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camdon.bsky.social
(He/Him)Biracial / Habesha / Game Designer / Creator of One Child's Heart / Diana Jones Honoree / ENnie Winner / Building a life & a company with Kate.
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Is it weird that my parasocial relationships on the internet are all with people's dogs?

Today, 2/14, is the final day for Emerging Designer Program nominations! We encourage self-nominations! Includes a trip to Gen Con, $2k honorarium, and prize package. forms.gle/XJWuaUh7JU6r...

Today, 2/14, is the final day for Emerging Designer Program nominations! We encourage self-nominations! Includes a trip to Gen Con, $2k honorarium, and prize package. forms.gle/XJWuaUh7JU6r...

Flametree Publications call for submissions, Afrofuturism anthology blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

Nominations close on Friday! Get your submissions in!

Nominations close on Friday! Get your submissions in!

Will there ever be a time when white gamers aren't surprised that Cyberpunk 2020 was written by a Black man? How is that folks still don't know who Mike Pondsmith is in 2025? Shout out to Lisa Pondsmith as well who doesn't get enough credit for her contributions to the industry either.

For Black History Month and Zinequest, we are taking pre-orders for Griot Anthology, a zine with several awesome black designers: thoughtcrimegames.itch.io/griot-anthol...

The world is a mess so I have a confession to make before it all explodes. I get the Hemsworths and the Skarsgårds mixed up all the time. They're the same family in my head.

Nominations close 02/14/25!

Thread! - 1/3 It's that time again! The nomination form is open for the Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program! Nominate your favorite designer or your own work for a free trip to Gen Con, hotel, food stipend, and more! forms.gle/XJWuaUh7JU6r...

The nomination period for the Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program is open! Please head to our website for all the details. You can nominate yourself or any other worthy tabletop game designers in their first three years of publishing. Nominations close Feb. 14. www.dianajonesaward.org

Thread! - 1/3 It's that time again! The nomination form is open for the Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program! Nominate your favorite designer or your own work for a free trip to Gen Con, hotel, food stipend, and more! forms.gle/XJWuaUh7JU6r...

“If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.” - Brian Eno

I am deep diving playing card suits. Yes, I will probably talk your ear off about it if the opportunity comes up! Not sorry at all!

How to be an entertainment switch: Watch Rebel Moon parts one and two while also explaining the plot to your partner via text. Receiving and giving cinematic pain.

Btw folks, my commissions docket for 2025 really will be wide open. Please hire me for things. o3o I can design, do creative writing, edit stuff, do consultancy. Am actually VERY interested in proof reading, editing, and consulting for novels! Running low on funds these days. All leads appreciated.

It’s been a ttrpg filled weekend! Saturday I ran a playtest of The Zenobia Initiative, played the Bertram’s Cove QuickStart of Root, and finished with Price of Coal by @jenkatwrites.bsky.social today!

While I have no need for one, no real understanding of what they do, and a complete unwillingness to educate myself about them, I've always wanted an old school oscilloscope. I'm never going to buy one because we don't need more junk in the house but I still want it.

My pain levels have been maxed out this week. Still pushing through and happy for the win of managing to function. Writing isn’t super forthcoming but I’ll take what I can get. Chemo recovery sucks.

It turns out that Jerry Springer is on YouTube for free. I had no idea they were still filming shows in 2018. Anyway, I had it on in the background and now remember what a wild time 90s TV was.

Found this old family photo. Classic.

I'll be at #PAXUnplugged this weekend from Dec 6th-8th. When I'm not wandering the halls looking for trouble (you know who you are, trouble... 😄), you can find me at the Studio 2 booth (#2851) talking about #EsperGenesis and the #PhantasyStar #TTRPG. Come on by and say hi!

Sure, gaming is great but maybe we pool our money and open a queer bar called The Blow Hole instead.

The real possibility that I may lose the protections of the affordable care act next year has me stressed. I can't figure out why folks want to go back to a time where we couldn't get treatment/testing/meds for life threatening allergies, conditions, & chronic cancers because they're "pre-existing".

It’s autumn sale time on itchio! May I offer some TTRPGs? I’ve put all my games on sale to help fund vet care costs for my feline best friend. Your purchases from this sale will directly help fund Izzy’s upcoming arthritis treatments. In honor of his age, all of my titles are currently 19% off.

🎲 Roll the dice on savings this Black Friday with Darker Hue Studios! 🤠 Saddle up for adventure in the Haunted West with a chilling 25% off storewide. Use code THANKS24 at checkout before the quest ends on Dec 1st! 📷 #BlackFridaySavings #HauntedWest #TTRPG #HarlemUnbound

I’m sure I’m a disappointment to the white half of my family but it’s become clear I don’t actually know the difference between Creed and Nickleback.

CONFLUENCE RPG FUNDED! 🥳 Thank you, truly. Myself and the whole time are all beside ourselves in relief and excitement-- we can now truly rest easy and work on getting this thing out! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...

I’ll be posting links to the Emerging Designer Award nomination form when it goes live, probably February. Stay tuned and start thinking about folks you’d like to see recognized at Gen Con with a fully covered trip. That includes your own work! As always, please let me Know if you have questions.

Omg it finally works. Anyway, making a starter pack for #RPGSEA, for all #ttrpgs, card game, and board game game workers - devs, writers, consultants, editors, artists, layout, podcasters, community folks, publishers and more. Let me know if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/CbyVaVU

Discover history as it was and history as it could have been. This is the West in full color! Explore #HauntedWest, where the Weird West meets real U.S. history. Let's ride! darkerhuestudios.com/shop #ttrpg #gaming #supportblackbusiness

Here is a starter pack of excellent black TTRPG designers to follow! Still working on the list, and some folks i want to include i can't find on bsky atm. Let me know who I am missing! go.bsky.app/TSmxwUa

Today’s emotion journey: Phase one: Why the hell is my Bluesky blowing up? Did the Twitter racists follow me here? Phase two: Oh! It’s a bunch of follows! How did… Phase three: It’s from Quinn! Yay!!

Gamers! Gamers! The Diana Jones Award just opened its nominations for the Emerging Designer Program! Check the details below. Many thanks to @aarontram.bsky.social for all his work on this, and to @camdon.bsky.social for his ongoing guidance!

Proof of life

Writing update: Wrote half of the zine I shouldn't have been working on, decided I hated it, and now I'm well into a replacement and still ignoring the schedule I made for myself. It's fine. Everything is fine.

Me last week: I'm only working on either my new setting or Zenobia. That's it. I will not be distracted. Me today: What if I wrote a whole new zine-sized game called Square Dance Riot about jazz/punk saving the world? I need help.

Officially halfway through chemo. How's your day going?

Have I mentioned lately that I have a game on Kickstarter right now? My friends and family have a lot of questions about a) what even is Kickstarter and b) why we, a well-known game designer working with a very established publisher, would use it. If you're curious too, I'll try to explain: 🧵1/?