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Collin J Ryan

@collinjryan.bsky.social

I design videogames and TTRPGs. Congenital relaxer, notorious yellow afficionado, also I like food

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this is how it works in the mech game I'm working on! you're all ace pilots so why have stats for that, let's hear about what kind of expensive thrusters you're rockin on that bad boy

13.11.2025 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

fair. id rather be exhausted than have 3 hrs of audio to scrub thru tho

11.11.2025 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Does everybody else get absolutely exhausted after running a playtest? GMing is a brain-drain as it is, being in design mode on top of that is rough

I crashed at 9pm last night lmao

10.11.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You poke and assist and ask the perfect questions to make it happen!

09.11.2025 08:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

05.11.2025 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 47104    πŸ” 8194    πŸ’¬ 252    πŸ“Œ 221

This is a real part of why I like doing it the traditional Chinese way

04.11.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Halloween as Momo and Okarun from Dan Dan Dan πŸ–€πŸ‘»πŸ‘½

03.11.2025 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

fight me!

03.11.2025 06:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

or: how much roleplaying can a boardgamer tolerate

27.10.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

LLLLLLLLLetsss go

26.10.2025 02:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

so far the literal only thing I've found a use for is pulling vocals out of obscure ass songs so I can karaoke over them

24.10.2025 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cyphernoided2600 by Storygames Chicago A cyberpunk game of paranoia and cybernetics.

In neon across your vision, injected into /self/eyes/ad.socket

"Zine on itch, zine on itch. Get. This. Zine. On. Itch."

A short, brutal cyberpunk game for two

Fight the impossibly powerful, not that you can win, but it's all you have left

storygameschicago.itch.io/cyphernoided...

#ttrpg #zine

23.10.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Vesta Mandate by Storygames Chicago Hard sci-fi, political thriller TTRPG set on the Tense Powder Keg of Vesta Station

If you missed us at Gamehole Con but wanna check out #VestaMandate our release sale will be running for two more days!

Check it out along with all our other games, here on our Itch!

storygameschicago.itch.io/vesta-mandate

20.10.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Love seeing the Brandon Johnson clip calling for a nationwide general strike getting some traction, really wish he'd stuck a date on there. Hopefully folks can rally around one regardless

20.10.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

its interesting watching people work out in real time that frictionless peaceful demonstrations are very easy to ignore regardless of size. Still worthwhile just as a way to get people involved but actual change requires us to be so difficult and annoying that people lose money

20.10.2025 04:52 β€” πŸ‘ 308    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

yyeeeeessss join the 3 monitor sickos

20.10.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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me after i locked eyes with the Game Hole

20.10.2025 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

one bladder after another

16.10.2025 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

lol that's the pic you chose huh

fr tho say hi to us on your way to the food trucks!!

16.10.2025 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

donnas slaps. makes a niiiiiice miche too

16.10.2025 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

13.10.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 9126    πŸ” 1758    πŸ’¬ 114    πŸ“Œ 56

Question for people in the #TTRPG community: What're the best ways to accommodate accessibility when releasing a new game?

Is it best to have a straight .txt file? Or are things like .doc and .docx better for using text to speech and other accessibility tools?

10.10.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

his "What!?" at the end cracks me up

06.10.2025 04:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Gamestorm | Storygames Chicago Gamestorm is a podcast all about tabletop game design! Join us for our first season as we bring on guests from here in the Chicago area, spin a random prompt and design a game based off of it over the...

If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the first five episodes of Gamestorm and their accompanying games!

The sixth and seventh episode are a touch delayed but they should be coming soon!

gamestorm.podbean.com

26.09.2025 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'd miss Mexican food SO much, but it'd have to be done

17.09.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

99% of the culture war from the right is them going out of their way to look at stuff that they don’t need to look at that just ends up making them mad

09.09.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4891    πŸ” 491    πŸ’¬ 99    πŸ“Œ 29

oo curious where you feel the miss was there!

07.09.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Gamestorm | Storygames Chicago Gamestorm is a podcast all about tabletop game design! Join us for our first season as we bring on guests from here in the Chicago area, spin a random prompt and design a game based off of it over the...

If you haven't checked it out yet, go listen to my new podcast about game creation, Gamestorm!

We have 4 of 7 episodes out in the first season and I hope to do many more seasons! Share it with a friend who might like it or check out the Itch.io for a look at the games!

gamestorm.podbean.com

29.08.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

its trippy how prerendered game cinematic this looks

17.08.2025 08:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Co-opt Existing Board Game Pieces - Jesse B. Miller | Gamestorm In our second episode Jesse and I tackle the idea of co-opting the pieces of existing games to build an RPG, similar to games like Dread and its iconic use of a Jenga tower. Join us as we talk about e...

The second episode of Gamestorm is out now!

Check it out if you liked the first or haven't taken a listen yet. Share it with a friend if you know someone who might like it!

gamestorm.podbean.com/e/co-opt-exi...

13.08.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

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