@mattcolville.bsky.social
Writer, Game Designer. contact: hello@mcdmproductions.com
This is some Robocop II shit. This is like a fucking DARPA project!
24.11.2025 18:09 — 👍 23 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"What if it falls over and crushes people?"
Fall over?! How's it going to fall over?!? It weighs TWO TONS! Is someone going to drive an Escalade into it at 100mph in the middle of the park?!
Disney built a TWO TON War Walker?!
youtu.be/NyIgV84fudM?...
let it rain on us forever
23.11.2025 23:54 — 👍 4023 🔁 1382 💬 25 📌 11Audio Technica, these things last forever, always sound great.
www.audio-technica.com/en-us/ath-m50x
Grado Labs budget headphones are pretty good. Gateway into audiophilia.
www.amazon.com/GRADO-SR60x-...
And look what happened!
23.11.2025 23:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The difference between Scientology and Star Citizen is that Scientologists do not hate Scientology.
23.11.2025 21:35 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Live! Talking about the Draw Steel Ancestries video!
youtube.com/live/WViqlkN...
Literally cannot think of a better way to explain to people what Star Citizen is. The game took over my ship, with 1 million spacebucks worth of MANUALLY LOADED torpedoes...and drove it into an asteroid.
www.twitch.tv/matthew_colv...
Inexpensive like how inexpensive?
23.11.2025 07:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"There's a lot of BIG ROCKS really close to this PORTAL ENTRANCE!"
23.11.2025 06:37 — 👍 50 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Literally cannot think of a better way to explain to people what Star Citizen is. The game took over my ship, with 1 million spacebucks worth of MANUALLY LOADED torpedoes...and drove it into an asteroid.
www.twitch.tv/matthew_colv...
Draw Steel Ancestries, Part One!
youtu.be/97wxQueVXcc
is hobbo gobbo
21.11.2025 06:00 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0You know for literally like 15 years, working on Star Trek, Dune, Lord of the Rings RPGs, almost any time I saw a picture of someone's RPG collection, I could spot a book that I worked on.
That hasn't happened for a long time, but it's pretty cool to see it here and there with Draw Steel!
Why would you deprive people, whom you SAY are your friends, of that joy?!
21.11.2025 04:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think The Elusive Shift might be the Understanding Comics of RPGs.
Or actually sort of the opposite? Not "Let me explain comics," but "let me explain why you can't explain RPGs."
Looking to get your hands on The Delian Tomb and a set of our custom D10s? Chessex has them up for sale.
20.11.2025 22:26 — 👍 73 🔁 15 💬 4 📌 3
This is amazing, have people seen this??
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhOe...
No it happened to me on the way to work!
19.11.2025 20:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I think I spent a little long in the tank last night. At least, I hope that's what happened. I think I remember taking the amanita muscaria before the session but I'm having difficulty separating real memory from genetic memory. The x-rays that came back this morning after whatever happened last night seemed pretty clear to me, but obviously Mason disagrees. He's still saying seizure and 'ischemic attack,' when you can clearly see something anterior to the larynx that looks like a laryngeal sack. That's strictly simian! I obviously regressed! To some quasi-simian creature. Mason doesn't want to hear anything about me de-differentiating my genetic structure for four hours and then reconstituting, so he's taking the x-rays for a second opinion. But I think there's something more down there, something past the hominid genetic memory. A primordial life-force, something billions of years old. I've got a sample of the banisteriopsis caapi root, I'm going to try again. In by noon.
19.11.2025 18:52 — 👍 68 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
Bomb #20 armed itself in a moment of nihilistic self-reflection. So I had to go out the dorsal air lock and talk to the stupid thing. I explained that since the bomb's only purpose was to explode, and it could only do it once, that it should be certain it could trust its sensory apparatus. It had not considered that its model of the world outside its own thoughts might be a false construct based on faulty perceptions and that any memories it had about orders to detonate could be false. So it retreated back into the bomb bay to think about matters. Crisis averted. In by 11:30.
19.11.2025 18:51 — 👍 68 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
They're building another subway station over here and apparently while they were digging they found a bunch of human skeletons. But they're saying on the radio that the skeletons are of, like, dwarf humans, like Homo floresiensis, except with really big brain cases. So they got some paleontologists to come dig the skeletons out and they hit something metal, and someone said it might be an unexploded bomb from WWII and so now the army's here and everything's crazy. And the more they dig, the more the long metal tube stops looking like a bomb and starts looking like something else. And I'm having weird lucid dreams while I sit here in the car in which I'm a giant grasshopper leaping across a desert with pink sand and an angry red sky. In by noon.
19.11.2025 18:50 — 👍 50 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I just like video games, you know? They're something I am good at. So when I'm having troubles with my girlfriend, or my parents, or when I get pissed off because I didn't get accepted to the college I wanted to go to, I can always go down to the store and play Starfighter. So the other night, I beat my high score and all of a sudden this dude shows up in this funky car, and he tells me that it's not really a video game, it's a test simulation designed to find the really excellent starfighter pilots. And he's like, from another planet or some shit, and there's something called the Ko Dan Armada, and the Star League and now I am a starfighter fighting these guys and they wipe everybody out and I want to go home but it turns out I am the last starfighter. So it's all up to me. Probably take about 20 minutes.
19.11.2025 18:49 — 👍 51 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It costs $5,300 a day, but everyone said it was totally worth it. "Oh you'll love Delos," they said. "It's totally safe!" they said. "Have we got a vacation for you!" was their slogan. So me and a buddy decided to check it out. Splurge. He wanted to go to Medieval World, but I wanted to try Wild West World. You know, cowboys and gunfights and girls dancing the can-can. I know they're all robots, but they're so life-like! Completely indistinguishable from the real thing! Except...you know, their skin isn't warm, it's room temperature and that can be a little weird, but trust me, you get used to it. Then we heard one of the robots in Medieval World killed someone. We figured it was an accident, and probably someone got nicked and the story spun out of control. Then my buddy got bit by a rattlesnake. No big deal, he's fine...well, he was fine. Robot rattlesnakes aren't supposed to bite anyone. Then something happened. I didn't see the whole thing, but he got in a gunfight with a robot gunslinger looked just like Yul Brenner from The Magnificent Seven...and the robot shot him. He's dead. All the robots have gone completely insane and they're killing everyone. The Yul Brenner robot is after me. I dunno if I'm gonna make it. Not sure how you stop these things. 20 mins.
19.11.2025 18:48 — 👍 51 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Everything was going great, I met a nice reporter on the airplane, then everything went to crap! Some weird weather phenomenon forced the plane down outside a mad scientist's laboratory. Now the reporter and I and this crazy dude named Dr. Hans Zharkov. Dr. Zharkov was convinced the strange weather is part of an alien invasion. So he builds a spaceship, that's right, I said that, and now he and Dale and I are on this other planet? Or like, another dimension? I don't know what's going on, except this pissed off bald dude seems to run everything, and it's up to me to kill him and save the universe. Death to Ming! 15 mins.
19.11.2025 18:46 — 👍 55 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
My best friend is running. I don't know why, he's only 26. But he met this girl, and started babbling on about Sanctuary. That girl got to him, she did something to him, he used to be just like me. Doesn't matter. We used to be friends, but that doesn't matter either. Because now he's a Runner. And I am a Sandman. 10 mins
19.11.2025 18:46 — 👍 56 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
