Recognize that people are 'worn out' and feeling real harm from the years-long restrictions and [next words underlined] take their side."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5pds6fax4nwcysq5nqsxiqn2/bafkreif6tt6kusbzze6n2dwxkihv3qth3gp5bqsbtpsrkihi5mhxyyumi4@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I saw this letter a loooong time ago and no one believed me so I’m really glad someone posted it. The pandemic never ended, Biden just wanted PR. He’s helped kill millions and disable millions more, for polling. He wanted to kill you for vibes. Are y’all okay with that?
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If you are an Actual Play producer (or otherwise the copyright holder) and you are interested in uploading your show to the Internet Archive, please let me know and I can help you through the whole process!
If we get 50 shows to coordinate, we can make a collection :)
Message me here or email me!
If we get 50 shows to coordinate, we can make a collection :)
Message me here or email me!
I updated my guide to digital preservation of Actual Play to make it easier to navigate & added a little diagram to explain the relationship between backups, digital preservation & digital archives
allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/digitalpres
Also, now it has a glitter cursor.
allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/digitalpres
Also, now it has a glitter cursor.
Digital Preservation of Actual Play
All My Friends Are Stories is a project designed to help people tell collaborative stories through Table Top Roleplaying Games (TTRPG). There are so many ways to play TTRPGs: you can play them for the...
allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:35 AM
If you are an Actual Play producer (or otherwise the copyright holder) and you are interested in uploading your show to the Internet Archive, please let me know and I can help you through the whole process!
If we get 50 shows to coordinate, we can make a collection :)
Message me here or email me!
If we get 50 shows to coordinate, we can make a collection :)
Message me here or email me!
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"All these workers have ever tried to do is discuss their pay and conditions to improve them, so they can make a game loved by millions."
EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum".
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 34 Union Members
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"All these workers have ever tried to do is discuss their pay and conditions to improve them, so they can make a game loved by millions."
A man from Shropshire possessed by the ghost of a dead samurai to become the world's oldest pro-grappler is pure wrestling!
Having been pipped to the post by Dory Funk Jr. last year, Kendo Nagasaki has almost certainly set the record as the oldest male wrestler to ever compete, wrestling for LDN on 23rd November 2025 at the age of 84, 61 years after his debut match.
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A man from Shropshire possessed by the ghost of a dead samurai to become the world's oldest pro-grappler is pure wrestling!
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NEW EPISODE!
No Scrubs returns with another match from the twisted mind of Jeffrey Nero Hardy, as he does battle with everyone's favourite podcaster, Mark "Big Evil" "Booger Red" Undertaker. Listen to the episode, kid! Make yourself mildly diverted!
open.spotify.com/episode/0wNz...
No Scrubs returns with another match from the twisted mind of Jeffrey Nero Hardy, as he does battle with everyone's favourite podcaster, Mark "Big Evil" "Booger Red" Undertaker. Listen to the episode, kid! Make yourself mildly diverted!
open.spotify.com/episode/0wNz...
S2E3: The Undertaker vs. Jeff Hardy (WWE Raw 01/07/2002)
open.spotify.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
NEW EPISODE!
No Scrubs returns with another match from the twisted mind of Jeffrey Nero Hardy, as he does battle with everyone's favourite podcaster, Mark "Big Evil" "Booger Red" Undertaker. Listen to the episode, kid! Make yourself mildly diverted!
open.spotify.com/episode/0wNz...
No Scrubs returns with another match from the twisted mind of Jeffrey Nero Hardy, as he does battle with everyone's favourite podcaster, Mark "Big Evil" "Booger Red" Undertaker. Listen to the episode, kid! Make yourself mildly diverted!
open.spotify.com/episode/0wNz...
Kick it up!
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Kick it up!
Woah!
November 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Woah!