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Another #Unveiled #Game with @morefunwith.games a #TemporaryAutonomousPoetryZone experimental psychogeographic #poetry #game for #PushTheBoatOut #Festival FREE to #play this weekend at the #Pleasance #Edinburgh pushtheboatout.org/events/tempo... #Scotland #Games #Immersive #Poems #UnveiledGames

Picture of Edinburgh from drone overlooking Canongate Kirl towards Pentland stylised to look like an inverted photo negative, all white with purple accents. Text top left say Temporary Autonomous Poetry Zone in cutout kidnap note style letter with similar text saying - A Flotsam Flourish top right. Botton left is black rectangle with red zx spectrum style pixel text saying morefunwith.games and an X in aforementioned font then the blue and whiteish Push The Boat Out poetry festival logologo

November 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM

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ABS

@abs.ventures

Here's something from the #future 'Next stop #Nor'Bridge followed by #NewNor'Loch. Disembark here for #TheCastle, #HalfMile and #TheRemnants.. #MindTheGap between #Ferry and #Lighthouse' last and definitely not least did I mention the #book has gone in a #TimeCapsule in the #NorthBridge #Edinburgh!

Digitally altered image of Edinburgh in the future, a flooded area is straddled by the North Bridge which has a Lighthouse, wind ship, wind mill etc text says 'Next stop Nor' Bridge followed by New Nor' Loch. Disembark here for The Castle, Half Mile and The Remnants.. Mind the gap between Ferry and Lighthouse

October 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM

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@abs.ventures

I did all the #collage #CutAndPaste #art #remixing #publicdomain images with my own #drawings & #photos here's something from the #past a close up of a section from A Perspective View of the Bridge and Register-Office Edinburgh, c.1800 see if you can spot what I added 😀

Cropped detail image of black and white drawing View of the North Bridge and Robert Adam's Register House, c.1800

J Donaldson and J Phillips - scanned from a facsimile of an old print

A Perspective View of the Bridge and Register-Office Edinburgh, c.1800 it has detail of the side of the bridge with arches, small human figures in bottom right and a digitally added giant tambourin playing monkey in one of the arches in the centre

October 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM

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ABS

@abs.ventures

I also made an #Absacus Universale Ludus Mutante #rpg rosetta stone style translation device if you like it let me know! #Argaxian #StewBum #Gallous #Reekin #Glaikit #GangTaeFreuchieAnFryMice

Gilt picture frame edge to pic with hackground pattern repeated image of The old North Bridge,bfrom the west, with Calton Hill in the background, in 1829

Thomas Hosmer SHEPHERD (c.1810 to c.1842)

"NORTH BRIDGE CALTON HILL &c FROM THE BANK OF SCOTLAND", from Modern Athens then a title of Absacus Universale Ludus Mutante then 3 columns % Argaxian and Bridge Bricolage with numbers and words depending on column acting as an rpg rosetta stone style translation device

October 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM

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ABS

@abs.ventures

My #game #dossier is a series of #story & #adventure prompts for role playing games & playful creative provocation suitable for anyone seeking #stimulation, #FirFaeEyesOnly a #TimeTravel #trip through #Edinburgh past to future with #fantastic #fae #magic twists mixed with real #history #ttrpg #rpg

Sepia toned image of old Edinburgh likely City of Edinburgh

Thomas Annan, c. 1856 - in or before 1866## with Scott Monument, National Art Gallery, North Bridge and Waverley Bridge etc, digitally added to picture is monsters and magical creatures around various places and diagonally across picture in black typewriter font is Fir Fae Eyes Only

October 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM

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@abs.ventures

Hey tomorrow I'm part of the #NorthBridge: Where We Travelled #Book #Launch #Celebration
Sat 25 Oct 2025 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Charteris Centre, EH8 9RR #Edinburgh courtesy of the amazing @jedapearl.bsky.social Tickets www.tickettailor.com/events/jedap... come along, buy a book I wrote a #Game for it!

Image of headshots of story authors and readers for North Bridge Edinburgh anthology launch event

October 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM

Unveiled Games

@unveiledgames.bsky.social

A fantastic time at the #Scottish Historical #Heritage & Gamification workshop at the #EdinburghUniversity historyandgames.shca.ed.ac.uk Lab last week, lots to ponder and some great connections made between games designers, academics & industry. #Games #GamesDesign #History #Scotland #TTRPG #RPG

Image of 2 six sided dice, white with black spots on top of white paper with black text of rules, a character sheet of The Clerk in teh background, picture of an old style man in a clerks robe, stats listed below the painting image

May 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM

Unveiled Games

@unveiledgames.bsky.social

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) - as accessibility.day pithily puts it 'The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access/inclusion and people with different disabilities' #Accessibility #GAAD