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!

Thanks to Nat Mesnard and Lauren Bilanko for having us at their Game Design Days panel! We had a blast talking about media inspirations, playtesting, and how to pinpoint the fun in a game. Keep an eye out for other events at Twenty Sided Store, especially Nat’s Assemblage release party on 1/31!

Tomorrow Nov 16 is the TTRPG Writing Workshop at Twenty Sided Store in NYC! It is part of NYU's Game Design Days and is lead by one of our Narrascope volunteers @natmesnard.bsky.social game-design-days.com

My @nyugamecenter.bsky.social Game Design Days event is gonna be so much fun. Just finished outlining the playstorming plan, and we'll be writing TTRPGs that take inspiration from TV and video games (like the delightful @sccreatives.bsky.social game Campanions!) twentysidedstore.com/collections/...

If you’re looking into novellas during awards season, I humbly put forth my own, from @neonhemlock.bsky.social? Gay archeologists, academic footnotes, alt history shenanigans, giant robots, hot superheroes, and hard-to-cook samosas are all plot points! www.neonhemlock.com/books/iron-b...

This cute little game I designed with @patrickdkwatson.bsky.social is out now! ✨

A live game show, a game manual jam, game-based street dance & live music, networking and gallery shows… a few highlights from our packed week of Game Design Days 2025! The fun kicks off this Friday, 11/14, leading up to No Quarter on 11/22. Free events all week — most requiring RSVP! Link in bio!

New York friends, who will we see at Game Design Days at Twenty Sided Store this Sunday, 11/16?? Join us for a two-part interactive creative event with @natmesnard.bsky.social, @twentysided.bsky.social, and @sccreatives.bsky.social. More info: bit.ly/4oIP9da

I'll be at Twenty Sided this weekend with some absolutely delightful folks discussing #ttrpg design and playstorming new games! Event is free, but tix are limited. Come on out!

Hehe. So pumped to playtest this unhinged sock puppet TTRPG I codesigned with @natmesnard.bsky.social this weekend at Metatopia! It’s been too many years since I had to pick dried glue off my hands for days.

Other Metatopia 2025 highlights! 🧵

Peak Metatopia is getting off the waitlist today into @jenkatwrites.bsky.social's Friday morning playtest for Pax Deorum. Ideal schedule complete. I can't wait to play!

Really excited to be presenting our second iteration of the @scryptidgames.bsky.social x @twentysided.bsky.social TTRPG Writing Workshop during Game Design Days this year! We'll be joined by the amazing @sccreatives.bsky.social ✨

Game Design Days is also returning November 14-22! This event series highlights the underground independent game design communities of NYC, creating additional opportunities for anyone curious about game design to connect with local studios, collectives, and spaces. game-design-days.com

Today on Edge Effects, @natmesnard.bsky.social reflects on their new table top role-playing game Assemblages: the strange creatures players create for its imaginary multispecies universe and the meditation they elicit on extinction, grief, and collaborative, queer survival in the Anthropocene. ♟️🍄

“My ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ character was a fat, short, slutty, transmasculine lightfoot halfling bard named Apple (no relation to Gwyneth Paltrow’s daughter).” Up now in Evergreen’s DAS VIDEOSPIEL: “Bad Apple” by @natmesnard.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/bad-app...

New essay up on @evergreenreview.bsky.social where I talk about my hot Baldur's Gate 3 character, POV in video games & the indie game dev work I've been doing as part of @unquietgames.bsky.social: evergreenreview.com/read/bad-app...

I'm teaching an interactive fiction class at @onestorymag.bsky.social this summer! Join me online July 10 - August 7 to make interactive stories in Twine. No coding experience required. Sign up here: one-story.com/product/inte...

Next month I'll be taking this Interactive Fiction class (as a student!) with @natmesnard.bsky.social at @onestorymag.bsky.social. Join us as we play & create stories that break the mold. All levels welcome. one-story.com/product/inte...

@thealeks.bsky.social hey, I'm a writer / game dev who sometimes works with Twine, and I want to write about your game "Egress" for an anthology I'm contributing to. If you'd be willing to chat about it, would you DM me?

Check out @unquietgames.bsky.social and their debut project BANNED TOGETHER, a first-person, 3D narrative puzzle game that follows two trans college students finding history — and chosen family — in a campus library. unquietgames.com

Author/publishing friends, Banned Together is a mystery video game about #bannedbooks from NYC-based devs @elanamakesgames.bsky.social and @natmesnard.bsky.social. You play as Ruby, an aspiring journalist. Coming in 2026: unquietgames.com #pridemonth #books #libraries

Live fast. Eat trash. Solve mysteries. Inspired by guidebook-style TTRPGs and a pulpy, punk ethos, Psychic Trash Detectives from @scryptidgames.bsky.social is a shared-GM game for 3-4 players about psychic trash animals solving the mysteries no one cares about tabletopbookshelf.com/products/psy...

Announcing: Games in NY Steam Sale event! A selection of more than 100 games made, set, or published in New York, on sale for one weekend! Join us Thurs 5/29 at 1pm EDT with a showcase on Twitch (twitch.tv/nyugamecenter) coinciding with the Sale page launch! More info at linktr.ee/nyugamecenter

The @narrascope.org conf is coming up this June in Philly, and this year includes a narrative games showcase. This will be attended by leaders in narrative spanning industry, academic, and independent backgrounds, and also has a wee bit of prize money involved 🏆 Submit now! itch.io/jam/narrasco...

Blue Prince is OUT NOW! Your journey to find Room 46 begins. linktr.ee/blueprincegame

Registration is now open for NarraScope 2025! Until April 11, full NarraScope 2025 memberships are available at a discounted Early Bird rate. Your membership provides access to all NarraScope talks, meals, and opportunities to sign up for workshops. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/narrascope...

We are truly in the final hours of the Assemblage #ttrpg campaign through @backerkit.com's #Pocketopia. Weird ecologies, remarkable interdependencies, survival in an uncertain future. 🍄 If this is your jam, a pledge before we close at 4PM ET would mean a lot to me! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Playing a bit of my GMless #ttrpg Assemblage today with the wonderful @drbrightstar.bsky.social, we found ourselves describing an organism (and its symbiote) who swims in a stomach-acid mangrove and sports a ridge of pitcher plant-like ears 🌱

happening tomorrow:)