There are many resources out there to help game designers, but none to help project managers design game collaborations from an institution's side. In response to this, I’ve created this Field Guide, for oorganisations wanting to create successful games. davidfinnigan.substack.com/p/commission...

Our "Gaming Like It's 1930" jam has wrapped up with a total of 37 entries – our best year ever: itch.io/jam/gaming-l... I'm looking forward to reading and playing them over the next few weeks!

Now pay-what-you-want! Including nothing, if that's where you're at, although all profits are donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. @randylubin.com and I really want you to gather some friends and play it.

Honor Bound by @randylubin.com and @jmstar.bsky.social is a live action game for exactly 6 players, and it explores honor culture and masculinity through the lens of an old fashioned duel. Play starts after a challenge is issued and the de-escalation attempts begins. randylubin.itch.io/honor-bound

I wish more people would play Honor Bound, which I wrote with @randylubin.com. It's a serious game about dueling culture and toxic masculinity but it is also really fun to watch a pair of puffed-up idiots ignore every available off-ramp until they shoot each other. randylubin.itch.io/honor-bound

Happy public domain day! Come join our jam "Gaming Like It's 1930" and make games that about or inspired by works from that year: itch.io/jam/gaming-l...

Just two weeks until the start of our public domain jam "Gaming Like It's 1930" – hope to see you there! itch.io/jam/gaming-l...

My wife Avital is going on Shark Tank tonight to pitch her business Edible Architecture! www.facebook.com/SharkTank/vi...

Check out the new game that @diceexploder.com and I have designed: randylubin.itch.io/three-genera... In "Three Generations: The Rise and Fall of the Eternal Empire" you tell the story of an empire as you build a city network and tell stories of the characters who travel across its lands.

"Gaming Like It's 1930" is coming this January: itch.io/jam/gaming-l... Come join us for our annual public domain game jam, celebrating new works that are entering the commons

Some exciting news: this morning we launched a collaboration with @icrc.org: our Trust & Safety: Armed Conflict game. trust-and-safety-game.icrc.org

Our latest game is out! In Trust & Safety: Armed Conflict, you'll explore the challenges of running a social media company during an international conflict. Designed with Copia Gaming and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Play it now: trust-and-safety-game.icrc.org

For anyone who missed our Kickstarter for the very fun card game One Billion Users (or if you backed it and want extra copies) we just put up our remaining stock for sale. There are not that many, so this is your LAST CHANCE to get one. We also have a few discounted "damaged box" copies...

I'm excited to share a new game called "Posting Through It" that I co-designed with @sidneyicarus.bsky.social The game explores how online discourse changes how we experience global disruption and it's played over a fake social media platform. Check it out: randylubin.itch.io/posting-thro...

Hey - we covered this in Trust & Safety Tycoon! Would you make a different decision? Play here: trustandsafety.fun

Just got my copies from our One Billion Users Kickstarter. They look great!

I'm on this weeks Riskgaming podcast, discussing the challenges of exploring complex risks through game design Danny and I had a great conversation and we shared the approaches and intuitions we bring to the design process Podcast: pod.link/1615629580/e... Transcript: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Working the Case, my murder mystery storytelling game, is now officially out of beta! I've tweaked the visual design of the playcards.io version and updated some of the cards content in the Cyberpunk and Space Station playsets. Grab it now and play online! randylubin.itch.io/working-the-...

You can finally get "Working the Case" on Itch: randylubin.itch.io/working-the-... It's a 30min gm-less murder mystery game in a fantasy, space, or cyberpunk setting. Play as investigators and match evidence cards to suspects, describing scenes along the way. It's a blast!

The latest episode of The Game Design Roundtable is about Serious Games. Come listen as @jmstar.bsky.social, Kathryn Hymes, and I discuss how we approach making games that are designed for education, training, and social impact: thegamedesignroundtable.com/episode/seas...

I'm on the most recent episode of The Game Design Roundtable: thegamedesignroundtable.com/episode/seas... We talk about foresight and serious games for organizations, how we collaborate with non-designer clients and experts, and lots of specific examples from my past collaborations and engagements

These are the LAST FEW DAYS to order a copy of our amazing card game, One Billion Users, and be sure you can get a copy. Most news sites ask you for subscriptions to get news, we're *selling you the best card game ever* but for only 2 more days! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mma...

Just a few more days to back @jmstar.bsky.social 's new game Zhenya's Wonder Tales: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b... This game is a blast to play and I love how the cards help players tell a compelling story that hits key story beats while still enabling player creativity and improvisation

Congrats to the winners of the Gaming Like It's 1929 game jam: www.techdirt.com/2025/03/26/a... We had plenty of great submissions this year and I had a blast playing / reading through them!

Seriously, this game is amazing - pushing the frontiers of what storytelling games can do!

New Dice Exploder this week: the start of a series on larp. Larp! It’s that thing where you dress up like wizards, go into the woods, and hit each other with sticks. Right? Well... yeah! Except no, because it’s a million other things too, and I think all us ttrpg designers can learn a lot from it.

I'm on the latest episode of @diceexploder.com - www.diceexploder.com/blog/2025/2/... Sam and I kick off his miniseries on larp by exploring how sometimes it's as easy as "just read the card" and demonstrate that with a quick round of Ghost Court. Give it a listen and then go play some larps!

Just a few days left to submit to this year's public domain game jam!

Happy public domain day! Come join our jam and make some new games with old works

Final 12 hours to back the Kickstarter for our social media card game One Billion Users! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mma...

Oooh, coming in just at the wire, @kickstarter.com has included One Billion Users in the "Projects We Love" category! See why Kickstarter loves our game! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mma...

Oh hey - our game One Billion Users is featured at The Verge: www.theverge.com/2024/12/18/2... We're Kickstarting it now but you only have until midnight tomorrow (Thursday) to back it: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mma...

Hey folks, we're entering the final week or so of our Kickstarter campaign for "One Billion Users" and as part of our final push to get it over the threshold, we've offered a fun new tier: you can co-design a card in the game with us! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mma...

So OpenAI is saying that they're targeting to get one billion users in 2025. But they (and you!) can ALSO get One Billion Users (our amazingly fun card game about social media) in 2025 if you back our Kickstarter campaign... www.kickstarter.com/projects/mma...

Want to help us create new influencers for our social media card game? See the thread below... (and then back the campaign to get a copy, perhaps with the influencers you've suggested...) www.kickstarter.com/projects/mma...

Hey, everyone. As you hopefully already know, we're Kickstarting an absolutely amazing card game where you get to run a social media network. Since it's a game about social media, and this is (looks around) a cool social media site, we had a request... www.kickstarter.com/projects/mma...

Our annual public domain game jam returns in one month with Gaming Like It's 1929: itch.io/jam/gaming-l... Create a new game inspired by works entering the public domain. See below for books, art, films, and more from 1929!

Check out my new app! We've been working hard on this all year. If you're tired of Goodreads and want a great app to discover and track books, give us a shot. I promise it'll be worth it. ❤️📚

Choose your fighter in our social media card game: One Billion Users. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mma...

One perk of making a social media game is that we have cards for every occasion

We just launched our latest card game Kickstarter: One Billion Users

Reskeet if you're a TTRPG designer and/or publisher and are happy to provide digital copies for actual plays and reviews.

Big Bad Con was this past weekend and I had a blast. I ended up playing/running 10 sessions total and wrote them up here: diegeticgames.com/blog/2024/10... It was lovely to see so many wonderful friends and game designers in person, to chat and play together. A highlight of my gaming year!

@ozone.birb.house hey - can you please label me Games Dev and Games Business? Thanks!

Wow - #4,278!

There is still time to grab your tickets for this amazing Sinking Ship Creations event! Don't miss your opportunity to attend the kick off #larp season premiere of #HonorBound by @randylubin.com and @jmstar.bsky.social! www.sinkingshipcreations.com/honor-bound

Don’t miss your chance to snag early bird tickets. You won’t want to miss the amazing event!

Clearly this leads to either Disney managed indentured servitude or a "work-play" parks package akin to how colleges have "work-study" programs

It's the last week to grab early bird tickets for Sinking Ship's run of Honor Bound: www.sinkingshipcreations.com/honor-bound

Here's my latest Leveraged Play video – I explore game states and models for foresight games (and other serious games): youtu.be/jo4mJ-x8dr0?... I go through a few case studies, discuss my design process, and then share some advice. Hope you find it helpful!