A black background with a faint white grid overlaid on it. On the background is a grainy, scribbly illustration of a blue/pink/green plane, light shining down from it. In the middle of this top plane is a translucent blue arch with an infinity symbol in it. Below is a greenish-yellow grainy dome, with a glowing yellowish blob on it. It has root-like greenish structures coming off the bottom, and a faint blue ripple beneath it. There is a moon and a sun overlaid on the dome, and the space between the top plane and the dome is surrounded with a white box. A line descends from the box to the bottom half of the image, where it splits into a bunch of roots/branches. On the left side of the image starting about halfway down, there are four grainy rectangular images stacked vertically, including an inverted cityscape, some kind of landscape, a picture of some clustered dots that look a bit like cells, and a Mesopotamian seal.

Map of the known universe (WIP for The Firmament)

A black background with a faint white grid overlaid on it. On the background is a grainy, scribbly illustration of a blue/pink/green plane, light shining down from it. In the middle of this top plane is a translucent blue arch with an infinity symbol in it. Below is a greenish-yellow grainy dome, with a glowing yellowish blob on it. It has root-like greenish structures coming off the bottom, and a faint blue ripple beneath it. There is a moon and a sun overlaid on the dome, and the space between the top plane and the dome is surrounded with a white box. A line descends from the box to the bottom half of the image, where it splits into a bunch of roots/branches. On the left side of the image starting about halfway down, there are four grainy rectangular images stacked vertically, including an inverted cityscape, some kind of landscape, a picture of some clustered dots that look a bit like cells, and a Mesopotamian seal.

Map of the known universe (WIP for The Firmament)

WHAT A CROP! this year’s indie groundbreakers nominees dropped and this is a beautiful spread of inspiring games! www.igdnonline.com/groundbreakers

A handful of people in black robes walking under a grey sky through a field toward a forest.

A scene of the VT countryside, including a small hill with a red barn on it. On the left side is a pond with a gnarled, bare tree, a circle of people in black robes standing beneath it.

I ❤️ vermont

Ben says in Discord: "The quiet 525,600 Minutes."

we're playing the quiet year with a very musical set of themes and @foresightstudio.bsky.social just killed everyone in chat

Just a couple of days left to pledge on this bad boy. Those stretch goals are lookin gooood

A very large papier mache sphere sits on a little metal stand on a table covered in newspapers. In the background is a white bookshelf with various knick knacks and books on it.

Up pondering my orb

Realis A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker

REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter!

55 Player Classes
150+ NPC Classes
29 Factions
20 Example Moons of Realis
GMing and Prep Guidance
Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

Ruin: An Anthology of One Shot Incursions for Trophy A collection of 20 new incursions for Trophy Gold and Trophy Dark.

Just a couple more hours to venture into the woods, where nothing bad will happen, I promise!!

I wrote a nasty little adventure about an especially compelling earworm that I'm sure your party of treasure hunters will s̶u̶r̶v̶i̶v̶e̶ love

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...

A beautifully ornate schematic structure of Realis as a system of astronomical objects.

COVER REVEAL: With the campaign one day away, @austinwalker.bsky.social & I are THRILLED to finally share @badbucket.bsky.social's amazing cover for Realis. Get excited for plenty more of Conner's work in the interior as well, and sign up to be notified at launch! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

Triangle Agency X Fist: The House Edge. Nobody wins every time. A blue-skinned figure whose head is blurring into smoke holds playing cards, one of which has his face on it. He's wearing a Triangle Agency version of a casino dealer's outfit, but barely.

New game up for playtesting on Patreon.

Haunted Table and @claymorerpgs.bsky.social present: THE HOUSE EDGE

www.patreon.com/posts/153530...

"but Ben," you say, "couldn't it just be that financial stability improves emotional stability while simultaneously relieving the intense pressure to actively monetize an art form you love??"

to which I say "no that's ridiculous"

After a year of cobbling together part-time jobs and contract gigs, I returned to a science-adjacent full-time job last week and unfortunately I think my game design brain requires an unrelated day job to function properly

uh oh......playtest crew of The House Edge reporting the events of their game with joy in their eyes and excitement in their hearts.......the magic of games is returning......we are designing a cool new thing!!!!!

nothing quite like that first-day-of-spring snowfall

Game UI Database The ultimate tool for Game UI and Interface designers. Explore over 1,300 games and 55,000 UI screenshots. Browse and filter by category, animation, colour, material, layout, game genre, and more.

graphic designers, loot gameuidatabase.com early and often

55 CLASSES 150 NPCS 100 ILLUSTRATIONS 55 SENTENCES 5,555 WORDS

Public Access Analog Horror Mystery TTRPG From the creator of Brindlewood Bay and The Between, Public Access is a roleplaying game inspired by analog and found footage horror!

Funded in four minutes! Let's gooo!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...

pathologic 3 you are so broken but I love you

go to your local craft/zine/comic/book fair. you need it

Coming soon: Public Access Analog Horror Mystery TTRPG From the creator of Brindlewood Bay and The Between, Public Access is a roleplaying game inspired by analog and found footage horror!

Public Access RPG is coming to Kickstarter on March 17th! If you haven't already done so, please sign up for prelaunch—we're aiming for 5000 followers before launch.

And please help spread the word!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...

Thank you!!

and they will Win

Ty for sharing my excitement about this

Card & Coin // Elseware Express Ride the rails of the Elseware Express before the world ends and have unlimited fun with Cards & Coins.

And... we're live baby!
Hop aboard the Elseware Express!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mim...

Coming soon: Public Access Analog Horror Mystery TTRPG From the creator of Brindlewood Bay and The Between, Public Access is a roleplaying game inspired by analog and found footage horror!

Looking back, I wish the margins were wider & that I knew about color management before I laid it out... but it was my first project of this size and I think it holds up!

What will the final form of Public Access be? Who knows!! But you can help make it real.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...

A bit of a page from TTRPG Public Access, featuring a white box with some text visible. The box is punctuated by black lines, and the black background behind it has white lines that trace out an arc and some pointy upside-down mountain-like figures, and a circle sitting on the arc where it intersects the bottom border of the page.

White messed up and glowing text that says "Play Structure" in white. More wiggly messed up text is in green, fully illegible, on the black background behind it.

A screenshot of page from the TTRPG Public Access featuring the back of a person's head, upside down, reflected. A white line goes across to the line of reflection, then bends at the point that it reflects before fading away.

I don't really feel like counting anymore so here's some more things i like: the geometric ornaments getting more intense as the layers of TV Odyssey are described; the Play Structure cover page; how the border details sometimes interact with the art on the page.

A couple of cut-off page bits from TTRPG public access, featuring black lines and a little bit of text on a gray background. It includes geometric angled patterns that intersect each other, surrounding info like the section name ("The Keeper") and the page number (30).

Number 2 is these cute little borders in the GM section. They're a nod to New Mexico, and they gently echo patterns found in Navajo and Pueblo weaving.

Screenshot of the top right corner of a page from the TTRPG Public Access. The background is black with a white line terminating in a white box with a little black crosshair in it. Below that is some cut-off white text that says "Anatomy of a Character Sheet," with a little descriptive text below it. Underneath that is part of a character sheet diagram with camera viewfinder artifacts in translucent green overlaid on it.

A screenshot from TTRPG Public Access featuring the shiny, 80's-style logotype for TV Odyssey in blue and purple chrome, glowing gently purple. In the middle of the O is a cross-shaped lens flare. Behind the text is part of a black page with two silhouetted figures walking into a white triangle, but the image is cut off.

With the public access kickstarter coming up i wanted to highlight a few of my favorite little layout details in the original version! number 1 is the little crosshair in the border of the player-facing section. Is it a print registration mark? A camera crosshair? Or the pure-white signal?

idk I have some doubts about the word-picture exchange rate. Surely some pictures are worth more