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Games and Graphic Designer, TTRPG lover, convention and community organiser Autostede: Neon Badlands kickstarting this Easter

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Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · Apr 17

The Autostede Kickstarter is live!
This has been a project I've been poking at away at for years now, and I'm finally doing the big push to get it published.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ket...

Autostede: Neon Badlands

A synthwave meets punk rock TTRPG across an unforgiving wasteland inspired by Zoids, Mad Max and Horizon: Zero Dawn.

www.kickstarter.com

Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · 2d

I cleared as much as I could but as it has been locked there's a lot I can't change

Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · 4d

Has anyone had any experience with resolving issues in Meta Business? I had my ad account hacked several years ago, managed to recover it, secure it and am still trying to re-gain the ability to post ads on fb/insta. looking now, my support ticket is two years old with no resolution

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Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · 13d

I don't know if this is the correct stance, but I'm proud to call it an Illuminated game, and I am super grateful to Spencer Campbell for being the giant whose shoulders I could stand on to create something that, I think at least, is incredible. Thankyou. 6/6

Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · 13d

So I added in the Illuminated by LUMEN graphic. I didn't hesitate and I don't regret it. It has evolved and morphed from its roots but those roots exist. The fact that it no longer looks like anything like Light actually doesn't bother me. I think it's a feature, not a bug. 5/?

Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · 13d

I was suddenly hit with a flood of memories about discussions about people quoting their influences and the benefits of transparency when it came to the genetic history of games. Not only that but I feel LUMEN, like PbtA, is more of a vibe than a strict mechanical framework. A stance on design 4/?

Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · 13d

At some point I had unconsciously decided that this game had evolved beyond being a LUMEN game. After seeing Spencer discussing game design and remembering the deep dives I was doing with earlier versions of the game, I pulled out the LUMEN SRD. 3/?

Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · 13d

This is until I went to put together the final version to send to the printer. I went back over the digital file to make sure there were no glaring errors, and of course I have been over this file a thousand times so I didn't find anything. But I had seen a post from @gilarpgs.bsky.social 2/?

Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · 13d

For quite a while now I have discussed at the table that Autostede is based on a game that was inspired by Destiny, which is why some parts are explicitly video gamey, and I have always gotten a good reaction, but for some reason I stopped calling it a game that was Illuminated by LUMEN 1/?

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17d

A statue of Trump and Epstein was removed from the National Mall by U.S. Park Police, despite a permit allowing it to remain until Sept. 28

Trump-Epstein 'friendship' statue removed from National Mall one day after it appeared

A statue of Trump and Epstein was removed from the National Mall by U.S. Park Police, despite a permit allowing it to remain until Sept. 28.

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Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · 17d

Yeah, but at the same time, it's already Wednesday

Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · 17d

I never understood why mecha appealed to me so much as a genre until my psychologist explained that the mind-body connection breaking down is not an experience that neurotypicals generally go through.

Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · 17d

Did this on accident this week, reached out to a potential new distribution channel and turns out I went to the same university. 5 minute business call turned into hours of chatting. Why did we stop doing this?

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Exeunt Press 💀 @exeunt.press · 18d

If you are interested in the messy space between TTRPGs and board games, you should be following @adambell.games. He's doing really fascinating work. Can't wait to get my copy of Uneasy Lies the Head.

I've covered his games twice on SCM.

Links below. 👇

Adam Bell @adambell.games · 18d

The proof copies of Uneasy Lies the Head & Hungry out of Habit are in hand & they look great.

The digital release of Uneasy is coming next week.

Preorder on backerkit to get everything pictured here & a code on itch as soon as it drops.

uneasy-lies-the-head.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

Everything in the Royal Edition of Uneasy Lies the Head
- Hungry out of Habit Zine
- Uneasy Lies the Head Book
- Box to hold it all
- Uneasy Lies the Head playsheets
- 10 custom dice
- Game tokens
- Hungry out of Habit
- Custom playing cards for both games

Two hands, one holding Uneasy Lies the Head and the other holding Hungry out of Habit

Internal spread of Uneasy Lies the Head with the header Embroil Yourself

Internal spread of Hungry out of Habit with headers Terrain, Surplus, and Disputed Lands

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ARCANE☆SOULS ☆ Abril De Lucia | COMMS: WAITLIST @abrildelucia.bsky.social · 18d

To All Artists:

Repost that art. Milk that piece more, it took a lot to draw. Post close up shots, color edits, speedpaintings, the background lore. Be annoying about it.

It took too much effort!

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NephthysNile🔜PaxAus/SXSW Sydney @nephthysnile.bsky.social · 18d

It’s time to start filling up my dance card again with TTRPG shenanigans!
If you’re looking for a guest to join your actual play cast, or someone to wax lyrical about storytelling, AP production of TTRPG fan community building, I’d love to have a chat!
nephthysnile.com/get-in-touch/

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Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · 17d

This is something I really honed in on in Neon Badlands. I had previously solidified the drop table as an effective mechanic but adding the social and selfish tags to dice results allowed players to gesture at their board and extrapolate some wild roleplay

Adam Bell @adambell.games · 18d

it also featured something ive been really interested in exploring and playing more, which is very specific board-gamey mechanics that imply stuff in the fiction but don't need to spell it out directly. Trusting the players to interpret the cube sliding or card playing or whatever else is just fun

Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · 17d

I have been enlightened to a group that I had not considered in my initial marketing forays for my game Autostede: Neon Badlands. Hey #warhammer40k fans, is this something you'd be into?

Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · 24d

I love the speed at which I started to receive offers to make a web app after I registered a domain. Best App! Cheapest Price! Fastest Development!

... I just wanted to be able to host files and send out neat little urls

Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · 24d

makes me wonder if the correct solution is to go all the way back to webrings.

Everyone runs their own site but we all link to everyone else's sites. I wonder how long it would take before it became impossible to manage

Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · 24d

I saw an email today that it had been approved and was now available for purchase.

I went to check it out, mostly to make sure I hadn't messed up anything.

I've already made 2 sales...

Apparently there are people who buy TTRPGs on drivethruRPG

Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · 24d

*sigh* I saw a post somewhere saying how important it actually is to publish your TTRPG on drivethruRPG, just because a certain percentage of players only go there, and don't go to itch at all.

So I set up a publisher account and uploaded the game.

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Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · 29d

I'll I gotta pick this one up!

Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · 29d

The best example of this I see is the 10 HP dragon from dungeon world. I don't have it on hand but the stat block basically says it is immune to all damage.

The trick is finding something like the black arrows from the hobbit. If you can make one attack with the dragon killing arrows, you win

Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · Sep 12

How's it goin, fam? Just popping in to mention that AUTOSTEDE IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AND DOWNLOAD!
Sorry, got a little excited there. I am a mess of emotions right now, but the game is awesome, and now it's available.
If you like animal mecha, check out kettleandclock.itch.io/autostede-ne...

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Kettle and Clock @kettleandclock.bsky.social · Sep 9

Right?! What even counts as porn? Just censor everything for everyone just in case a child gets wind of a natural phenomenon