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@binarystar.games
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Game designer/developer, Binary Star Games. He/him. 🍉

Site: https://binarystar.games
Email: binary(dot)star(dot)games(at)gmail.com
Freelance: https://binarystar.games/docs/freelancing/
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Binary @binarystar.games · Oct 28
Pinned posts/threads exist now! Also good god that's a lot of you, hi! Let me introduce myself.

I'm Binary, he/him. I run Binary Star Games, a TTRPG imprint with an eye for elegant mechanics, fast tactics, and support for long-term play. All of my stuff can be found at binary-star-games.itch.io. 🧵
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potatocubed.bsky.social
Buy my game please~

It's by me so you know it's good.
potatocubed.bsky.social Chris Longhurst @potatocubed.bsky.social · 20h
Launch!

GRAVITY is a one-shot-focused RPG about powerful people stuck in an increasingly bad situation. To maintain suspense, the game uses a rotating-GM system (stolen from Lovecraftesque and my previous game, Bleak Spirit) to ensure that nobody knows what the Threat is until the climax.
Gravity: A Roleplaying Game
A one-shot TTRPG about powerful people in a bad situation.
www.kickstarter.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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tabletopbookshelf.com
Glatisant from @graftbound.bsky.social is a GM-less, asymmetrical TTRPG for two players using the Carta system. Discover a world of high adventure as you cross a tableau of playing cards, encountering people & places from Arthurian myth with each card. tabletopbookshelf.com/products/gla...
NEW ARRIVAL The front cover of the Glatisant game, which has the stylized font of the game up top, along with a tan banner, a knight helment, a shield with a split design, a smaller knight helmet, hooves, and antlers with a sword over them. Now @ tabletop bookshelf
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM
binarystar.games
Subscribe now and you'll get this one!
exeunt.press Exeunt Press 💀 🔜 PAXU @exeunt.press · 16h
TUMULUS 05. "Step into the fairy ring." will begin shipping in early December 2025. Includes original art by @fragrant.garden and fey contract negotiation by @binarystar.games.

Also, some mechs collecting mushrooms. 🤖🍄🌿

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TUMULUS 05 Step into the fairy ring. from Exeunt Press / Skeleton Code Machine
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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exeunt.press
TUMULUS 05. "Step into the fairy ring." will begin shipping in early December 2025. Includes original art by @fragrant.garden and fey contract negotiation by @binarystar.games.

Also, some mechs collecting mushrooms. 🤖🍄🌿

Subscribe: www.exeunt.press/shop/p/scm-t...
TUMULUS 05 Step into the fairy ring. from Exeunt Press / Skeleton Code Machine
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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binarystar.games
The game's free (including files to make your own booklet), but if you want you can pay me to make you one instead: shop.binarystar.games/products/cor...
Corpslayers
Rise and Grind, Runners. Most normal people in this world just get, you know, a normal job. But you’re not “normal people”: you’ve got the talent, charm, skills, equipment, or augmentations to make th...
shop.binarystar.games
November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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binarystar.games
Released an update to Corpslayers! It's got one (1) other color now.

binary-star-games.itch.io/corpslayers
Corpslayers by Binary Star Games
Rise and grind, runners.
binary-star-games.itch.io
November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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gilarpgs.bsky.social
Three days later and still holding strong.

The people cry out, they desire to slay a dragon.

gilarpgs.itch.io/dragon-slayers
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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wayspell.bsky.social
Got a player who can't always make it reliably? Well, now there's a class where their absence is a feature. Sort of.

wayspell.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Leaper
Every Table has that one friend who wants to play, and we want them to play, but their awful schedule makes committing to anything nearly im...
wayspell.blogspot.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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adambell.games
take a listen to Whatcha Doing? this week! Matt & I had a fun conversation about the design of Uneasy Lies the Head and how this game even came to exist in its current form.
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
binarystar.games
Released an update to Corpslayers! It's got one (1) other color now.

binary-star-games.itch.io/corpslayers
Corpslayers by Binary Star Games
Rise and grind, runners.
binary-star-games.itch.io
November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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jeanverne.bsky.social
My schedule is open for the end of the year, so if you're planning a zine for ZineMonth/ZineQuest or need a custom design for something else (cover art, poster...) hit me up! My DMs are open and you can reach me via my portfolio: jeanverne.design
A mockup of my module "Apparitions in the Mirror Maze", it shows the front and back cover. A poster for the film "Le Samouraï" where Alain Delon's character appears in blue halftones except for his hands, face and hat which are in black and white. Mockup of a CD case with the art for my zine "Design Tracks" showing an x-ray of a skull in front of a green, black and white marbling. Where the brain should be is a cloud of blurry pink, blue and yellow stars; they are partially covered by a black rectangle with text showing the title of the of zine in a bold expanded sans serif font.
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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theweeklyscroll.com
New ep

Ryan sits down with Clayton Notestine of @explorersdesign.bsky.social to follow up his recent article on How to Promote Your Work with our take on Self-Promotion, including the Do's and Don'ts of reaching out to bloggers and podcasters.
EP 291 | We Talk SELF-PROMO with Clayton Notestine
YouTube video by The Weekly Scroll
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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sinland.gay
big one done tonight! I am eager to talk about this game.... soon. #ttrpg #art #digitalart #illustration #absentiaart
A finished illustration of a scene from Absentia's yet to be announced TTRPG. A wide landscape illustration depicting a lake surrounded by enormous golden-leafed oak trees and dotted with lily pads on the water's surface. Beams of light shine down on a group of figures at the lake through the canopy above. In the foreground, there is a woman with pointed ears, a flower crown, and elaborate magician's attire leaning against a tree, looking impatient. She has a sword sheathed at her side. Immediately next to her is a man with frontier-like attire and a rifle wrapped in leather slung at his back. He wears glasses and has a small pair of horns on his head. He's staring out at the lake. At his waist is a holstered handgun on one side, and a scrollcase and lantern containing a glowing frog sprite on the other. Next to both of them is a short goblin woman with goggles on her head, looking quizzically down at a camera in her hands, facing the viewer. In the background is a gathering of maidens dancing festively in the shallow water before a large creature that has the upper body of a woman and an enormous lower body of a spider, resting in the water and posing with its arms pointed upwards.
November 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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whatchadoingpod.bsky.social
A new episode for your weekend!

I got the chance to sit down with @adambell.games to chat about Uneasy Lies the Head, and how fun it is to be mean to your friends!
Episode 36: Adam Bell designed the TTRPG, Uneasy Lies The Head! | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
The thirty-sixth episode!This time I'm sitting down with Adam Bell to discuss his latest game, Uneasy Lies the Head!Uneasy Lies the Head Backerkit: https://uneasy-lies-the-head.backerkit.com/hosted_pr...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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machineiv.bsky.social
It’s cool cool to not like D&D. I get it 150%. No shade.

But gosh I forgot how irritating it is to have people unsolicited rant at you about how people “really don’t want to play D&D” like it’s 1995 or 2005 or 2015 or….

Get new ideas. Please. I’m BEGGING you. Hating D&D isn’t a personality.
November 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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gowanusaurusrex.bsky.social
In which I talk about the launch, about @cuchi.bsky.social's "chorrijuegos" (loosely: silly-ass games) philosophy and how @binarystar.games' minimalist jam inspired the mechanics I created for this game, as well as the challenges I've faced playing.
Devlog #1: 9 to 5 (Launch and playtest)
Whoa! So glad to launch this and to see it received so well! I loved the idea of chorrijuegos as soon as I came across Asaltadores Del Rol's JAM. From the blog: A lot of times we need to disconnect, s...
gowanusaurusrex.itch.io
November 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
binarystar.games
It's here! It's here! Go get it!
November 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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megueyb.bsky.social
Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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explorersdesign.bsky.social
I'm joining Ryan over on The Weekly Scroll to talk about the dos and don'ts of self-promotion and marketing. Leave us some questions in the comments!

And join us this Friday at 1 pm EST or 10 am PST.
theweeklyscroll.com Weekly Scroll 🔜 PAXU @theweeklyscroll.com · 6d
Following up on his wonderful article linked below, Clayton will be joining me on Friday to discuss promotion and marketing in tabletop games. We'll be hitting a variety of topics but if you have any questions let us know in the comments!

Join us live Friday at 10am pst
twitch.tv/theweeklyscroll
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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satelitesnaturales.bsky.social
Hello gamers I'm opening *emergency* graphic design commissions, to help me keep my healthcare due this friday. Flexible pricing, I'll do:
-Title typography
-Iconography
-flyers
Looking forl ow effort/stress (ie not suited for short turnarounds and big expectations), great for mockups and prototypes
A Land once magic title logo A feast for a sphinx cover Echo from the dark icon exploration
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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angusmain.bsky.social
In particular Aneesh Bhoopathy, from the design coop Forge, who designed the identity. A brilliant reminder to *employ human creatives!*

www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Logo Looked Nothing Like a Campaign Logo
The bodega-influenced visual language of an outsider campaign.
www.curbed.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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gilarpgs.bsky.social
D&D is dead.

Long live Dragon Slayers.

gilarpgs.itch.io/dragon-slayers
Dragon Slayers by Gila RPGs
Dragons! Quests! Adventure! Fantasy TTRPG with asymmetrical classes.
gilarpgs.itch.io
November 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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jdragsky.bsky.social
for games its especially important to understand the legacy of what games have historically been called not-games (i.e those made by non-men) and that when you call a game "not a game" youre building on that affect; its the equivalent of calling art "degenerate"
November 4, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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jdragsky.bsky.social
pointing at a game and saying "this is not a game" means you're saying it shouldnt be thought of as a game, it shouldnt be compared to other games, and it shouldnt be respected like a game. it's a tool of dismissal and erasure
November 4, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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jdragsky.bsky.social
i wish people would be substantially more careful with their choice to dismiss art/games they don't like as "not art / not a game"
November 4, 2025 at 4:51 AM