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Game designer/developer, Binary Star Games. He/him. 🍉

Site: https://binarystar.games
Email: binary(dot)star(dot)games(at)gmail.com
Freelance: https://binarystar.games/docs/freelancing/

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@stickydoodler.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 2:32 PMReposted by @binarystar.games

The fall 2026 Designed in the DMV catalog features 80+ games made by folks in the DC-MD-VA region. We give these out to all the FLGSs in our region to encourage players to #ShopLocal. Thank you @evilhat.bsky.social (based in MD!) for making it possible!

youtube.com/shorts/2pAxi...

@binarystar.gamesOct 10, 2026, 1:45 AM

Absolutely, feel free to hit me up

@exeunt.pressOct 9, 2026, 1:46 PMReposted by @binarystar.games

I'll be at People's Book (Takoma Park, MD) soon! Come to PeopleCon 3 on October 17 and say hello!

Details: withfriends.co/event/290173...

PeopleCon 3 info
@junkfoodgames.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 8:00 PMReposted by @binarystar.games

We love to see it!

Also! Libraries can get ttrpg's from IPR at a discount! I had forgotten until I saw a library ordered one of my games in this sales report

Let your local library know!

www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Librar...

@riseupcomus.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 12:02 PMReposted by @binarystar.games

ICYMI: Have you seen Directsun's Just the Games webtool: games.puzzledungeon.com?

Beyond a PDF, you can write your adventure module (or hell, your game rules) in a thoroughly hyperlinked website with real functionality for play at the table. It's free, it's forkable, it's easy!

🧵

@binarystar.gamesOct 7, 2026, 2:40 PMReposted by @binarystar.games

That's me! Here's the full lineup. As noted there, there's also a game and book talk at 2:30 which is sure to be interesting. See you there!

A poster for Peoplecon 3

A festival of locally-crafted independent games hosted by people's book of takoma park

Featuring local publishers: Big puffin games, Binary star games, Cloven pine games, dungeons of columbia, Exeunt Press, Graftbound Press, Green Intern Games, Junk Food Games, Level Zero Gaming, Mystic Heart Games, Sly Robot Games, Stickerdoodle Games

And a game and book talk with Talia Rosen, Designer of First Monday in October, and Brendan Ballou, Author of When Companies Run the Courts

7014 Westmoreland avenue, takoma park, mylandar
Saturday october 17th, market 12 pm to 5 pm, talk 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
@binarystar.gamesOct 7, 2026, 9:02 PMReposted by @binarystar.games

Come see us at @peoplesbooktakoma.com on Oct 17th, a week from Saturday!

@binarystar.gamesOct 7, 2026, 9:02 PM

Come see us at @peoplesbooktakoma.com on Oct 17th, a week from Saturday!

@graftbound.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 8:29 PMReposted by @binarystar.games

We'll be in Takoma Park for a local con at @peoplesbooktakoma.com on October 17th. This event is full of DMV Game Designers!

Come by anytime between 12-5. The event is totally free to attend!

More info: withfriends.co/event/290173...

"We'll be at People's Book. Saturday, October 17th from 12-5. PeopleCon 3. 7014 Westmoreland Ave, Takoma Park. MD
@binarystar.gamesOct 7, 2026, 2:51 PM

withfriends.co/event/290173...

@dieselee.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 2:13 PMReposted by @binarystar.games

I'll be here and I'll have ChangedStars with me!

@binarystar.gamesOct 7, 2026, 2:40 PM

That's me! Here's the full lineup. As noted there, there's also a game and book talk at 2:30 which is sure to be interesting. See you there!

A poster for Peoplecon 3

A festival of locally-crafted independent games hosted by people's book of takoma park

Featuring local publishers: Big puffin games, Binary star games, Cloven pine games, dungeons of columbia, Exeunt Press, Graftbound Press, Green Intern Games, Junk Food Games, Level Zero Gaming, Mystic Heart Games, Sly Robot Games, Stickerdoodle Games

And a game and book talk with Talia Rosen, Designer of First Monday in October, and Brendan Ballou, Author of When Companies Run the Courts

7014 Westmoreland avenue, takoma park, mylandar
Saturday october 17th, market 12 pm to 5 pm, talk 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
@level-zero-gaming.itch.ioOct 7, 2026, 12:39 PMReposted by @binarystar.games

Saturday, October 17 (12-5 PM), I'll have a booth at PeopleCon 3: A Designed in the DMV Game Market at @peoplesbooktakoma.com! First time I'm bringing hard copies of my games out into the world!!!!

I'll be there with @stickydoodler.bsky.social, @binarystar.games, @graftbound.bsky.social, and more!

@wick.worksOct 2, 2026, 3:45 PMReposted by @binarystar.games

Got an (incomplete) map of Lancer Tactics' combat engine up on the wiki: wiki.lancertactics.com/Code_Map
I'm still real proud of having hashed out this 3-layer "Celestial Order" system of organizing a Godot project. It's been able to handle everything I've thrown at it for the last three years.

@explorersdesign.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 12:45 PMReposted by @binarystar.games

This month’s design newsletter might have the most jams of any Explorateur in the last two years. October is always a busy month.

www.explorersdesign.com/the-explorat...

@prismaticwasteland.comOct 1, 2026, 12:52 PMReposted by @binarystar.games

A lot of people are making their own stuff for Into the Oddish. For those who want to make more types of Pokemon as player characters, I put together some guidelines for how I would design them. It is a lot less formulaic than designing Pokemon as enemies.
#ttrpg #osr #pokemon

@binarystar.gamesOct 1, 2026, 11:37 AM

Lookin' good as hell, damn

@explorersdesign.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 4:52 PMReposted by @binarystar.games

I’ve been thinking a lot more about freelance design and how mystifying it is to most people, especially if you came through the proverbial back door with rpgs.

Today, I’m thinking about the three most popular pricing models and my thoughts on them.

www.explorersdesign.com/working-desi...

@evilhat.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 8:27 PMReposted by @binarystar.games

Inspired by Final Fantasy X, the Xenoblade Chronicles, and Magic Knight Rayearth, Rangers of a Broken World launches in two weeks!
Destroy the twisted Horrors. Deceive the Noble Demons. Outlast the relentless Automata. And save your people.
Follow the launch now:
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

A spread from Rangers of a Broken World with the two pages that introduce the Wandering Magus class. A woman in loose-fitting clothes  wearing a long silk scarf floats in the air and weaves a spell across a desert dune. In the distance, a huge spectral tortoise appears. Caption: Wandering Magus. A desert nomad, preserver of ancient knowledge, and reader of the stars, the Magus is an unparalleled hunter. Everything in the world is connected, and no one understands those connections better.
@binarystar.gamesSep 29, 2026, 12:23 AM

100%, people are always gonna lean towards the thing that gets them instant answers without giving them shit for it and "giving them shit" is considerably easier to fix than "instant"

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