Ben M | Periapt Games
@periaptgames.bsky.social
🦆 New Zealand indie TTRPG maker, art enjoyer, he/him, tags #devlog posts
🦆 Blog! bit.ly/periaptb
🦆 Weird wizard/wikipedia zine! bit.ly/weirdwiz
🦆 Cartoon cultists game! bit.ly/ovze
🦆 Dungeon archaeology! bit.ly/dundig
🦆 Other games! bit.ly/periaptg
🦆 Blog! bit.ly/periaptb
🦆 Weird wizard/wikipedia zine! bit.ly/weirdwiz
🦆 Cartoon cultists game! bit.ly/ovze
🦆 Dungeon archaeology! bit.ly/dundig
🦆 Other games! bit.ly/periaptg
Pinned
Overzealous: Your cult has no chill!
A pen-and-paper solo RPG about some overenthusiastic cultists… and you, the god they’ll summon if they can just stay focused.
www.kickstarter.com
There's a couple of days left in the campaign for #Overzealous! In this solo RPG you’re an outsider god hoping to bring your wisdom and benevolence into a new reality... but you’re a poor match for your bloodthirsty pack of overenthusiastic cultists.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
There's a couple of days left in the campaign for #Overzealous! In this solo RPG you’re an outsider god hoping to bring your wisdom and benevolence into a new reality... but you’re a poor match for your bloodthirsty pack of overenthusiastic cultists.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
Overzealous: Your cult has no chill!
A pen-and-paper solo RPG about some overenthusiastic cultists… and you, the god they’ll summon if they can just stay focused.
www.kickstarter.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:09 PM
There's a couple of days left in the campaign for #Overzealous! In this solo RPG you’re an outsider god hoping to bring your wisdom and benevolence into a new reality... but you’re a poor match for your bloodthirsty pack of overenthusiastic cultists.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/per...
Reposted by Ben M | Periapt Games
TLDR #3: 'Web and digital for graphic designers' (Leonard et al., 2020) is a wide-ranging web design text. Packs plenty into one pedagogical paperback. Full of fun errors like "the Internet was used in WW2", "our closing paragraph is a bullet point", and "a quarter of our index entries are wrong".
February 10, 2026 at 2:12 AM
TLDR #3: 'Web and digital for graphic designers' (Leonard et al., 2020) is a wide-ranging web design text. Packs plenty into one pedagogical paperback. Full of fun errors like "the Internet was used in WW2", "our closing paragraph is a bullet point", and "a quarter of our index entries are wrong".
TLDR #2: 'The complete color harmony' (Sutton, 2024) is verbose and somewhat airy-fairy, but full of ready-to-use colour palettes. The book is a primer on the use of colour in – crucially – advertisement, branding, and fashion. Great for that, of limited use for broader artistic understanding.
February 10, 2026 at 2:12 AM
TLDR #2: 'The complete color harmony' (Sutton, 2024) is verbose and somewhat airy-fairy, but full of ready-to-use colour palettes. The book is a primer on the use of colour in – crucially – advertisement, branding, and fashion. Great for that, of limited use for broader artistic understanding.
TLDR #1: 'Typography essentials' (Saltz, 2019) is a visual feast that covers the basics. It does misspell its own title in the introduction, and I almost completely lost my mind trying to read it as an ebook, but these are small matters in the scheme of things.
February 10, 2026 at 2:12 AM
TLDR #1: 'Typography essentials' (Saltz, 2019) is a visual feast that covers the basics. It does misspell its own title in the introduction, and I almost completely lost my mind trying to read it as an ebook, but these are small matters in the scheme of things.
I'm writing about graphic design books I've read throughout #febreviewary!
Here's three: periaptgames.blogspot.com/2026/02/mode...
Here's three: periaptgames.blogspot.com/2026/02/mode...
Modern graphic design: Three book reviews
It's febreviewary ! During my 2026 design / layout / typography challenge , I picked up a bunch of books around the subject. I've previousl...
periaptgames.blogspot.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:12 AM
I'm writing about graphic design books I've read throughout #febreviewary!
Here's three: periaptgames.blogspot.com/2026/02/mode...
Here's three: periaptgames.blogspot.com/2026/02/mode...
Reposted by Ben M | Periapt Games
A pothos plant I painted to relax between work, work and book two :))
February 8, 2026 at 5:55 PM
A pothos plant I painted to relax between work, work and book two :))
They all have typos and weird grammatical constructions on practically every page. It's really remarkable. Do authors not know that they can pick up 90% of basic errors just by reading their text out loud? Or idk, hire a copy editor?
February 9, 2026 at 5:52 AM
They all have typos and weird grammatical constructions on practically every page. It's really remarkable. Do authors not know that they can pick up 90% of basic errors just by reading their text out loud? Or idk, hire a copy editor?
Of the six graphic design primers I've read in the last couple of months, five of them were riddled with textual errors on the level of "we misspelled our own book title" and "this example doesn't demonstrate what we claim it does". Really stark contrast to their high production value visuals
February 9, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Of the six graphic design primers I've read in the last couple of months, five of them were riddled with textual errors on the level of "we misspelled our own book title" and "this example doesn't demonstrate what we claim it does". Really stark contrast to their high production value visuals
Reposted by Ben M | Periapt Games
Reposted by Ben M | Periapt Games
As for stand-outs, I'm picking these four posters as my favourites of the 31 I made. (See the original posts in the #fantasticaluniquities tag for art credits and font choices!)
February 2, 2026 at 1:10 AM
As for stand-outs, I'm picking these four posters as my favourites of the 31 I made. (See the original posts in the #fantasticaluniquities tag for art credits and font choices!)
Reposted by Ben M | Periapt Games
Rough beast waiting for its hour to come round, checking watch, rustling magazine, staring off into the distance towards general direction of Bethlehem, clearing throat, checking watch again, crossing and uncrossing legs in chair, checking watch,
February 8, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Rough beast waiting for its hour to come round, checking watch, rustling magazine, staring off into the distance towards general direction of Bethlehem, clearing throat, checking watch again, crossing and uncrossing legs in chair, checking watch,
Reposted by Ben M | Periapt Games
"On the highest steeps of Space he will have his dwelling-place,
In those far, terrific regions where the cold comes down like Death
Gleams the red glint of his pinions, smokes the vapor of his breath."
-Stephen St. Vincent Benet
View of 'The Sword of The Sky' at dawn, PLATFORM 01, Elysium.
In those far, terrific regions where the cold comes down like Death
Gleams the red glint of his pinions, smokes the vapor of his breath."
-Stephen St. Vincent Benet
View of 'The Sword of The Sky' at dawn, PLATFORM 01, Elysium.
February 9, 2026 at 12:38 AM
"On the highest steeps of Space he will have his dwelling-place,
In those far, terrific regions where the cold comes down like Death
Gleams the red glint of his pinions, smokes the vapor of his breath."
-Stephen St. Vincent Benet
View of 'The Sword of The Sky' at dawn, PLATFORM 01, Elysium.
In those far, terrific regions where the cold comes down like Death
Gleams the red glint of his pinions, smokes the vapor of his breath."
-Stephen St. Vincent Benet
View of 'The Sword of The Sky' at dawn, PLATFORM 01, Elysium.
I don't know what a 'superbowl' is and at this point I'm afraid to ask. I'm envisaging this though
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tit...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tit...
The Titan's Goblet - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 9, 2026 at 1:19 AM
I don't know what a 'superbowl' is and at this point I'm afraid to ask. I'm envisaging this though
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tit...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tit...
Reposted by Ben M | Periapt Games
Reposted by Ben M | Periapt Games
It's been less than an hour and we're already more than 10% funded! Help us get the rest of the way there: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sma...
Pilot Episode - Rebooted
A musical, GMless ttrpg about being trapped in a 1950s sitcom.
www.kickstarter.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:58 AM
It's been less than an hour and we're already more than 10% funded! Help us get the rest of the way there: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sma...
Rough beast waiting for its hour to come round, checking watch, rustling magazine, staring off into the distance towards general direction of Bethlehem, clearing throat, checking watch again, crossing and uncrossing legs in chair, checking watch,
February 8, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Rough beast waiting for its hour to come round, checking watch, rustling magazine, staring off into the distance towards general direction of Bethlehem, clearing throat, checking watch again, crossing and uncrossing legs in chair, checking watch,
Reposted by Ben M | Periapt Games
Sitting at The Computer and inadvertently hunching my shoulders so hard that my spine starts retracting into my neck and my legs into my spine
February 7, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Sitting at The Computer and inadvertently hunching my shoulders so hard that my spine starts retracting into my neck and my legs into my spine
I saw a pair of quail with a whole wagonload of baby quail chicks a few weeks ago and was hoping to come back with photo evidence but they've proven very wily
February 7, 2026 at 12:41 PM
I saw a pair of quail with a whole wagonload of baby quail chicks a few weeks ago and was hoping to come back with photo evidence but they've proven very wily
Pixelated ham is to dancing skeleton gif as actual historical round black bomb with lit fuse is to memento mori
February 7, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Pixelated ham is to dancing skeleton gif as actual historical round black bomb with lit fuse is to memento mori
Reposted by Ben M | Periapt Games
It's #SelfPromoSaturday which means I want to see the #ttrpg stuff you've got available today, whether it's #dnd #pathfinder or #indierpg
As always, don't forget;
👍 Like cool stuff
🗨 Engage with folks
🔃 Repost your favorites
🚫 No A.I Though
As always, don't forget;
👍 Like cool stuff
🗨 Engage with folks
🔃 Repost your favorites
🚫 No A.I Though
February 7, 2026 at 10:51 AM
It's #SelfPromoSaturday which means I want to see the #ttrpg stuff you've got available today, whether it's #dnd #pathfinder or #indierpg
As always, don't forget;
👍 Like cool stuff
🗨 Engage with folks
🔃 Repost your favorites
🚫 No A.I Though
As always, don't forget;
👍 Like cool stuff
🗨 Engage with folks
🔃 Repost your favorites
🚫 No A.I Though
Cheers all!
Make wizards out of Wikipedia articles using my zine bit.ly/wikiwiz
Break out of a black site in this SCP-inspired bookmark game periapt-games.itch.io/break-contai...
And my crowdfund is almost over for OVERZEALOUS, a solo game where you're a god misaligned with your cult! bit.ly/ovze
Make wizards out of Wikipedia articles using my zine bit.ly/wikiwiz
Break out of a black site in this SCP-inspired bookmark game periapt-games.itch.io/break-contai...
And my crowdfund is almost over for OVERZEALOUS, a solo game where you're a god misaligned with your cult! bit.ly/ovze
Overzealous: Your cult has no chill!
A pen-and-paper solo RPG about some overenthusiastic cultists… and you, the god they’ll summon if they can just stay focused.
bit.ly
February 7, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Cheers all!
Make wizards out of Wikipedia articles using my zine bit.ly/wikiwiz
Break out of a black site in this SCP-inspired bookmark game periapt-games.itch.io/break-contai...
And my crowdfund is almost over for OVERZEALOUS, a solo game where you're a god misaligned with your cult! bit.ly/ovze
Make wizards out of Wikipedia articles using my zine bit.ly/wikiwiz
Break out of a black site in this SCP-inspired bookmark game periapt-games.itch.io/break-contai...
And my crowdfund is almost over for OVERZEALOUS, a solo game where you're a god misaligned with your cult! bit.ly/ovze
Nontraditional play!
Turn Wikipedia articles → wizards in this zine bit.ly/weirdwiz
Break out of a black site in this SCP-inspired bookmark game periapt-games.itch.io/break-contai...
And my crowdfund running for OVERZEALOUS, a solo game where you're a god misaligned with your cult bit.ly/ovze
Turn Wikipedia articles → wizards in this zine bit.ly/weirdwiz
Break out of a black site in this SCP-inspired bookmark game periapt-games.itch.io/break-contai...
And my crowdfund running for OVERZEALOUS, a solo game where you're a god misaligned with your cult bit.ly/ovze
Overzealous: Your cult has no chill!
A pen-and-paper solo RPG about some overenthusiastic cultists… and you, the god they’ll summon if they can just stay focused.
bit.ly
February 7, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Nontraditional play!
Turn Wikipedia articles → wizards in this zine bit.ly/weirdwiz
Break out of a black site in this SCP-inspired bookmark game periapt-games.itch.io/break-contai...
And my crowdfund running for OVERZEALOUS, a solo game where you're a god misaligned with your cult bit.ly/ovze
Turn Wikipedia articles → wizards in this zine bit.ly/weirdwiz
Break out of a black site in this SCP-inspired bookmark game periapt-games.itch.io/break-contai...
And my crowdfund running for OVERZEALOUS, a solo game where you're a god misaligned with your cult bit.ly/ovze
Reposted by Ben M | Periapt Games
