It's incredibly frustrating how GenAI has completely taken over text-to-speech as a concept.

TTS is a fairly useful tool and there used to be a few competing ways of doing it, but now it's all attached to the massive bloated ethical nightmare of it all...

“The Xbox and PlayStation ads won’t be invasive guys don’t worry”

Do you remember when Hulu was free with ads? And now you have to pay for it and it still has ads? And now it’s double the price it was when it started? And now when you pause your show you get ads there too?

The more I try to make small projects, the more I realise how much my brain trends immediately towards feature creep and scope bloat. Making small projects with a clear, clean scope is so much better - and it's amazing I've taken so long to drill this into myself. I'm sure I'll forget again.

My submission for the #RPGenesis #GameJam is complete!

It is a #mechsploitation #ttrpg roguelike for 1-2 players, in which one player takes on the role of a tortured mech pilot and the other takes on the role of their torturous handler.

Download for free here:

eukariapyren.itch.io/handler-hound

Finished the main text of my submission for #RPGenesis. It's a #Mechsploitation roguelike and something of a psychological horror game. Editing tomorrow!

INCOMING! Heads up Trooper. Ready to put a prototype retro 1980s 1-bit #zonecore one-player role-playing hex and chit war board game through it's paces before deployment into enemy territory? Southside Yeah! #1pRPGjam #RogueTrooper

Day 3 of #RPGenesis and I think I'm about half way done with my project. It's an asymmetric game with two roles, and one of them is written... I am liking the shape it's taking.

#RPGenesis begins tomorrow! Very excited!

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Really excited for #RPGenesis to start on Sunday. I have a great idea, and I am SO ready to get to work with it, but I cannot, because the jam has not started. AAAHH.

I must say, I have really enjoyed working on a few smaller projects lately. I still have big things in the works, but it feels good to dream, design, make and ship something in a short turnaround time. Looking forward to my next Game Jam, this one starting on Sunday and lasting the week.

I am really bad, normally, at being brief. So participating in @onepagerpgjam.bsky.social has been a good creative exercise. I realised early that I was never going to fit on a full 'resolution system' and still make it both readable and thematic, so I went more down the social roleplaying angle.

Just submitted my project for @onepagerpgjam.bsky.social ! First time I have ever submitted to a game jam, so I am really excited. Thoughts to follow, but you can check out the finished project here. :)

eukariapyren.itch.io/one-week-sha...

Got my concept all worked out for One-Page RPG Jam 2026!

TL;DR - A short Eldritch Horror game where players collaborate to figure out why the sky is broken.

I think it's a fun premise, and my main mechanic should promote some good stories between players.

First post on a shiny new account! As an introduction - I am an independent author, game designer and soon-to-be content creator hoping to share my work with the world.

I have signed myself up for a trio of TTRPG GameJams on Itch.io this month, so let's see what I can create!