Heyyy that's my game STARLEE DAVIDSON designed w/ @patrickdkwatson.bsky.social about a woman's inner motorcycle gang & their breakup-transcending trip through the woo-niverse! ✨🏍️

I'm teaching a 2.5 hour Zoom workshop on March 29 called MAKE SHORT GAMES. We'll discuss tiny #ttrpgs and one-pagers, and playstorm games of our own. A great opportunity to design your first game, or (for experienced folks) make something new: www.eventbrite.com/e/make-short...

A total delight to play bass in this band of game-writing rock stars. 🎸

Looking forward to @awpwriter.org #AWP26 this week, where I'll be moderating my panel "Story Game Presses: Pitching, Submissions & Publishing" with some incredible publishers: @domsdickey.bsky.social @nearfutures.bsky.social @justinsirois.bsky.social @natmesnard.bsky.social

We're bound for @awpwriter.org #AWP26 in Baltimore, MD this week! If you'll be around, come by the panels @brigittewinter.bsky.social and @natmesnard.bsky.social are running on games/writing, and visit us at Booth #T425 on the showroom floor.

So excited for @awpwriter.org #AWP26 this week, where I'll be moderating my panel "Prose, Poetry, and Play: Game Design as a Literary Practice" with some incredible designers/writers: @sharangbiswas.bsky.social, @davering.bsky.social, @nirele.bsky.social, and @brigittewinter.bsky.social! Join us 🎲

This is going to be delightful. My two spookiest friends, Will and @brigittewinter.bsky.social, in one livestream! Come watch us ~~~scare~~~ each other w/ how much we all love to read and write creepy queer fiction 💕

Stayed up way past our bedtime for this earlier in the week, 10/10 would stay up late again! Very interesting conversations as a whole

Of potential interest to fans of 2025's "Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn" anthology from Middle West Press: Baltimore-based @scryptidgames.bsky.social is crowd-funding an anthology comprising story-telling TTRPG, fiction, and poetry! Campaign ends Feb. 27, 2026! Info: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

I had an excellent time chatting with @natmesnard.bsky.social and @superdillin.bsky.social about games, the playful erotic, the rise of fan-games (the next step to fan fiction?) and more! They are cool people, if you didn’t know. Just saying.

This was suuuuuch a dynamic conversation with @superdillin.bsky.social and @sharangbiswas.bsky.social last night! People in the chat were...taking notes?! Tons of good stuff on subversive game design, erotic TTRPGs, and "emancipatory bleed." www.youtube.com/live/qtx5mX6...

New livestream! Join Scryptid Games Co-Founder @natmesnard.bsky.social tonight, 2/17, at 7pm ET for a chat with @backerkit.com #ZineTopia designers @sharangbiswas.bsky.social and @superdillin.bsky.social on their new games & the thriving New York City tabletop scene! youtube.com/live/qtx5mX6...

clown is cryptid; the wind chill in NYC today is NOT cryptid

Always fun to be a little unhinged on the internet with my buddy @brigittewinter.bsky.social. Never once have I tried to be cool 😤

Don’t miss our livestream tonight, 2/6, at 7pm ET. @natmesnard.bsky.social and @brigittewinter.bsky.social will share the story of how this project came to be, what Brigitte wants from submissions, and what to expect from the new "Make Short Games" class Nat is offering as a campaign reward.

Don’t forget to reserve your ticket for the Assemblage launch party! See you at 4pm today! 🍄 ❤️

TODAY is last chance to submit.

This was such a nice chat with @tabletopbookshelf.com!

Brooklyn: Join Nat this Saturday @20sidedstore.bsky.social!

I'm stoked that this is coming up on Saturday in NYC at @20sidedstore.bsky.social. If you're coming, grab your spot! Tix are free, but space is limited. Let's play together & tell stories of grief and ecological resilience: twentysidedstore.com/collections/...

The Quiet Year is now back in stock no matter where you live! The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US! store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...

We are excired to annnounce that @hannahtinti.bsky.social of @onestorymag.bsky.social will join @natmesnard.bsky.social in conversation at the Assemblage Game Launch Party at @20sidedstore.bsky.social on 1/31!

This is such an important @rascal.news read highlighting the awesomeness and depth of @laurieblake.bsky.social as a designer and as an activist! So stoked to see your words and your work highlighted. 💕

Assemblage from @scryptidgames.bsky.social is a card-based eco-fantasy storytelling game for 2-6 players where each player portrays an entire species—and collaborates in crafting an interdependent ecosystem on the verge of collapse. tabletopbookshelf.com/products/ass...

New podcast episode just dropped featuring an interview with @natmesnard.bsky.social and Talk of the Table! open.spotify.com/episode/52Oq...

This was such a delightful conversation. Thanks for having me! 🍄

New York friends, come hang out with me in Brooklyn on 1/31!

Join Scryptid Games and @natmesnard.bsky.social on 1/31 for the Assemblage game release party at Twenty Sided Store in Brooklyn, NY! twentysidedstore.com/collections/...

Get ready for Tales from the Cryptids! We are crowdfunding our first anthology in February 2026! Edited by @brigittewinter.bsky.social, this collection of TTRPGs, fiction, poetry, and other uncanny ephemera flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore: tinyurl.com/cryptidtales.

NarraScope submissions are open, and you have a month to get your talks, games, etc. in! Don't sleep on it!

We are delighted to announce that #NarraScope 2026 will take place this year from June 12th-14th at the University at Albany! We'll be collaborating w/ the @albany.edu #UAlbany Game Center, and its Director @jcorace.bsky.social 🎉 narrascope.org/blog/post/20...

Celebrating the official launch of Assemblage, a new TTRPG of world building and world breaking by @natmesnard.bsky.social, with this inspiring Tabletopped Podcast episode about the challenges and rewards of creating truly collaborative play spaces. tinyurl.com/4mt7zn8c

Yes! Love to see @scryptidgames.bsky.social titles in indie bookstores 🎉 And @games.mothspire.com nearby 💖

Lovely write-up in Gay City News for @juliewbach.bsky.social and their bookstore Hive Mind Books.

Any day a package from @scryptidgames.bsky.social arrives is a great day! I’m really excited to dive into Assemblage by @natmesnard.bsky.social.

I'm so glad it's in your hands @czamboni.bsky.social! Can't wait to hear what you think of the design ☺️

'Tis the season for hot chocolate, cozy blankets, and the itch.io Winter Sale! Check out our game discounts and core game bundle going on now until January 5th ☃️🏷 itch.io/s/175924/win...

Winter sale! ❄️ Scryptid Games products are 30% off this month on itch.io/s/175091/win...!

A delightful release party and a delightful worldbuilding game!

The 2026 Narrascope website is live! narrascope.org

@natmesnard.bsky.social & I had a great time chatting with Zoey on True Avatars, her weekly podcast about queer games! It was a fun convo that got into some serious issues - from puzzle design & “MetroidBrainias,” to fascism & queer erasure. Find the full interview (both audio & video) linked below!

Who can point me to some TTRPGs that use a physical component *other than* dice, cards, and tarot? I'm thinking games like Dread, only not Jenga. Give me your recs!

This is a good essay by @natmesnard.bsky.social ! Can't wait to receive my copy of "Assemblage"!

If you picked up Assemblage at PAX Unplugged and wanna read more about it, I have this exceedingly nerdy design diary / personal essay up over on @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social 🍄

Oooh, this haul also looks so so good 🤩

Delighted to see Assemblage amidst this enticing haul, being its RPG-in-a-box self at center along w/ so many indie friends! 🍄

I’m editing an anthology! And it’s about cryptids! 👀 This is a dream project for me, and I can’t wait to share this book of games, stories, poems, and other uncanny ephemera with you. Follow the project on Backerkit to learn more.

We are crowdfunding our first anthology! Tales from the Cryptids will launch on Backerkit for Zinetopia in February 2026. Follow the project to be the first to know when it goes live: bit.ly/3XVa94n.

3 FT Lecturers of Game Design jobs at UAlbany Open to game designers, developers, technical artists, narrative designers with a Master's. Metro North is starting limited train service from Grand Central albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta... #gamejob #gamejobs HT/ @jcorace.bsky.social

I got to playtest this at Metatopia and it was an atmospheric delight. I love what this design team is doing with ritual space and immersion. ✨ Definitely a project to support!