nobody here appreciates, but soon we’ll be together where they do~
I’m getting into BMC for the first time! But I’m so sad the fandom is mostly dead! :’( but tumblr always keeps fandoms semi-running so IM STAYING HERE WITH YALL 🗣️
Sorry for my inactivity aswell! I have so much art to post now tho :3
I read this really odd book a while back and loved it. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski does things with fiction that I had never before seen. I've toyed with the idea of making a TTRPG that simulates that in some way. I don't think I've even come close to actually doing that, but I am happy with the result.
Concept: You are in a house. The house has a door. When opened, the hallway in front of you is black. The floors, the walls, the ceiling. Touching it is too warm, or maybe too cold. You cannot tell. It looks like it moves and pulses until you get close enough to see just how rigid and unchanging it is.
You decide to walk down this hallway and see where it leads.
You will not come back, at least not the same.
Materials: Deck of 52 playing cards, black paint, red paint, 5 tea candles, matches, walkie-talkies, writing utensils and paper
INSATIABLE CRAVINGS is a two-player game about courting, bluffing, and meal-making, for ravenous Monsters and their hopeful Admirers.
Played with a standard deck of cards and some six-sided dice.
Enjoy the meal together. It might be your last.
AVAILABLE DIGITALLY NOW OR AS A BUNDLE WITH 5 OTHER WONDERCABINET CREATIONS
One plays as the ravenous Monster, and chooses whether to eat
the meal or the meal-maker.
One plays as the Monster’s Admirer, and chooses whether to cook
something nourishing or deadly.
AT A GLANCE...
20 page A5-Sized Zine
2 players
2-4 hours, single session
Requires a single standard 52-card deck and a few six-sided dice
Insatiable Cravings is a roleplaying card game. Using a standard 52-card deck and some d6s, you’ll build a hand of cards that will either kill the other player’s character or blossom a relationship between the two. It’s a game of bluffing, courting, and finding the fastest route to their heart (through their stomach, of course).
Through playing scenes, you will build your hand of cards. In the scenes, you’ll have opportunities to get more cards, find out more about the other player's character, and tell a beautiful, vicious story. At the end of the game you’ll reveal your hand and your intentions.
Touchstones:
Beauty and the Beast
Romeo and Juliet
The vampire fervour we all had in the aughts (and some of us still have)
WONDERCABINETS
I had the absolute pleasure of creating this game for the 2023 Wondercabinet Invitational: a collection of unique tabletop games made by a curated group of designers inspired by randomized collections of oddities and ephemera.
Among my oddities were an antique "Food and Drug" stamp, ads for vintage grocery stores, and a tooth. I found inspiration in the intimacy of sharing a meal with another.
Please check out all the amazing games we created for this project!
“Sometimes love is between two boys and sometimes love is between four boys.”-Joe Iconis, 2024.
In which I discuss my love songs “Oh Well,” “Two-Player Game,” “Masochist,” “It’s All Good,” “Old Flame.” Give those tunes and more a spin on my Valentine’s Playlist: “Joe Iconis’s Bloody Heartsongs.”
Songs about hearts breaking, mending, melting, and/or exploding. Love comes in many forms and love goes in even more. Happy Valentine's.
So the bad news is the apocalypse is here, or something like it at least. And thankfully for you it’s been here for a little bit, long enough to adjust anyway. The good news is life finds a way. Even as the world is ending it carries on. So maybe ending isn’t the most accurate. The world is changing and you find yourself sticking around for the ride. Even better you’ve found yourself someone to ride out the apocalypse with, if you can just find your way back to them….
Dear God is a letter writing game played with two players, using a tarot deck to generate prompts as you cross a the world to reunite. It was made for the 2k23 Record Collection Jam based on the album Doomsday Diaries: A Love Song for Any Apocalyptic Scenario by Emily Axford.