#all for the game aesthetic

[saurielle]

❝ — Ненавижу тебя.

— Девять процентов от всего времени не ненавидишь.

— Девять процентов от всего времени я не хочу тебя убить. А ненавижу я тебя всегда.

— Чем чаще ты это говоришь, тем меньше я тебе верю. ❞

Don’t use without credit.

[aftg-rot]

so you think you like all for the game

[bl00dfroma-fairy]

[prokopetz]

It's actually kind of striking how tightly wedded most major genres of tabletop RPGs are to the decades when they were popularised.

Trad fantasy tabletop RPGs – even those that aren't positioned as revivalist – are so intent on emulating the sword and sorcery literature of the 1970s that the only reason they don't come off as quaintly nostalgic is because nobody reads sword and sorcery anymore.

Cyberpunk tabletop RPGs are, at this point, essentially an exercise in retrofuturism, endlessly polishing a vision of what people in the 1980s thought the year 2015 would look like.

Urban fantasy tabletop RPGs might include smartphones and electric cars in their equipment tables and mention 9/11 in their lore chapters, but culturally and aesthetically, most of them are taking place in a world where the 1990s never ended.

I don't mean this as a criticism – I'm just fascinated with how this tendency is so strong that, for example, a brand new urban fantasy RPG written in the year 2024 is liable to end up being a 1990s period piece at heart even when that was 100% not the author's intention, simply through the inertia of the medium's well-established tropes.

I'm mostly curious what the characteristic tabletop RPG genre of the 2020s is going to end up being thirty or forty years from now, and I hope I live long enough to find out!

[naaattie]

It's almost HALLOWEEN!! Grab Party on Hallow Grove while it's still 10% off at Steam Scream Fest!

It's a Halloween, pixel art adventure about throwing the grim reaper the best birthday party EVER!! Talk to quirky characters, trade party items, and quite possibly... SAVE THE WORLD?!?!

I hope you guys enjoy Party on Hallow Grove! Now 10% off!

Happy Halloween!!!

[televisionenjoyer]

Your plan? Getting everybody safe? That's good, okay, but it won't last forever.

Supernatural as a visual novel — 15x18 "Despair"

Based on my merlin as a visual novel gifsets.

ok so like. i have a lot of thoughts about all this. about what spn would look like as a game, about my creative process and whatnot so I'll put that on a reblog.

[mantimae]

Breaking news!! Local mall teens loiter and buy NOTHING.

Bonus bg pic bc Steph’s hair covered it all lol (I didn’t put a whole lotta effort in the bg lines but the lighting was fun and I wanted to show it off <3)

[you-know-i-get-itt]

aaron minyard is trying sooo hard to live his best dark academia life. he has a vaguely secret girlfriend who he hangs out with in the library and he has family issues and deals with his brother that he can't break but also can't keep. there's so much inner turmoil and so much gentle pushing of the boundaries, and then, in true dark academia fashion, a mysterious famous stranger who's obsessed with history (among other things) turns up and sets the story in motion. the aesthetic is going so well!

and then neil fucking josten shows up with the mafia on his heels and now his entire life is stickball. fucking fantastic

[nineties-effect]

[palmettoshenanigans]

I fucking- I can't find it right now, but whichever one of you motherfuckers said Andrew's 'lack of control' was actually just intentionally calculated releases of pressure, that he was always in control when he lashed out because he lashed out in very specific and measured degrees - every single 'too far' was always 'just enough', its just no one else saw the raging volcanic inferno brewing just beneath the floorboards cus they were too distracted by how ear piercing the sound of the tea kettle going off was-

You're so sexy and I love you, but I wanna respond to you in spirit cus I can't find your post babes

We love 'biblically accurate' and 'devil's sacrament' as religious phrases yea? Well, my favorite (aside from 'heated fellowship', a black christian euphemism for fucking nasty) happens to be to 'know' or more specifically to 'know biblically', another word/phrase for fucking someone nasty.

stay with me this is going somewhere i promise pack a bag if you must

The interpretation I was raised with was that sexual intimacy was so vulnerable and exposing of one's most inner authenticity (that which apparently only God had such access to) that sex could make someone Know and See you the way Christ did (yadda yadda, "only fuck other Christians cus they'll be saved and sanctified enough to honor that blessing", yadda yadda) ANYWAY

THE POINT IS

You ever have someone in your life who just,,, saw you? Like, they could take one look at you and just Intuit Through The Vibes that something was up? Like they could just feel your energy and knew what to do or say or whatever? The kind of person who could walk into a room where you're minding your own business, doing something mundane, and they take one cursory scan of your posture and immediately ask "What's wrong?" like,,, what??? why do you ask??? what do you mean 'you can tell', I'm not fucking doing anything???

The kind of being seen for who you are that just leaves you feeling kinda exposed and tender? The kind of thing that leaves you bereft and yearning if you've never experienced it before (or had but lost it) because it feels like everyone only likes different mirages of you?

Andrew and Neil are so Relationship Of All Time because they seemed to See and Know each other like that even before they started locking lips on rooftops.

When Neil said "I want to see you lose control", i'm imagining Andrew probably felt so naked and flayed because everyone assumed he was perpetually losing his grip. On his anger, on his sanity, on reality, on his control. But like,,, Op's Spirit Of Post Long Lost, you were so fucking right. Every bit of Andrew's behavior was carefully calculated and intentionally released packages of what was his True Inner Turbulence that he would never dare release out into the open because that's not a target he's willing to give anyone a chance at aiming for.

Out of control? Andrew hasn't been that since he was probably a tween.

But Neil had never been fooled. From cigarettes and airport pickups to cigarettes and rooftop altercations, not once had he fallen for the mirage.

Without ever having needed to touch him in that way, Neil Knew Andrew. Biblically.

And that's why Andrew simply had to engage him in heated fellowship.

[aftg-rot]

i had a dream, i got everything i wanted. not what you'd think, and if im being honest it might have been a nightmare.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

this has been a roller coaster of a design journey but finally I can present you: class swap artificer!adaine and rogue!fabian

[thehistorykev]

good boy, kevin?

(all images from pinterest)

[naaattie]

Party on Hallow Grove is OUT NOW! Available now on Steam, Itch.io and Gamejolt! Thank you so much to everyone who's followed development, and those who played the demo. I hope you enjoy this spooky, fun, whacky adventure game.

Happy halloween!

[front-facing-pokemon]

[bluegateway]

Baroque 1998