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Sporian Games is Calling Paypros
@sporian.bsky.social
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My name is Sporian, at least to you. I'm a game designer in my spare time, and all of those games can be found at https://sporian.itch.io .
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I haven't posted much, but I have been writing, designing, and working on projects. Here's a snippet of fiction that I think does a lot of the stuff I like; playing with authorship, anonymization, making commentary on the future, and advertising my other work. I think it hits.
A footnote on a document. "Sporian is one of the pseudonyms traditionally used by the University of North Washington’s history department to avoid individual litigation towards faculty and students by state prosecutors. One can read more about the Pseudonym Protection Program in the UNW Anti-Prosecution Style guide. Requests for authorship and communication can be done through the History Department. One can learn more about the history of Sporian as a pseudonym in Valence, Misty. “Sporian: Authorship in Zines and Games in the 2020s,” Analog Game Histories 23, No. 3 (2xxx): 150-165, or by visiting an archived version of Sporian-attributed works at https://sporian.itch.io. "
October 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
sporian.bsky.social
Looking into playing rec league softball with my friends and checked in on the rules about coed to see if there'll be a problem with trans stuff, and found some of the funniest regulations I've ever seen.

You ever see liberals legislate themselves into a tizzy trying to be """fair"""??
Batting Order: (NEW 2025) Teams may bat any number of players (minimum of 10) as long as they alternate sexes. Note: should a team have any non-binary individuals, they should follow the sequence of: M, F, NB. (Ex. M, F, NB, M, F, M, F, M, F, M, F). A team may bat extra males (or NB players using a 12” ball) BUT must take an out between when the males (or NB players using a 12” ball) are batting consecutively. Females (or non-binary players hitting with an 11” ball) can hit consecutively without taking an out between batters. Players in the lineup may play defensively with free substitutions. Players not listed in the batting order may substitute into the game per normal substitution rules.
August 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
sporian.bsky.social
Indianapolis is a center of Black culture, and I was ashamed to not know this.

Next year, come with me to the Crispus Attucks museum (which I missed), and absorb more Indianapolitan Black art.
August 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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After Gen Con I have two Indianapolis thoughts:
1.) The bus system should be used more by congoers, it was consistent and useful

2.) If you think Indy is a boring city, you haven't tried. My party went to the best museum I've been to (Newfields) and got incredible food.
August 6, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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During the last day of Gen Con, I was working hard to get my physical copies of [DON'T] Kiss Your Friends to people who I think would enjoy it.

Many people were excited to get a zine, looked at the cover and the title, and started laughing loudly. I hope they relate to it and get worse.
A picture of a digital zine. The text reads, "Perform military exercises. Rattle Sabers." Below it is a drawing of bulls fighting head-to-head.
August 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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In my next step in building my Designersona, I have commissioned my lovely friend (@youdogoodwork on instagram) to make me a LOGO!

With a cute little mushroom with spots that look like DICE! AAAAA! I'm so excited to have an image that is MINE and represents ME. Branding is fun, actually?
A logo for the designer Sporian Games. It depicts a red mushroom with white spots that look like dice. The mushroom has a feminine face. Surrounding the mushroom, in cartoony text, is "Sporian games" in yellow.
July 29, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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I wasn't planning on bringing anything to gencon but the itch disaster has made me realize I want my games in as many places as possible.

If you're at #gencon next week and want a FREE copy of my poem-game [DON'T] KISS YOUR FRIENDS, tell me! I have 55.

It made @noroadhome.bsky.social go "ough"
A pile of constructed zines for a game titled "[DON'T] Kiss Your Friends, a roleplaying game by Sporian." In the background, a cat lurks.
July 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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An excerpt from my name list. Red ones have been used already.
July 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Conversation about dice I just had with @aura-autumn.bsky.social made me think about a document I'm working on about Saul and David and the tension between characters who have been forced into narrative positions against each other.
What does dice really do, when you've been doomed to a certain end?
The painting David and Saul, made with oil on canvas by Ernst Josephson. A shirtless young man with long curled brown hair plays a lyre before a king wrapped in silk and wearing gold jewelry. The king looks disturbed, holding his forehead in his hand.
June 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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The art I've made didn't appear wholesale. It was a work of labor, that needed tools and effort and above all, a place to make it. That's why I tell people what lands I've made something on. Attached are some of my Conditions of Creation sections. I think you should try it, if you make something.
Black text on a beige background, reading: Conditions of Creation: NOT THE SAME PEOPLE was written and designed on a desktop computer, using Google Docs, GIMP, and Scribus. It was completed in a single night. The art (which is Waiting for the Train. Level Crossing by Roskilde Highway (1914) by Laurits Andersen Ring), was found on Artvee and is public domain. The game was completed on the ancestral unceded lands of the Lummi and Nooksack peoples, of which stewardship has not been returned. Green text on a beige background, reading: Conditions of Creation:[DON'T] Kiss your Friends was written and designed on both a laptop and a desktop computer, using Google Docs and Paint.NET. It was completed in the author's spare time while in graduate school. The game was completed on the ancestral unceded lands of the Lummi and Nooksack peoples, of which stewardship has not been returned. Black text on a white background, reading: Conditions of Creation: Agent of the Register was written and designed on a laptop, using Google Docs and Scribus. It was completed in the author's spare time while working a part-time retail job. The game was completed on the ancestral unceded lands of the Lummi and Nooksack peoples, of which stewardship has not been returned.
June 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
sporian.bsky.social
So I received a comment about something that I do on my work and I'd love to talk about it.

I was asked why my most recent work, Trembling and Bewildered, had a section on the page titled "Conditions of Creation." I answered it there, but I'd love to talk about it more while showing off. #ttrpg
White text on a blue background, which says: Conditions of Creation: Trembling and Bewildered was written and designed on a desktop computer, using Google Docs, GIMP, and Scribus. It was completed over the author's spare time while working. The art (which is Gustave Doré's Christ Coming Out of the Tomb and Master of the Egmont Albums's Christ’s Empty Tomb after the Resurrection, with Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene at the Right (ca. 1600) ), was found on Artvee and is public domain. The game was completed on the ancestral unceded lands of the Lummi and Nooksack peoples, of which stewardship has not been returned. A comment section of a store page with a blue background and white text. The first comment says, "Why is there an entire section on "Conditions of Creation." If you just wanted to give yourself accreditation, just show-up the licensing terms within the read itself." The second comment, written by Sporian and replying to the first, says, "Put simply, I saw a section like it at the end of a book I was reading and liked it. I think it's nice to know not how an author made something, both when they made it and what resources were used to make it. I like it as a way to tell people what kinds of work were put into my pieces."
June 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM