Creature From The Zach Lagoon

Hello Bluesky! 👺 I’m Zach Hazard Vaupen. Illustrator for hire, game designer, and comic maker. You’ve probably seen my work on Mothership and Liminal Horror. I also co-founded @cartoonistcoop.bsky.social Check out my work and get in contact for any type of project at my website emo-sludge.com

Anything can help! I've even made the base game of Chorogaiden free until the 31st! What you would have bought that for, consider donating (though no sweat) neon-rot.itch.io/chorogaiden-...

I think the funny thing about Meta's new AI scraping policy is that their apps are majority AI generated posts and uploads now so they're just going to be scraping AI spam which will only bring them rapidly closer to model collapse

Our list of spooky games is growing and they are cheaper than ever! Treat yourself with one (or more) of them for this Halloween! 💀💀🔪🩸

Does anyone else picture this when they hear the name Alicia Keys?

Ghost Ant

After several years of calling anyone they dislike a pedophile or a groomer, the GOP has discovered that it can be done to them too, and the chairman of the Ohio Republican party is not happy about it

For 🎃Halloween🎃 I'm posting the first piece of short fiction I've written in many years. It's a horror story I wrote for a zine I'll be giving away with my book Little Visitor & Other Abductions. I hope you enjoy it. 𝑪𝑹𝑶𝑷𝑷𝑬𝑫 𝑪𝑰𝑹𝑪𝑳𝑬 www.goodshowsir.com/new-blog/202...

btw she's only 100 wishlists away from 2500 which is a nice amount of wishlists to have store.steampowered.com/app/4860500/...

just a reminder that there are a lot of great videogames coming out - certainly more in the indie realm than when the indie boom started in the late 00's/early 2010's. and it is absolutely a failure of the larger game industry to not make that reality feel at all worthwhile or meaningful.

This looks like those videos from when the iPad first came out and people realized it was so flimsy you could fold it in half

My neighbor told me his Democrats keep turning into Republicans so I asked how many Democrats he has and he said he just goes to the primaries and gets a new Democrat and I said it sounds like he’s just feeding his votes to Republicans and then his children started crying

I just genuinely don't understand how they expect anyone who's trans or loves someone who is to be able to bring themselves to vote for this shit.

Flesh Scripture First Boss - PC-98 1989

I'm more convinced everyday that AI investment is so strong simply because it makes boomers feel like they know how to use a computer finally.

Now that this is out in the open, I can say that a certain book I did for a certain publisher affiliated with one of these people had generative expand used on my cover art without my permission, and it wasn’t removed before publication

I don't really understand why comic festivals that are commercial enterprises with corporate sponsorships and charge exhibitors hundreds of dollars for a little half table are allowed to "employ" volunteers while they enrich themselves.

I'm very fortunate that influencers weren't a thing yet when I was growing up so my primary role model was Goku

The only things I've ever known about Ethan Klein is that he apparently sucks and has a podcast, and so far the breaking news about his infidelity isn't really teaching me anything new about him.

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Dig in to LOCKED IN

Prison Banned Books Week isn't as sexy as Banned Books Week, I know, but it's important to give a shit about prison censorship, too.

Dig in to LOCKED IN

Folks with a Monthly Games membership to Ansible Uplink are going to get a Hexcrawl + Dungeon pamphlet adventure for Mothership RPG next week! I got caught up in how pamphlet form factor could be used, and wrote a double adventure: funnel hexcrawl + ruins "facility" crawl with The House of Light

Just made a post on my patreon where I talk briefly about LOCKED IN and share some art from the module (and behind the scenes stuff for patrons) www.patreon.com/emosludge/po...

Ok. I'll yap a bit more about Year 100 Million B.C. The next stretch goal is an adventure by the very talented @isaacisafraid.bsky.social!!! You want that, right?

I can't think of a more successful video game studio. It's never been more obvious that private equity are not even vultures eating the corpses of dead studios, they're body snatchers sucking out everything of value and then wearing the husk.

Pencils, posting at 1230am when I usually stop drawing for the night for maximum engagement™

Diminish an anime Vampire Follower D

GameDev but dev is short for devil

🏠 NEW LIMINAL HORROR HALLOWEEN MODULE DROP! Locked In is now available digitally. goblinarchives.itch.io/locked-in

I'm doing a bit of art for this! Go check it out.