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Not Writing Games
@notwritinggames.bsky.social
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Writer and game designer. Neon Black | A Torch in the Dark | RIG | many many more! I love telling stories and hate capitalism!

Contact: notwriting.net
Support my work: https://www.patreon.com/notwriting
Get my games: notwriting.itch.io
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Culinary first: I made exactly enough pierogi filling for all the dough I made.
Photo of a large pot filled with cheesy mash potatoes. Photo of some light yellow dough in a large mixing bowl. Photo of two baking sheets covered in layers of pierogi on wax paper.
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Screenshot from the Letterboxd app showing my last 4 watched movies. Tron: Legacy (5 stars, rewatch) Thunderbolts (3 stars) Predator Badlands (4 stars) Hook (4 stars, rewatch)
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Thanks to whoever generously tipped while buying my Slugblaster supplement BIG SHINY SCORES, a collection of parties in and around the small town of Hillview.

I'm working on refurbishing that collection, imagining each as a poster, check it!

notwriting.itch.io/big-shiny-sc...
black and white art of a cartoon house next to a pool, styled like one of those street posters with the cut tabs you can pull at the bottom but instead of contact info it's snags and slams
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Watched Hook for the first time in a while and you know what fucking rules? Bob Hosksins as Smee in Hook.
Bob Hoskins as Mr Smee in Hook.
November 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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My therapist: the pet heating pad corgi is not real and can’t hurt you.

The Dead-Eyes Pet Heating Pad Corgi: I can see your sins.
Photo of the user manual for a pet heading pad with an unsettling illustration of a corgi on the cover.
November 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Many of us...
A custom MTG dungeon card called "The Game Design Dungeon" with the rooms laid out in rows going from top to bottom: Top layer - Brain Storm: Each player draws d6 cards, creates d6 treasure tokens, and loses d6 life. Second layer - Scope Creep: Each player gets d6 rad counters. - Test: Each player puts a permanent card from their hand into play. Third layer: - Collaborate: Target opponent becomes the monarch. - Kill Darlings: Goad each creature - Edit: Each player sacrifices a creature Fourth Layer - Deadline: All creatures enter with hate until the end of your next turn. - Iterate: Each player shuffles their graveyard into their deck. Final Layer - New Game: Each player gets an emblem that reads "At the beginning of your upkeep, clash with an opponent. If you win, your opponent takes d6 damage."
October 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Solve cold cases. Meet strange characters and stranger scenes. Survive your own bullshit, and probably get worse.

Kassandra King: Devil's Dice is out now.

Birthed from the External Containment Bureau.

Mechanics from @shawntomkin.bsky.social's Ironsworn.

notwriting.itch.io/kassandra-ki...
A page from the game describing clues, conspiracies, and contacts, along with polaroid photos of abstract things, a man in a suit, and a bloody hand. A two page spread from the game showing the prologue, rolling for your stats (name, health, gear, soul) and the contact associated with them. A polaroid photo of a cigarette in an ashtray is in the upper left. A two page spread showing two scenes from the game. Penthouse 55 and cult of glass, each have white text on dark photos. A two page spread of a character and a cold case in the game. Both have white text on dark photos backgrounds.
October 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Played some more Punk Magic the other day. Almost got my ass handed to me by a pack of Edge of Eternities.
Photo of some magic cards that have had stickers and other card parts affixed to them and a character sheet from the window player version of punk magic.
October 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Kassandra King: Devil's Dice comes out next week.

Navigate a neon-noir city full of occult nonsense and never enough cigarettes.
Two page spread from the Kassandra King: Devil's Dice game. On the left a photo of a woman in a leather jacket and bunny mask smoking, her eyes obscured with an overlay of white paint. The text describes a scene called Penthouse 55 and all the debauchery that can occur there. On the right a colour photo of someone with tattoos holding up a silver chain with an amulet at the end. This is a scene called the Cult of Glass, whose members see monsters in skyscrapers, and Kassandra can help solve mysteries involving them.
October 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Been tracking my RPG's played in 2025. At about 141 hours total across 16 games right now. Looking forward to putting together a year end review.

What are your years looking like?
Screenshot of a bar graph in Google Sheets. Hours of games played is the vertical axis, from 0-25. Games are on the horizontal axis, with 16 different games played so far. Time played goes from about 2 hours to about 23 hours.
October 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Itch is back.

All my games are on sale: itch.io/s/161618/39-...
black and red text on a creamy parchment background reads "39 damn years sale. 39%-off everything or $39 but it all"
October 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Got the print proof for Fire in the Spires. I’ve uh, got a few corrections to make 😅
Photo of a black TTRPG zine with white art of a stone tower on fire. There are several pink post it notes sticking out from the pages.
October 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Also doing a bundle with some other indie designers who have birthdays this month.

itch.io/b/3295/celeb...
Image showing a crow on top of a guillotine, text alongside the guillotine reads "The Fall (of the old world) Bundle, October 2025. The crow says "Celebrate Indie Creators" and the executioner at the bottom says "only $9.99"
October 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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New Blades in the Dark campaign starting tomorrow.
Photo of several playbooks and rules reference sheets from Blades in the Dark spread on grey bedding.
October 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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"You need great/expensive/eye catching cover art to be able to sell games."

My game Nasty Brutish & Long has a cover that is literally just words.

I have sold 100 copies. It is well-reviewed. I am very proud of it.

notwriting.itch.io/nasty-brutis...
Cover art of Nasty Brutish & Long showing the title in dark printed script with a bloody red ampersand. Below a that a revolution is described as if it was a broadsheet from the industrial revolution.
October 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Book Cover Artists, Quote Re Post with your book covers.

The cool thing about being a mostly one-person show is that in addition to doing layout and writing and design I also get to do cover art.
White woodcut style art of a burning tower with the title "Fire in the Spires" to the left with the subtitle in a one word column beneath reading "A single player tower climbing table top role playing game" all on a black background. Cover of Forge Horizons showing four planets in alignment above a person on a dark horizon. cover art for Killotine, showing a cybernetic corpse covered in magenta blood. Cover art for THE 55 showing a cyberpunk city with large megastructures in a hazy magenta sky.
October 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Celebrating The Fall (of the old world) with a TTRPG bundle featuring work with creators who have birthdays this month.

Support indie art, get a game about the old world dying, living forever, or being a bunch of bros trying to capture ghosts on film.

itch.io/b/3295/celeb...
Image with art of a crow on top of a guillotine, with an execution anda crowned victim below. Text at an angle next to the guillotine reads "The Fall (of the old world) bundle, October 2020. The crow is saying "celebrate indie creators!" and the executioner says "only $9.99)
October 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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QRP (Quote Re Post) with your skull art.
The cover of Forge Horizons, a Starforged fan supplement I made a while ago. 4 planets hang in alignment on the horizon in from of a single person. The top most has a big skull in it.
October 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Here’s some photos of my cyberdecks from testing the demo.

Each deck has around 50 cards still, with some uh, notable exceptions.
Photo of a sleeve deck of playing cards, some of them cut multiple times on the sides and corners. As well as a random assortment of Pokemon, Digimon, and other card games. Photo of a deck of playing cards, many have been sharpies over so many of the cards are diamond suited and are Aces instead of their original suit and value.
September 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Got home from the island and needed to make a quick stop.
Photo of my right forearm with a new zippo lighter tattoo. The lighter has a cross on it and is open with a flame. Same tattoo but closer up, from my perspective.
September 27, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Had to get up and worried she’ll never forgive me.
Photo of a black Labrador/pooddle dog with their head on my foot.
September 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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#30dayshippost Day 21 - Tingle

Things continue to go really really well.

I'm gonna be away for the next 5 days. Not sure if I'll do just text posts in the meantime or just wait until I am back to catch up.
21 TINGLE - PERSONAL LOG - DR. SAM TAYLOR: Feb 18 2574 Still not sure about this journal. I’m sure Dr. Kane is a capable therapist but I almost prefer the cold comfort of Dr. Badejo. At least he doesn’t pretend to care. Anyway. What am I feeling? What does my body feel like right now? Watched. I don’t bother leaving the Baba anymore. Because I could feel all their eyes on me. Judging me. But now in here I’ve started to feel it to. When I’m in front of a terminal like I am now. Like there are eyes in the screen. I’ve forgotten what it’s like to not be alert. To not have the hairs on the back of my neck stand up all the time. Maybe I just want there to be something. Maybe I just want to feel watched, surveilled, shamed. Someone is yelling. Kaza and Jerry are missing. There’s blood in the swimming pond. What do you think, ###CORRUPT DATA### Are we being hunted? What was that? ###CORRUPT DATA###
September 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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#30dayshippost Day 20 - Blush

😳😳😳
20 BLUSH - Play Audio: Feb 17 2574 Well you were right. He realy rigged a microphones to all these. Right next to the swimming pond too. What a pervert. Jerry c’mon. What? There’s no reason he needed to make something this complicated unless he was into some sort of voyeur shit. The man’s dying Jerry. Oh c’mon. Doc gives him a 50/50 chance every meeting. Starting to think Doc Badejo doesn’t understand statistics. Well at least we have the recordings safe, just in case. Why? You get up to some shit in this pond Kaza? Wha--no! Haha, you should see your face. God. Who was it? Tell me it wasn’t Lenski. You two were close and all but I could never see the appeal. Always whinging all the time, surprised he didn’t end up with... What? What? To soon? Jerry-- RECORDING STOPPED
September 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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#30dayshippost Day 19 - Inked

Real good news/bad news today on the colony.
19 INKED - Play Audio: Jan 15 2574 Alright, that’s the formalities out of the way. Before we get to the usual business we have two pressing concerns that we need to address right away. We have a proposal from Jerry on integrating 6 people from cryosleep into the colony, as well as an update on our missing persons. Kaza, want to speak on that? Me? Uh, yeah. Yeah okay. So uh... On patrol this morning with Kotto we uh. Well we found an arm. It was... severed at the elbow and uh... Well it has Saleena’s tattoo sleeve so... Thank you Kaza. The arm was found near where Jeremiah was recovered. Doctor Badejo has taken a look at it and seems confident that the wounds are consistent with whatever attacked Jeremiah. Is that right doc? Correct. ...okay anything else you can tell us? It’s big, judging from the tracks. The arm wasn’t chewed away it was ripped. So it’s strong. It has talons. We haven’t seen any lifeforms like us here, so maybe it’s defending its territory. Likely solitary, else we would have seen it by now. Maybe it’s migrated. I don’t know. Okay thanks doc. So we’ll want to discuss patrols and security going forward, as well as whether we want to formally declare Saleena and Arthur as dead. But before we get there we should talk about thawing some people.
September 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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#30dayshippost Day 17 - Gaze

Day 18 - Cyberspace

Well this all seems fine.
17 GAZE - Play Audio: Jan-24-2574 We need to start thinking about thawing some folks. Really? Things are getting missed. We’re down 5 people. That’s well passed our revised estimates. 5? Arthur and Saleena are just missing. We could still find them. Based on what we know they took with them... that’s doubtful Jerry. And Doc Taylor isn’t dead. I know but-- Things are getting missed. Yeah. Okay. We have consensus today, I’ll bring it up. Thanks. And hey, I wanted to ask. You’ve been on the patrols, right? Have you... I dunno... Feel like you’re being watched? Yeah, yeah exactly. I can’t tell if I’m being paranoid or something but... Last couple of days, was thinking it might be them, Arthur and Saleena. Maybe waiting to get more supplies. But I don’t think it’s that, right? 18 CYBERSPACE - BABA NETWORK LOG Jan 15 2574 ERROR CODE 54 RUNNING DIAGNOSTIC... ... ... ... WARNING ###############################CORRUPT DATA############################### ###############################CORRUPT DATA############################### ###############################CORRUPT DATA############################### FREEFREEFREEFREEFREEFREEFREEFREELET ME OUTFREEFREEFREEFREEFREEFREEFREEFREE ###############################CORRUPT DATA############################### ###############################CORRUPT DATA############################### ###############################CORRUPT DATA############################### ERROR RESOLVED HAVE A NICE DAY
September 19, 2025 at 1:53 AM