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Hi, I'm Matthew R.F. Balousek. I'm a queer game designer and new media artist living in the NYC area. You can support me at any level on Patreon for digital access to my back-catalog, as well as access to new projects as they're released. For physical copies of my zines, I send those out on or around the start of each month. For bulk discounts on zines or other arrangements, feel free to contact me.
Squad Force Heroes
Doskvol Interstitials
Standoff
On The Internet, Nobody.
Rocks, Papers, Scissors
Wordle Games
Some Small Games
Noons
If you like Hiria: the Eternal City check out...
Tavern at the End of the World   - A solo journaling game
The Empress and her Seer   - A solo journaling game
Lost Post   - A Lost and Found solo journaling game about the journey of a Lost Letter.
The Devil Would Be Proud (1E)   - A mephistophelic solo journaling rpg
Roommates: I'm Just Not Sure   - A Solo Journaling Game
Project Terminus   - A solo-rpg about madness and the multiverse
Sigils in the Dark   - Solo journaling game and GM supplement.
The Dying World   - Magic saves the multiverse!
Loot the Plutes   - A table-top role playing game of heists, roguish swashbuckling & wealth redistribution.
Whispers in the Walls   - a solo journaling game you play in the dark
Candlelight   - Journey through the dark forest of the afterlife
Life on the homestead   - A solo journaling rpg
If you like I'm A Little Bit Beyond The Horizon check out...
Accomplice   - A single-player ttrpg about researching the unknown
A Visit To San Sibilia   - A solo journaling game about visiting an ever changing city
Princess with a Cursed Sword   - A solo journaling game
You Awaken in a Strange Place   - A Zero-Prep, One-Shot TTRPG for 4 Players
Two Stand To Fall   - solo ttrpg. face a death you already faced.
RENOVATION   - A solo journaling game about a house and its renovation.
Lost To The Starlit Reptiles   - A pamphlet hexcrawl adventure
Tavern at the End of the World   - A solo journaling game
Scratch Fables   - A storytelling TTRPG inspired by Mad Libs
The Empress and her Seer   - A solo journaling game
Elfinfolk   - A game about tiny explorers and larger-than-life adventures
Delve Too Deep   - A system-neutral fantasy one-shot adventure
If you like Pioneers check out...
Wild Duelist   - A medieval action ttrpg about animalfolk warriors travelling to violent duels. Illuminated by LUMEN.
Outward Bound   - A game of space exploration, inter-species cooperation and weird anomalies, based on the Four Points RPG System.
FURIOUS ROADS -  Postapoc Tricube Tales   - Enjoy frenzied action while you strive to survive in a desolate wasteland.
paKtbound   - A LUMEN game
Dwindle   - Occult cyberpunk in the shadow of a twilight city
ANNA-X66 (ashcan edition)   - A post-apocalyptic setting hack for Electric Bastionland
Apocalypse World   - Something's wrong with the world and I don't know what it is.
Krampus says Punching Nazis is a free action   - Punch Nazis as a free action
Chosen Ones   - A post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG, illuminated by LUMEN
Vibe Check - Enter the Inversion   - Survive the Watcher's Game in this illuminated by LUMEN tabletop role-playing game
Our Farm Becomes the Battlefield   - low-tech + anti-capitalist + power fantasy; illuminated ttrpg
Wretched Wasteland   - A solo journaling RPG set in a barren post-apocalyptic wasteland