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Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· 1d

The goblin and axolotl boxed sets chilling with the zombie brothers and hell-bound musicians is really a killer shelf at my FLGS

Numerous tabletop RPGs on a game store shelf, including Last Train to Bremen, Trash to Treasure, Axolotl with a Gun, the twenty sided deck, and a bunch of other bright bard titles on the shelf below

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· 8d

Did anyone we know lose a water bottle?

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· 9d

Dawn of the final day at booth 449! Come get your games 😊

Me in a pink button up covered in pins, throwing a shaka in front of the booth 449 banner

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· 10d

Come get your games (critically acclaimed ones, even!) at booth 449!

Jon standing in front an indie tabletop games banner throwing a shaka.

Trash to Treasure wearing a 2026 Ennies medal, sitting next to a land once magic and Mushie Missions. All games were recognized at the ENNIEs.

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· 11d

Booth 449, @brightbard.bsky.social is open for business all day today!

A wide-angle shot of a booth full of indie tabletop roleplaying game books with a banner that reads INDIE TABLETOP RPGS

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· 12d

Booth 449 at Gen Con! (I'm on lunch for a bit, and I've got a panel at 2, but I'll be around after 4 again!)

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· 16d

Yard time chasing bugs with Dandelion (@bridanann.bsky.social's cat) in between packing Kickstarter pledges and baking pumpkin bread to share with friends next week since we had a cool evening are the highlights I think.

A fluffy orange cat surveys "his" back yard from a concrete patio, tail swishing, eager to chase grasshoppers and moths in the yard. Maybe jump the fence and make Jon carry him half a block home if he feels like it.

Dandelion, an orange and white cat peers through sawgrass and an herb garden at the camera, wondering why the human holding it is scaring away the bugs he was stalking.

Two loaves of freshly baked pumpkin bread on a countertop, next to a stand mixer and bowl filled with freshly made cream cheese frosting. The secret to both is a little freshly grated nutmeg.

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· 20d

bulletproof formula gang (cloudy day recommended)

a fat orange dragon pin on the shoulder strap of a canvas bag, with a tactfully blurred houseplant in the background.

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· 24d

If you haven't gotten your ENNIEs voting in yet, voting ends tomorrow! Please consider our wee Mushies for such a big award in the best family game category :] 🍄🔗 vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/ba...

Mushie Missions, nominated for best family game in the 2026 Ennies

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· Jul 10

Errant game ideas on the left, a playtest session of Relic on the right.

Sledding game

Go sledding with friends
Flashbacks? Memories? Reminisce? On the ski lift up?

Epistolary duet game with diegetic instructions where you're two satellites/robots/AI messaging each other across a great distance long after the death of those who made you

Cathedral of Tears

Patrol to check out dead sensor relays at the Cathedral of Tears

Inciting incident = their jumpship nearly collides with an osseous Voidsent ship exiting NLS. Voidsent attack, pursuing them to the station, resulting in a crash landing.

Need to figure out what voidsent are up to here, they're in the observatory. Elevatuors are off, The Voidsent docked directly with observatory.

Is that... A vending machine? If only it had a brain

Hey big guy, I don't think you need that brain any more

Oops, the vending machine may be a god

god turned the elevators on

The diva requires assistance (foreshadowing)

These librarians are kinda fucked up (combat)

In which a different god tries to kill you through a big telescope (NEXT TIME, ON SPACE WIZARD SIMULATOR)

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· Jul 8

We're on the other side of the IPR curtain! Just a few booths in from the capitol avenue entrances, and right next to the artists alley.

Bright Bard Games' location at Gen Con, booth 449 off capitol avenue.

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· Jul 3

So intensely proud of @bridanann.bsky.social, @oddsandents.bsky.social, and @phophos.bsky.social today for all their work on Trash to Treasure. I'm simply speechless, and I'm so excited to see our little eco-fantasy magical girl goblins in the spotlight. ❤️

The judges spotlight winners for the ennies, including Trash to Treasure by Bri de danan and Jon Boyle. Also on the list are Girl Frame, RPG zine club year 2, tackle ox, and draconis: the call of adventure

Best family game nominations for the ennies, including Mushie Missions (us!!!), Crescent 2e, Dragon town and the darkness below, Dungeons and Kittens, and PiCO

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· Jun 5

Absolute banger of a shelf at one of our FLGS for Pride month @moreblueberries.bsky.social, @rrookstudio.bsky.social

Longsword Glock Bat Taser, Moonlight on Roseville Beach, Rom Com Drama Bomb, and Starlee Davidson sitting on a shelf at a game store

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· May 18

Screenshotting @plusoneexp.bsky.social's comment in a Twitch chat replay from an interview with Jay like 3 years ago has been extremely relevant today

a comment from tonyplusone in twitch chat that reads

1x pay for the copy
2x pay for the replacement
3x pay myself
4x have a wholesale rate
5x pay other contributors well
6x pay for infrastructure need to have a project
7x put money in the bank
8x pay to start working on the next project
9x put more money in the bank
10x offer sales and discounts

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· May 17

Did a meme run of Vow of the Disciple with the clan on all Stasis warlocks with only stasis weapons (making 1 exception for Icebreaker, which... has ice in the name).

6 extremely ice-themed space wizards with ice lasers at the end screen for the vow of the disciple raid

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· May 16

I name during! I'm especially diligent when I know it's a thing I'll need to use many times after I initially make it, like headers or our website product mockups

another screenshot of my layer palette in Clip Studio Paint, painstakingly named

a sample mockup for axolotl with a gun Armed and Dangerous

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· May 15

This is actually the one thing I'm pretty good about with my decidedly average graphic design process

a list of my layers, all tucked into folders and labelled (except for the transparent background layer. shhh don't look at it

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· May 13

At least I got a cool mockup out of it

a mockup of axolotl with a gun armed and dangerous. the zine lays open, showing the gun options in character creation.

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· May 12

us this month

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· May 8

New issue ft. @bridanann.bsky.social and I for the next 6 weeks (joke courtesy of @oddsandents.bsky.social)

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· May 6

Question for anyone else submitting to The Awards: Are we supposed to submit the 2024-2025 publishing year to the 2026 awards or is this a typo?

a screenshot of the awards criteria, listing the eligible publishing dates between June 1, 2024, and May 31st 2025.

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· May 5

Behold my supurrvisor, a master of Backerkit setup

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· May 3

Sunday afternoons are for writing in the park

Dappled sunlight dancing on a freshly filled journal page and a pea gravel courtyard in the foreground. Further, a wide river separates the viewer from the soaring steel and concrete skyline of Minneapolis

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· May 1

Croissant placement is an extremely important layout decision

a giant cartoon croissant in front of a confused looking axolotl. How big is the croissant? this big

another confused looking axolotl with a croissant above his head. does he dream of croissants? is the croissant following him? does he know the croissant? who can say

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· Apr 8

I've interrupted his reading time. Unforgivable

A portly tabby cat in a bow tie sits with his paws resting around a book

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· Apr 4

And these are just the ones in reach/in print!

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· Mar 27

Read the next few bullet points myself and oof 😬 Literally just going for a walk or setting the game down for a few days is better than talking to the plagiarism machine gang

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· Mar 20

Pokemon TTRPG night started off with my Rufflet evolving into Braviary. Comically tiny cow for scale

a screenshot of roll20 with a 3x3 Braviary dwarfing a 1x1 size Miltank.

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· Mar 16

I think it enhances the experience, really. Take your pick:

Jon Boyle 😴 Gen Con Recovery Mode@residentbard· Mar 15

If any friends and mutuals are playing Marathon, add me and we can shoot cool space guns on Tau Ceti IV together some time :] (I'm Resident_Bard on Discord if we're not already buds there)