🧤 🎄 Something Festive This Way Comes! 🎿 Celebrate the holidays in this Operation CanCon expansion. Part series sampler, part year-end surprise, this festive adventure sends you back in search of true north classics, seasonal songs throughout Canadian history. 🎁 Bundle up! Get your free copy!

✈️ Ready to conclude the Break system series of international #heist #gamebooks? Start your winter holiday #interactivefiction journey through #Switzerland and grab your copy now at www.amazon.ca/Winter-Missi... youtu.be/tloRnl8hhkE?...

⛰️ 📚 Get the exclusive first look at THE WINTER MISSION, the highly anticipated conclusion to our BREAK system series of gamebooks. 👭 You're going to need some allies! The Winter Mission combines branching choices with dice-based microgames. #interactivefiction www.amazon.ca/Winter-Missi...

🎄 🏂 ❄️ The math says no. The season says yes. 🏔️ An impossible opportunity lures you from the streets of Toronto to the treacherous peaks of Switzerland. You can’t resist the target but traps lie in wait. The enemy knows you’re coming. #interactivefiction www.amazon.ca/Winter-Missi...

Interested in an #interactivefiction book set in a #haunted #casino in #Ontario? Inspired by the daring #heist at the Louvre? Check out the #FallAffair

Want to explore #Ontario in a choose-your-own-adventure #CYOA #Halloween #heist? Check out The Fall Affair #interactivefiction www.amazon.ca/Fall-Affair-...

Hey, #Canada! Ready for some homegrown frights and chills this #Halloween? Check out The Fall Affair... The #heist in a #haunted #casino in ...#Ontario. www.amazon.ca/Fall-Affair-...

🎉☕We are thrilled to be covered by the wonderful #CoffeeWithKilroy. Subscribe to their channel, they rock! youtu.be/t0N7KjVP6w4?...

Down for some creepy chills in a #Halloween #heist set in #Canada? You are in luck! www.amazon.ca/Fall-Affair-...

The 2025 edition of ECTOCOMP, the interactive fiction community's annual spooky competition, is here! Submissions open on October 1, but you can begin working on your spooky IF now. Rules and more info on the jam page: itch.io/jam/ectocomp...

🤽‍♂️🤿And here's our deep dive into this haunted casino heist set in beautiful #Ontario, #Canada #Gamebook #InteractiveFiction #ChooseYourOwnAdventure #Heist #Horror #Halloween #SpookySeason #Canada #Ontario #GameDesign youtu.be/Dqko7VbGfok?...

🎃🧛‍♀️🦇Here's a tutorial for The Fall Affair, the haunted casino heist #gamebook! In this video, you learn how to play this immersive, decision-driven gamebook, where your choices take you to a long-abandoned casino in #Ontario. 🎲Get your copy now: www.amazon.ca/dp/B0FP5D3YK4 youtu.be/bCvwKYT2UiU?...

🦇🧛‍♀️🍂We just made SO MANY videos about our new book!!! 🎃This one is just IN TIME for Halloween, all about a haunted casino heist. The Fall Affair is a standalone trip in the Break system series. A six-sided die is recommended, but not required for your journey. #CYOA youtu.be/UBA9Oc0ynGg?...

hello new followers! i'm anna, a game writer / narrative designer and a game design educator, all of which are fields that are extremely hard to find work in right now! if you'll allow me a brief thread, i will list some of the shenanigans i am currently engaged in to try and make ends meet

if you missed it i posted my lesson plan and materials from when i ran AD&D: Tomb of Horrors in my history of rpgs class for my students! yesterday i posted Diplomacy – tomorrow will be a seminal indie rpg from 2010!

🎃🧛‍♀️🦇🎰How about a haunted casino, a shadowy underworld crime network, and a ...heist? 🍂If your answer is, "Yes, please!" Check out The Fall Affair! youtu.be/UBA9Oc0ynGg?...

🍁🍎🏫Back-To-School Giveaway Time! We are giving away 10 signed copies of the Operation CanCon 80s gamebook, the 1980s music shopping simulator, to folks who leave a comment about their favourite music shopping experience under this video here. Shipping to #Canada only. youtu.be/ReOzN3XMO0U?...

ICYMI: The One Minute Music Book Club: How Does It Sound Now? Legendary Engineers and Vintage Gear #musicnews

🌸Our in-house game designer #DerekSchraner has been busy. This is his FIFTH book this year, another intricate, wholly original take on interactive fiction, this time a heist in #Kyoto #Japan You solve the puzzle of how to do the job without getting caught ...or worse www.amazon.ca/stores/Derek...

Hey #Canada, are you feeling a little ...angry about the way a certain 🍊politician talks about us and our beautiful country? Us too. #Canada has the best people and #music in the world. We wrote a trilogy of #gamebooks designed to celebrate the glory that is #Canadian 80s, 90s and classic music.

I'm in BBCs "Not by the Playbook" podcast about sports...and this episode, on "boards" --surfing, D&D, and board games! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... #gamedesign #boardgames #socialimpact @elizaskinner.bsky.social

The next episode of our DM’s Book Club series is out! Episode #10: What A Con! UKGE 2025 (and anecdotes from a Renaissance Fair) 🎲 🎙️ 🎧 🎧 linktr.ee/dmbc #RPG #ttrpg #dmbc #ukge #renfaire

Investigations into the family of Cunobelin, who played our game of Aquila 2000 years ago, drew us to Mersea Island and a new mystery involving some Romans buried there. Spinning off from this was an interesting find from Roman times: what this is we do not know. Photo by Callum Allsop / ADAS.

📺 🎧 Woot! #OperationCanCon is featured on the amazing Salt and Sass #Twitch stream. 🍁 We are HONOURED, Mandi, the leading voice in Canada about all things #boardgames and #gamebooks, is the BEST. Buy this celebration of #Canada on #Amazon www.twitch.tv/videos/24876...

🚨 🎸 Remember the 1990s? Now you can relive the 1990s with a new #Canadian #gamebook, shop in iconic #Ottawa and #Toronto music stores. 🎶 Which songs are featured in #OperationCanCon 90s? 💪💪🍁Find out! And #ElbowsUp, #Canada youtube.com/shorts/ODxMH...

🎷 🎻 🎺 #Canada has been churning out some of the world's best music for decades. What songs are featured in a new #Canadian #gamebook all about celebrating and BUYING #Canadian music? Find out. 🏒🍁💪💪And #ElbowsUp, #Canada youtube.com/shorts/LaecY...

🛍️ 🛒 Proud to be #Canadian? Yeah, us too! Annoyed by 🍊people who mock our brilliant, rich culture? 🍁💪💪Yeah, us too. What iconic #Canadian #record #stores are featured in the new #Canadian #gamebook? 👇 Find out! www.youtube.com/shorts/k8UpO... 🏒and #ElbowsUp, elbows way up.

I played a big ol' game of Elder Scrolls at @chiptheorygames.bsky.social HQ last week, and now I'm releasing the footage as I edit! In this episode, you can see me play a new class, the Chef, that will be released at GenCon. youtu.be/D4nhmQJ9W5I

🗾⛩️Broke like us and want to travel to #Kyoto #Japan and can't afford it? (Yeah, us too). ⛩️But you can tour the city in this new #gamebook and #ChooseYourOwnAdventure youtu.be/_53SVKQpCeU?...

🎲📗#LockdownLudonaut has been watching Coffee With Kilroy for a while now and so we were THRILLED to see this overview of #LockdownLudonaut's book, The Summer Job. ⛱️This Choose-Your-Own Adventure style book is perfect for solo summer gaming #Gamebook #InteractiveFiction youtu.be/pAN98IkhX0k?...

🧵Just heard about the death of #JuliettePowell. Stunned... I was just messaging someone how she was a major influence on our musical tastes in the #1990s, not only expanding the reach of dance music with #ElectricCircus, but giving more exposure to Francophone music through #FrenchKiss...

The strangest, most personal roll-and-write #game ever made about living like a hermit? Yes. #Swiss #Canadian author Derek Schraner presents Hikikomori, an immersive “lucky lockdown life simulator” inspired by the social isolation. #remotework #boardgame lockdownludonaut.com/2025/03/08/h...

So excited about this. A brand-new #solo #gamebook about music shopping in #Canada in the 1980s. You are transported to #YongeStreet in #Toronto to visit the record shops like Sam's, A&A, Peter Dunn's Starsound on a mission to preserve #Canadian culture. #boardgame youtu.be/OQBc1W4-mPw?...

🍁Operation #CanCon is live on #BoardGameGeek! A response to threats to #Canadian #sovereignty, this all-Canadian #gamebook transports you back to the 1980s downtown #Toronto #YongeStreet strip to do some record shopping to save #Canada. #ElbowsUp boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/44...

👇▶️Subscribe to my #YouTube channel and leave a comment on my #BoardGame #Dissertation #Podcast and you'll be entered into a drawing for one of 10 "Operation CanCon" gamebooks. The giveaway lasts until #CanadaDay Don't miss out! #ElbowsUp #Canada youtu.be/YDm-99e8CA4

Love this so much. There's a new #gamebook about #Canadian #music that just launched. #20GreatCanadianTunes The mission? Save #Canadian music and save #Canada. bsky.app/profile/tpob...