Independent games & tabletop publishing

Two kinds of weather, one workshop.

Goggles for the tinkering — absurd machines, creatures made of kitchen appliances, systems built to be taken apart. Windchimes for the rest — a forty-year world with its own ecology, its own history, and its own alphabet. We publish both on purpose.

Meet VERSUS Enter the Vale Universe

The catalogue

What we make

Coming soon VERSUS — Egg to Legend Hatch an egg, raise something strange, and fight your way across a real-world map. 124 forms across 50 evolution chains. Free, no install, no account, no ads. Browser · Creature battler In development AbyssFall A roguelite metroidvania set in the Vale Universe. Descend the Abyss through thirteen biomes and four depth layers. Death takes your Anima. Something always carries forward. PC · Godot 4 Seeking a publisher A Vale Beyond An original-system tabletop RPG built on Anima — the force that gives life to inanimate things. Deep ecology, working languages, and a world drawn as a naturalist's field guide. Tabletop RPG · Print Published 2025 Oon A maze pursuit game for two to four players. The die tells you how far. The card tells you which way. The maze decides whether you like it or not. Tabletop · 2–4 players

The imprint

A small press with a long memory

Goggles & Windchimes publishes the games and worlds of Ken Bewley. Some of that work is four decades old — a homemade RPG about escaping a suburb, played on floors in Concord, California, that grew a mythology and never stopped. Some of it was written this year and runs in a browser tab.

We think those two things belong under one roof. The tinkering is what makes the myth build-able; the myth is what makes the tinkering worth doing.

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