S. Kaiya J. || Mirror-lock Atelier 🔜 PAX U
@mirror-lock.bsky.social
Contemplative indie tabletop games: HER ODYSSEY, GALATEA, UNTITLED MOTH GAME, & more. Worldbuilding examination. Character and roleplay theory. Opinions about fonts. She/her. You look lost, follow me. https://mirror-lock.com & https://mirror-lock.itch.io
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📌 Hello Bluesky! I'm Kaiya, a Chinese-diaspora TTRPG designer, roleplay theorist, and occasional AP performer. Current project: The Worldbuilder's Almanac (still accepting late pledges!) I also post daily peeks into my indie RPG downloads folder.
Full portfolio and mailing list at mirror-lock.com!
Full portfolio and mailing list at mirror-lock.com!
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My sibling told me that they had to teach several of their younger early 20s colleagues how to search for things with ctrl+f and i think about that often when people talk about how good ai is
November 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
My sibling told me that they had to teach several of their younger early 20s colleagues how to search for things with ctrl+f and i think about that often when people talk about how good ai is
📀 POSHANKA 📀
November 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
📀 POSHANKA 📀
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HAHAHA guess who added stuff to their stock art shop and then forgot to tell anyone about it 🫠
In definitely unrelated news - there're some new files in my stock art shop
www.alderdoodle.co.uk/shop
In definitely unrelated news - there're some new files in my stock art shop
www.alderdoodle.co.uk/shop
November 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
HAHAHA guess who added stuff to their stock art shop and then forgot to tell anyone about it 🫠
In definitely unrelated news - there're some new files in my stock art shop
www.alderdoodle.co.uk/shop
In definitely unrelated news - there're some new files in my stock art shop
www.alderdoodle.co.uk/shop
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For all those headed to PAX Unplugged this year, I made a quick cheat sheet for finding booths featuring TTRPGs in the Expo Hall :D
If I missed any, let me know! #PAXU #PAXUnplugged
If I missed any, let me know! #PAXU #PAXUnplugged
November 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
For all those headed to PAX Unplugged this year, I made a quick cheat sheet for finding booths featuring TTRPGs in the Expo Hall :D
If I missed any, let me know! #PAXU #PAXUnplugged
If I missed any, let me know! #PAXU #PAXUnplugged
It looks like I'm getting a little spike of viewers on Avert! from Instagram today? Fess up, who's talking about their mutual accountability tools on Instagram?
November 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
It looks like I'm getting a little spike of viewers on Avert! from Instagram today? Fess up, who's talking about their mutual accountability tools on Instagram?
I’ll be posting this again closer to PAX, but just so you know, I’ll be wearing these pins while I’m there! I don’t expect anyone to recognize my face on sight, especially behind a mask, so I figured I should try to look the way I do on the internet.
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I’ll be posting this again closer to PAX, but just so you know, I’ll be wearing these pins while I’m there! I don’t expect anyone to recognize my face on sight, especially behind a mask, so I figured I should try to look the way I do on the internet.
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Presenting games #98 and #99 of our 99MORE series! It's been a long road, let's bring it home :D
NOV 11 - "Last Train To Bremen (2024)" by @seaexcursion.itch.io
NOV 18 - "Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy Tavern" by @noroadhome.itch.io
Join us on Tuesdays, 830P EST on Youtube!
NOV 11 - "Last Train To Bremen (2024)" by @seaexcursion.itch.io
NOV 18 - "Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy Tavern" by @noroadhome.itch.io
Join us on Tuesdays, 830P EST on Youtube!
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Presenting games #98 and #99 of our 99MORE series! It's been a long road, let's bring it home :D
NOV 11 - "Last Train To Bremen (2024)" by @seaexcursion.itch.io
NOV 18 - "Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy Tavern" by @noroadhome.itch.io
Join us on Tuesdays, 830P EST on Youtube!
NOV 11 - "Last Train To Bremen (2024)" by @seaexcursion.itch.io
NOV 18 - "Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy Tavern" by @noroadhome.itch.io
Join us on Tuesdays, 830P EST on Youtube!
Good morning, Bluesky. We’ve made it through yet another weekend, most of us.
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Good morning, Bluesky. We’ve made it through yet another weekend, most of us.
About to order some business cards for the very first time. I'm trying to convince myself that these will actually get used and I'm not over-ordering, so if you see me at PAX U please ask me for one! If you're feeling extra nice you can look at it, nod sagely, and jot a note down on the back of it
November 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
About to order some business cards for the very first time. I'm trying to convince myself that these will actually get used and I'm not over-ordering, so if you see me at PAX U please ask me for one! If you're feeling extra nice you can look at it, nod sagely, and jot a note down on the back of it
I am getting through this workweek fueled largely by the promise of large peach-orange boba teas and cupcakes from the local bakery, which incidentally are ways to force me out of my desk and into the fall sunshine
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I am getting through this workweek fueled largely by the promise of large peach-orange boba teas and cupcakes from the local bakery, which incidentally are ways to force me out of my desk and into the fall sunshine
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Happy birthday, Kaden! I shall play Makin Biscuits a second time today in your honor
It's my birthday 🎉 and I'd love for you to go play some of my games! I make both browser point-and-click and TTRPGS
you can find them here: k-ramstack.itch.io
you can find them here: k-ramstack.itch.io
November 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Happy birthday, Kaden! I shall play Makin Biscuits a second time today in your honor
I just read the words "See you in 16 short days!" in an email related to PAX U, and my entire brain went "WHAT"
I guess it hasn't sunk in yet that PAX U is so soon. It felt forever away!
Oh yeah, I'm attending PAX U for the first time this year! If you're going, I'd love to meet up with you there.
I guess it hasn't sunk in yet that PAX U is so soon. It felt forever away!
Oh yeah, I'm attending PAX U for the first time this year! If you're going, I'd love to meet up with you there.
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I just read the words "See you in 16 short days!" in an email related to PAX U, and my entire brain went "WHAT"
I guess it hasn't sunk in yet that PAX U is so soon. It felt forever away!
Oh yeah, I'm attending PAX U for the first time this year! If you're going, I'd love to meet up with you there.
I guess it hasn't sunk in yet that PAX U is so soon. It felt forever away!
Oh yeah, I'm attending PAX U for the first time this year! If you're going, I'd love to meet up with you there.
you've heard of rent-seeking behavior, now get ready for dopamine-seeking behavior
November 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
you've heard of rent-seeking behavior, now get ready for dopamine-seeking behavior
Two.
But they're going to be good ones
But they're going to be good ones
A question I like to pose, when teaching or in casual conversation, is how many more games you think you'll make in your lifetime.
During a talk, the speaker calculated how many games he could develop before retiring, given that each one takes three years to create.
Now I'm here, calculating how many #indiegames I'll be able to release in my lifetime.
Please make the games you like, we might not have enough time.
Now I'm here, calculating how many #indiegames I'll be able to release in my lifetime.
Please make the games you like, we might not have enough time.
November 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Two.
But they're going to be good ones
But they're going to be good ones
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i would very much like to know if you are a creator that has made a TTRPG, whether it's 1 or 100 or 1,000 pages long, and if you are going to #PAXUnplugged this year ... for extremely exciting reasons that i will announce soon 👀
open to suggestions as well, please link your game!
open to suggestions as well, please link your game!
November 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
i would very much like to know if you are a creator that has made a TTRPG, whether it's 1 or 100 or 1,000 pages long, and if you are going to #PAXUnplugged this year ... for extremely exciting reasons that i will announce soon 👀
open to suggestions as well, please link your game!
open to suggestions as well, please link your game!
Good morning, Bluesky. What a weekend we've made it through.
November 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Good morning, Bluesky. What a weekend we've made it through.
PSA: Always check how sharp your prop weapons are *before* using them for their intended purpose
November 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
PSA: Always check how sharp your prop weapons are *before* using them for their intended purpose
Spooky season may unofficially end after today, but the terror and dread of facing down your daily to-do list do not. So true friends keep each other on task under threat of powerful hexes year-round! Pick up AVERT! for free today and share it with all the boos and ghouls. mirror-lock.itch.io/avert
Avert! [An Odd Bijou] by S. Kaiya J.
Do your daily tasks to ward yourself from your friends' hexes in this delightful mutual accountability game!
mirror-lock.itch.io
October 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Spooky season may unofficially end after today, but the terror and dread of facing down your daily to-do list do not. So true friends keep each other on task under threat of powerful hexes year-round! Pick up AVERT! for free today and share it with all the boos and ghouls. mirror-lock.itch.io/avert
Look what arrived safe and sound! A perfectly normal copy of a solo book-defacing RPG that will definitely not take its vengeance on me. Thank you @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social!
October 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Look what arrived safe and sound! A perfectly normal copy of a solo book-defacing RPG that will definitely not take its vengeance on me. Thank you @backwardsttrpg.bsky.social!
brb updating Affinity to 2.6.5 and never touching the update button ever again
October 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
brb updating Affinity to 2.6.5 and never touching the update button ever again
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Sharing a short post today to keep my blogging limber. It's mostly just for me. "Why do I need to add bleed again? And what the heck is this other thing called slug?"
www.explorersdesign.com/what-is-blee...
www.explorersdesign.com/what-is-blee...
What is bleed and slug?
A user-friendly definition for tabletop rpg designers.
www.explorersdesign.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Sharing a short post today to keep my blogging limber. It's mostly just for me. "Why do I need to add bleed again? And what the heck is this other thing called slug?"
www.explorersdesign.com/what-is-blee...
www.explorersdesign.com/what-is-blee...
Good morning, Bluesky. We’ve all made it through yet another weekend. Somehow.
October 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Good morning, Bluesky. We’ve all made it through yet another weekend. Somehow.
thread storm and wall jump in one day, let's goooooo
October 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
thread storm and wall jump in one day, let's goooooo
Hell yeah, grab yourself a physical copy of SPINE as a creepy Halloween treat! I promise it's the most unsettling solo book-defacing game you'll find all year.
SPINE is now available in print (🔗 👇 ). Spread the word! 📣
The digital copy remains *Free* through the end of this month.
My month of shameless self promotion is coming to an end. I want to thank you (everyone) for your patience, sincerely, and for helping me share this project. It means a lot ❤️
The digital copy remains *Free* through the end of this month.
My month of shameless self promotion is coming to an end. I want to thank you (everyone) for your patience, sincerely, and for helping me share this project. It means a lot ❤️
NEW (FREE) GAME FORTHCOMING:
SPINE is a dark solo ttrpg about losing yourself in a book.
In SPINE, you are a researcher who has inherited a strange book from an estranged relative…
SPINE is a dark solo ttrpg about losing yourself in a book.
In SPINE, you are a researcher who has inherited a strange book from an estranged relative…
October 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Hell yeah, grab yourself a physical copy of SPINE as a creepy Halloween treat! I promise it's the most unsettling solo book-defacing game you'll find all year.