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Chris Longhurst
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The best game designer you've never heard of.
https://potatocubed.carrd.co/
He/him.
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I don't normally spend a lot of time in the character creator for games, but Where Winds Meet has got Options.
A ridiculously lush picture of a hot Chinese guy in a long grey-and-white robe of some sort, against a backdrop of a crescent moon in the sky and a single lantern hanging on a dead tree. The guy is in the act of removing a mask.
November 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Please don't.
A close crop of the image on the above-linked web page showing it was generated with AI.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
A screenshot from Forza showing a Lamborghini Countach performing an overtake at night. The Countach has a black and white colour scheme and a sprinting umbreon on the side. A screenshot from Forza showing a Lamborghini Countach in a well-lit showroom sort of environment, showing off the detail of the sprinting umbreon graphic on the side.
November 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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I will also have CLIVE but he is not for sale.
A plush 'beckoning cat' photographed from below so he seems to be looming above the pile of books in front of him.
November 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Less than two weeks until #Dragonmeet !

I will be there at stall K28 with hard copies of the brand new hotness THREADCUTTERS and CRUCIBLE for all your occult assassin and/or solo roguelike needs.
The floor map of Dragonmeet 2025, with a big green arrow pointing to stand K28.
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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In case you were wondering this livery is called "Sick Transit, Gloria".
The 1960s transit van from the previous screenshot, this time on its wheels and clean and shiny, showing off the gold-on-black paint job with 'GLORIA' written across the bonnet.
November 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Self pity backer spike! Wooooo?
A screenshot from Kicktraq showing the number of backers per day for Gravity: 32, 12, 6, 2, 9.
November 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Also how I play Forza.
A 1960s transit van, black, with gold flame designs around the wheel arches. It is upside-down and covered in dust.
November 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Hmm.
A map showing that it will take 3 hours, 22 minutes to walk from the Excel Centre to the Nando's where the indie designers used to get their post-Dragonmeet food.
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Georgia Villa is an Italian Olympic gymnast who is sponsored by some cheese manufacturer or other.
A smiling woman (Giorgia Villa) in a sparkly leotard, embracing a wheel of cheese that's larger than her torso.
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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The Pacific Rim 'double event' meme but it's been lazily edited to be about really stupid ideas in tech.
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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In lieu of marketing today I have made a mockup of Gravity using the cover drawn by @sarahmason.art and a Photoshop template from Cover Vault, I believe.

Don't you want to know what excellent words are hidden within the pink void?

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pot...
November 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Brainstorming new names for the game formerly known as Won With Blood. It's a solo game about fantasy court politics where the fancy new tech is being able to change out the main storyline with each playthrough.

(I'm thinking The Empty Chamber is probably the winner.)
chamber power vacuum the empty chamber fruitful void (lol) the empty space around which everything else revolves black hole sun (taken) court orbit orbit-uary approach the throne final approach the blank space at the heart of everything a courtier's story a courtier's tale a courtier's empty story (ACES) empty heart doorway to an empty heart the empty sanctum
November 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Cedric pls.
Cedric, a black and white cat, asleep on my desk. At the bottom of the photo you can just see my computer keyboard in my lap, where Cedric displaced it to so he could lie down.
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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I think maybe the Kickstarter algorithm is having a moment.
A 'similar project's Apocalypse World, suggested by Kickstarter: "Your lifetime right to own a cable." Just one cable. I have no idea what it's about.
November 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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I keep coming back to the 'basic shapes' poster generated by Janelle Shane and this line from the accompanying article:
The fact that even a kindergartener can call out this DALL-E3 generated image as nonsense doesn't mean that it's an unusually bad example of AI-generated imagery. It's just what happens when the usual AI-generated information intersects with an area where most people are experts.
October 31, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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*doing crowdfunder illustrations for Myriad Inverse*

No way anyone's going to think AI did this one.
A terrible picture of a man in a hooded cloak, with shadows over his face and a huge grin. His shirt's open so you can see his chest hair but the way I've drawn it, it looks more like chain mail or a shirt with a weird pattern or something. The whole thing is labelled "PDF".
October 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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I'm Lancer-ing again.
Overclocked Subaltern Mk III. RPV Hornet. This one has a jet pack.
October 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Cedric is helping. =/
Cedric, a black and white cat, sitting in a cardboard box that I am trying to fill with mailer envelopes. Unfortunately I cannot, because Cedric is occupying most of the box.
October 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Oh well, back to the classics we go.
A picture of Skeletor, the arch enemy of He-Man.
October 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Physical copies of Threadcutters are here! So is Cedric.
A picture of the cover of the latest game by me and Galen Pejeau, Threadcutters, the book held up in front of a very handsome black and white cat, who is called Cedric.
October 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Unless the lancers do things differently, the Eltee selects as its new home a little community quite far from Hansard's Landing called Hab Cluster 8. Common local pastimes are coming up with new names for their town which never stick, and, inexplicably, baseball.
September 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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An edited screenshot of a wint/dril tweet that reads "Is chess a worker placement game" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,"
September 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Doin' a Lancer:
Combat 1: Underwater Casket-Thieving
September 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Had a search around and found this. Looks considerably worse than I remember!
A screenshot from the Batman: The Move tie-in game on Amiga.
September 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM