(also: very funny that all i needed to push me past the design block on the Big Next Game was to start working on something different and smaller, to the point where i'm now up barking at the moon with excitement about both projects)
ok ok i've done as much as i can/should at this point i think. i need to throw it at other people and find out. exciting and frightening but gotta say it feels GOOD GOOD GOOD to be in the guts of a game again for the first time in some years
ok well as someone working on a game that may feature significantly more clay pipes than you ever wanted or imagined, i obviously have to immediately check this out based on the image alone
designing good actions for multiplayer is hard >:(
Following up from the greatest hits, #mintrecommends: Hidden Gems of the No ICE in Minnesota Bundle!
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A blue zine mockup for a game called Chord, the cover shows a morose face surrounded by piano keys and small creatures hopping around them.
CHORD is coming March 24, two player miniature capture the flag skirmish game played on a piano keyboard that generates ambient music while you play.
My first skirmish game release!
Pay what you want on itch and a few scrappy diy zines in my bag at adepticon.
now i just wanna make more of these little guys but today i have to fix player actions ahead of first playtest of the game proper which is tomorrowwww
handed some of these out at the pub yesterday and the good folks there immediately started rolling encounters, including an eel mermaid doing a heist and a pool-within-an-ocean fringed by giant barnacles. could not really have asked for better proof of concept
a range of ttrpg zines and booklets displayed in a vintage wooden cabinet
she's in good company
you can now pick one of these guys up for free in the Arcanist's Tavern in Shoreditch if you're in London!! copies of Tending also in stock 🌞🌛🌊🦎
a pile of postcards featuring a selection of collaged creatures and locations, all sea-themed
promotional postcards, but make them playable. the front is a d6 table. the back is a useable postcard with a 10-word rpg and a little qr code taking you to tori-truslow.itch.io/the-sea-arou...
@hilver.bsky.social chostie!! nice to see you again 💖
Picture shows a very sea-worn yellow Lego life raft on a white background. The life raft has been colonised by marine organisms, including tubeworms.
Another yellow Lego life raft has surfaced after nearly 29 years at the bottom of the sea. Back in 1997, 28,700 of these plummeted into the ocean when a shipping container with nearly five million pieces of Lego inside fell off the cargo ship Tokio Express, some 20 miles off Land's End.
please to not give in to despair. if you want to start somewhere you can help, a donation to Doctors Without Borders is a great place to start
Two greeting cards on a woven textile background: the top card is a pastel of two women, one dark-haired and one grey-haired, both wearing robes with tatreez, supporting each other against a sunset sky. The lower card is a black and white woodcut showing a hijabi woman carrying the Palestinian flag with Al-Aqsa in the background. Cards by Gazan artists for Palestine Festival of Literature.
I'll be at the Maktaba at Ibraaz today and tomorrow (Sat & Sun) if you're in London & need solace, company, books w a focus on the Middle East & North Africa, art, contemplative space & solidarity. We have zines & cards from Gaza.
93 Mortimer St, W1W, five mins from Oxford Circus, 11-6.
a variety of paper collage materials with an ocean theme and lots of blues and greens
some art playing/planning for a change of pace from fiddling with game mechanics. some of this will go into visual encounter tabels and some into the general visual design. I love this part 🌊🐠✂️
the art for Tending was fully digital collage and I had a great time with it but TSAU will be 100% analogue collage and I'm sooooo excited about it. cutting and sticking, my first love
a variety of paper collage materials with an ocean theme and lots of blues and greens
some art playing/planning for a change of pace from fiddling with game mechanics. some of this will go into visual encounter tabels and some into the general visual design. I love this part 🌊🐠✂️
drawing of a woman on a balcony, looking down at a huge mermaid-like creature. the street is covered in water and everything looks old and rundown
alleyway meet up
💙💙 it's wonderful. first published in 1951 so not all the science stands up, but it's luminous and so readable and there's some prescient climate stuff in there
mixed media journalling games my belovedddd
a digital collage with a pink, purple, green, yellow, and teal gradient overlaid on all the images. the images include a horse carrying a bucket, a cluster of mushrooms, a grub, a birds talon, a cicada, five spiders, two flower buds, a hand with an eye over the back of it, and a microscope slide of atoms. there is white text that reads "get weirder or die miserable." the background is black and there is a slightly grainy texture
get weirder 🫵
narrow brown and cream zine bound with black thread, titled “false spring”
closeup of a page with an abstract collage overprint
a pile of zines and postcards (what $10 subscribers receive this month)
zine opened to the last page, showing an abstract collage and snow texture on cream and russet paper
february 2026’s zine, « FALSE SPRING », inspired by a short period of warmer temperatures and walks in my neighborhood where i closely examined patterns of melting ice and snow, it’s an abstracted emotional exploration of life under federal occupation.
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hey thank you! incredible username also
thank you so much 🥹 some updates soon hopefully!!
This is an immediate must back for #ZineMonth, no exceptions, Tori Truslow makes INCREDIBLE games.
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i have a new project itchfunding now and would be thrilled if you took a look. GMless worldbuilding via the stories people tell about their oceans, from creation myths to adventure novels to sea-life documentaries: tori-truslow.itch.io/the-sea-arou...
genuinely made my day, thank you!!
Stephhhh 🥹💙
