🪰 Hatched Games - GAST March 13th on BackerKit

If this sounds like you, shoot your shot!

Building up a database of artists/illustrators (especially BIPOC and minority) to reach out to for future collabs/paid work! Looking for anyone who loves drawing horror, folklore, and dark fairy tales, as I've a few things coming up in that field. 💀🪦

Interested? Drop those links and examples below!

Scopaethesia (GAST soundtrack) Jolene Khor · Scopaethesia (GAST soundtrack) · Song · 2025

I'm happy and excited to share that the music I composed for @hatchlingdm.itch.io GAST is now available on all streaming platforms:
Scopaethesia (GAST Soundtrack)
Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/4GQufO...

Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/album/sco...

YouTube: youtu.be/Bb-rAXVgN1o?...

Stay tuned for further information on our upcoming live series!

To give you a taste; you can expect ABSURDIA by @quinnmajeski.bsky.social and GAST by @hatchedgames.bsky.social to complete our year!

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR CONSTANT SUPPORT SEE YOU THIS FALL

Surprise! 🙌💛🥹

I've been working with @hatchlingdm.itch.io for a while now, and adore this team and the games they write. I am SO honoured to get to be a part of it and look forward to working on the INCREDIBLE games we're fulfilling, as well as those yet to come.

And boy....do we have plans 👀🤩

Kat (she/they) has worked closely with us over the years as a writer on various projects, co-designer for Argo-0, and co-founder of Hatched Games. She also has a lot of experience in game facilitation, production (most recently with AP channel StoryWeave Productions) and project management, and is looking forward to getting stuck in! When she’s not immersed in tabletop games, Kat enjoys horror, folklore and myth, and a nice cup of tea!

Delighted to be welcoming @loremistress93.bsky.social to Hatchlings Games as our new Creative Lead. We’re over the moon to be adding such a skilled and passionate designer, writer, and content creator to the team. Kat will truly help this small ttrpg publisher push on to greater heights!

If you liked Token, my dark fairytale duet game, you’re going to love Bog Berries, a solo folk-horror game I’m almost finished writing for GAST from @hatchedgames.bsky.social!

This game also ends with different epilogues depending on how your journey brought you to encounter a monstrous guardian.

UNDERISLES: Roleplaying with Sign Language The award-winning RPG trilogy concludes. Learn British & American sign language as you play!

And we’re live!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/tat...

Preorders are now available for the GAST #ttrpg horror zine collection!

Pick up the box sets + any additional zines from our guest writers @tgimenezrgm.itch.io @mirror-lock.bsky.social & @finleyjinley.bsky.social. The deluxe box also features a game from @glowingroots.bsky.social!

Link below ⬇️

Hello! I'm Kat (she/they), a bi designer, writer, content creator and AP performer/facilitator! I love horror and folklore and my latest projects include an adventure for @threesailsstudios.bsky.social's Mappa Mundi, and being a part of @hatchedgames.bsky.social!

linktr.ee/loremistress93

LASTLY we'll be jumping into GAST, the upcoming horror zine collection from @hatchedgames.bsky.social

Keeping this one in the family with TWO solo adventures from @grantorwhatever.bsky.social and @zoupmachine.bsky.social

Pre-order GAST: Horror Zine Collection on BackerKit Season One of GAST: A collection of solo folk horror RPGs.

gast.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

Preorders are now available for the GAST #ttrpg horror zine collection!

Pick up the box sets + any additional zines from our guest writers @tgimenezrgm.itch.io @mirror-lock.bsky.social & @finleyjinley.bsky.social. The deluxe box also features a game from @glowingroots.bsky.social!

Link below ⬇️

Absolutely humbled and so encouraged by the INCREDIBLE funding response and support we had for this project. We made over 7 times what we initially wanted to, and GAST is something we are so very excited to bring to this space!

Thank you friends 💛

Padlock

Thanks to everyone who backed GAST, spread the word, and made the last couple of weeks such a fun ride! We didn’t quite manage to unlock that final stretch goal, but we’re so encouraged by the response to our debut project.

GAST is alive!

Backer train let’s goooooooo!

I’m so proud 😭😭💛

5 minutes left! Hurry!

Every increase on anything pledged, even £1, extends the Backer Train by an extra ten minutes!

Every increase on anything pledged, even £1, extends the Backer Train by an extra ten minutes!

10 mins! If 5 more people back at the £85 tier...

GAST: Horror Zine Collection Season One of GAST: A collection of solo folk horror RPGs.

We have TEN MINUTES left, and are £400 away! We've officially entered Backer Train territory! 🚂

It would be wonderful to reach the £15K stretch goal, but even managing 7 times the goal we set out to reach is INCREDIBLE and we are so thankful for every single person's support!

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A murky green swamp

A hand in filthy water

A basket full of purple and red berries

An imposing woman silhouetted in front of a roaring fire

Available physically ONLY in the deluxe box is...

BOG BERRIES
(@glowingroots.bsky.social)

Your wicked Aunt sent you for herbs and berries, and warned you to stay away from the bog. You disobeyed. Now, you must hope it will protect you from her cruel and twisted punishments...

A metal detector scanning the ground

A large hall on fire

Earthworms in the soil

A museum filled with artefacts and oddities

Our third core zine is...

UNDERSOIL
(@hatchlingdm.itch.io and @kessabrae.bsky.social)

It's an opportunity too good to pass up, and what harm can a few strange objects do? Surely, the disasters befalling the local community as you find more of them...are just a coincidence?

GAST: Horror Zine Collection Season One of GAST: A collection of solo folk horror RPGs.

GAST from @hatchedgames.bsky.social
A set of horror infused games using the Carta system, but also funds for a start-up of ‘seasons’, each with a different type of horror and SRD. Very excited for this one, especially with a future season being devoted to my favorite sub-genre, gothic horror!

Pocketopia is ending in a few hours, and if you haven’t already, you should definitely check it out! It’s about portable, easy to learn games, and includes extra rewards for backing two partnered projects, as well as a dice bag for backing 6 of them. Here’s a 🧵 of the ones I found most interesting:

Why DO we bargain with our children’s teeth, when dealing with the fair folk…? 🦷🐀🪙

👀 @sateenbonnet.bsky.social frieeennnddddd

A hand holding a pile of teeth

A rat screeching

A shadowed woman at the end of the bed

A coin in the dirt

Next up?

TAND FÉ
(@loremistress93.bsky.social)

Every night she comes, and every heads that you flip on her coin costs you more of your teeth. You only have thirty two to give. Then, she’ll want your soul…

A taxidermied fox with a skull poking out, sitting in the forest

And old, large, gothic manor

A cassette player labelled ‘Play Me’

A shovel buried in the ground at night

First up…

PRESERVATION TAPES
(@hatchlingdm.itch.io and @kessabrae.bsky.social)

After discovering cassette tapes in your late grandmother’s house, you must attempt to restore a rotting cadaver…