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Embedded Engineer, TTRPG Designer, Video Game Dev Music visualization, goofy projects, weird fiction, and game development 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 My TTRPGS: dairykillsme.itch.io Cappy & Tappy: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3359860/Cappy__Tappy_Temples_of_Peril/

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dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · Feb 4

Thieves of the Tome is now Live on Kickstarter

Back the #Zinequest #ZineMonth #TTRPG to experience:

📖 Creating spells, characters, and modules using real books
📖 Writing spells for other players
📖 A chaotic, slapstick spell heist

firstpancake.studio/thieves

Thieves of the Tome - Bookshelf Heist RPG

Turn the books on your shelf into a raucous spellbook heist. A TTRPG for 2-5.

firstpancake.studio

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dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · 4h

Ordering proofs for my first physically published game while the US is embroiled in fascism is an emotional whirlwind.

Thieves started out pretty anti fascist, but the more this year happens, the more I have sharpened that message. Some of the modules we've written for this guy - cathartic.

dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · 4h

Fits elegantly within the character limit

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[🎃] 𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚠 𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚝 @owllog.bsky.social · 7d

Happy October you freaks!

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dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · 8d

Micah and Oliver are cooking with the art lately!

The First Pancake @firstpancake.studio · 10d

Some chill Sunday Night Development on Cappy & Tappy. Watch how the water droplets react to hitting his head. This is truly the first AAAA Game.

Also unintentional reveal of our hats system

#indiegame #cappyandtappy #indiegamedev

dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · 9d

Finally finished Absolution by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social. Honing in on the most disturbing scenes of Authority and Acceptance was brilliant. I don't know if this was intended, but Area X is starting to remind me of the horror of LLMs; it's a place that vomits up copies with an inherent wrongness.

dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · 22d

Started a Stone carving class today! Here's the before image, excited to see where it ends up.

An uncarved chunk of alabaster sits on pillows atop a pedestal. Hammers, chisels, and other tools are on the pedestal as well.

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Brian Liberge/Freddie (she/he) 🔜Dungeons and Drag Nuns @brianliberge.bsky.social · 23d

If you have a blog or a podcast or work for an award wining games journalism site (Cough @rascal.news ) or anything in between I would love to run a game for you. Reach out to Natalie and we will make it happen.

Last Kiss is an experience. Be a teen. Make bad choices. Hurt. Die.

#ttrpg #lastkiss

Natalie Pudim @luckoftheharbor.com · 24d

We are in the late stage playtesting of @brianliberge.bsky.social's Last Kiss where we would LOVE to get some people who talk about games to play it.

Last Kiss is a game about Youth at the End of the World inspired by Revolutionary Girl Utena and I Saw The TV Glow.

The end is inevitable.

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Lily Alexandre @lily-is.online · 24d

nobody wants video essays anymore. all the money’s in illuminated manuscripts these days. you can write any manuscript at all – a terrible one! it doesn’t matter! some startup will still jump in your emails begging to partner with you and get it illuminated

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dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · 28d

I also got a pinpanar9 "good" recently. Feels great!

dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · Sep 6

However with a little time from this design I agree with you it's quite punishing. I like the idea of face cards as checkpoints, and making them correspond to some event in the story.

That way instead of doing a full time loop every time, you loop back to the most recent "face card checkpoint" 2/2

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dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · Sep 6

Yeah my original intent was that any failure would trigger the loop, which is why suit/action matching can pretty much guarantee a success.

The play I imagined is to actually do several time loops very fast and learn the best player actions that result in a successful path through the loop. (1/2)

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dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thanks for the kind words about my game! Feel free to reach out about any questions (I know 36 words isn't a lot).

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dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · Sep 6

Oh hey thanks! I saw this thread and almost linked my game, but figured I'd leave the recs to you :)

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dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · Sep 5

The AI art takes on reddit are so bad that I've had to block the whole website on my phone. Gives me palpations to know there are people genuinely so culturally bankrupt that they think prompting AI to vomit up stolen patterns constitutes artistry.

dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · Sep 4

Despite personally having maximalist design tastes, I don't think there's anything wrong with a well written TTRPG with a focus on readability! Ease of use is great.

dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is one of the best videos ever. The tonal swings between each clip are crazy. youtu.be/kKKg5fzIKeE?...

French Guy destroys life with Orbeez

YouTube video by Bepske Kaatje

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dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · Aug 25

This opening is why Ask D.N.A. is my favorite Seatbelts song by association

Character Design References @characterdesign.bsky.social · Aug 24

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)

#animationtidbits #sakuga #animation #2danimation

dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · Aug 17

Entered the @onepagerpgjam.bsky.social! A little late due to an itch outage, but still super proud of my submission this year. A courtroom drama smashed together with brutal vigilante action.

Daredevil: Born Again really planted this one in my head.

dairykillsme.itch.io/broken-justice

Broken Justice by dairykillsme

A one page Vigilawyer TTRPG inspired by Daredevil

dairykillsme.itch.io

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dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · Aug 8

We placed 7th in audio and 18th in creativity!!!! Let's go!!

dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · Aug 3

Super proud to show off our submission to the #gmtkgamejam. The theme this year was LOOP, so we made a drum pad rhythm game. Somehow we even got a map editor in there!

#rhythmgame #indiegame #gamedev

dairykillsme.itch.io/beat-demon

Beat Demon by dairykillsme

Beat Demon is a Drum Pad Rhythm Game. Demons are invading cyberspace, and you'll craft sick beats to defeat them.

dairykillsme.itch.io

dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · Aug 3

Holy cow I need to sleep tho

dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · Aug 3

Beat Demon by dairykillsme

Beat Demon is a Drum Pad Rhythm Game. Demons are invading cyberspace, and you'll craft sick beats to defeat them.

dairykillsme.itch.io

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dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · Jul 28

It was rollmaster express for me, but I got it for free at a free comic book day, so it was what I had!

Old King Cole Nidrei @smollusk.bsky.social · Jul 27

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith tweet, blatantly edited:

A lot of TTRPG fans will get asked what a new player 's first TTRPG should be and suggest DND 5E or Fiasco or Apocalypse World when their own actual first TTRPG was some game with the most confusing ass rules ever, a more accurate sampling that also hooked them for life

dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · Jul 22

I would definitely make 100 public playlists for this haha

dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · Jul 22

F*** it's three pages. I know concision and cutting away bloat are the point, but I don't want to get rid of turning courtroom failures into broken bones 😭

dairykillsme @dairykillsme.bsky.social · Jul 21

Spent my train rides this weekend working on an manuscript for the one page RPG jam. It's a law / vigilante RPG inspired by daredevil. I don't think I'm going to be able to fit it onto one page lol ...