the all-new edition of the award-winning game about a band on the run includes:
🚂 stunning interior illustrations by @badbucket.bsky.social
🚂 fresh layout by @rubylavin.bsky.social
🚂 same great dramaturgy and editing by @weaverswork.bsky.social

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I'm really honored to be included in this post, and I hope this post can be a jumping off place for other designers to think about operations, machines, and interpretive play. I want to see the games that these ideas grow in others.

weaver's one of the most thoughtful people i know and just reading his games, let alone playing them, is an act of caring for and challenging yourself to be hopeful and keep moving forward in a culture that feeds on your despair

This is one of the nicest things anybody's ever said about my work. Printing it out and sticking it to my forehead so that no matter how grouchy i get around my work, if nothing else I have one fan because you are among them. < 3

Picking up The Ship Sinks Here will give you a sneak peak at the kind of things that are coming from me in the next year. It will also help me support myself as a transexual, autistic artist living in DC under occupation. Please check it out. Any reposts or shoutouts really help.

I'm towards a utilitarian and, I hope, more accessible layout style inspired by the history of underground printing and zine culture. And my new game texts are more specifically designed to encourage experimentation, while helping players uphold the spirit of the work.

This new update is really exciting for me for a lot of reasons. For one, its the first time I've published new game content in nearly 3 years and it feels really good to be back in the grove. But also it shows off the direction my art is going to great effect:

I'm also really proud of my editing on this! Conceptual editing has always been something I've loved, but working on Bremen really pushed me to put all my skills together to meet the text where it needs to be. I love when a text talk back to you, shows you where it needs to go, as this text did.

Working in the style of a-historical reconstruction, I'm hoping to paint the sides and front in the style of a fresco from the cathedral in Prague. I've never seen anything like the monochrome ones and instantly wanted to try my hand at them.