CJ Tucker

Can’t wait to check this game out! I love games that encourage taking a different perspective of our world.

The IPR What's Hot list. #5 is Lighthouse at the End of the World and #10 is VOID 1680 AM.

Folks... we simply love to be in @ipr.bsky.social's What's Hot list TWICE, don't we

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Hello again, tabletop RPG designers! The second Bannerless Games Tabletop RPG Grant is now taking applications!

I'm looking to award up to 10 grants at $200 apiece.

Applications open until the end of the month. Apply here: bannerless.games/grants

Borrowers Dungeon Crawl is based on Tunnel Goons by Nate Treme, with art from my lovely partner @pendularsand.bsky.social!

The game Borrowers Dungeon Crawl placed inside a plant pot. On the cover, beneath the title, is an illustration of a light-skinned person. They have short hair and a hood, on one hand rests a large moth, and on their belt is a large pair of embroidery scissors. Beneath the illustration is the subtitle: "A Tiny Game About Tiny People by CJ Tucker"

My submission to the #1pRPGJam is Borrowers Dungeon Crawl, a tiny game about tiny people. Play as tiny people sneaking into human houses in this foldie zine that fits in the palm of your hand! Check the game out at crackerjackalope-games.itch.io/borrowers-du...

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

Some of the fun APs I got to paint at Commandfest Bonn :333

This is incredible

Digital illustration of a satyr. He holds a twisted branch of a staff, it's wrapped in red plaid scraps of material, and has plants (ivy, rosemary, mint, and mistletoe) and bottles hanging from its crooked top. He wears a cream woolly jumper, and a green tunic over the top. It's held together at his waist with multiple belts, straps, and twine. His goat legs are cream coloured, with black splotches at the knees. He smiles, and his eyes are covered with a curtain of a black fringe. He has brown curved ram horns, and a white crop of curly hair.

commission for @noclouds.bsky.social of his adorable satyr ranger archie! #dnd

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity.

"What service is Microsoft providing?"

Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

Yeah definitely! This is my first time putting it into words and it's giving me ideas for the logistics of it all - entering would involve giving a download key for the game so the person who gets you can read it fully

You are the Dungeon by TheOtherTracy Send them to their doom. Never stop growing.

You Are the Dungeon.

You are eternal and ever-growing.
They venture into your depths to plunder and loot.
They will leave, never to be the same again.
They will never forget you:

theothertracy.itch.io/you-are-the-...

Been thinking recently about like- a TTRPG secret Santa game jam or something. Kinda inspired by artfight, everyone enters one of their systems and is then given another system to make a supplement for

A lino print on handmade paper. Nosferatu scuttles along carrying his coffin, a number of rats scuttle along with him.

A close-up of the previous lino prints. A pot of printing ink is just visible in the top part of the image.

The finished cut piece of lino used to make the print.

One of my favourite uncanny images from Nosferatu (Murnau & Herzog) is Orlok scuttling through Wisburg by night with his prized box of dirt. Decided to make that the subject of my latest lino print! 'Night Sneaker' will be available in the shop from midday on Thursday...
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love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics.

IG nytimes

I’m in my shiny era and Jarlaxle is too

Updating my spreadsheet

Painting of a tiny blue acrylic duck

Painting of three tiny acrylic ducks. One green, one yellow, one pinky orange.

Acrylic ducks in gouache.

mock cover of my zine with an Elder Thing, a deep one, ythian, migo, brain cylinder and shoggoth.

One day I will do a second edition of my Cosmic Crawl zine, one day...

The perfect eldritch adventuring party:

genus lepus
#art #zigzart

2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me. "Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines. We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes. It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.

Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation:

Dog with pipe in mouth (1875) attributed to the Minnesota Historical Society. A sepia toned photo of a fluffy white dog sitting on a table with a pipe in their mouth.

you KNOW this picture killed in 1875. people were busting the fuck up at a dog with a pipe. dogs don’t smoke

Nintendo released a survey asking for feedback on physical and digital games.

This is definitely the chance to make your voice heard about Switch 2 Game Key Cards.

Source: theWellRedMage

Survey: nintendoofamerica.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The Parade - Gouache, 2024
An illustration I made for a sale at Gallery 9e Art, and ended up as their 2025 Ex-Libris :)

Black and white page border illustration with nature and folksy motifs and 10 page dividers with matching vibes.

A new freebie fresh out of the oven. Just for you.
✨Free for personal and commercial use ✨
(Not to be used alongside AI slop, cuz fuck that shit)
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the good luck booth looking resplendent at gen con!

it’s the last day of gen con! swing by booth 564 to lighten me and @gilarpgs.bsky.social’s load, or just to say hi! we’ve also got preview copies of PLASMODICS and @smolghost.bsky.social’s UNDERNEATH. swing thru!

Oh, love it! I was actually thinking about something similar a couple months back

📃 new zine 📃
made a zine about a walking game i've been playing on my own quite a lot, it's called eavesdrop poetry. (1/2)

you can download it from the link below
fuzul.itch.io/eavesdrop-po...

a page pulled from an old book, with a variety of words boxed and connected together. the rest of the page is covered up by metallic purple marker.

a handwritten version of the poem, untangling the words from the page before. it reads: season self when the whole world changes, i realize that my sense of self is a magical thing, my human heart finding an opening in the years of fear i'd brought into my life. with the discovery of a deep expression of energy, i perceive my self as fully new. for: rowan!

my first poem commission, woohoo! thank you to @zinesbyrowan.bsky.social for commissioning me! :) they requested something hopeful, with seasons changing, and i wrote this piece called "season self". get your own poem from me here! -> ko-fi.com/c/60494ba605