Tacticalpizzaoven - They Call Me Appliance Miser

Reblog to Save a Life

I have talked about it before, but independant artists, and by extension independant TTRPG designers like myself and my team, live and die by their social media presence. We can't afford a lot of advertising, if any, and so we rely not only on word-of-mouth advertisement, but also just the good will of our audience. Like another designer @cavegirlpoems put it, we're basically busking, putting our art out for everyone and hoping for voluntary donations, donations which I writing this am reliant on as a disabled designer who can't work a normal job.

If you can't pay, you can still have it for free, and something that can be just as helpful is reblogging the posts of artists like myself. I'll demonstrate with a screenshot from our itch.io page for the open beta for Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy.

(and on these days, it was only about 6 or 7 people who did the reblogging.)

As you can see, reblogs mean more people see our game, which means more downloads (and sometimes even payments), downloads mean more people play our game and more people see our game in the itch.io algorithm, which means more views, which means more downloads, which means more and so on and so on. But, it all starts with you reblogging our posts, and without that, we're stagnate. It doesn't matter if you have 1,000 followers or 10, your reblog means that our posts reach corners of tumblr that wouldn't have seen it otherwise.

Myself and others are reliant on a 2-second reblog to be able to support ourselves as artists, you and your 10 followers are where it starts.

You are probably my favourite designers in the business. Treading ground rarely covered in ttrpgs with Silk and Dagger, and covering classic forms of ttrpgs in incredibly novel (and very good!) ways with Eureka and Death Bed. There's nobody whose work I am as excited for as you.

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Getting this message the other day really made my day, thank you so so so much. Stuff like this really keeps me going. (That and the money. Really can’t overstate the importance of money for staying in business and continuing to make this stuff.)

nobody:

people with blue or green eyes when the sun hits their face at any angle:

too cringe to talk to my mutuals so i just like their posts

hate being obsessed with someone. what am i supposed to do about it? message “i’m thinking about youuu” every five minutes? fuck off

every band name can be ranked on the 'is this a thing i would want in my house' scale between the police and the violent femmes

my captain wayne stickers arrived today i've never been happier

in the same mail was also an overdraft notice but we can ignore that

I love the lancer mechs that fuck with you mentally and have a high chance of changing you forever, rendering you inhuman or unable to function in normal society

I’ve been in mechposting for a few weeks due to what I’m pretty sure is now my most popular post. And it’s just solidified my opinion that if I’m piloting a mech I’d want it to be a mobile suit setup. Get that neural link away from me, get a “handler” out of my comms with that basically sexual harassment. Just give me a decently comfy chair and fully analogue controls and i will THRIVE

fuck chemistry im listening to wonderwall