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:)

Hey, I am so delighted to see @goblinmixtape.bsky.social bringing the spotlight to these Pocketopia projects, including Assemblage! 💙

A signal boost for this awesome dev log by @elanamakesgames.bsky.social! I got to playtest Old and Gray from @bolerogamestudio.bsky.social for the first time at GDC and I am so ready to cry my way through this wonderfully heartfelt and cozy narrative game when it comes out ✨😭💕

I had the delight of chatting with Nat about Assemblage during GameFace Con - after hearing more about the game, this was a no-brainer back for me! If you're interested in weird, fictional ecologies (and/or you were a Spore kid, like me), you should absolutely give this a look.

My #ttrpg Assemblage is crowdfunding on BackerKit and we just (very tentatively) hit our initial funding goal 😭 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

A separate post for this little gem of a ttrpg, also part of #Pocketopia 2025: "Assemblage" by @scryptidgames.bsky.social - and particularly the talented @natmesnard.bsky.social I had the chance to playtest "Assemblage" at Metatopia and it was really good! 💙 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Assemblage: A TTRPG of World-building and World-breaking just went live on Backerkit! bit.ly/AssemblageTT.... Support this new eco-fantasy TTRPG by @natmesnard.bsky.social in which 2-6 players collaboratively build the story of an interdependent ecosystem on the verge of environmental disaster.

New achievement unlocked: @natmesnard.bsky.social & I pitched our game together in front of a live audience at a public event, and we had a great time! Next stop: GDC ✈️

We’re honored to be selected as finalists to pitch our game on Tues! ✨ Come see us talk about Banned Together, a first-person mystery game about book banning & chosen family: www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/miib-g...

Hey Bluesky! We're a tiny studio in NYC, co-founded by @elanamakesgames.bsky.social & @natmesnard.bsky.social. Thanks to the amazing mentorship of @astridmrefstrup.bsky.social (Dev Relations @ the WINGS Fund) & support of @nyugamecenter.bsky.social, we're making games that uplift queer narratives 🌈🎮

Thanks to @dndarkpodcast.bsky.social for interviewing @brigittewinter.bsky.social about Scryptid Games, Brigitte's approach to game design, being a theater kid, making outsider games, and our next crowdfunding project: @natmesnard.bsky.social's Assemblage! bit.ly/dndarkinterv...

Narrascope 2025 is now accepting talk proposals through February 21st! Yet another reason you should write up your big idea and send it here: narrascope.org/talks/

Wait a minute! What is that tiny pie chart at the bottom? COMPUTER, ENHANCE!

Tell me a piece of trans writing you love that also genuinely feels like it is life-affirming, in the sense of like, "I feel like I can live my life more now" after you read it.

NYC area game devs, here's my list of useful newsletters, specific to you. It also includes some general NYC event sites, along with game-specific and game-adjacent ones. Corrections, additions welcome. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

NarraScope 2025 will take place June 20th-22nd at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. We hope to see you there! As always, we intend to stream all of our talks for those who cannot attend in person. Details: t.co/KXJP5oSDXM #NarraScope #InteractiveFiction

We're back! 📚 No agent? No published book? Our editors can’t wait to hear from you! Our submission period for debut novels will take place next month, Jan 11–12! Learn more about what we are looking for and how to submit your work: tinhouse.com/book-submiss...

Looking forward to this event tonight! ✨🤖

Sometimes when I get nervous about jump scares in indie games like Gone Home, I need to remind myself: “Oh, my sweet summer child, there’s no way this team had budget for a character animator”

I wrote down five awesome gifts you can get for your favorite tabletop game designers. Check it out. www.explorersdesign.com/2024-gift-gu...

Look! First info for NarraScope 2025! narrascope.org

The Berlin Apartment is a game about: 👥Different people 🏢living in the same apartment 🕰️across different decades Wishlist now! ✨ store.steampowered.com/app/2280430/...

Love this view of my in-development science-inspired eco-fantasy game Assemblage from @czamboni.bsky.social 💚

Had a blast prototyping a poignant TTRPG about revisiting old memories while meeting your friends at the park, on the last day of your lives 🌳🥺 Huge thanks to @natmesnard.bsky.social for hosting tonight’s workshop and @nyugamecenter.bsky.social for sponsoring!

Thanks, playtesters! It was a joy watching you build your sitcom world, fill it with zany shelter animals living their best lives together, and do stupid human tricks for treats. Miss the Kickstarter for Golden Good Girls? Pre-orders are now open: golden-good-girls.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

Bluesky first post! Writer & narrative game dev here deeply glad for a non-end days social media platform where I don't have to make video content 😅