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Ironbound Shadows | Black Friday Creator Day 2025 by Cael! A sale by Cael!, 50% off Ironbound Shadows

Only 30 hours left on the current sale for Ironbound Shadows btw! #lancerRPG #ttrpg

Digital drawing of the artist's Shadowrun mage, Lorna, AKA Acheron. She is standing, holding a canine's skull above her head and smiling at the viewer. She wears baggy clothing: a grey sweater, a black jacket, and a black skirt with a slit in the side, showing her thigh. Her eyes are grey and her short hair is dyed teal.

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About a day and 15 hours left, maybe with your help we can reach the 5000$ threshold?
By my calculations if we have 150 people donating a dollar every hour we can get to it.

bro they had to be up way past their bed time when they made this 😂

YouTube video by 11dragonkid Intro to Blood Money, a Lancer HOMEBREW Supplement!

Blood Money, by Pigsriot, is a third party supplement for Lancer that dives into the fantasy of being a mercenary mech pilot, with the ability to pick your own fight and spending the profit on powerful reserves and construction of your upgrade-able motherbase!

I've got a creator day bundle too! You can get the whole lifetime collection for $37, or any of the individual games for half off! itch.io/s/170676/big... #indiegames #ttrpg

In Golden Flame Act 1 by Vex Werewolf

Hey, so it's Creator Day on itch, which means if you buy my book, I get every single cent of its sale. If you love big mechs and memorable characters trying to act normal in absurd situations, you'll love In Golden Flame!

vexwerewolf.itch.io/in-golden-fl...

Ironbound Shadows | Black Friday Creator Day 2025 by Cael! A sale by Cael!, 50% off Ironbound Shadows

Its Creator Day!!! In the spirit of giving, Ironbound Shadows is half off. Go buy my wild intrigue narrative and feed my delusions of grandeur 😊

#LancerRPG #ttrpg

Creator day sale! Itch is waiving their cut, so we put LT on sale with that 15% taken off.
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Shirtless On A Rooftop Quickstart: BAD EVENING | Creator Day Sale by JesterWorks A sale by JesterWorks, 50% off Shirtless On A Rooftop Quickstart: BAD EVENING

Creator day is here! Help me fund more art for SOAR by buying my games, my fully laid out quickstart is 50% off!
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Yeah, now in fairness its also because i've seen the use of those categories and they very much seem to be mostly made to APPLY them to people to explain why they don't agree with someone or don't like a system rather than as a genuine want to categorize things.

Its the assumption that a game either focuses on the story, or on playing well, or on feeling "real" that gets me really, a lot of games do a lot of all of that, in different ways, I do also think its just focused on rulesets doing one thing at a time and not more and that's a limiting view of it

Like an example is Outgunned, which people online love to call a narrative game/narrativist, and while it focuses on narrative (and to be honest, most games do, they just do so through different means) the dice reroll mechanic makes you think in terms of odds of doing better, in a very gamey way

its multilayered but the bigger one is arguably that it creates barriers between all of those like a game has to be one or the others, often some details about games are just kinda erased for these clarifications to work, like how systems definitely bounce back and forth on the mindset you need

I shit you not I once saw a blogpost with like "the gameist player prefers hard rules over imagination" and "the narrativist player doesn't like reading the rulebook" and its like come on man.

"This game is simulationist because it includes rules for hunger" what are we doing here.

Listen I understand that for some people its easier to imagine the world in this nice little cozy place where you can sort through people in broad categories with simple labels; but like in practice that VERY often falls apart and quickly ends up not being accurate

All of these blogposts and thinkpieces trying to categorize players in these convenient groups always feel like they're trying to categorize above being accurate, beyond play patterns I think looking at systems someone enjoys and going "yeah you're a gameist" is just weird tbh

Recent events have gotten me thinking about how I've started to call the process of categorizing broad ideas of play (narrativist/gameist/simulationist to name a few) as "Gamer Astrology" or "Gamer Phrenology" if i'm being unkind.

I think these labels suck and are not useful

My name is John Sega and let me tell you about how you’ll need to buy my epic new "fixed" game now

Do you want unnecessary cutscenes that add nothing to the game beyond a bit of fluff and they look out of place too? That new version is for you then

"I wonder what's going over on twitter"
How its going on twitter:

If you find an indie game you like, PLEASE talk about it on social media. You can make a developer go from being completely unknown to actually able to make money just by spreading the word.

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yoooooooo i'd love your perspective on it for sure!

The fact that itch posted this and not even an hour later I got a bunch of new sales proves how big it is when other people talk about your games.

It can literally be a life changing events.

When John Harper made a nice quote tweet about Breathless, hundreds of people looked at the game.

Wild

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Can you miss once?????

Good shit

Hornet bounces off a Chorus Bug's head, as a number of others all peer upwards. Hornet herself is framed by the Citadel, towers and structures all reaching into the sky as they surround her with barbs and lace. Silk follows her, gathered from the bug she just bonked in the head, as she raises one claw and readies her needle with the other.

GARAMA! #silksong

THE Team Up of 2025:

MY ARMS, YOUR HEARSE

Credits for Brent Porter (3D art lead) and Catherine Menabde (2D art lead) are shown here. There's a lengthy description of what they did, with a pastiche of various Demonschool characters underneath, messing around with a computer.

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.