📢 CALLING ALL NONBINARY GAME DEVS! 📢 i'm helping run a steam sale event to showcase games made by nonbinary devs during the week of international nonbinary day! if you fit this description, fill out the form by may 18 👉 forms.gle/cx9AqFfPqzF9... please share & send to all your nb dev friends!!

tried this out tonight after two CAIN nights fell through. unconventional project but if you end up not having a tabletop session for any reason this is an experience worth managing instead. gonna go out and buy a new notebook for it i think.

STS folks, @alexross73.bsky.social & I are leading an open panel for 4S 2026 (in Toronto!) on games vs./as reactionary politics 🎮 WarGames references & re-imaginations of gamer capital galore! Submit your 250-word abstracts via the @4sweb.bsky.social system & message us with any burning questions 🔥

15 days left to support the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota and pick up HOW'S NEXT WEEK and 1438 other weird and beautiful games & arts in this bunde!! itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

Indeed. The purchaseable *product* we call the TTRPG begins in the 1970s with Western Gunfight, Chainmail, and D&D. Yet role-playing "parlor games," simulations, and similar are centuries old and draw from a well that resembles all the positive stuff about D&D. Parlor games were feminized...

Search your group chat for clues. Decode your friends' excuses. Deduce the nature of the transdimensional bodysnatchers keeping you from rolling your dice. 🎲 Save game night. 🪐 Save humankind. 🫡 Join the ANXS.

HOW’S NEXT WEEK is a solo journaling anti-game you play when your #TTRPG sessions get cancelled. 🕹️ gravesnail.itch.io/next-week

Hi friends! This weekend, I'm planning to share deets about a #ttrpg project I've been working on for over a year now <3 In advance, I truly apologize for what's about to happen, muahahaha ✨ ❌🎲👁️

📄 Pub alert! ✨ My piece with @madzbrutal.bsky.social is out in the Bulletin of Applied Trans Studies @transstudies.bsky.social 🦇 We analyze how gender critical forum users on Ovarit and Mumsnet were radicalized through anti-trans media literacy and storytelling practices. doi.org/10.57814/wjd...

This week, Percy and Nick discuss the politics of games and the different ways that TTRPGs have engaged with leftist and antifascist movements with a special guest: scholar of analog games @persephone.blue! listen now on your podcatcher of choice 😎 linktr.ee/dndramanerds

Y'all, I'm so trash at rhythm games but I'm over the moon this is out in the world. Congrats @gensuta.itch.io!! 🔥🛼🎉

🦋 Hey! Listen! @madzbrutal.bsky.social and my article on Ocarina of Time, trans movement, tool-assisted speedruns, and code injections is out today at @jcmsjournal.bsky.social! Link finally gets the Triforce and we can finally resolve the age-old question of "is speedrunning queer???" 📄🔗⬇️

Showing Skate & Date and on an anti-panel about trans games with other folks at 4:30pm EST @qgcon.bsky.social So excited to be here!!!

Our 2025 series is out now! The CHEESE is here with three games by talented developers. The cheesy, the cheesying, the cheese-able all playable for free here: itch.io/b/3301/brief... You wanted shorter artsier games? You'd better pick the bundle up!

AMAZING presentation by @persephone.blue and @percivalhornak.bsky.social, I was spellbound right to the end! Go read their full paper, it is so good: analoggamestudies.org/2025/07/lich...

So hyped to be talking about liches, trans play, lyric games, and parasitic eels with the fantabulous @percivalhornak.bsky.social in ~10 minutes at Generation Analog! @analoggamestudies.bsky.social 🌔🎲💀✨

‼️I have a new article out this week! 🎉 From anti-game jams to fantasy console communities, I explored how ✨ speculative game design ✨ practices are a vital response to growing precarity in tech industries. Also, it's open access! Also, it won best paper at #FDG25! 🏆

An update! 🌌💜✨🔥

I'm crushed to not be at SCMS in meatspace this year, but grateful to @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social for coordinating a panel on games & political economy to kick off the conference! Should be a great conversation, and I hope the early birds enjoy my little video on fantasy consoles & anti-games 🎮🔥✨

In our continuing Zine Month coverage, @rowanzeoli.bsky.social curated a list of crowdfunding projects by trans game designers

Started some new ink!!! Featuring my beloved Mxtress 💜✨Chaos✨💜, whose boons I'm taking into this high-heat run of 2025. (💉 Pokery & portrait of the primordial progenitor by the unrivaled Julia McKay!)

CFP: #QueerAnalogGameStudies Special Issue! Analog games are here…but are they queer? What’s queer about analog games? What does it mean to queer tabletop, board games, or LARP? How might analog games be queered? **Essays due April 7, 2025** analoggamestudies.org/cfp/cfp-quee...

So grateful to the one and only @michaeliantorno.com who wow'd @kenzitronic.bsky.social and my students with tales of hacked consoles, sun-powered handhelds, and emerging interventions in game labor! Up now as part of our Playful Horizons Speaker Series!! ✨🔥🕹️

🌈Thrilling news! QGCon 2025 will take place on September 26-28 in Montreal! If you are a gamemaker, researcher, or activist at the intersection of queerness and games, we want you there!✨ 🦄We value accessibility! QGCon 2025 is a COVID-cautious event. www.qgcon.org/blog/announc...

Hey, I started a Trans Studies starter pack, but it needs more names. I can add them, I think. Here it is, so far: go.bsky.app/UAtsVTH

Yayyy the first talk in the ~Playful Horizons 🕹️🎲🌌~ speaker series is out in the world! (Hosted by @kenzitronic.bsky.social + me!) Starring the unrivaled & inimitable @thechristinet.bsky.social!! ✨📽️✨ Listen to Christine expound on livestreaming, game culture, AI, glitch, and pet interruptions! 🐕

Welcome new followers! 👋 To occupy you while you're here, have some glamor shots of a bioactive, Legend of Zelda themed vivarium I built for my geckos out of an IKEA cabinet over the summer!! 🦎✨🪴

Do you want shorter artsy games by well paid developers? Briefs, a microfund I curate, has just dropped four games united by one theme DEATH! You can play them all. All donations go directly to developers. You can tell everyone too. YOU MUST. #gamedev #indiegame #art itch.io/b/2656/brief...

Truly the #TransStudies2024 dream team: immensely grateful to my rockstar friends @hibby.bsky.social, @wells.bsky.social, @wendiyu.bsky.social, and @madzbrutal.bsky.social for bringing this fiery panel on "B{Ending} Trans Media Studies" to (un)life. 🔥❤️‍🔥💖

TTRPGs for Palestine via itch charity bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 640+ TTRPGs for you to discover for a $10+ donation to Medical Aid for Palestinians! Donate here: itch.io/b/2295/ttrpg...

So... I have some news. 🎉🎉🎉

The 🦇 D/ARC 🦇 server reached a huge milestone this week: 700 members! 🥳 So proud of this kind and wonderfully supportive community, and thrilled it continues to be found by those who need it! 🥹 Huge thanks to Dan and @iceberge.bsky.social for being the best Mod team a gal could ask for. 💯✨

The call for ELO 2024 is up! Submit by Feb 15 for this totally online conference. #eliterature stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2024/

GAMES FOR GAZA bundle is up now-- 100% of proceeds go to Palestinian medical aid. $10 for over 250 games from incredible designers (and also me). Support if you can. 💜 itch.io/b/2120/games...

New article out today in 🎲 Games & Culture 🎲! Originally presented at #GenerationAnalog 2022, I discuss reactionary Dungeons & Dragons fans, fantasy realism, transphobia, and diabolical ~elf blood lore~! 🐲⚔🩸