CJ Tucker

@crackerjackalope.bsky.social

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Writer, game designer, welsh, queer they/them https://crackerjackalope-games.itch.io/

The thumbnail for 3 Shining Motes. White text on a black background reading: "3 Shining Motes by Daniel Copper | The Copper Compendium". Several simple stars are placed throughout the logo.
The thumbnail for A Heart Starts Beating, the title is placed on a red flowery background reminiscent of a vintage book cover. Underneath the title, "A Heart Starts Beating", is text reading "a queer haunted house game"
The thumbnail for A Witch's Pilgrimage. A lineart illustration of a witch with her back to the camera looking over her shoulder. Her right arm is raised and magic is conjuring around it. To the right of the illustration reads: "A Witch's Pilgrimage, A Fantasy Solo RPG by CJ Tucker".
A screencap from Horrible Histories. The rat puppet is holding up a sign that says "they really did this!"
Four books, from left to right: 'The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts' by Delyth Badder and Mark Norman, 'Paranormal Cardiff' by Mark Rees, 'Curious Welsh Tales' by Geraint Roberts and 'Who Cares About Wales?' by Will Hayward
On the left: text reading "Funding for Gamefound RPG Party" On the right: the cover of Dewin, featuring an illustration of a view from a bridge across a river. A ghost stands on the river bank in the distance. The title "DEWIN" is at the top in a green to brown gradient, and at the bottom is the text "A healing journey through a haunted country by CJ Tucker"
Title: Perform the Incantation At the end of the game, choose 3 cards from your pack to form your hand. The quality of your hand determines the success of your incantation. Speak your magic words and consult Table 4 for the results. A table labelled "Table 4 – Outcomes" with the headings "Hand" and "Example" The table has the following entries Flush All cards in the same suit ♣J️, ♣6️, ♣2️ Straight All card values in sequence ♠5, ♣6️, ♦7️ Straight Flush All cards of the same suit and in sequence ♦9, ♦10, ♦J️ Three-of-a-kind All cards are the same value ♦Q️, ♣Q️, ♥Q️ Bullet points reading: • Flush - You briefly bring down your familiar’s soul. You can only say a few words but you know they’ll hear them. What do you say? • Straight - You bring your familiar back to life, but it is only fleeting. You have one more day to spend with them, what do you do? • Straight Flush - Your familiar returns but only for so long. You think they have another year or so left. What do you do with them that you always regretted missing out on? • Three-of-a-kind - Your familiar returns in full health, they have a whole extra life ahead of them! What is the first thing you do together? • Anything Else - The ritual fails, you don’t get to see them again or say any final words. How long does it take to find peace with your grief?
Two tables. The first is labelled "Table 1 - Locations" and has two columns "Die Size" and "Location Name" The table has the following entries d4 The Well of [Blank] d6 The Spring of [Blank] d8 The Shrine of [Blank] d10 The Summit of [Blank] d12 The Cave of [Blank] d20 The Temple of [Blank] The second table is labelled "Table 2 - Fill in the Blank" and has two columns: "Die Result" and "Fill in the Blank" The table has the following entries: 1 Luck 2 Hope 3 Plenty 4 Souls 5 Life 6 Protection 7 Fire 8 Music 9 Faith 10 Death 11 Demons 12 Despair 13 Grace 14 Ivy 15 Decadence 16 Fear 17 Beasts 18 Bones 19 the Dragon 20 Doom Finally, there is a sidebar which reads "Most locations should have two or three lines connecting them. Particularly remote locations may have just one."
A lineart illustration of a witch with her back to the camera looking over her shoulder. Her right arm is raised and magic is conjuring around it. To the right of the illustration reads: "A Witch's Pilgrimage, a fantasy solo RPG by CJ Tucker"
The cover of my game Visitations. An antique illustration of a man falling to the ground before a robed ghost. Text above the image reads "Visitations" and text below reads "A solo game of ghostly encounters by CJ Tucker"
A photograph of a pin badge featuring an illustrated brown jackalope on an orange background
A screenshot from the Wikipedia page "Opinion polling for the 2026 Senedd election" showing poll results since the Caerphilly by-election in October 2025. 3 results show a tie between Plaid and Reform, two show Reform wins (with a highest lead of 7%), and 7 show Plaid wins (with a highest lead of 14%).
Cinematic Closely tied to the heroic keyword, the cinematic keyword is about how we like abilities and features to be strongly evocative. You can imagine your character doing or saying these things. “In All This Confusion” is a good name for the shadow’s ability to slip out of melee and retreat to safety. The text of the ability says how it works, but the name creates an awareness that explains how it’s working. When Sir Vanazor the dragon knight fury leaps onto a goblin war spider, cleaving through the goblins riding the creature in a single turn, you experience that action in your mind. It feels like a movie. It doesn’t feel simply as if you rolled well, but like an epic scene, complete with slow motion and a Carpenter Brut soundtrack. You should imagine your tactician character leading the battle, granting your allies free strikes, extra maneuvers. Coordinating the battle. That’s what the name implies. And if we’ve done a good job, when you read through your character’s abilities, you think, “Yes! This is what I was imagining! I can’t wait to do this!”
A portrait flyer with a light brown background and white text. The title is "Witch of the Mountains". On the right of the image is an illustration of a pale woman wearing loose yellow/brown clothing and an amulet around her neck. She has pitch black eyes and long, brown hair that goes all the way down to her feet. On both sides of the image are columns of glyphs. The text reads: "Witch of the Mountains Corpses litter the path all the way to the Mountain Witch's summit, a reminder to travellers that the journey is a trecherous one. Despite the warnings, hopeful individuals from all over the known world journey here in an attempt to have their wishes granted. All who return from the mountain come back empty handed, having failed their quest to summit the mountain. Most never return, but do they die on the journey or do they get their wish granted for some terrible cost? Choose one truth: No one has made it to the summit, the Witch might not even exist. The Witch turns all who reach her into birds to spy on the village. The Witch grants a wish to all who reach her, but they may never return home. Writing and Layout: CJ Tucker Art: Oozejar Fonts: Bardolatry, Alibaba Sans, NineMatScript Published under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 license."
The game Borrowers Dungeon Crawl placed inside a plant pot. On the cover, beneath the title, is an illustration of a light-skinned person. They have short hair and a hood, on one hand rests a large moth, and on their belt is a large pair of embroidery scissors. Beneath the illustration is the subtitle: "A Tiny Game About Tiny People by CJ Tucker"
A bar graph showing downloads of my games from the last month on Itch.io, Every day is under 20 downloads except for yesterday which is at 34.
The poster for KPop Demon Hunters
A photograph of Dill Pickle Iced Tea Text below reading: "Loon Lake Iced Tea Dill Pickle Iced Tea Brewed black tea infused with dill pickle flavor and served with a dill pickle spear. Garnished with a rim of chamoy, Tajín, salt and dill. (Vegan, Gluten Free)"
Text reading: "Each round, players will use their coins to vote to increase the depth by 1 (heads) or decrease it by 1 (tails). You may say whatever you want before voting. Count all the votes at one time, then add the total to your depth. The captain’s vote counts twice. Track your depth using the 3d6 you rolled at the beginning. If depth ever exceeds 18, your sub crashes into the ocean floor and everyone dies. If depth ever reaches 0, the sub surfaces and the game is over. Each player who achieved their goal wins. A note for the moderator: Play your role as theatrically as you like. Strike fear into the other players with your descriptions of the creaking sub and the unseen creatures that lurk outside it. Goad them by asking whether a laugh counts as raising their voice, and crank up the pressure when they complain about your decisions." Beside the text is an antique illustration of a squid, tinted blue.
Text reading "KILL A GOD When you confront a god in their true form and exploit their Downfall to kill them, describe how you slay them and roll 2d6. On a hit (7-9), they seize something vital from you as well; name what vital part of yourself you lose. On a strong hit (10+), their death transforms, liberates, or shields an aspect of the Cradle; describe what, and how. On a miss (6-), they bestow a curse upon you with their dying breath. Regardless of your roll, you seize a semblance of their Power."
A screenshot from anydice.com showing the distribution of "3d6+2d6+1d6". It is a perfect bell-curve with a mean of 21 and a range of 6-36.
A bar graph. The X-axis is titled "Number of messages before the game ends" and ranges from 1-109, and the Y-axis is titled "Frequency" and ranges from 0 to 50. The most frequent number of messages is 29, with a frequency of 41. 19, 25, 30 and 35 messages are all also close.
The cover for Goodbye World. Text reads: "Goodbye World, a game of last words by Crackerjackalope." Above the text is a sketch-y illustration of a dying mech with a large sword stabbed through it's chest.
Blue Prince's banner on steam, showing the game's title against a blue wall with a doorway to the left. Through the doorway, there is a silhouette of a person in the distance.
an error message reading: Runtime Error Program: ...on\Fist of the Forgotten Demo\FistOfTheForgottenDemo.exe This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information.
Pink text on a purple background reading "ABODE"
A character sheet from Mausritter for a character named "Pearl Butterball", the inventory is made up of a series of slots, 1 for each hand, a wide slot for the body, and 6 additional slots for carrying. Pearl is holding a sling and some stones, wearing light armour, and carrying torches, rations and cookpots; one of their inventory slots is also filled with a condition: exhausted
A screenshot from wikipedia reading ""Fifth Edition" was published in 1995 by West End Games. It was the third edition of the game released"
Text reading: "Goodbye World, A Game of Last Words by Cracker jackalope", beside the text is a grainy, black and white illustration of a destroyed mech with a sword sticking out of its chest.
Light blue text reading: "There's something about the deep" beside an illustration of a fish head. The background is an underwater picture showing a chain going up towards the underside of a ship, artificially tinted deep blue.
The text: "Goodbye, World: A game of last words by Crackerjackalope" besides a greyscale image of a destroyed mech leaning against a rock with a sword through its chest
The game's title: "Late Night In Limbo" with a simple illustration of a crescent moon in the background