When I was a child, my best friend and I would play pretend on the playground. She would be a superhero and I would be a supervillain, and we would narrate a chapter from her incredible adventures....
2022-01-26 15:28:23 +0000 UTC View Post
So here we are, at the end of 2021 and the start of a new year. It’s a Long Grasping month in the Hudson Valley, the view from my office punctuated by thick mist and hungry branches. Rain is cons...
2022-01-03 20:39:45 +0000 UTC View Postor The Tricky Art Of Welcoming New Players To Roleplaying
Hello patrons both old and new! It's super exciting to have all of you here — you're all such important parts of the community and help support us in more ways than you know. Companies like Possu...
2021-08-29 03:29:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks, here is a recording of last night's Patreon talk for all of you! It will go live to the public eventually, but all you get first watching privileges. In this talk, I discuss the 2009 RPG...
2021-06-23 16:15:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks, tonight at 8pm EST I'm going to do a Salon Chat about ergodic games, unplayability, emergent texts, and the fascinating tale of an illegible RPG. Make sure your Patreon account is synced...
2021-06-22 22:22:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, Jay here. So as we move forward supporting other creators and developing Possum Creek Games into its own publishing house, I wanted to talk a bit about what that's looking like over h...
2021-05-14 01:17:56 +0000 UTC View PostI find it really hard to write essays. Therefore, I didn’t. These are each a fragment of a concept, and together I hope they can point to some greater framework beyond the sum of their parts....
2021-04-24 22:45:23 +0000 UTC View Post(Uncanny: A Sleepaway Expansion releases on Itch.io and our 2021-02-16 17:11:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy February everyone! It's incredibly snowy here, and I'm writing this update while bundled up in my office and eating some cake one of my roommates baked. There's going to be a couple of exciti...
2021-02-09 20:50:46 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks! There's not going to be any new games coming out this month on here. Uncanny is coming out next month, Wanderhome is in a few months, and all my other projects are in various states ...
2021-01-18 17:12:41 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Really quick update, but you can now back my Patreon with an annual upfront membership to save money (10% if I remember correctly?). It's a super convenient deal and makes it even easi...
2020-10-29 22:15:09 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patrons!!! I love you all dearly. I don't have any new content this month (my vacation ate up a few weeks) and I've previously said I wouldn't promise content every month regardless. My job has ...
2020-09-29 02:56:44 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, good afternoon! If you follow me on Twitter it's been kinda a crazy month! Wanderhome launched on the 4th, and...
2020-08-28 17:20:02 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone,
Thank you all so gosh-darn much. When I started this Patreon two years ago, I didn't know what it would be like or what we'd be doing. Some of you have been here with be since the b...
The Wanderhome Kickstarter launched August 4th, and I wanted to take a moment before then ...
2020-07-20 22:15:30 +0000 UTC View PostWanderhome has reached 550+ followers, a full 2 and a half weeks before launch! I promised on Twitter that...
2020-07-18 23:13:58 +0000 UTC View Post
(Sidebar: For sales tax reasons, I updated the tiers to more accurately reflect what you get. I gotta figure out more things I can give you, in a way that doesn't create more work for me!)...
2020-07-14 21:47:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been relatively quiet in the past couple of months. I know "quiet" for me isn't how most people define quiet, but it's true I haven't really posted here. I released a game last night (a Mounta...
2020-06-19 01:52:26 +0000 UTC View PostGood evening everyone! I've stopped apologizing for not posting frequently here, and that's okay! It's been a long month for me, just as I'm sure it's been a long month for you. It's been interesti...
2020-04-09 01:12:55 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much to all my new patrons and supporters. Your help means the world to me, and I'm not sure where I'd be without all of you.
Hey everyone, I wrote some big ol' theory a...
2020-01-27 19:44:15 +0000 UTC View Post
My much-anticipated third volume of Games For The Missing & The Found is here, and it is only going to be online for 24 hours! Get it now, before it's literally too late!
2019-11-15 02:20:40 +0000 UTC View PostSo, Sleepaway is done! Well, almost. The text is all done, the layout is all done, and all that's being worked on right now is the art.
Meanwhile, I've spent the past week on a small fa...
2019-09-16 17:05:09 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, here's the second game I wrote this summer, for your personal viewing! It's called White Dirt Red Rain, and it's about post-apocalyptic jungles and a crazed rush for survival using an ...
2019-07-28 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Camp has finished for me for the summer, which means it's time to unload a lot of my creative work over the past several months onto all of you! Over the next several days, once...
2019-07-27 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
I've launched it! The Kickstarter for Sleepaway! It's here! Holy moly! Please go check it out, I'm so excited about this game (as I'm certain you've seen) and wow oh wow is this going...
2019-06-05 09:47:19 +0000 UTC View Post
The worst part about being about to start a Kickstarter, but not quite about to launch yet, is that I have a lot of creative energy and nothing much to do with it, and a general nervousness to rele...
2019-06-01 01:26:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you all for your endless support. While I figure out video camera stuff and get onto my feet, I figured I'd post an old game from a while ago I dug up from my Google Docs and got a little chu...
2019-05-28 16:22:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all,
Kickstarters are hard and scary! I've been agonizing for weeks about how best to do it, while also marching forward with preparation. While I don't have anything nuts to show you rig...
2019-05-26 12:48:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all,
I decided last night to publish Sleepaway onto itch.io. I'm currently in too fragile of a financial circumstances to not have a storefront I can promote the game from, and I want to ...
2019-05-13 10:30:39 +0000 UTC View Post