Oatear shares short announcements of the author's own indie projects, including a folklore adventure game, a typing rogue-lite and a card game. Each issue gives a brief description of a game and its mechanics, with little commentary beyond that.
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A studio newsletter from the indie tabletop game makers behind Hollows, covering design behind-the-scenes, community game jams and personal anecdotes from the team. Readers get insight into how experimental RPG mechanics like the tactical grid and boss monsters are built.
A weekly newsletter on tabletop game design that analyzes mechanics such as antagonistic design, bingo in TTRPGs, lookup interruptions, and tiny journaling games. It also promotes the author's print zine Tumulus and highlights indie games.
A game developer shares first-person accounts of designing and publishing casual browser and mobile games under the Blumgi name, including process notes, a project postmortem and a father-son development story. Readers get practical lessons on ideation, prototyping and fitting games to a platform audience.
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