Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)

@minahoneybat

Layout artist, graphic artist, RPG writer, fan of communities and evolution. See my work in SPIRE, HEART, LANCER or VOIDHEART SYMPHONY; Want your game made beautiful? 30s | wlwlwlwlw | trans

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Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· 23d

Anyway it was really really enjoyable to make, and *also* was the first time my wonderful wife @arbyk.bsky.social had her art published in an RRD product (making these intentionally-rubbish napkin-sketches of an assassination plot) Check out the book at rowanrookanddecard.com/product/the-...

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· 23d

It was a real fun project! Every spread gave its own challenges. Even in this one you had the writing task of adapting a CIA manual for social sabotage while also putting in an ad that managed to have the gun's stat block as marketing buzzwords

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· 23d

Walking down memory lane and I remembered The Revolutionary's Guide To Spire – a 24 page entirely in-character zine published by countercultural elements in the city of Spire, walking the line between 'fun' and 'legitimately revolutionary'.

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· 23d

What I'm most excited about is *this bullshit*:

The pages, tilted – in one direction, this reveals the text 'As Above'. In the other, it reveals the text 'So Below'.

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· 24d

Some fun moments from playlists thus far:

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· 24d

Oh all the time! Here's the lists from some recent projects:

The inspirations list from Voidheart Symphony Revised, covering game design touchstones, aesthetic inspiration, and political inspiration.

From GlitchHeart Vermin:
Inspirations:
ª Infest the Rat’s Nest from King Gizzard and
the Lizard Wizard, for seeding the core concept
of tyrannical corporations ruling a dying Earth
from Mars.
ª The Sprawl and CBR+PNK, for showing how to
do cyberpunk without needing to calculate bullet
weights and humanity points.
ª SUZi and Praise the Hawkmoth King, for
showing how fun it can be to revel in the
application of deeply wretched things to a
changeable self.
ª Hard Wired Island, for its treatment of the
politics of space travel and the burdens capitalism
places on its workers.
ª Armour Astir, for the basic concepts of the
faction system.
ª All kinds of cyberpunk media:
ª Possessor (2020), Brandon Cronenberg
ª Strange Days (1995), Kathryn Bigelow and
James Cameron
ª Severance (2022), Dan Erickson
ª Orphan Black (2013), Graeme Mason and
John Fawcett
ª Neuromancer (1984) and The Peripheral
(2014), Willian Gibson
ª These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart
(2024), Izzy Wasserstein
ª (kimmy) (2024), Alyson Greaves
ª Remember Me (2013), DontNod
Entertainment
ª Citizen Sleeper (2022), Gareth Damian
Martin
ª Observer (2017), Bloober Team

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· 25d

This all comes from looking at the aelfir Solar Pantheon in Spire and thinking... if the Heretic is what the moon church looks like in the Heart, what does the sun church look like? So: revere the pantheon, turn the wheel of the year, make new gods for the heart's strange seasons.

Excerpt from a core ability: Seasons Ever Turning
To the enlightened, the ‘wheel’ of seasons is actually a spiral – each rotation digging deeper into the mysteries. At the start of each session, pick which season it is now on your personal calendar. Mark each season when you pick it; you cannot pick it again while it is marked. For the rest of the session, gain the linked ability:
Spring: Clarity of Sister Sunlight. The sister brings fire, growth and change. Once this session, when you fill a room with light, all present can realize one thing they had missed or incorrectly believed. They may heal a Minor Mind fallout, or downgrade a Major Mind fallout to Minor. Then, you mark D4 Fortune stress.

Excerpt from another core ability: The Wheel Turns
With every year you grow wiser – and down here, years pass when you say they do. If a session ends with at least four seasons marked, you must erase all marks and grow a year older. When you do, gain a minor advance and take 1 stress to all resistances; do not roll for fallout. Note each time this happens.

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· 25d

New release! The Illuminate is a delver class for @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social's HEART: The City Beneath, all about looking for the true sun. Not the one burning in the sky, but the one that brings about impossible colors and true enlightenment.

A precarious rock path leading up to a glowing sun haloed in red, against a dark ink wash background.

The class' intro text:
There is a sun in the sky, and it brings us life – but it is not the true sun. Stare at it and then look away, and the truth will begin to unfold across your mind’s eye in impossible colors: stygian blue, self-luminous red, hyperbolic orange. That’s a start.
Go deeper. Into the mystery, yes, but also literally. Stare at the sun. Read the Spire’s doctrines. Learn the truths of the surface world and fill your mind with their light. And then: go deeper.
Down into the depths. Where the light of the sun cannot blind you. Where the light of truth cannot constrain you. Find the light that can only be seen against the deepest blackness. Find the seasons that can only exist with the heart’s pulsing. Find the divinity that is too real to exist among the constraints of the surface world.
Drink deep of the dark, Illuminate. And then ascend.

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· 27d

Gosh I love to write a blog post about my game design goals and get this feedback 😀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/gsh...

Comment on the crowdfunder: My favorite thing about the books is the dialectic of history and nature that emerges, and I'm excited to see that incorporated into this system! A lot of games struggle with or don't engage with that a core element so it's exciting to see it baked right into the fundamentals of the game!

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· Jul 14

Children of Time RPG is funded! Next up: you'll all find out how it shapes your culture when your tongue is dextrous, prehensile, and so long it attaches to your hips. (Seriously I've seen what @aptshadow.bsky.social has in mind for these lovely creatures and I'm very excited.)

A medical diagram of the pangolin, Smutsia gigantia, and its ludicrously long tongue.

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· Jul 11

Whenever there’s a print run involved? Pretty much constantly. Especially if we’re doing something weird with the book. I also have my many and varied books of paper samples, which I use to test texture and translucency

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· Jul 11

(I have a spreadsheet of paper types, showing their relative traits, weights, and page thicknesses:)

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· Jul 10

Or, going down the ranks, high-tier proxies don't need the players to draw their emotion or even their awareness. The breakers just need to get close, and the alter inside the proxy's head begins to rewrite the laws of their world.

EGos (Rank 3) might be:
ª Jupiter, sat on his mountain-throne, sending crackling lightning down to devastate any who show insufficient reverence.
ª Pluto, wounded and surrounded by death, the Earth’s riches only tools for him to hurt himself and others.
ª Daedalus, ever running from the prison-world he built, searching for the technological solution that would let him fly far away to paradise.
ª Saturn, ancient and child-consuming, desperately hating the young and ambitious and setting them against each other in bloody competition.
When a breaker enters the proxy’s presence, they resist Loathing. On a strong hit, they must pick 1; on a weak hit, pick 2; on a miss, the admin picks as many as they like.
ª A passive electrical field fries all consumer electronics on their person.
ª Eviction protocols target them, making them immediately unhoused.
ª The breaker picks one of their allies; they’re immediately arrested on faked charges.
ª The breaker feels deep and tearing sadness, and must mark Raw or Swamped.

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· Jul 10

And then I started filling out both axes. For example: rank 1 proxies from the media company instead trigger off the proxy's fascination, and force the breakers to reveal truths to the proxy.

Whisperers (Rank 1) might be:
ª Brianna’s delight, a sparkling cloud of gem-like eyes seeking out novelty.
ª Brianna’s cruelty, a woman made of knives in search of backs to stab.
ª Brianna’s rigor, an origami-folded contract seeking any loopholes or openings.
ª Brianna’s love, a mirror that entrances others with the beauty of their reflection.
When a breaker draws the proxy’s fascination, they resist Shackles. On a weak hit, the breaker must immediately Bait the proxy. On a miss, same, and the admin will pick when they spend Lure and which option the breaker must spend it on.

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· Jul 10

Mix that with the four CEOs the alter might be sourced from to get 12 broad classes. And that's where it gets *fun*; that combo of impulse and mind really helped write moves to set terms of engagement. For example: whisperers from a power-hungry energy CEO lash out to shut down the player's options.

Whisperers (Rank 1) might be:
ª Lloyd’s hunger, a ravenous feral beast pushing its host to take from others.
ª Lloyd’s health, a shambling corpse radiating hypochondria into the proxy’s mind.
ª Lloyd’s despair, a sucking whirlpool that drives the proxy towards suicidality.
ª Lloyd’s mania, a blinding lightning arc that pushes the host into obsessive action.
When a breaker draws the proxy’s anger, they resist Crosshairs. On a weak hit, the admin picks 1; on a miss, the admin picks 2:
ª Pick an exit from this place; the breaker can no longer use it.
ª Pick a guard in this place; the breaker can no longer shake them.
ª Pick a device in this place; power surges and fries it.

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· Jul 10

ENnies voting is live! I could explain why you should vote for Voidheart Symphony Revised for Best Layout and Design, *or* I could just show off some spreads. Think I'll do the latter 😘 vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2026/in...

A page of the rebel zine / setting chapter, describing the geography of castle shards and the power dynamics of their inhabitants.

A spread from the chapter of Example Vassals, showing two of the bastards your rebels might take down: The General, a bloodstained and powerful figure in the military-industrial complex; and The Livestream Punk, a streamer getting pushed to make increasingly cruel and violent content by a wretched algorithm.

Class introduction spread for The Harlequin – a rebel playbook focused on joy, mockery, and surrealist resistance.

Rules chapters for play in the city, showing the moves for learning information, channeling the power of the void, and resisting the crushing pressure of society.

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· Jul 8

Oh damn – it's almost July 14th again, the official holiday of 'Big Ambitious Storytelling RPGs That Do Cool Things With Societies and Speculative Fiction'. I know, I know: you're probably bored of seeing people talk about it, already put up your decorations. But this year's going to be a fun one!

A calendar for July; the 14th is labelled as "BASRPGSTDCTWSaSF Day!". Also there are cute cats.

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· Jul 7

Anyway. There's a new version of the game up wherever it's sold – with a new playbook, wording tweaks, updated handouts and more. Infest this city, sneak into its most secret places, and tear down the tyrannical 0.1% in GLITCHHEART VERMIN: minahoneybat.itch.io/glitchheart-...

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· Jul 7

Seriously though: it's very important to me that this game about hackers and network adventures cares about the material and physical. There isn't wizardry here or metaphor – everything you face is real, even if it's digital. In fact, that lines up with the first two principles of running the game!

>no magic
Unlike in this game's predecessor, there's no magical force of desire, passion and meaning to give your breakers a leg up. Every win will have to happen through shedding blood, sweat and tears. But similarly: their opponents don't have any supernatural power except capital. For every wizard, there's a man behind the curtain.

TO HIT THIS:
Demonstrate the painful limits of the breaker's power.
Show the corp's fancy promises, and what makes them a hollow facade.

>only meat.
Everything has a physical root. Even in the network, everything the breakers encounter is running on a server somewhere. Physical things have flaws: they break, they erode, they go off-script. Every action taken brings the actor closer to needing rest, repair, healing - or alternatively, collapse, death, retirement.
That's true of your omegacorp targets too: every move they make costs them, and their assets aren't infinite. Playing chicken with a corporate budget is risky, but sometimes there aren't any better options.

TO HIT THIS:
Tell them the costs of their action and ask if they still want to do it.
Show how only the corps can afford to maintain their assets.
And yet despite that, show how they burn out and ruin their assets.

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· Jul 7

WAS MAKING PLAYBOOK HANDOUTS LOOK LIKE THIS A GOOD IDEA? ❎ Small-minded, shows a mind captured by the tyranny of printers, a question best left for future historians. IS IT FUN TO MAKE PLAYBOOK HANDOUTS LOOK LIKE THIS? ✅ Enlightened, appreciates art, resists the demands of Epson, Xerox, and HP.

Another piece of photocopied paper, pink and distressed. This one is a standardized grid for machine-reading – a table headed 'Known Associates'. The Table columns are: Name, Pacted Dæmon, and Drain (a list going from 1 to 6, here represented as ! )

A residence permit for the City of Corona. It has spaces for the district the character lives in, their residence category (habitation block, reclaimed structure, temp house, shelter) and their employer.

The Wire-Rat's digital strengths, formatted as windows on a tablet floating over photographed graffiti of a rat. Included:

Core Functions
I can always ask: Who here feels most ignored by the others present? The admin will answer truthfully.

When I Quickhack, I can: Cause a hidden door, vent, or trapdoor in this area to open, either silently or with surprising force.
In a Partition, I can: Alter the shape of the network, detaching this node from its current position and attaching it to any other transit node on your map.

Wire-Rat Plugins
Mouse. When you Translate or Cloak, you can pause your movement between leaving one place and appearing at another – only reappearing when you wish to. If you mark a condition, you can pick one thing you find in this liminal space:
> A secret the proxy tried to hide from the alter.
> A revealing glimpse into the alter’s mind.
> Minutes from corp meetings, revealing their agenda.

Mosquito. When you incept a Vulnerability on a foe, you also gain 1 Heft, Flow or Haze from whichever vault is closest. If this empties the vault, the admin will place it on the map and mark it as empty.

Pigeon. When you find a high perch and survey an area, you can ask one of the questions from Probe without having to roll – gaining fleeting Advantage as usual.

Roach. You may carry any weight without being hurt, though your rolls gain Disadvantage once you’re lifting more than twice your body weight. Gain Advantage on rolls to Attenuate because of heavy weights or high pressure.

Purchases: Things the character can buy with their stolen resources – refreshing stress, buying weapons and tech, etc

Access
Refresh Crosshairs or Shackles 1F
Gain a Residence Permit 2F
Find (or make) a hidden path between two specific districts 3F
Acquire a Wire-Rat Deck Plugin 3F
Acquire any Deck Plugin 5F
Buy a ticket to Mars 33F

Network
Refresh Loathing or Crosshairs 1Ha
Erase a memory, with their consent 2Ha

Banked Assets: three boxes, one each for Heft, Flow and Haze.

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· Jul 6

And here's a little preview of something that might be dropping in the next week:

Simple text in the layout style for Heart: The City Beneath – Alegreya italics over aged paper.

The text reads:

There is a sun in the sky, and it brings us life – but it is not the true sun. Stare at it and then look away, and the truth will begin to unfold across your mind’s eye in impossible colors: stygian blue, self-luminous red, hyperbolic orange. That’s a start.

Go deeper. Into the mystery, yes, but also literally. Stare at the sun. Read the Spire’s doctrines. Learn the truths of the surface world and fill your mind with their light. And then: go deeper.

Down into the depths. Where the light of the sun cannot blind you. Where the light of truth cannot constrain you. Find the light that can only be seen against the deepest blackness. Find the seasons that can only exist with the heart’s pulsing. Find the divinity that is too real to exist among the constraints of the surface world.

Drink deep of the dark, Illuminate. And then ascend.

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· Jul 6

One week into running my own pages for side projects, and it's been genuinely lovely be able to just chuck stuff up for sale without having to worry about fulfillment pipelines and production timelines, heh. No shade to that stuff, it's important for long-term sustainability, but it wears on you

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· Jul 6

Starting up a new game of GlitchHeart Vermin today and was really feeling the need for an extra playbook, so I got to work. The Wire-Rat lives in the city's secret places, mapping its infrastructure, and turning it all against the corps who would enslave it

The Wire-Rat – A girl wearing islamic sportswear climbs up the ladder at abandoned building, under a sky that's full of wires.

The Intro text: You know this city in a way that few others do.
You make your home on its rooftops and find safety in its tunnels. Others may believe computation happens elsewhere, in the mythological cloud, but you’ve followed data flows and caressed subterranean servers. Now, that infrastructure serves you and only you.

The maintenance options. You have pathways into this city’s secret places. What route takes you within?

Tunnel Tech: The city’s veins flow under the mountain’s rock: tunnels and sewers and data trunks. You work for the city’s civic engineers, mapping the city’s anatomy, and plotting inscrutable routes from A to B. What’s the worst thing about being above-ground?
Place on the map a cavern you found down there, filled with abandoned machinery.
Pushing through these tunnels is hard, filthy work. Take a black mark in Loathing, and mark a tick in Collapse, Liabilities and Shackles.

Skylark: The city’s rooftops are a playground of AC units, ductwork, and zeppelin docks. With camouflage zipwires and hidden ladders, with service elevators in neighboring buildings and low-weight gliders, you flit from building to building in search of treasures to steal. How badly did your worst fall hurt you?
Place on the map the fence where you trade away stolen goods.
Your life is a whirl of constant, stupid, thrilling risks. Take a black mark in Collapse, and mark a tick in Liabilities, Loathing, and Crosshairs.

Custodian: They give you a jumpsuit and a cleaning trolley and set you loose in their most secret chambers. You’re beneath their notice, vermin with an ID badge. Try to stay anonymous. What’s the strangest thing you’ve been asked to clean up?
Place your cleaning agency’s offices on the map.
Your life is a whirl of background checks and temp jobs. Take a black mark in Crosshairs, and mark a tick in Liabilities, Loathing, and Shackles.

Wire-Rat Special
You have backdoors hidden in every trunk cable and switching array. They can try to purge your bots and remove your wiretaps , but each one they remove only matters as much as killing a single cockroach.
When you perform a task in a district, label one of the district’s claims with your mark. At the start of each job, also label a claim in your home district.
When you’re on a run, erase a mark to pick 1; if the claim is held by the corp you’re currently targeting, pick 1 more.
ª Heal a condition
ª Give a root program ongoing advantage for the rest of the run
ª Reset a pact to 1 Drain

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· Jul 5

Sometimes an idea hits you at midday and by the evening you have a mini-supplement written, laid out, and ready to go. (And then you sit on it for a few days to make sure it's good and worth putting out, heh) Anyway: look forward to finding out what this might be sometime next week ^^

A path winds across a page into an inky blank void – eventually reaching a glowing white sun, haloed in crimson.

Illumination awaits.

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· Jul 4

And the final part of masks that's interesting to me is: each is an elemental part of reality. It means something that your home domain is expressed in these forms. Each mask comes with a set of laws: players must pick one for each mask they gain, and it becomes a physical law of your home reality.

Laws of the Skies:
The future is written in the stars.
You'll never get lost if you can see the sky.
You can see more at night than during the day.
The closer something is, the harder it is to resist its influence.

Laws of the Atrocity
Every act of violence compels an act of penance.
Every act of violence nourishes the perpetrator.
Every act of violence reveals the weaknesses of the perpetrator.
Every act of violence strengthens the victim.

Laws of the Hive
The self must surrender to the collective.
Help someone now to get help later.
The leader's decisions are in the community's best interests.
Don't fear death: an identical twin will replace you.

Laws of the Wires
Every object can be hacked and controlled.
Every object can be awoken to sentience.
Communication can happen at any distance.
Machinery can perform useful functions for as long as it has power.

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· Jul 4

Maybe you spend that hoarded reality to reject an alien realm's attacks. Maybe you instead let the realm change you so that you can change it right back. There's an element of shifting tokens around, playing with your investments, trying to decide what matters to you. I'm excited to see it in play!

A page from the book describing how you get hurt and wounded. Taking damage means losing essence from your mask's phases, or destroying it outright. Meanwhile, taking wounds can rewrite your body, your mind, or your history.

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· Jul 4

That's mechanical: you invest your reality into the mask's phases, and those points give you dice to roll and powers to use when acting in that phase. The Volcanic mask has phases of Flame, Lava, Obsidian; the Atrocity mask has phases of Hatred, Harm, Murder.

The Volcanic mask's phases.

Haze: Fire
Lesser: Spark. You float up as fast as smoke rises.
Greater: Flame. You surge upwards dozens of meters in an instant.
Apex: Firework. You streak up a hundred meters. If you hit an obstacle, lose 1 essence to release a blast of light and noise and punch through it to travel onwards.
Advance: Phoenix Talons. Fear the firebird. Gain the Clash skill while wearing this mask. When you fly upwards, you can lose 1 essence to grab someone nearby and carry them up with you. At the apex of your flight you grow wings of fire to let you glide back down; whether you keep hold of your passenger is up to you.

Flow: Lava
Lesser: Hotspot. You control your own body heat, and can be comfortable in any temperature (though rapid changes still cause problems).
Greater: Lava Vent. Everything in arm's reach of you is hit with searing
heat, as hot as a kiln.
Apex: Caldera. Touch the ground to summon an upsurge of lava that'll slowly spread outwards at a walking pace, scorching everything it touches.
Advance: Pāhoehoe Crust. Beneath lava cooled to rock, the flow continues. Gain the Skulk skill while wearing this mask. You may lose 1 essence to disappear underground, swimming through rock like water. You leave behind a lifelike basalt statue in your place.

Heft: Obsidian
Lesser: Shards. The next wound you suffer is also inflicted on your opponent.
Greater: Macuahuitl. The next wound you suffer is inflicted on your opponent instead of you.
Apex: Smoking Mirror. The next fault you cause disappears into your depths, instantly negated.
Advance: Dark Reflection. Truths and lies dance in your depths. Gain the Commune skill while wearing this mask. Lose 1 essence to force someone in eyesight to ask you one: What am I most scared of? How am I most vulnerable? What's my greatest desire? Who's plotting against me? The GM will give you a true answer; whatever you say to the other
character, they’ll get a boost acting on it.

Phases of the Atrocity mask.

Haze: Hatred. Hatred gnaws at the mind, demanding violence.
Lesser: Barbed Tongue. Pick someone here to vent a long-held grudge, trashing one of their peers.
Greater: Flash of Rage. Inflame someone here to violent action, striking at
whoever's nearest.
Apex: Focused Frenzy. Give someone here an irresistible but fleeting hatred of a person of your choice.
Advance: Line It Up. It's impossible to ignore all the ways you could hurt those around you. Gain the Pinpoint skill while wearing this mask. Add these questions to the Insight list: How can this person be hurt? How can this thing be broken? Everyone present learns the answer, and gets a boost acting on it.

Flow: Harm. Blood and tears flow in your wake.
Lesser: Papercut. Give someone you touch a stinging but trivial wound.
Greater: Laceration. Give someone you touch a nasty, impairing wound.
Apex: Rupture. Give someone you touch a bleeding wound that'll stay open as long as you’re in their domain
Advance: Knife Mindset. You can create, but only in service of greater harm. Gain the Clash skill while wearing this mask. When you assemble any material into the rough shape of a blade, it will hold together as you swing it and cut as if it had a razor-sharp edge.

Heft: Murder. You wound the world with scars that can never heal.
Lesser: Wreck. Touch an object and make it fall to pieces, impossible to repair while you're present.
Greater: Kill. Touch a person; they fall dead, and will stay so for as long as you stay near.
Apex: Unmake. Kill a concept. For the next ten minutes, no-one here will remember it or be affected by it.
Advance: Pall-bearer. The dead are old friends to you. Gain the Sombre colour while wearing this mask. By laying your hand on something dead, you may speak to it as if it were alive – and they'll treat you like an old friend.

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· Jul 4

Instead of going into a realm with your truths exposed for its rules to rewrite, you wrap yourself in something elemental: fire, tides, stars, violence. When the realm you're in tries to oppose you, to redefine you, the mask acts as an ablative truth – it's shaved away, so that you stay yourself.

The Astrolabe mask. Descriptive text reads:

These stars are not the ones you remember,
and the Sun and moon are only memories.
Nevertheless: there are still stars, and worlds,
and even memory has its own kind of gravity.

The Atrocity mask. Descriptive text reads:

You are not nice, or good, or necessary.
Your arrival brings lamentation.
Your departure leaves only silence.
You are pure violence, and your presence here is an atrocity.

The Hydrologic mask. Descriptive text reads:
You are the water cycle: the grand rhythm of the world-that-was that brought life and shaped the land. In you, the cycle still turns.

The Volcanic mask. Descriptive text reads:

You are the destruction that brings life.
The burning flame that will clear the path.
The flowing magma that creates fertile land.

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· Jul 4

After the release of GlitchHeart, I was pleasantly surprised to see folks asking about Darkstar Anthem! Short answer is, oh boy is that game still exciting to me and living rent-free in my brain, but *wow* is it a kind of design that'll take some time yet to make.

Swirling paint and bubbles disappearing off into the void. The bubbles each contain a different world – cities, castles, forests, etc.

Minærva McJanda (she/her, zie/zir)@minahoneybat· Jul 3

Also, this means that Voidheart Symphony is two-for-two in getting nominated for best layout and design, see 2022. Which I am going to feel incredibly smug about for at least the rest of the day. ennie-awards.com/portfolio-it...