Grint @ Unpub Festival 2026

4. Kill your Ego. Kill your Ego. Kill your Ego.
Love your work, Talk about your Shit, but Kill your Ego. Ask other people what they're working on and listen. If something sounds cool, try it out if you have the time. Or follow up later. We all get stronger together.

If I have any advice or thoughts for myself (or others) who want to do an event like this in the future:
1. Kill your Ego. Be open to all feedback, note it, and move along.
2. If things break, that's an opportunity to fix it.
3. RPGs are hard to playtest, create small slices that sing if you can

Absolutely stellar experience that has really set me on a path to success (Complete Fun Games, eventually). I absolutely want to do this again next year, and I'll be on the lookout for other gamedev and playtest opportunities!

Everyone I had playtest both Juice! and Go! My Creations! was an absolute fountain of cool and interesting feedback, and my games transformed in real time from Thursday to Saturday. Even folks who didn't have the best time with my rules still thanked me for showing off my game. Blunt, but Kind.

As they told us in the Welcome to Unpub panel "you may be blunt, but you absolutely must be kind."

Home from #unpub Festival 2026! This was my first year, and I was completely unsure what to expect. What I got was an absolutely welcoming and funloving environment with people who love making and playing games in equal measure.

At this point in my life, I basically consider Tom Bombadil to be a local god of a place. The dude's essentially like a particularly powerful and ancient kami.

More seriously, really enjoying the multihour Bombadil talk in the latest Shelved by Genre episode. Really eye-opening to know that even contemporary readers of Tolkien had the absolute incandescent fury over the jolly old fellow.

“Here i go Bombakilling Again” said Tom, as he unslung his autotuner

A new Bombadil for 2026 @rangedtouch.bsky.social

A terrible fate

Dan Schkade's run on Flash Gordon is something that continues to bring me joy.

Four panels a day of uncomplicated, pulpy, science fiction joy, drawn with some of the crispest care and attention and moving at a brisk pace of "one awesome thing definitely happens by Saturday". It's great. Go read.

Stinky Snake.

Stinky Worm?

Late birthday draw for the @wobblypython.bsky.social

Well he was stabbed repeatedly

Super Lesbian Animal RPG has a "wokeometer rating" of 10

hell yes a perfect 10/10 on the wokeometer. this is an honor. do they send me a trophy or

#unpub you know you want this Juice! I’ll be in the ballroom from 10-2pm testing my speed poker/solitaire. Race against time and burn like a shooting star crashing through a window. Table N5 on the far side

he's really bad at this
#REBHfun #ResidentEvil #RE4 #LeonKennedy #sketch

And play with my cat, which is even more important.

Had to wake up Kinda Early today to make sure I got back to #unpub on time for my morning block, so of course my body decided I needed to be up Double Early. At least it gave me time to stretch out lmao

Oh huh, Solasta 2 came out in early access. I enjoyed the first game pretty well, but I wonder how folks will receive it in a world that contains Baldur's Gate 3.

#ShelvedbyGenre #LordoftheYear

HRNGNGG I WANT TO MAKE A COOL DECK

I have run this thing on three occasions (once yesterday and twice today) and it’s morphed drastically for the better each time. I am planning for custom artwork decks and players now which is a sentence I would never in a million years have said before today

i have explained subcreation. i will explain it one more time, if you do good. i will explain it... two more times, if you do bad.

We’re going to play Telephone and Scream Into The Bottle

0. I’m staying in the basement. You heard me.

Holky shit I had a phenomenal playtest for Juice! just now. Really awesome break in the game rules that I think should get added in officially. @unpub.org is so cool

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@unpub.org festival 2026!