Come see us fumble through Infamous Traffic 2e!

STUDIO CHAT DELAY! Cole and Liz are at SDHistCon this weekend, so we're pushing this month's Studio Chat one day to WEDNESDAY! Join us November 12th at 2PM CDT for some fresh Oath news and other studio happenings. www.twitch.tv/ledergamesmedia

Here's Part Two of my recent interview with the ever-thoughtful @colewehrle.bsky.social . Expect rich ruminations on historical board games, the violation of player agency, and games that are meant to feel bad on the first playthrough: www.wargamer.com/molly-house/...

And away we go. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Had a delightful chat with @colewehrle.bsky.social recently about the practical and artistic aspects of board game design, and the meaning it creates. There were so many thoughtful threads of conversation to follow that I had to split the interview into two parts. www.wargamer.com/board-games/...

We're streaming tonight! Hang with the brothers Wehrle as we show off some dreams and schemes for the John Company Companion web app we're working on. Starting soon!

It's the most magical time of the year. Outside the skies are gray and the air is cool. Meanwhile I'm cozied up in the office laying out punchboard for Oath: New Foundations while listening to true crime podcasts.

Come join Drew and Jo, and I for a mid-day game of MH on the lovely new BGA mod. www.twitch.tv/wehrlegiggames @miasmacorp.bsky.social @wehrlegig.games

That feeling when you're rushing to finish a complex project, helping run a Kickstarter, are midway through another design, and think that you might have time to learn a new game...

That's a wrap on the 10th Roguelike Celebration! Thanks for spreading the word and joining us! There's still time to check out our reprinting of ALL the roguelike celebration shirts, and to browse the Steam sale! www.redbubble.com/people/rogue... store.steampowered.com/curator/4122...

roguelike celebration is a good conference

It's time for the Roguelike Celebration! You'll find me wandering around the MUD and catching talks today. I'll be giving my presentation on Oath at 3:30 pm Central US Time. @roguelike.club You can still get tickets. Come hang out!

Come join Drew and I for a chat about the Company Archives! www.twitch.tv/wehrlegiggames

We are now live! If you want to grab a copy of the new printings, now's your best chance. www.kickstarter.com/projects/col... This is also a bit of a strange campaign for us. To be honest, I don't even think I've ever been as nervous about a launch. I suppose that needs some explaining 🧵

Hi all. A little clarification: the Purdue student journalists did OFFER to do this but "Unfortunately and understandably, the IDS declined the offer, fearing expulsion of its student leaders and more firings of its professional staff." They printed and delivered a statement of solidarity instead

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

I'm a proud IU alum of both COAS and what was once the Ernie Pyle School of Journalism. Every year it feels like it gets a little harder to recommend the school to prospective undergrads. I hope this decision is reversed before any further damage is done.

Now that's a good mail day! Two incredible subjects with equally remarkable productions. I can't wait to get these on the table.

We are SO back! Game developer panel for #TIPC4 with Leyla, @wisproy.bsky.social, and @colewehrle.bsky.social to talk about the development of historical video games! Tune in over at www.twitch.tv/streamingthepast

Everything is ready for #TIPC4! Make sure to tune in over at www.twitch.tv/streamingthepast at 09:50 CEST to catch all the action!

Alright, let's do it. Here's a little prospective reader's guide to every Thomas Pynchon novel. We'll take them in order of publication. This might be a long thread. Buckle up! 1/x

With the release of the new Pynchon novel this week, I was debating writing a long thread about all of the books and where interested folks might want to start. Thankfully A.O. Scott wrote a pretty reader's guide that's worth a quick read www.nytimes.com/article/thom...

Today's game dev mantra.

Oh boy, if it isn’t that time of year again! Tom’s gone and gotten himself addicted to a giant, knotty board game again. Please wish him a speedy recovery.

This was posted on the MÖRK BORG subreddit and it made me very happy. About how MB, some metal tapes and monopoly dice helped a guy get clean. Another commenter mentioned running JAIL BORG from memory. Things like this make me all warm inside.

Exciting new additions are making their way to the Woodland in the Hirelings & Landmarks expansion, coming soon to Root Digital! Discover new wonders in the Woodland and claim your throne with a little bit of hired help! Read More: 🔗 news.direwolfdigital.com/the-hireling... @leder.games

October 25th I'll be giving a talk for this year's Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club among an absolutely stacked speaker lineup. I'll be talking about Oath and what happens when you apply roguelike procgen conventions to tabletop games and the sorts of strange stories that follow.

A little evening prototyping.

Hey there Delilah I am writing the Quixote Adding hermeneutic weight to what Miguel wrought crude and floaty Vis-à-vis The work— attributed to me? Or only he?

reviewed Silksong, whose friction is fundamental to its humanism. (may we, twisted by this historical moment into alienated vermin, be like the bugs) www.slantmagazine.com/games/hollow...

“the story of the #crossbronxexpressway is a lens through which we can better understand our modern world.” pre-orders charging means the game ships soon. i recorded a podcast called endnotes to hold folk over while they wait for it to arrive. @gmtgames.bsky.social [ link below]

As #TIPC4 is rapidly approaching (8-10 October register now for FREE: interactivepasts.com/the-interact...) we have all sorts of SUPER COOL stuff for this year's celebratory edition! A Game Dev panel, a Playful Archaeology Panel, workshops, pizzas, and of course amazing talks! Check the thread!

💣 A royal secret is out… 👑🕵️‍♀️ Queen of Spies is our next game! From the brilliant minds of @beyondsolitaire & @djackthompson . Follow the Gamefound campaign here 👉 gamefound.com/en/projects/...

Today we're announcing a small change in plans on our fall schedule. I'm still busy with the second edition of An Infamous Traffic and Hell Raisers is making great progress, but higher demand than anticipated and the vagaries of Trump's stupid trade policies means we need to get reprinting!

this is absolutely electric. here's some first thoughts about jay's inclusion of Molly House in this manifesto (I was nodding along while reading and honoured to see it mentioned!) and how we sort of stumbled into this approach.

good morning, i wrote a manifesto about a new direction for game design / play possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...

new site from ex-polygon folks just launched. hell yeah

For those interested, here is the official trailer for Cross Bronx Expressway, a boardgame designed by Non-Breaking Space. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5aZ... @nbsp1618.bsky.social

I've always wondered if the discussion around these games reflects the quality of the work or the fact that I happened to write lot about them. It's really a core insecurity I have the games that I've worked on. Would they speak without this critical framing (the designer diaries, etc)? 🧵

I'm so grateful to Charlie for writing up this session report. One of the downsides of running an event like this is that it's hard to get a sense of how it's all going in the moment. Well, if you want to know, give this a read.

Recovered from my parents house: here is my first attempt at fiction, recorded by my dad when I was 4 or 5 years old.

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really. Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are. This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Reminder that the best conference for understanding generative systems, and how people play them, is full of kind people, online and you can go to it.

@colewehrle.bsky.social and I put together a puppet show at GenCon this year and it's one of my favorite creative pursuits I've done in a long while. Come and be charmed by cardboard 2D puppets youtu.be/h4gyN3yS2Vc?...

Just finished a lovely and zany game of Wellington. The Armée du Sud won the game by a nose after rebuffing Blake's incursion into southern France.

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

Genial trifft es! @colewehrle.bsky.social

Come forTake, stay for the hot gen con takes.

Word is y'all like Arcs a bit. And also, that you'd like us to finally finish our 2nd campaign. FINALLY IT IS HERE! See y'all tonight! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR17... @leder.games @colewehrle.bsky.social @d20plusmodifier.bsky.social @patrickleder.bsky.social

What a Gen Con! Molly House + John Company are sold out in the US right now, so this year was wild and wonderful. We saw lots of folks and old friends, ran a 50 person John Company journaling TTRPG megagame, and i even played a synthesizer for an Oath puppet show. 10/10 @leder.games