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Me, dad of two boys randomly searching on myminifactory.com for stuff. Blockwar miniatures game... I looked, scrolled past. Scrolled back up. Zoomed in. Wait. What!? Little robot sphere people and cube people (and other shaped nation states of robots) blowing each other up on an alternative activation tactical army building game. Huh... guess I'm still a child despite being 41. Anyways here are these adorable dudes

What do you think?

I've started with one of my nostalgia points from childhood in Sesame Street. The idea is that we can create familiar characters for children in Dungeons and Dragons style, and then make them a part of a short 2 hour one shot campaign for families.

This one is the Cookie Monster Barbarian.

https://www.instagram.com/mattmakesstuff.co

I've been toying with the idea of turning my worldbuilding project, Pigment, into a video game someday.

Pigment is a colorful world where art isn't just a way to express yourself. It's a force used to fight back an ever-creeping darkness. Players would explore the world, meet whimsical creatures, and slowly restore life and color.

The biggest question for me is the gameplay.

What mechanics do you think would fit a world where art is the core theme? Would you imagine creature collecting, painting as a gameplay mechanic, puzzle solving, turn-based combat, real-time action, or something completely different?

I'd love to hear your ideas, I always find these discussions incredibly inspiring.

If you're looking for an illustrator and world builder for your game, feel free to reach out. I’d love to help! 🌱

Hello all, happy Wednesday!

I'm one of the artists on the team thats working on a new TTRPG that's being fully written, illustrated and produced by a small team of queer artists and writers.

we don't have any corporate backing since we're just a small team, but book is coming along amazingly, and I hope you'll all take a look at it and help spread the word! There a link below, as well as a preview of the content inside, please help support out work!

The launch page:

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/weapons-grade-funk/gallerie-ttrpg-queer-stories-of-beauty-horror-and-hope

and the preview!

https://www.weaponsgradefunk.com/_files/ugd/5bb3e8_ae7f5b97cab9409090b0010338efd9b9.pdf

I'm Livi, an environmentalist and together with my husband Robert - musician and graphic designer - we'd like to share the story behind our first soon-to-be-published board game: Bharat: Kings of Legend.

Since I was a little girl, I have loved folk tales and mythology. Some stories I heard somehow became alive inside me and stayed with me ever since. About ten years ago, I came across a story of this kind: the Mahabharat.

At the time, Robert and I were living in Cambridge, UK, and were becoming increasingly interested in yoga. Through that journey we found a teacher whose words resonated deeply with us, and we started listening to more and more of his talks.

That was when we discovered his series of lectures on the great Indian epic, Mahabharat. Fantastic tales of kings, yogis and warriors and their struggles woven through lifetimes across millenia. It has the kind of drama which makes Game of Thrones feel like a saturday morning cartoon. It completely blew our minds.

We became so fascinated by the culture and by yoga that we decided to make a bold move: leave our jobs, leave the UK, move back to Hungary, and travel to India for as long as our visas and savings would allow.

Over the years we ended up spending nine months living in the ashram in Tamil Nadu, India - learning yoga, volunteering, and just immersing ourselves in one of the only remaining ancient living cultures. These times were the most magical and rich experiences in my life, it had everything from tending for cows to unspeakable spiritual experiences, from hanging out with monkeys, peacocks and cobras to picking jasmines with the locals, or not even recognising my husband one morning, because he offered his long hair for some ritual and turned completely bald - not to mention tasting the best mangoes on the planet…oh, those mangoes. Whenever I think about it I’m like, what am I doing in Europe anyway?

These times felt like we were living the epic.

The stories of Mahabharata became richer the more context we learned. One idea especially stayed with us. Our teacher often encouraged us not to judge the characters as historical figures, but to experience them as reflections of ourselves. "It is not just history," he would say. "It is your story." That idea completely changed the way I experienced the epic. Instead of asking: "Was this character right?"

I started asking:"What would I have done?" "What would it feel like to be one of those kings?"

With this new insight, the stories of Mahabharata became deeply personal. This, along with the crystal clarity with which our teacher revealed the multi-layered dynamics of being a leader in that age, felt like we’ve got hold of something really valuable, something universal that is so inspiring it yearns for finding expression. The more we looked at what we received, the more it started to resemble something truly unexpected: a game. A bundle of interwoven mechanics, together expressing something much deeper than the sum of its parts.

This eventually became the seed of our game; Bharat. 

As I was always toying with the idea of designing a board game, it felt like everything fell into place: This is what we will do! A Mahabharat board game…How hard could it be, right?

Well, looking back after 8 years of designing the game: pretty goddamn hard. 

(But also kinda beautiful…)

Hey everyone,

A - Answer
OneToss solves a simple problem: quick coin flips when you don't have a coin nearby. It also includes a hidden Magic Mode for pranks and party tricks.

B - Better
Unlike most coin flip apps that only generate random results, OneToss includes both a realistic random mode and a hidden mode that lets you secretly force Heads or Tails while still showing the full flip animation.

C - Cost
Free usage with ads and an optional subscription or lifetime unlock.

• Monthly: $1.49
• Yearly: $12.99
• Lifetime: $20

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flip-a-coin-onetoss/id6743804010

I'd love feedback app users:

• Does the hidden control mechanic feel clever or gimmicky?
• If you discovered this feature in an app, would you actually use it for pranks or party tricks?
• Any ideas for making the "magic" aspect more fun without making it obvious?

Also happy to answer any questions about the implementation.

¡Hola a todos!

Somos dos hermanos detrás de Master of Dungeon, y nos alegra mucho volver por aquí después de un tiempo desde que empezamos a compartir el proyecto.

Para quienes todavía no lo conozcan, aquí va un resumen rápido. Nos encantaba jugar a D&D, pero como a muchos de vosotros, cada vez nos costaba más mantener sesiones regulares. El trabajo, la vida, cuadrar horarios… cada vez era más difícil volver a sentarnos alrededor de la mesa. Así que, en lugar de dejar que esa sensación desapareciera, decidimos intentar recrearla de otra forma.

Así nació Master of Dungeon: un RPG de texto para un solo jugador, inspirado en la libertad y la narrativa de D&D.

Llevamos más de un año trabajando en él, pasando por varias fases de prueba, iteraciones y muchísimos comentarios de los primeros jugadores. Y por fin sentimos que estamos listos para dar el siguiente paso.

Aquí tenéis el enlace de Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitforge.mastersofdungeon&hl

Si jugáis en iOS, podéis hacerlo aquí:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/mg6UrBH9

La verdad es que tenemos mucha curiosidad - y también un poco de nervios - por saber qué os parecerá cuando más gente pueda probarlo.

Si queréis seguir el desarrollo más de cerca o entrar un poco antes, podéis uniros ya a nuestro Discord. Estamos preparando una recompensa especial para quienes nos acompañaron antes del lanzamiento oficial y ayudaron a dar forma al juego durante el camino.

Gracias por leer, y como siempre, nos encantaría saber qué pensáis ^.^

One of the creepiest moments from our first session happened before the party had even properly met.

A young Vistani girl walked up to each of the three characters and handed them a handmade doll. Each doll resembled the person receiving it.

The unsettling part? She only had two dolls when she started.

Our campaign is called Thirst of Strahd, our sapphic take on Curse of Strahd where Strahd is reimagined as a woman. We recently started recording our sessions as a way to preserve the story, help with note-taking, and have something to look back on after the campaign is over.

If you'd like to see the scene, here's the timestamp from Session 1:

🎥https://youtu.be/DJ45BSwVTQQ?si=8hZ4k4YPGBmCrfe7&t=3135