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Deric Bindel
@dericbindel.bsky.social
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Zey/Zem/Zeyr | 30 | Robogender Anarchist | Digital Artist & Tabletop Game Dev |

Art : #DericArt
Games : #DericGames
Sales : #DericSale
Fiction : #DericWrites

Find this unit's games at: https://dericbindel.itch.io/
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This unit finally finished all the page art for its current game project, "My Hands In The Fates Of Gods"! The game is inspired by several animated films, including a handful of Ghibli works, and this unit tried to capture the vibe of the art in them!

#DericArt #DericGames
Multiple sets of images in a collage. They depict sections of the game, with 3 panels per section. Going left to right, top to bottom, they are: The Worlds That Were, The Weapon (which is firing), The Fool (giving a speech), The Worlds That Are, The Great And Terrible Nature, Your Companion And You, and The Miracles.
October 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Got a game coming out tomorrow, part of the cassette case game jam, so excited for it to have finally come together!
#ttrpg
A cassette case with a j card with rules, laying atop a spread of custom cards. The game is titled "Crypt Of The God-Gilded Chalice".
September 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Just LOOK at how nice this is! This unit is so excited about this game!

#ttrpg
Front cover of a cassette case with a custom J-card inset. It contains a illustration of adventurers fighting a monster, the title "Crypt Of The God-Gilded Chalice", and some of the rules. The spine of a cassette case, with the title and a mark of a chalice. The custom back cover of a cassette case, with a blurb titled "Why Do We Seek The Chalice?".
July 30, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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The cards turned out very nicely, so much better than this unit thought they would!
Shows 3 Adventurer cards and 1 Chamber card text up, with stacks of both face down to the sides.
July 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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This unit printed and cut the cards for its cassette case game jam game, Crypt Of The God-Gilded Chalice! Going to be playtesting it this, its so damn cool to have this in hand, in person! The rules fit entirely on the J-card, with 40 cards inside (20 Adventurers and 20 Chamber)!
July 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Likewise, this unit could also use some kind words from folks.
A coquettishly shy emoji with the text "What do you think is my biggest strength as a creator?"
July 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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If you see this, quote-skeet with a robot that isn't from star wars, star trek, dr. who, or transformers.
King Joe The Space Robot striking a funky pose.
July 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Quote-Skeet with your pride flags!
Gay rainbow pride flag Polyamorus pride flag, original style (colours sampled from one of the redesigns) non-binary pride flag robogender pride flag, designed by tumblr user Tricksterbae
June 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Slowly working on the cover for my next game, tentatively titled "My Hands In The Fates Of Gods", where you play as a plucky young girl at the end of her adventure, trying to stop the world from being utterly destroyed. Its inspired heavily by the ending of various Ghibli films.
#wip
#DericArt
Work in progress game cover. Title at the top. Below are five figures. From left to right: a worm-like doomsday weapon, a woman in a cartoonish set of armor with a staff, a robot and a man both running, and the young woman. The fill for each is a solid colour and is offset from the outlines. Below is the subtitle "A Game Of Endings By Deric Bindel".
April 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Had a lot of fun as always making art for this setting guide, here are the section markers I made to help the reader get a vibe of what each place is like!

#DericArt
A set of 5 vertical designs. Each has text written in different versions of gridCIPH, and a logo at the bottom. From left to right as follows. The first is a gold and graphite design with swooping curves. It says "the core essentials" and has a gear logo. The second has diagonal lines of red and orange. It reads "DownTown" and has a double downwards triangle logo. The third has complex industrial designs of light and dark gray. It reads "Haydrian Mass Foundries" and has an industrial fan logo. The fourth has swirls of light blue on indigo. It reads "The Shattered Pillar" and has a logo of a broken pillar on a floating island. The last is a complex set of futuristic scifi designs of cyan and blue. It reads "Nexus" and has an abstracted robot logo.
January 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Finally got the go-ahead to share this! In December 2024, I was commissioned to do some #blaseball art for part of The Garages' final farewell gift!

Here is Mike Townsend, giving Management, The Coin, a big final fuck-you farewell, TRIPLE ENCORE style!

#DericArt #Mecha
An action shot of an eight legged mech, standing on its hind feet, firing a supersized projectile at a silhouette of an ancient Roman figure. There is a large reticle over the figure, extending out with larger concentric circles. The projectile has a jagged cloud behind it. At the bottom is the text "Management vs Mike Townsend, ft Octo-Thumb".
January 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Quickly draw what you're wearing, 5 minutes max!

(Gosh, my pencil sketches are always SO scratchy, lmao)
The artist sketched in pencil as a robot. Zey are wearing a black shirt with a galaxy printed on it, many bracelets on the left wrist, and black sweatpants.
January 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Hey there, I'm a vector artist who speciallizes in clean covers and snappy merch designs! I've done work for the blaseballcares charity and material for ttrpgs! #portfolioday
An abstract torch-like design. It is emiting both lines of light and bubbles of motion. Down the shaft reads the word "CENTER" written in gridCIPH. A set of four mezo-american style animal drawings with text at the bottom. Going clockwise from top left, they are a wolf, a mechanical worm, a rat, and a larva. The text reads "RIGHT" written in gridCIPH. The outlines of all elements are offset from the fill. The text "A Good Plan Never Falls", and the subtitle "A Tower-Building Heist Game". There is an abstracted yellow jenga tower behind the text, with callouts pointing to various parts of the tower. The title "The Creature and Their Hunter" and the subtitle "A Tactical Game of Predator and Prey" are roughly centered. Above it are simple abstract drawings of a 4 -legged alien creature and a cybernetic hunter with a gun. Below the title is a grid representing the playing field, covered with bombs, marks, and various rectangles.
January 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Instruction unclear, presenting Carter, da cat
Carter, a grey fluffy maine coon cat, laying on an armchair with blankets strewn about. He is looking at the camera
January 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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First art of 2025! This is my boyfriend @bobbythewallflower.bsky.social robot OC named SKID, a courier robot in a shared setting of ours! He's fast, he's stylish, and he's maybe here for a little bit more ;)

#DericArt #OC #Robot
A bipedal robot in a vaguely humanoid shape. He has a sleek head that has a fin spike on top, with the front dominated by a single "eye". The arms are segmented, with powerlines running in the joints, and both end with triangular three-pronged hands. The chest tapers inwards to a large ball and socket joint making up the waist, connecting the chest and hips. The legs are roughly digitigrade and resemble blade-style running prosthetics, with large thighs connecting to thinner calves, which then exted down into narrow prongs. The feet had small hooks extending up. He is wearing a large red scarf billowing in the wind, contrasting his overall blue colour scheme.
January 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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"you will be visited by three spirits"

The three spirits:
Three pilots from Shin Getter Armageddon. From the left, Hayato, Ryoma, and Benkai.
December 25, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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Been sketching some fucked up people for my next game project, currently titled "We Live Such Pleasant Lives", about eeking out small, pathetic, and petty lives in a post-cyberpunk world! (Post in that the punk is completely gone) #DericArt

CW body horror!
A collection of 6 sketches of people called "Fleshworker", numbered 1 through 6. Number 1 lacks ears and a nose, and has tiny specks of eyes. They have a drawn-down chin, with electronics stuffed in the extra mouth space, and are wearing a button down with a tie. Number 2 has big blank eyes, a bolted on mask covering the mouth and nose, and a device fully covering the ears. There are tubes connecting to the back of their neck, and they are wearing a button down and tie. Number 3 has mechanical extensions from their eye sockets, lifting the eyeballs out. They are lacking ears and a lower jaw, with tubes constructing their neck. They have a open chest wound exposed by their dress that has multiple tubes leading in and out. Number 4 has a plate covering half their face, and a tube feeding into the side of their mouth. There are tubes emerging in and out of their neck, and they are wearing a sweater vest, shirt, and tie. Number 5 has a mechanical robot head stuck on the neck, the lower jaw bolted on. The upper skull is visible, dangling from behind. They are wearing a collared shirt. Number 6 has a plate suggesting cameras covering their eyes, a missing nose, and intact ears. There are plates and holes on the top of their skull. They are missing the lower jaw and are wearing a blouse.
December 8, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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Decided it was a HORN DAY and put on some horns this morning! Got a nice selfie out of it. Someday, I'll get actual horn implant/piercings, but for now, I make do with paper and glue.
A selfie of a white person with the face obscured by a robot face emoji. Zey have 4 bent horns pasted to zeyr forehead/temples, in two sets of two. The horns reach about 7 centimeters high and are metallic gunmetal grey. Zey are wearing a necklace close to zeyr neck that is composed of multiple 2 centimeter round clay beads. The beads are mostly white with splotches of red paint. Zey are wearing a black shirt with a read and yellow cyberpunk furry design.
December 5, 2024 at 5:39 AM
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Quote reskeet with your PFP !

A digitized version of a model I made years ago!
A 3D model of a box-shaped robot. It is light and dark blue, with a contrasting yellow rectangular "eye". It has a backpack with an antenna. The head has a mohawk and quarter circle "ears" that share shapes. A clay model of the same boxhead robot.
November 29, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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Several of my games are on sale right now on itch! Get weakless universe, A Good Plan Never Falls, and NO MORE THAN CODE each at 30% off, or buy all of them for $16!

Get them here: itch.io/s/139657/aut...

Sale Ends December 5th!!!

#ttrpg #DericGames #DericSale
The text "weakless universe" with the tagline "a web of lore". A square is surrounded by three small pins, all pointing towards the square. These pins are further connected by three more pins, forming an overall triangle shape, resembling an abstracted conspiracy map. The text "A Good Plan Never Falls", and the subtitle "A Tower-Building Heist Game". There is an abstracted yellow jenga tower behind the text, with callouts pointing to various parts of the tower. The title "No More Than Code", with the subtitle "A Journaling game about Rampancy". The title is in a red field of marks and numbers and columns, made to resemble a punched card.
November 27, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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I dunno, but I think I got the same delivery...
Carter, a gray maine coon, curled up in an open shipping box.
November 22, 2024 at 2:09 AM
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Just finalized the cover for my current game project, The Creature And Their Hunter! Gonna be going into a second round of playtesting soon, hope to have it released before the end of November! Its a 2-player asymmetric tactics game, a little like a hybrid of minesweeper and battleship! #DericArt
The cover is divided into two sections, an upper and lower section. The lower section is a grid with multiple objects placed on it. There are square and rectangular areas covering small sections of the grid, and multiple bomb and crosshair icons scattered. The upper section features a large stylized infographic depiction of a futuristic hunter with a gun facing towards a large creature arcing its back and displaying its spines. Between the two sections is the title text "The Creature And Their Hunter" and a subtitle "A Tactical Game Of Predator And Prey".
November 21, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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YOOO, congrats!

Tossing in this middle-aged mech mechanic of mine, Marinus Gruff!
November 7, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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There's a 200 word ttrpg challenge going on this month on tumblr, and I just finished my submission, DRONE ! Its a lil self-indulgent, but who cares! #ttrpg #DericGames

link to the submission: www.tumblr.com/dericbindel/...
DRONE For 1-3 players. ///// You are members of a technological Hivemind, faithful drones who have been augmented and upgraded beyond your weak flesh. ‘You’ is a meaningless concept, except as a delineation of one limb of the whole. You have been assigned a task. Roll a d6 to determine what. An important component sustaining the Link needs repair. Incorporate into the Link one of Those-Unlinked. The needs of the Hivemind require you to change your equipment. Prevent sabotage by Those-Unlinked. A new drone needs assistance acclimating to the Hivemind. Commune with the others in the Hivemind. Next, roll a d6 to determine how you succeed or fail. Succeed: More than one drone was needed. Together the Hivemind is stronger. Your methodology is novel. The Hivemind will remember it. The approach is taken from the experience of the Hivemind. The Link is good. Fail: You were not equipped to handle it. You will be modified by another to correct this. Something beyond your control occurred. The Hivemind will adapt. Those-Unlinked obstructed your actions. They will surely join one day. Elaborate upon these and write or discuss them. ///// You will never leave this joyous unity. You are a good drone. Repeat forever.
November 5, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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I have SO many, but I'll just keep it to 3:
- FAGGOT : a waterfront lifeguard EMT
- PLINK : an biped/quadraped hybrid stealth recon unit
- Gia Holbrook : a blaseball batter and delightful nuisance
A bust of an humanoid robot. It has a set of chiseled on abs, and a lined socket around the neck. The head is a vertical rectangular prism, with a tall slit in the center, in the place of a face or eyes. Either side of the head has round nodules. One side has an antenna sticking above the head. A bust of a modified protogen or synth robot. The head is abstract, featuring an extended featureless snout, with a riased around around the segment above the neck. Two antennae stick out on either sides like ears. The rear of the head has cables sticking into the upper back. A bust divided into two segments, a torso and a head suspend above it by a wire. The torso resembles a robotic woman wearing a sports bra. The head resembles a floating CRT monitor with many embelishments. There is a rectangular blender sticking out back, and a targeting module held above the monitor, which has a pair of vertical line eyes and simple blushes displayed.
October 31, 2024 at 1:41 AM