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Tabletop RPG designer and publisher. He/Them - Fuck bigots The Lost Bay RPG https://www.thelostbaystudio.com/pages/the-lost-bay-preorders Blog & Newsletter https://www.thecodedtype.com/

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 10d

New post: Designing Character Classes
Or how imagining the lives of grown-ups as a kid, lead to a character/user first design paradigm in The Lost Bay RPG.

thecodedtype.com/designing_ch...

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Perplexing Ruins @perplexingruins.bsky.social · 17h

Working on perhaps most detailed and tiring piece to date- A5 splash page - commission

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 14h

It’s not an industry it’s a PonzI scheme

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Alfred Valley @alfredvalley.bsky.social · 15h

#MÖRKTOBER day 8: WIZARD

I made a video of the making of this one vm.tiktok.com/ZNdnPGJMd/

Pulpy poster of wizard with their face behind an technicolour orb. Words read: THE WORLD IS YOUR ORB

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 3d

I'm having a blast updating the chargen for The Lost Bay!!
Now you can edit generated characters, save/load

And you can choose from 16 Vibes (character classes), most of which are made by the community

thecodedtype.com/character-ge...

Character generator screenshot, like a digital character sheet

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 4d

I have crossed oceans* of time** to find you

gave up waiting for our box of bags to clear Belgian customs and came back to the UK to get a copy, and I have to say I think it’s pretty, pretty, pretty good. You should buy one & we’ll make more

Shop.wyrd.science

* the English Channel
** CET - GMT

A scruffy git holding up a copy of wyrd science issue 7

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scragend @scragend.bsky.social · 4d

Crop of a sci-fi bar scene.

WIP illustration of a group of sci-fi characters focused around a holographic projection of a ship.

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 4d

For the 4th time in a week Italians filled the streets for Gaza.
Today one million marched in Rome.
Something is happening.

A tide of demonstrators under the Roman sky

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Emiel Boven @emielboven.itch.io · 5d

DURF Expanded is now live on Kickstarter! 🔥

www.kickstarter.com/projects/emi...

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Chaoclypse (Brandon Yu) @chaoclypse.bsky.social · 5d

Painted up my character in Cyberpunk 2077!

Been a while since I’ve been so immersed in a video game.

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 6d

The Lost Bay online character generator has now the first 3rd party vibe, the Mermaid by @verdantcore.bsky.social

How cool is this Vibe?

Mermaid
by:Verdant Core
The sea calls to you; you yearn to return to the surf and the embrace of the waves. This land brings only pain and pollution and you need to escape the past to commune with the currents. You’re a Mermaid, and you serve The Siren.

Name: EstebanAge: 21
Calling: Find a way out of the Lost Bay.

How did you get the weird: You unintentionally replied to the ghost of a dead relative, who was asking something casual. Offering: Rest underwater

Skills:
Stars
Speed
Streets

Gifts:
Triton’s Kiss, grant underwater breathing for one hour
Boon, give someone a piece of good luck (requires an object)

Gear: PUNK. Steel chain necklace and padlock, disposable lighter, ‘concrete hold’ hair wax

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 7d

Midnight: Spontaneous demonstrations pro Gaza and in support of the Flotilla in all major Italian cities right now
In the pic below Rome city centre

Heaps and heaps of folks in the streets of Rome

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 7d

I started making an online character generator for TLB

thecodedtype.com/character-ge...

If you wrote a custom Vibe and want it to be added, feel free too reach out, we'll add it

Character generator: Scanner
by:Iko
In your crib, it’s easier to find video tapes than food or clothes. You hack community TV streams, turn them into masterpieces, and bounce them back to their oblivious audience. The most obscure indie production co-ops, film archives, and cursed VHS dealers owe you one. You find reality dull and feast on video like a famished carnivore indulges in fresh flesh. You’re a Scanner, and you serve the Monitor.

Name: WhaleAge: 17
Calling: Find a cause to fight for.

How did you get the weird:

Weird: 3

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garin 🌿 comms open @garin.bsky.social · 7d

This is me real speed btw
Please hire me

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 8d

I want to go there

Lur Noise @lurnoise.bsky.social · 8d

wip (now in color) ~*

Sunrise-colored comic panel of an island with a brutalist building on its top, and its reflection on the sea.

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 9d

Monthly joy

Chris Airiau @chrisair.itch.io · 9d

In this month's Rokaner Report, I talk about Flatline on the Blocks, games I'm runnning for the ALL FLESH IS SURPLUS digital convention, and my work with @chaoclypse.bsky.social on All Roads Lead to Rome

open.substack.com/pub/5mwpress...

Magenta card for 5 Million Worlds Rokaner Report #21, September 2025. The 5MW spaceship is headed to Prospero's Dream.

Free Flatline on the Blocks "Spinal Crux" patch in the first 48 hours for all physical backers.
The patch is a purple-y cyborg eyeball with wires going into the orbit around it. Art by Scragend.

All Flesh is Surplus, The Lost Bay Reborn Digital Convention, Second Edition: Found Footage of the Bay. October 2025. A jawless skull sits in the middle of the text.

Cover mockup for All Roads Lead to Rome with fungal strips spreading from a skull. Four creepy, muscled alien sketches off to the left. One's a fungal squid-shark like thing, one's a square-ish flesh blob. One's a suit(?) made of meat(?). The last and biggest one is an early drummer sketch, with a huge face like a drum kit.

Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 9d

Monday morning bump

Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 10d

New post: Designing Character Classes
Or how imagining the lives of grown-ups as a kid, lead to a character/user first design paradigm in The Lost Bay RPG.

thecodedtype.com/designing_ch...

Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 10d

3/? The code of the page is accessible here
github.com/twbncon/simp...

I'll be happy to provide tips on how to design super simple self-hosted blogs, if more folks need them.

simple-blog/index.html at main · twbncon/simple-blog

Simple Blog Framework. Contribute to twbncon/simple-blog development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 10d

2/? For the sake of the demonstration I put together this in literally 5minutes. Actually simple, clean, html + CSS is the way to neat and accessible design.

twbncon.github.io/simple-blog/

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 10d

1/? Mini-thread
That's so cool that you studied html in high school. The Coded Type is pretty simple HTML (although it uses a tool named Astro).
You could achieve a similar result with plain HTML using github pages (free) or your own server (which means dropping a tet file on a remote folder)

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 10d

The Found Footage of the Bay starts in 2 days

itch.io/jam/found-fo...

I'll write a new TLB vibe inspired by Acid Rain - LORN www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxg4...

Found Footage of the Bay Jam

A game jam from 2025-09-30 to 2025-10-30 hosted by IKO. The screen crackles to life, first it’s a static snowstorm and then an video stutter-steps into motion. You sit up on the count, thinking, “That...

itch.io

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DNGN CLUB | Jack Panic @dngnclub.itch.io · 14d

A 22 page toolkit to play Sci-fi in minutes:
- clearly defined game play loop & encounters
- a clean d6 roll under system
- quick & evocative character creation
- psionic , cyberware, & animal crew rules
- intuitive ship combat rules [no extra stat tracking]
- solo rules
- space stations & contracts

an ad for the sci fi ttrpg INSTANT STARSHIP that reads:

pre order now & get a free tri fold adventure by adam vass
pre orders end oct 1st
www.worldchamp.io

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 10d

Love this use of a mundane item for game design

Mol is Serving Up Disaster👨‍🍳 @molomoot.bsky.social · 10d

A comment on itch reminded me of this idea for creating #TTRPG dungeons I had a while back. I still think its neat and I don't think I've actually shared it here on bsky.

So bsky.. meet Crossword Dungeons!
Do a crossword, use the answers and designs as inspiration for the rooms, get creative!

a how to guide for creating crossword dungeons. Step 1 - Find and Do, do the crossword. Step 2 - See Beyond, find the inspiring words and start to see the shape. Step 3 - Extrapolate, ditch words you dont like, create walls, you contol the dungeon. Step 4 - Draw the rest of the owl (make the dungeon from the inspiration). Step 5 - BE NOT AFRAID. Its just a dungeon created from a crossword, they wont always work.
Useful tips: Metro for daily free crosswords. CrosswordSolver, for tricky clues. DungeonScrawl, for making maps. LootTheRoom - for more random ideas

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 10d

New post: Designing Character Classes
Or how imagining the lives of grown-ups as a kid, lead to a character/user first design paradigm in The Lost Bay RPG.

thecodedtype.com/designing_ch...

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 10d

Thanks Tanya. It’s coded from scratch. Code and structure are pretty simple actually. That’s a political statement, and a move out of the hold of tech giants and feed culture. Are you familiar with html?

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Iko is assembling bundles @thelostbaystudio.com · 11d

I made a new self-hosted blog, and for it I used an incredibly complex technique to not track user data:

I just don't track it.

It's here thecodedtype.com

The Coded Type

The Coded Type Blog

thecodedtype.com

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