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crackerjackalope.bsky.social
Writer, game designer, welsh, queer they/them https://crackerjackalope-games.itch.io/
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Lot of really good stuff in this article but one thing I’d like to highlight is how MCDM continues to raise the bar in terms of contracting. 35c/word Hourly rate for non-word tasks No NDAs (or Noncompetes for staff) That’s how you do it.

Stolen from a friend's IG:

support an indie ttrpg designer here!! titanomachyrpg.itch.io

It's so wild that, in the span of like a month, all three of the men who were the face of 5e have left WotC. I hope Todd gets hired by Darrington Press too LMAO.

midnights full of music (another traffic box illustration set!!)

We've been hard at work on Mina the Hollower, an action adventure game inspired by Link's Awakening, Castlevania, and even some Bloodborne! As part of #SteamNextFest, Mina has a playable Steam demo out now!! Go check it out!! ❤️🐭 store.steampowered.com/app/3741460/...

play games outside your discipline, even if you don't like them. engage with why you do or don't like them. it's great practice! you should try to experience OSR, trad, storygame, gmless, solo, fkr, larp, etc and see how they warp your idea of what our goofy little hobby is

youtu.be/xzltr5-3nn0?...

me and all the other wizards in my crew just got matching patches for our Garments

Now that's an orange king I would support! #orangecat #cat #gingercat #nokings

I like designing games

I'm not an ambitious person, but I'd love to one day see a TV adaptation of Midnight Melodies. Starring Mahershala Ali. If it's not too much trouble.

✨🏳️‍⚧️ TODAY'S MY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF BEING ON TESTOSTERONE! 🏳️‍⚧️✨ #trans #transart

Did you know that you can fit ~40 standard sized playing cards, five dice, and a rules sheet printed on the back of a J-card inside a cassette case without posts? Do something with this knowledge.

a fantastic game that I highly recommend people check out!!

ANNOUNCEMENT: If we hit 1000 backers in the next 48 hours... We'll send a FREE digital copy 📝 of The Scum & Villains Expansion 🎲 for galactic 2e to ALL backers! Less than 100 backers to go! Back Galactic & Rogue ASAP for this black market expansion of crime, corruption, and just maybe, redemption!

The Fort Maxxing Jam is live! Submit to join in the bundle. It goes until NOVEMBER 1ST 11:59PM Eastern! Meaning it also could be a great jam to submit #Mörktober content to! #MörkBorg #Cy_Borg #VastGrimm #PirateBorg #DeathInSpace #FrontierScum #TTRPG #GameJam #TTRPGJam itch.io/jam/the-fort...

I've just made my game 'There's Something About the Deep' pay-what-you-want on Itch! If you're interested in a gritty game about being trapped in a submarine at the bottom of the ocean which encourages the moderator to goad the players into fucking everything up, then check it out now!

Do you have a back up character ?

Games I Want to Play That AREN’T D&D — CBR+PNK: Augmented @mythworks.bsky.social

Hi, I’m Dwyn; Norwich based artist and writer, and completely new to this way of social media-ing. Never had Twitter and now Insta is becoming an AI training hellscape, I’m here! Check out www.dwyn.co.uk for my calendar and upcoming projects/events (and shop soooon)

My illustration of a xann, one of the playable species in the upcoming sci-fi TTRPG @astracordis.space.

Daily bunny no.2987 welcomes you to their lair

more drama arts by me!

This was quite the thing to wake up to this morning.

Illustrators who release stock art packs for TTRPGs are ROYALTY 👑 as far as I'm concerned. Truly improving humanity. Please drop your links here (or the links of any of your favorite artist who release stock art).

And that's a wrap on my second year as a game design student! Super happy with how our end of year project turned out and had such a blast making it!! The brief we were given was to make a game focused on time manipulation and I think we nailed it! uswgames.itch.io/runners-past

Commission - Back to Back.

New post up on the blog! "My Favourite Demos From Steam Next Fest Summer 2025". Check it out here: jackalope-mail.neocities.org/posts/2025-0...

my friends band played a really good show tonight and i am always so renewed by experiencing queer art

I just finished playing One More Song by @exstasisgames.bsky.social and I'll do a longer write up later, but for now I'll just say that you should play this game too and I look forward to playing the variants 🎶

More UK myth, ARAWN, the Welsh King of the Otherworld. Mixed media painting, digital colour The original of this is chilling in my studio, still like it. A piece I'd like to go back someday. I gave Arawn subtle ghostly bits, as if he is moving in ways that can't be seen #art

The special edition of issue 1 is printed with UV ink, meaning after it’s soaked up some light, it will glow when taken into the dark! 🌘 Get your copy in the APWOT trilogy reprint campaign! 👇 🪏 kck.st/4kjrqhj 🪏

relooted is being made by a team of developers from numerous african countries, but only its white south african creative director was able to demo it to summer game fest attendees. this was most certainly not always the plan

The APWOT Trilogy Reprint campaign is NOW LIVE ON KICKSTARTER! 📚 Help us bring back these 3 timeless publications that are as creative and playful as the people and games featured within them: ⭐️ kck.st/4kjrqhj ⭐️ Sound on! 🔉

It's a Big Week for Big Walk!! This is the first interview we've done about the game and it's an honour to have our work explored so thoroughly and thoughtfully.

I kid you not, my work knows that I do drawing on the side and someone in the office told me AI could save me time and my response was "but I like drawing" and it broke them. They didn't know how to answer, they just couldn't comprehend that people make art because they like making art.

the LA river

Rook

Had this one in the queue for a while: Route Scouts is a secret map making game for the real world! A fun little game that teaches you about maps, pathfinding, codes, and decoding. Released for free with a CC0 Public Domain license! pandiongames.itch.io/route-scouts

🔥 PYRE !!!! I just live how they look this style and it's one of my fave drawings of him Aaaahhhh Ya'll should follow @mernolan.bsky.social 💕💕

CALPINI layout is finished (bar one more pass with our lovely editor) so we ran a quick print test. There's page numbers in places they shouldn't be right now but aaaa I am SO happy with it. 60 pages of mothy horror goodness 🥰