#indie bundle

[boombox-fuckboy]

A heavily underutilised aspect of the digital landscape is the ability to send someone a .zip care package featuring a few podcasts, a handful of indie ttrpgs, a couple webcomics, a digital mixtape, and the .epub or .pdf for some book nobody's ever heard of.

[takataapui]

Outline is Aotearoa New Zealand's only mental health service serving only LGBTQIA+/queer/rainbow people. They're in desperate need of financial support, otherwise they'll have to close down.

If you'd like to help and get some cool games out of it, might I suggest this bundle on itch.io?

Includes such games as 'Earth Mother, Sky Father', by me, 'A Ritual to Show Love to the Trans Man in Your Life' by @breathing-stories, 'She's just not into me: a game of oblivious lesbian courtship' by Kelly Whyte, Monster Journal by @dungeonofthedragon and more!

Help out the queer people in Aotearoa New Zealand, and get cool stuff at the same time, win win!

[titanrpg]

TTRPGs for Palestine via Tiltify is now live! Get a bunch of my games and MUCH more for just a $15 donation.

Link: https://tiltify.com/@jesthehuman/ttrpgs-for-palestine

[thecoppercompendium]

TTRPGs For Palestine

I'll do a proper post when I'm not on my way to a con, but the itch bundle is out! Money raised goes to Medical Aid For Palestinians!

Loads of great games in here by a lot of very talented people supporting a good cause (I also submitted several of my games/creations to it)!

Get it here:

[ahcoffeebeans2]

moving fundraiser bundle!

COFFEE IS LEAVING THE STATE OF TEXAS!

Hello! My name is Coffee (they/them), and I'm trying to leave Texas for someplace better. However, that's really expensive. 

To cover those costs, I'm throwing a bundle. $3k would help me pay rent at the new and old apartment for a month, while also assisting me with rental fees and other additional expenses!

My current goal is $3,000!

This bundle features the creative talents of...

aglennco, caro asercion, devin decibel, gavin fregeau, matthew guzdial, gints halcejs, mynar lenahan, brendan mcleod, the medusa doctorine, anna murphy and rosetta puya-devine, cindi peters, jake pritchard, yuri runnel, solace gray, superbiasedgary, v for valensa, alice v, aaron voight, and myself - coffee!

The bundle includes 39 items that would normally cost $182.24 in total - for only $10! Ten bucks to own and play some of the best that indie gaming (ttrpg and otherwise) has to offer!

So go to https://itch.io/b/2708/coffees-moving-fundraiser to pick up a copy!

[the-cash-cache]

New TTRPG bundle live on itch.io! Fuck Funko

If you'll recall on December 9th, Funko's AI-garbage powered third-party BrandShield software issued an automated fraudulent phishing report against Itch.io, taking the site down for several hours.

As indie creators are reliant on large platforms and storefronts like these, they have little recourse when they're taken down, missing out on critical income. The Fuck Funko bundle is a great way to support indie designers!

[theresattrpgforthat]

hi! have you seen the TTRPGS for Palestine bundle yet? and do you have any recommendations from it

https://tiltify.com/@jesthehuman/ttrpgs-for-palestine

THEME: TTRPGS for Palestine

The TTRPGs for Palestine Bundle is going from April 12 to May 7, so there's not much time left to get it, but here's some recommendations of some really awesome games that you can find in it.

Gubat Banwa, by makapatag.

GUBAT BANWA is a Martial Arts Tactics and War Drama Tabletop RPG where you play as martial artists poised to change the world: Kadungganan: the cavalry, the wandering swordsmen, the tide turners, the knights-errant, the ones to call in darkest night in a world inspired and centering Southeast Asian folklore.

Witness, grand warriors, honorable gallants that trudge and toil under kings and haloes. Witness, KADUNGGANAN, that refulgent name. That blasted name: WITNESS NOW. The end of days is upon us: and the new world MUST BE BORN. Bear your blades, incant your magicks. Cut open your tomorrow from the womb of violence. Inscribe your name upon the very akasha of this world. 

Gubat Banwa is designed for fans of 4th edition D&D, with in-depth character abilities that make you feel both unique and powerful, in a colourful and flavourful world full of vibrant cultures and clashing conflicts. The game uses an action economy with different action options carrying different weights, which also reminds me quite a bit of Lancer. If you want a game that pushes you to strategize with your friends and weigh your advancement options carefully, you want Gubat Banwa.

Gun & Slinger, by Nevyn Holmes.

GUN&SLINGER is an RPG geared for short, episodic sessions about a weapon and a wanderer. A Maestro and two players (Gun and Slinger) set out into a dead planet mutated by a god's forgotten child and hunt strange bounties, investigate the world and unlock hidden powers. During play, they seek to learn the nature of what’s hunting the Slinger, figure out why the Gun is sentient and discover how the world died.

This game is specifically for three players, using the rules of Go Fish as a resolution system. Gun & Slinger is all about using your resources to the best of their ability, and your resources might exist on your character sheet, but they also exist as cards in your hand.

What really intrigues me is the lore that’s baked into your character sheets. One of you is a wanderer in a twisted world, tempted by strange powers that guarantee to change you into a monster. One of you is a sentient magical gun, borne by that wanderer and designed to deliver death and pain.

Gun & Slinger has expansions included, allowing you to instead play as a wanderer possessed by a demon, a mech and a pilot fused as one, or someone who bears a cursed sword. I think the fact that it requires a small table and the fact that the characters’ lives are tied together makes this a high-stakes, terribly intimate game.

Apocalypse Frame, by Binary Star Games.

In a ruined and terraformed world where most of humanity is under the yoke of a brutal regime, the former workers of a once-remote factory - now known as The Collective - have risen up to create a future of freedom from oppression. You are an Ace - a highly skilled pilot referred from a Division in The Collective and assigned a humanoid combat vehicle known as a Frame. You and your Strike Team of fellow Aces must take on The Collective’s greatest threats, ensure its survival, and carve a path for its continued success.

Apocalypse Frame takes mechs and fits them into the LUMEN system, which centres competency as well as fast but effective rounds of combat. The game includes a variety of different threats, allowing you to tailor your campaign to your group’s tastes, and the tailoring doesn’t stop there. You choose both a division that your character belongs to, and then one of three mechs within that division, allowing players to share similar fighting styles but differ in weapons. You can also modify your basic frame, adding general modular systems alongside systems and armaments that can come with your mech, making character creation and progression exciting for folks who love tweaking and tailoring to their heart’s content.

If you’re a fan of Armored Core or Battletech, you’ll want to check out Apocalypse Frame.

Here, There Be Monsters!, by wendi yu.

No matter what they tell you, there’s still weirdness and wonder everywhere. You just have to know where to look. At the edges and cracks of ‘normal’ life we exist, we persist, and we resist: the monsters, the magicians, the anomalies, the freaks, and the outcasts. We gather in the shadows, trying our best to live our lives in a world that, when it doesn’t exactly fear or hate us, doesn't even believe in our existence.

here, there, be monsters! is a rules-lite response to monster-hunting media from the monsters' point of view. It's both a love letter and a middle finger to stuff like Hellboy (and the BPRD), the SCP Foundation, the Men in Black, the World of Darkness games and the Urban Fantasy genre in general. It is an explicitly queer, antifascist and anti-capitalist game about the monstrous and the weird, in any flavor you want, not as something to be feared, but to be cherished and protected.

Here, There, Be Monsters is a love-letter to anyone who has been made to feel monstrous, as well as an homage to media such as Hellboy, the SCP Foundation, and Men in Black. It’s urban fantasy meets organized power structures, and as the monsters, you’re here to burn those structures down.

This game uses descriptive tags to slap onto your characters to represent what they can do. You can choose from a number of different monster character backgrounds to give you guidance towards, and there’s plenty of monsters both in the base game and in the game jam wendi ran back in 2022. If you want a game of power, anti-capitalism, and punching up, this is the game for you.

Pale Dot, by Devin Nelson.

Pale Dot is a collaborative storytelling game for 2-5 players about a crew of non-human cosmonauts leaving their planet to explore a strange solar system, finding threads to unravel the unknown along the way. It is fantastical, surreal, and perhaps very unlike humanity’s own ventures in space exploration. Though one thing is universal: leaving home is terrifying, dangerous, humbling, and a catalyst for changing one’s perspective. 

Pale Dot is a GM-less game where players work together to create an alien setting and subsequently envelop it in cosmic mystery, embodying cosmonauts called Dustlings, as well as one of 5 different settings. During their journey they will be able to travel to 24 different locations within their solar system, each with several prompts for improvisational scenes. Each player will also have to manage the integrity of their cosmonaut and their shared ship while avoiding space's many perils.

The cover for Pale Dot gripped me the first time I saw it; a tiny creature in an astronaut suit, looking up in fear at something in the sky, as vegetation blooms inside their helmet. You play as the Dustlings, non-human but sentient species exploring the Cosmos, a strange, horrifying and wonderful universe that changes those who venture into it.

Mechanically, Pale Dot uses a GM-less structure similar to Dream Askew, but there feels to be a much bigger emphasis on the setting your cosmonauts explore, rather than the cosmonauts themselves. Your characters are assembled traits, drives and equipment, almost all of which can be expended to cause or solve problems. Each player is also responsible for at least one setting element, such as The Cosmic Wilderness, The Wondrous Endeavour, or The Omnipresent Danger. As you visit locations, different elements will be prompted to influence the scene, while your cosmonauts try to navigate the scene and try to finish the mission. If you want a game that is collaborative and evocative, I definitely recommend Pale Dot.

Fractal Romance, by Ostrichmonkey Games.

A never ending abstract landscape of rhythm and soft glamour. Wander the halls, rooms, and chambers. Encounter strange Denizens and get to know them better; befriend them, fall in love, just chill. Try and fill out your own blurred edges. Fractal Romance is a tabletop role playing hangout. You will pick up a character to play and explore the Fractal Palace, generating its infinite sprawl and the Denizens that inhabit it, as you play.

Fractal Romance is all about searching; for something you need, something you want, or even for who you are. It feels rather surreal, perhaps like a dream dimension that you are moving through. The game uses a deck of cards to generate rooms, as well as the denizens of this gigantic, dream-like palace. This game uses rather simplistic playbooks, each asking you to choose three descriptive words, and then uses cards to fuel your character’s actions: you have things you can always do, things that cost a card to do, and things that you must do in order to draw another card.

If what you want out of a game is a chill time with friends, moving from one vibe to another, and generating emotional stories for your characters, you might want to check out Fractal Romance.

Himbos of Myth and Mettle, by huge boar.

You are big. Big arms, big tits, big thighs, big brai- you're big where it matters. In addition to a heaving, throbbing body, glistening lightly with a thin sheen of pleasantly fragrant perspirant, you have one singular unifying trait  - come hell or high water, you are going to help.

Himbos of Myth & Mettle is a high fantasy, high camp role playing game of epic proportions (of body), for 2-5 players, one of whom will act as Game Guide.  The rules center around a simple roll under mechanic and prioritize narrative flair and cinematic descriptions. Himbos is inspired by many classic fantasy properties (and could be considered OSR adjacent) , but leans towards a more garish, salacious and queer (gay or odd, pick your fighter) style of play. It is designed with comedy and flamboyance in mind, but is not without it deeper and darker touches. It's definitely not grimdark, but there will probably be blood. Think classic fantasy pulp in style, but contemporary sensibilities, modern rules-lite mechanics, and a player philosophy centred in helping, kindness and being fucking hot.

I’ve heard rave reviews for Himbos, and I think the idea of leading an entire group of well-meaning but possibly over-ambitious adventurers is a great set-up for a game full of laughs. Himbos is very much designed for a light-hearted evening of fun, flirting, and fucking up (but in the best way).

Other Games from the Bundle I've Recommended:

Space Taxi, and Creation Myths, by GothHoblin.

Caltrop Core, by Titanomachy.

Souvenirs, by Rémi Töötätä.

Thunder in Our Hearts, by Marn. S.

Eldritch Courts of Some Repute, by AlanofAllTrades.

[queergamesbundle]

Queer Games Bundle is back for a fourth year, with 500 queer games and artworks $60 (or $10+), the low-end cost of a new AAA game.

We've joined charity TTRPGs for Palestine as Featured Bundles on the itchio homepage! Check us both out.

✨ http://itch.io/b/2506

[christiansorrell]

Massive TTRPG Bundle: Games for Gaza

Games for Gaza, an Itch megabundle raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians, is now live! It features 256 games from 140 creators, including over 190 TTRPGs and 40 video games (and more)! Just a $10 USD minimum!

Check it out HERE!

A Sunless Space, my micro-TTRPG inspired by Andor, is included as are loads more thematically appropriate games of pushing back against the endless encroach of empire.

Other TTRPG highlights (for me): Beam Saber, i'm sorry did you say street magic, The Ground Itself, Anamesis, Monster Care Squad, Cybermetal 2012, and Apocalypse Frame. These are just the bigger/more well known ones, but there's so much variety and lots I'm excited to dig into!

The bundle will be available for a little under two weeks and all proceeds are going directly to Medical Aid for Palestinians. It's been great to have a very, very small part in this and do something, anything, in the face of such reckless hate. Go get it if you can, spread the word, and do whatever you can in your sphere of the influence to aid the cause.

Once again, you can find the bundle HERE.

[youarebeheld]

7 GAMES, 25$

PROFITS GO TO ALL CREATORS IN YAB

FEAST.

[acelezz]

Me While Watching The Latest Helluva Boss Short:

Me: Aw, look at that! Blitzø gave his little goat buddy for being such a good helper! :)

Me: Heheh. A goat with a pentagram. Kinda reminds me of my current favorite video game, Cult of the Lamb.

Me: Wait a minute… is bro starting a cult? Are they actually gonna do a Cult of the Lamb ref?

Me *Moxie voice*: Are you fuc-

-king kidding me?

[never-obsolete]

web site for the original Humble Indie Bundle (2010)

[junkfoodgames]

TTRPGs for Trans Rights - West Virginia bundle!

Over 500 (!!!!) games for $5 (?!?!?!!?!) to support a West Virginia based organization called Project Rainbow! There are so many amazing games in this bundle and it supports a really cool org.

Some info about Project Rainbow from the bundle page:

Since its inception, the project has been curated to serve unsheltered LGBTQ+ individuals to help them better navigate the housing system safely and compassionately. Project Rainbow has opened The Rainbow House in an effort to serve this community and meet this goal. Although the shelter is our community's most urgent and immediate need, Project Rainbow recognizes that there is far more work to be done. They serve as advocates for the individuals we serve, and the Appalachian LGBTQ+ community as a whole. They also work closely with partners in the housing system, health and mental health care systems to not only find solutions for their guests but to make these systems themselves more accessible for their target population.

Share this around and get this bundle!

[titanrpg]

COME GET Y'ALL JUICE

TTRPGs for Palestine Bundle is live! Get a bunch of my games and literally HUNDREDS more to support Medical Aid for Palestinians

come on!! click the link and reblog/share/shout from your various social media windows

[queerhalloweenstories]

🍬 The Queer Halloween Stories Bundle 2024 is LIVE! 🍬

Get the decorations ready and the costumes out of the closet, 'cuz the Queer Halloween Stories Bundle is back for 2024! This year we're treating you to 140+ projects from over 100 creators and teams located all over the world, who are sharing their spooky and spoopy stories with you! In this bundle, you will find...

🕸 92 Digital Games 🎃 19 Physical Games 👻 16 Books 🧛‍ 12 Comics 😈 4 Zines ⚰️ 1 DLC

The Queer Halloween Stories Bundle directly benefits queer indie creators and teams, with all sales split evenly among participants who have opted in to receive funds for their work. For the price of one AAA title, you can help fund the future of queer art by supporting these creators and discovering titles you won't find anywhere else.

Pick up the $60 Fright Edition here!

Tight on cash? Pick up the $10+ Treat Edition here!

Learn more about the bundle on our press kit website~

[efangamez]

Still is...unreal lol. Like, this is how I beat Lancer??? With an UPDATE?

Lancer's team is really sick and the game is cool, but it's an honor to be even close to being up there with the big dogs.

Wanna join the hype? Snag GRIM, a Quake-inspired FPS styled TTRPG by purchasing my Trans Mutual Aid bundle, which is gonna help me live and thrive! You can also purchase it solo, but you'll be missing out on some other awesome, modular games!

LINKS BELOW

Also, while you're here, check out a review of GRIM below done by the ILLUSTRIOUS and WONDERFUL @dragonkid11 . Big fan of their videos and their support of my work.

There's also another review done by Dicebreaker that you can find too!

AND THERE"S A THEME TO GRIM SO CHECK IT OUT WHY NOT