Indie game storefront itch.io has deleted terabytes of AI-generated spam and introduced mandatory AI disclosures for all tabletop roleplaying games.
Genre Police: Not Content
Payment processor censorship at itch.io reveals a harsh truth about digital control. Explore why playing roleplaying games remains a vital act of connection.
Indie TTRPG publisher SoulMuppet blocked (briefly) in the UK amidst ‘Age-Gate Apocalypse’
A UK-based tabletop roleplaying publisher, SoulMuppet Publishing, recently found its digital storefront on Itch.io completely blocked to customers in its home country. The incident highlights a precarious new reality for indie creators, caught between the rollout of the UK’s Online Safety Act and escalating pressure from payment processing companies. This past weekend, anyone in the […]
Leopards Eat Your Face: A TTRPG about authoritarianism and opposition
Bläckfisk Förlag begin their blurb for “Leopards Eat Your Face RPG” by resharing a meme and quoting Adrian Bott.
Your Best Game: Indie bundle gives the best secret RPGs a second chance
In Geek Native’s RPG Publisher Spotlight, I often ask people what they are best known for and also what they would like to be best known for, and it is not always the same game. It’s not always a game.
Reborn as a Goddess: A first look at I Am Furious (Pink)
I Am Furious (Pink) is a new narrative tabletop RPG that explores the themes of cumulative trauma and supernatural vengeance.
Playtest Zero bundle: Showcase of indie games from Thomas Manuel
Designers arisia, Caro Asercion, goobernuts, KTPie, Takuma Okada, and Zuhayri Mohamed have all contributed DRM free material to the deal which offers $24 worth of indie content for $15.
On Game Jam Culture and Minimalist RPGs
W.H. Arthur (he/佢) started game design in a 200 word RPG jam in 2018. Since then, he has released a number of small RPGs on itch.io, and contributed to a few popular indie RPG projects.
Download for Free: Christmas giveaway of Lost in Dungeon’s “Journeys into the Unknown”
The game, inspired by Ben Milton, Brandish Gilhelm, Chris McDowall, and Gavin Norman, has 10 lineages but no classes and uses diegetic advancement (rewards for actions, not just kills) and an item slot approach.
What If We Kissed… is a toolkit for indulgent RPG stories
What If We Kissed… is sugar; it’s about finding the sweet things and getting closer to them.
