jamespatton.bsky.social
Solo game dev. My games are secretly lefty ☭
🃏 Co-wrote and -designed The Hidden Isle, a tarot TTRPG.
🤖 Made Silicon Dreams, "the best Blade Runner game in years" (theGamer). "The credits rolled and it was perfect." (John Walker, Kotaku.)
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Yeah, I think this is why boycotts don't work. They're very disorganized and easy to opt out of.
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My unstoppable daughter
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I think there's a way to do that. Some Trump supporters are completely detached from reality, but a lot of Trump voters picked him out of disgust with the establishment. Even if he's now a dipshit, maybe the thing that pushed him into MAGA's arms was frustration with a crumbling USA.
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I am so done.
My partner is disabled. They don't have the function to work a regular job. Do we live in a society where disabled people are taken care of? Or where they starve? Because it seems like they're claiming the former but doing the latter.
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This post sent me down a one-hour rabbithole where I remembered you wrote for X-men and I tracked down which comics I never got round to reading from the Krakoa era and I am now STOKED to get to Immortal X-men and EVEN MORE STOKED to read this when it's done.
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I dunno, I think they're a troll? Their bio says
"From the River to the Sea (while politely asking the occupiers to please leave, no more violence.)"
which seems like a troll-style attempt to take down milquetoast liberals? I dunno, the whole thing seems confused and not worth mulling over.
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One day I would like to make a game about the colonising of the world via maps, turn a site of secondary thought in games into a primary. To also show indigenous mapping techniques, and their erasure throughout increasing colonisation by the British Empire and Mercator view of the world.
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Makes sense, I'm most interested in how the music can affect the people listening, and military/marching songs definitely have an effect on people.
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I guess we can have church bards?
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A fantasy rap battle is just improv rhyming couplets
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Drums! Hurdy gurdy! Magically amplified lute?
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There are few things I enjoy more than horribly killing my friends in space.
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Yeah I thought Jon Blow was the most amazing guy until he opened his mouth to talk about anything other than puzzle design. 🙄
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Thank you! :D
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This art was drawn by the extremely talented Konstantin Dvoytsov!
linktr.ee/koodjo17
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From my WIP project:
bsky.app/profile/jame...
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This was inspired by the Plague Column ("Pestsäule") in Vienna, the city where I live.
I always thought it looked weird and bubbly. Kind of... plaguey.
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I'd like to get a bit closer to their level of planning, improv and roleplaying, but tbh I'm just excited that this hobby exists in the first place and it turns out I *CAN* GM despite the fact I assumed it was too much pressure for me.
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If you want more, check out Duskpunk, my upcoming dice-driven RPG!
⚙️ Survive in a dark steampunk city
🎲 with TTRPG-inspired mechanics
💥 Spark a revolution!
If you want to spread the word, it’d be fab if you wishlisted, followed me, or shared this post!
store.steampowered.com/app/2610880/...
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The factory was drawn by @thomasmoor.bsky.social, part of Power Pixel. They’re a local Viennese studio, very nice, and extremely talented.
www.powerpixel.studio
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It’s also inspired by the history of World War 1, when factories churned out artillery and weapons at a record pace to arm the armies of Europe.
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Duskpunk is inspired by Victorian London, where grueling factory conditions
1) sparked public backlash and
2) made industrialists a TON of money.
So I knew I had to put the factory front and centre.
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You can work at the factory: decently paid, but dangerous.
Later you can fight back against the bosses’ greed!✊
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I'm a revolutionary for a lot of reasons. But I think the deepest one is that I refuse to live in a system that demands a slave class.
They can put whatever shit they want on TV or run whatever political campaign they like. They will never make me accept this horror show that they call freedom.
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I find physical books a much NICER experience, but that has nothing to do with whether or not something IS a book.
That's like saying "this road is a bit bumpy, so it doesn't count as a road."
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And a huge thank you to Konstantin Dvoytsov, the artist who brought this piece to life!
linktr.ee/koodjo17
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Look for this monument in Duskpunk, my upcoming dice-driven RPG!
⚙️ Survive in a dark steampunk city
🎲 with TTRPG-inspired mechanics
💥 Spark a revolution!
If you want to spread the word, it’d be fab if you wishlisted, followed me, and/or shared this post!
store.steampowered.com/app/2610880/...