The Deus Ex Tokyo Nightclub, yes.

We're raising money for a good cause over on the Daniel's Dread Tales YouTube channel this Friday. Come by for our 24-hour Extra Life stream! More games than you can shake a stick at!

The real killer, heart disease.

A drawing of Jenova from FFVII.

A drawing of a curupira standing amongst trees.

A drawing of a beetle holding a sword, battling a bird that is swooping in from the sky.

A drawing of a "Queen of Hearts" interpretation. She is wearing cloaks and capes and organic shaped equipment that resembles a human heart. She is holding a large red axe.

#portfolioday
I'm Ben, a freelance illustrator and concept artist.
I've done work for video games, TTRPGs, and books. I've been focusing more on my line-art lately, so I'll share some recent drawings.
I also do more rendered work. (Link below!)

🌐 bendrawslife.carrd.co
✉️ bendrawslife[at]gmail.com

Still from Star Trek Season 1, Episode 21: The Return of the Archons. Spock, wearing a suit and standing in front of a colorful backdrop, says, “Creativity is necessary for the health of the Body”

Take it from Spock - Creativity is necessary for the health of the Body!

"julius sneezer over here" thats something you can use on a friend as allergy season kicks off

Oh shit maybe I can actually do the whole game dev thing??? Submitted for You Cannot Play This TTRPG Jam hosted by @aleshakills.bsky.social. It is just the character sheet for "Will The Last One Leaving Please Power Cycle The System"

margaretcatterdevelopment.itch.io/please-power...

Well, Damn. I’m sold.

How Vienetta Is Made YouTube video by Steven Birdbath

I’ve never got to try it, so the only way I know it is from this edit of the How It’s Made:

youtu.be/gZrv81wY8HQ?...

the Number of the Beef

Nico de Gallo's TTRPG AI Alternatives You Don’t Need Gen AI for Your Games. –Nico de Gallo Many people who use generative AI don't know the negative ethical and moral implications of its use from how it's trained by stealing creative cont...

I made a giant list of non-AI resources to use for your TTRPGs and other creative pursuits with massive amounts of art that's either in the Public Domain or Creative Commons!

Comment your suggestions!

#TTRPG #TTRPGcommunity #dnd #pathfinder #daggerheart

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

RPG title length and degree of poetic nature is inversely proportionate to page count. A zine may be called "We are But God's Worms in this Dessicated Railyard." A game over 400 pages should be called "Fantasy RPG."

Damn this economy.

Dead drops of duffel bags full of cash inside the library trash can, Tuesday 3:43 PM.

You can’t be sending spam to everyone, not in this economy. Spam is like… 5 bucks a can now.

A digital drawing of a bird running along with some little seedling creatures.

#3281 Making friends

I was introduced to this Anti-AI slop site by @kamkonek.bsky.social where your answers come from humans LARPing as AI and you in turn also pretend to be AI. youraislopbores.me

gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

gradient.horse

A cat girl attempts to pour out a can of frozen orange juice concentrate.

Pouring one out for frozen juice concentrate.

Teach Concentrically: When you teach a game, you want to introduce the core tenets of the play experience, and then build upon that knowledge concentrically, so that every new piece of information feels easy to integrate but continues to expand upon a sense of complex interdependence that cannot be “collapsed” or “resolved” except perhaps through play.

Wrote this as part of a game design consultation follow-up report, and I'm feeling really happy with how these words fit together.

🙂↔️

A stranger is just a pal we can joke about piss with that we haven’t met yet.

Morning, bitches!

This morning, I'm going to talk about EXCUSES. Excuses are the things we tell ourselves because making #art is hard.

I HAVE TOO MUCH OTHER WORK. I NEED THE PROPER TOOLS. SOMEONE IS GATEKEEPING ME. I HAD A BETTER IDEA.

None of this means anything if you truly want to #create.

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

I did it. Yesterday I launched my first game!
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.

Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Five tiny pigs in a drain Text: Hell yeah. guys hanging out

beautiful day for GUTTER

Purple/Yellow and Teal/Sunset Orange go really nicely together!

listening to @thatguttershow.bsky.social while running errands and I cannot put into words how badly i missed Mike and Gannon trying to out-Crazy Guy each other