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Ben M | Periapt Games

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🦆 New Zealand indie thing-maker, he/him 🦆 TTRPG, RPG, D&D, art 🦆 I make #devlog posts! 🦆 I blog! bit.ly/periaptb 🦆 Weird wizards from wiki articles! bit.ly/weirdwiz 🦆 Psychic detective puzzle duo game! bit.ly/SMAL 🦆 Games, books, resources! bit.ly/periaptg

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · Sep 4

Here's my submission for September's #eternalttrpgjam!

HOARDING: a one-page game about cramped and cluttered space. Somewhat appropriately, I designed it entirely within the notes for another game I was working on. 96 fonts on one page. Check it out for free on Itch.

periapt-games.itch.io/hoarding

Hoarding by Periapt Games

Tread carefully.

periapt-games.itch.io

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 1d

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 8h

Buying the articulated titanium Charybdis™ attachment for my Maelstrom® eleven-speed blender (it lets me crush, pulp, or 'vivisect' ice)

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 23h

The last article in my Awards Debrief is up. What even is the point of an award show? Should anyone care?

www.explorersdesign.com/ennies-4/

Where do rpg awards go next?

An insider's look into the 2025 Ennie Awards. Part four. What's the point of an award show? And what do we want to see in the future?

www.explorersdesign.com

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 2d

hinokodo.itch.io/human-made

A few years ago I made an icon pack for folks to use (it's free!) and over the years it's appeared on 100+ products (from what folks have linked to me! Mostly books) I like the positive spin of 'human made' vs 'no ai' personally.

Human Made by HINOKODO

An icon pack made by humans

hinokodo.itch.io

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 1d

I spent a few years as an editor and one of the grooves it cut in my brain is that I read the word "utilise" as "use" whether or not I have editorial control over whatever I'm reading

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SoloRPGList @solorpglist.com · 1d

New to the #SoloRPG List: Hoarding by @periaptgames.bsky.social
The past, stacked up in brittle boxes--One page text exploration game.
CLICKY: solorpglist.com/search.html?...

Cover for the RPG Hoarding. A mish mash of sentences in different orientations and fonts with the title in the centre in a large font.

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Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 4d

If this is the first sentence and footnote in a decision about your appeal, you are going to lose.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

"history buffs" implies the existence of history debuffs

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 1d

[picture of a Venn diagram with a single circle labelled "D&D 5e" and the space around it labelled "OSR"]

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ceej @ceej.online · Mar 26

the most annoying thing about living here is tourists asking to meet She Who Slumbers in the Lake. buddy, we all want to meet her. that’s why we lure the tourists

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Saša Đurđević @azuremeraki.bsky.social · 2d

whimsical fellas

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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Jon at Handiwork Games @handiworkgames.bsky.social · 1d

Some freelance work from a little while back - revisiting the Beyond the Wall cover for Flatland Games. I have a bit soft spot for this client and their game. Always a treat.

A painting of a horned figure with a a spear and a wide decorated belt stood between two carved stones that form gate posts in a wall. In front of the figure are three adventurers looking like they’re getting ready to fight. Behind the figure is a tangled forest.

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Hinokodo @hinokodo.com · 2d

Caught up on the livecast from this week. Someone mentioned that other companies are starting to put 'no ai was used' kind of notes on their games and in rulebooks. I think y'all might be interested to know that there is a movement there and people look for that!

@stonemaiergames.com

the human made icons in the pack. free to use of course.

an example shown on a book. (specifically TUMULUS by Exeunt Press)

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 2d

Hope people like indie archaeology games

Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 2d

How it started:
"I think I might write it up into a little one-pager"

How it's going:
45 pages and counting

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 2d

Delving my own dudgeon

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Randomised RPG suggestions @rpgsuggestions.bsky.social · 4d

And now, an idea I'm working on: A game that revolves around paranormal underwater exploration

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ceej @ceej.online · 2d

for a henchman, there’s nothing better after a long day of guarding a small chest than standing with your back to a field of waving grass just tall enough to hide a crouching human being

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 3d

Granular surrealist Stanley Parable RPG with character optimisation focus

Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 3d

Okay but I thought it was a universal human experience to have called in some just-in-time hairdressing in our squandered youth

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 4d

"meme" is short for memento mori

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Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 3d

Same reason gyres are only ever widening

Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 3d

"prayer to the great pipe"

Me opening my browser first thing in the morning

Ben M | Periapt Games @periaptgames.bsky.social · 3d

prayer to the great pipe

Sheng Lam @8bitwizard.bsky.social · 4d

pipe explorations and other bits. smth smth big pipe worshipping core smth idk yet exactly what. same world as the sensor pod thing