Seth Johnson
@inkslinger.bsky.social
Writer. Game designer. In need of a nap. Dumb jokes, but never hurtful ones. He/him.
More of and about me here: https://linktr.ee/sjink
More of and about me here: https://linktr.ee/sjink
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You're damn right Norman Rockwell was antifa.
December 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
You're damn right Norman Rockwell was antifa.
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Today only, Automatic Noodle e-books are on sale for $2.99 on all platforms! Grab one while they're still hot and chewy! bookshop.org/p/books/auto...
December 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Today only, Automatic Noodle e-books are on sale for $2.99 on all platforms! Grab one while they're still hot and chewy! bookshop.org/p/books/auto...
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My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.
The Golden Age of Indie RPGs: 2010-2025
YouTube video by A.A. Voigt
youtu.be
December 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.
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Good morning! Just wanted to let you all know that Rian Johnson subtly rickrolled us with a scene in Wake Up Dead Man. [bsky.app]
Jay Hulme (@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it’s really important you know that the scene in the Seminary’s Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
bsky.app
December 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Good morning! Just wanted to let you all know that Rian Johnson subtly rickrolled us with a scene in Wake Up Dead Man. [bsky.app]
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Imagine me saying something about Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery that makes you want to check out this ashcan of a game in a similar genre to the Knives Out films
The ashcan of In The Library With The Wrench is now available on Patreon. Free members can peek at the Mansion and Colonel playbooks, while paid members can read the full thing.
www.patreon.com/posts/146816...
www.patreon.com/posts/146816...
December 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Imagine me saying something about Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery that makes you want to check out this ashcan of a game in a similar genre to the Knives Out films
In the phase of a game’s design where answering a question asks four messy new ones. Great fun, but my design doc is a disaster right now.
December 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In the phase of a game’s design where answering a question asks four messy new ones. Great fun, but my design doc is a disaster right now.
And news. And science. And human interaction.
When people’s entire diet consists of fast food, their first reaction to fine cuisine will be bewilderment and even disgust. This law also applies to literature, music, and film.
December 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
And news. And science. And human interaction.
Sometimes I wonder what the Internet would be like if the default tone was empathy and collaboration rather than superiority and sarcasm.
December 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Sometimes I wonder what the Internet would be like if the default tone was empathy and collaboration rather than superiority and sarcasm.
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A kingfisher made from a circular saw blade, paint pen, and spray paint. I sketched it, Echo cut it out and added the copper eye, and I painted it. This was a gift, but we'd love to make more birds like this! What birds would you want to see?
December 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
A kingfisher made from a circular saw blade, paint pen, and spray paint. I sketched it, Echo cut it out and added the copper eye, and I painted it. This was a gift, but we'd love to make more birds like this! What birds would you want to see?
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Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again
April 22, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again
Jólabókaflóð! This year’s holiday book stack. Now it’s reading time!
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Jólabókaflóð! This year’s holiday book stack. Now it’s reading time!
Ten games I’ll be working on in 2026, with hopes to release at least half:
* Utmost
* Jack of Speed
* Castle Blackhole
* Sagasong
* Lastlight
* Captain Blackbird
* Ghostdelver
* Stencilpunk
* Spyju
* The Dumb Game Omnibus
* Utmost
* Jack of Speed
* Castle Blackhole
* Sagasong
* Lastlight
* Captain Blackbird
* Ghostdelver
* Stencilpunk
* Spyju
* The Dumb Game Omnibus
10 games I want to MAKE in 2026
- RatCatchers
- SkateSword
- Advanced DNGN + DRGN
- Fight Knights: World Tour
- Recon:Recon
- SmorgasBorg
- Defective Detectives
- Punkass Supers
- Broken Fixer
- The Puppets Variety Hour with Hermit the Crab
And yes I WILL be taking questions at this time...
- RatCatchers
- SkateSword
- Advanced DNGN + DRGN
- Fight Knights: World Tour
- Recon:Recon
- SmorgasBorg
- Defective Detectives
- Punkass Supers
- Broken Fixer
- The Puppets Variety Hour with Hermit the Crab
And yes I WILL be taking questions at this time...
December 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Ten games I’ll be working on in 2026, with hopes to release at least half:
* Utmost
* Jack of Speed
* Castle Blackhole
* Sagasong
* Lastlight
* Captain Blackbird
* Ghostdelver
* Stencilpunk
* Spyju
* The Dumb Game Omnibus
* Utmost
* Jack of Speed
* Castle Blackhole
* Sagasong
* Lastlight
* Captain Blackbird
* Ghostdelver
* Stencilpunk
* Spyju
* The Dumb Game Omnibus
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DNGN CLUB 25: A YEAR IN REVIEW
Continuing with another free 1 page game, Safe Cracker is a system neutral mini game to enhance the tension of breaking into a vault.
It's short, sweet, and inspired by Mosaic Strict rules building — it can be played by itself or as subsystem of another game.
Continuing with another free 1 page game, Safe Cracker is a system neutral mini game to enhance the tension of breaking into a vault.
It's short, sweet, and inspired by Mosaic Strict rules building — it can be played by itself or as subsystem of another game.
December 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
DNGN CLUB 25: A YEAR IN REVIEW
Continuing with another free 1 page game, Safe Cracker is a system neutral mini game to enhance the tension of breaking into a vault.
It's short, sweet, and inspired by Mosaic Strict rules building — it can be played by itself or as subsystem of another game.
Continuing with another free 1 page game, Safe Cracker is a system neutral mini game to enhance the tension of breaking into a vault.
It's short, sweet, and inspired by Mosaic Strict rules building — it can be played by itself or as subsystem of another game.
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For my contribution to the Merry Hexmas blog bandwagon, I made a mini sandbox: the Jinglebell Barrens, a land which lives in the shadow of a lost city which forgot the meaning of Hexmas. Will the adventurers restore warmth & cheer to its streets, or simply plunder everything not nailed down? #osr
'Tis the Season (for a Sandbox): Into the Jinglebell Barrens
This post is a part of Prismatic Wasteland's Hexmas Blog Bandwagon . The intention was for participants to make a single holiday-themed hex...
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December 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
For my contribution to the Merry Hexmas blog bandwagon, I made a mini sandbox: the Jinglebell Barrens, a land which lives in the shadow of a lost city which forgot the meaning of Hexmas. Will the adventurers restore warmth & cheer to its streets, or simply plunder everything not nailed down? #osr
One last stop at the SubPop record store at SeaTac before they close at the end of the year.
December 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
One last stop at the SubPop record store at SeaTac before they close at the end of the year.
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200,000 Years Of Human History In One Hour. “Every second, 2 generations or 50 years will pass. You are on a musical train ride looking out the window, as you watch our ancestors hunt large animals, tell stories around campfires…” [kottke.org]
200,000 Years Of Human History In One Hour
From Kurzgesagt, an hour-long animated music video that shows all of human history in an hour.
So here’s an experiment: every second, 2 generations or 50 years will pass. You are on a musical train ride looking out th
kottke.org
December 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
200,000 Years Of Human History In One Hour. “Every second, 2 generations or 50 years will pass. You are on a musical train ride looking out the window, as you watch our ancestors hunt large animals, tell stories around campfires…” [kottke.org]
12 DAYS OF 12 GAMES, DAY 12: The twelfth day of my dozen-shares of games (and game-adajcent things) that I like, and that you might too. And each comes with a link so you can support great designers, writers, and artists! #12days12games
December 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
12 DAYS OF 12 GAMES, DAY 12: The twelfth day of my dozen-shares of games (and game-adajcent things) that I like, and that you might too. And each comes with a link so you can support great designers, writers, and artists! #12days12games
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Dang interesting. Opposite sides always add to 11. Exact same distribution as 1D6+2.
December 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Dang interesting. Opposite sides always add to 11. Exact same distribution as 1D6+2.
12 DAYS OF 12 GAMES, DAY 11: A dozen-share of games (and game-adajcent things) that I like, and that you might too. And each comes with a link so you can support great designers, writers, and artists! #12days12games
December 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
12 DAYS OF 12 GAMES, DAY 11: A dozen-share of games (and game-adajcent things) that I like, and that you might too. And each comes with a link so you can support great designers, writers, and artists! #12days12games
The essay I've been writing for the last two weeks is finally off to my editor. As a celebration, I am closing the several dozen tabs I've had open in my browser holding all my research. Then I can finally allow myself to go peruse the Steam Winter Sale.
December 20, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The essay I've been writing for the last two weeks is finally off to my editor. As a celebration, I am closing the several dozen tabs I've had open in my browser holding all my research. Then I can finally allow myself to go peruse the Steam Winter Sale.
12 DAYS OF 12 GAMES, DAY 10: Another dozen-share of games (and game-adajcent things) that I like, and that you might too. And each comes with a link so you can support great designers, writers, and artists! #12days12games
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
12 DAYS OF 12 GAMES, DAY 10: Another dozen-share of games (and game-adajcent things) that I like, and that you might too. And each comes with a link so you can support great designers, writers, and artists! #12days12games
I reject the notion that I'm not angry enough or sympathetic to suffering because I also try to share things that make me joyful.
December 19, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I reject the notion that I'm not angry enough or sympathetic to suffering because I also try to share things that make me joyful.
Here are cinematic storyboards I made 20 years ago using Playmobil figures, which professional artists then made into the finished product. No AI needed.
"but what if they can't draw" here's hideo kojima making level blockouts for metal gear solid 1 and 2 with LEGO
I am begging AI bros to use their brains for two seconds
I am begging AI bros to use their brains for two seconds
December 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Here are cinematic storyboards I made 20 years ago using Playmobil figures, which professional artists then made into the finished product. No AI needed.
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I would be doing what I do even without itch.io, without software, without an audience. Without pens and paper, I would still think it to myself. It's an essential part of being alive for me.
Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
December 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I would be doing what I do even without itch.io, without software, without an audience. Without pens and paper, I would still think it to myself. It's an essential part of being alive for me.