The PAX East logo with copies of Inscapes, The Balsam Lake Unmurders, and The Ink That Bleeds, out in the grass.
Are you headed to #PAXeast in a few days? Have you been thinking about journaling games? Pandemonium Books and Games will be selling The Ink That Bleeds, which is my how-to about playing them immersively, as well as Inscapes, my sequel about...
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I try to give a journaling game time to do its thing, but I have quit playing lots of them if they just weren't clicking for me. I'm not sure I've ever table-flipped one though. I'm not sure I've ever been that strongly provoked. Have you ever table-flipped a journaling game?
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It's hard to find specifically journaling games in such a large bundle. If you have a journaling game in it, or you've found ones in it, please link me to them.
Thank you 🌞
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@stickydoodler.bsky.social and I talk with Jason Slingerman about journaling games on his just released episode. I really enjoyed it. Check it out:
www.buildingthegamepodcast.com/episode-715-...
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The second Zine Quest project I backed this year doesn't have the Zine Quest tag, so I almost missed it. It's I Have Lived A Thousand Lives by @raedoesthings.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/201...
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48 Word Game Jam Entry "Well Late A Lonely Evening" full Alt-Text of Game to follow.
I entered this because it was quiet last week. Looking at the quality of @comemartin and @arthur and @PaulCzege entries (amongst many others) I'm quite embarrassed I did already.
https://printdevil.itch.io/well-late-a-lonely-evening
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I went through my journals and did my #JournalGaming #Wrapped 🖊️📓 for 2025 ‼️
Journaling Games Played: 12
Pages written: 202.8
Games played to completion: 4 (33%)
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A map of the PAX Unplugged 2025 Expo Hall with an arrow showing how to find Booth 3701 and thumbnail images of The Ink That Bleeds, The Balsam Lake Unmurders, Inscapes, Be With Me, and The Clay That Woke.
Are you hype for #PAXunplugged this weekend? Have you been curious about journaling games?
@ipr.bsky.social will be selling my how-to zines, The Ink That Bleeds and Inscapes, and my journaling games The Balsam Lake Unmurders and Be With Me at their booth 3701 in the Expo Hall.
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A copy of The Ink That Bleeds by Paul Czege, out among trees with the sun rising in the background. It's a zine about how to have an immersive experience playing journaling games.
A copy of Inscapes by Paul Czege out among red rocks with a vivid blue Colorado sky in the background. It's a zine about what happens to you when you play immersive journaling games.
The how
and the why
of #journalGaming.
A home printed copy of Cage of Sand by Luciella Elisabeth Scarlett, along with my current journal, my current orange ink pen, and six face-up cards from the Terra Volatile tarot representing the bodies of murder victims I discover: The Star, the VI of Swords, the Queen of Coins, the Knight of Wands, the King of Swords, and Judgement. It's interesting that all but one of them are Major Arcana. The odds are against that.
It's been a while, but I'm now in Act 3 of @luciellaes.bsky.social's Cage of Sand and discovering the bodies of murder victims. The first of them is The Star, who is my friend Irah I met in Act 2 and who showed me around, and I'm pretty messed up now finding her dead.
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A thing about journaling games is there's no urgency of narrative action like when a ttrpg session is a scheduled social event, no urgency to have a certain kind of fun during the scheduled time, so as a designer you can literally expect players to reflect, research, take as much...
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The title page of Walden, by Henry D. Thoreau.
Playing an immersive journaling game is an act of entering a world and being created by it as a truer self. There is a compelling history of writing about such experiences. You should consider telling about yours.
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Holy cats! Look at the size of that group!
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A tween-age boy laying on his back in the grass at the park reading a copy of Two Raw Morsels, which is a journaling game by Paul Czege about your hope to change a situation in your life by consuming a piece of raw meat from the titan Prometheus. I really don't know why he would think people aren't excited to play it.
Kiddo: "Daddy, do people really play these games?"
Daddy: "Goddamn it, you are my natural born son, show some respect! Yes they do. People love them."
Kiddo: "I'm sorry. I just wasn't sure."
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It is submitted‼️
Check it out:
paulczege.itch.io/two-raw-mors...
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A row of "new arrivals" along the top of a shelf at Mox Boardinghouse in Seattle, including The Ink That Bleeds, by Paul Czege, Mythomorphosis by Gordie Murphy, Runecaster by Wesley Zebrowski, Almanac of Sanguine Paths by Rori Montford, Bonsai Diary by Sticky Doodler, and Menagerie of the Void by Eran Aviram.
The Ink That Bleeds at Mox Boardinghouse in Seattle, among other new arrivals by @montfordtales.com, @nnesk.bsky.social, @stickydoodler.bsky.social, @gordiemurphy.bsky.social, and Wesley Zebrowski.
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Someone asked why I often write "game/zine" in my posts. It's because making journaling games I play and publish is a living metaphysical part of myself. They're not just games. They're not just publications. The making is the self is the game is the zine.
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A composition notebook, an orange pen, several d6's, and a home printed copt of Welthe in Wyzdome.
I just read @junkfoodgames.bsky.social's Welthe In Wyzdome, which I have from the Solo But Not Alone bundle last year, and it's pretty minimalist, but I'm definitely now going to play it. You're a vendor selling dangerous and rare artifacts to wizards who use them in...
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Some takeaways from today's #JournalGaming chat:
1/3 People making journaling games can find it easier to make and play a small game that feels like one they need in the current moment than to get into playing one they own and are interested in by someone else.
Journaling game/zines by Paul Czege arranged nicely on supported displayes in the grass. There's The Balsam Lake Unmurders, The Ink That Bleeds, Inscapes, Be With Me, The Sneeze, Nice Pin, and on 5" x 7" cards, Vampyres Are People Too, All You Desire, and Millennium Self.
It seems like a lot of them, maybe more than you're prepared to deal with?
I'm not sure what to do about that. You don't know how many more I have drafted and playtested that I know I want to make for you! One's a sequel to Inscapes, about making games your approximate self..
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Paul Czege, standing, wearing a KN95 mask, behind a table of journaling game/zines and using his hands when he's talking to a customer about them.
This is apparently what I look like when I'm talking about journaling games.
(Photo by @lexshoots.bsky.social taken at #DenverZineFest a week and a half ago)
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A copy of The Balsam Lake Unmurders, a deck of cards, a journal with flowers on it, some cozy knit coasters, hair clips, and stickers.
@dangjello.bsky.social sent me this photo of journaling game care packages he and his wife are sending to folks that include a copy of The Balsam Lake Unmurders 🌱. How cool is this!? A copy of a game, a journal and writing implement and a fun deck of cards, some...
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Are you a TikTok user? @heartofthedeernicorn.com has been posting snippets of my interview with them about The Ink That Bleeds. Here's one:
www.tiktok.com/@deernicorn/...
What do you think?
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My favorite customer yesterday at Denver Zine Fest was a young woman who'd bought The Ink That Bleeds from me last year who told me she'd waited a couple of months before reading it and then when she did it was her favorite thing she'd bought. She said it...
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A screenshot of a completed poll on Mastodon, which asks if The Ink That Bleeds is a perzine, a manifesto, an occult text, or a self-help book. The high vote getter at 53% is an occult text. Self-help book and manifesto each got 20%, and perzine got 7%.
No poll functionality on Bluesky. I wonder if you all would have agreed.
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Game zines by Paul Czege out in the sun. The Balsam Lake Unmurders is a game about trying to catch a serial necromancer in a forested Minnesota town. The Ink That Bleeds is a zine about how to play immersive journaling games. Be With Me is a game about your time on a reality dating show hoping to find love.
They're so excited about Denver Zine Fest on the 14th! Who else is going to be there?
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My hand holding a copy of The Balsam Lake Unmurders. It's a journaling game about trying to catch a serial necromancer in a forested Minnesota town.
Have you played? Who was the necromancer🌱? Was it the heroic ex-sheriff? The Jungian time-traveler? This was the most fun conversation among playtesters. The people in the game are the same, so anyone you interact with when you play could be the necromancer when someone else does.
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"there are worlds that can only be built by you"
heartofthedeernicorn.com/blog/the-ink...
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