We’re taking this Tuesday Tidbit to reflect on the amazing year we’ve had! It’s been a wild ride and we can’t wait for 2026 :)

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Tidbit Tuesday Time! With the winter holidays just around the corner, we're feeling cozy - just like we do at one of our favorite neighborhood coffee shops, Red Kup. We love to stop in to get a couple of lattes and settle in to chat game design or get some writing done.

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.

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Winter sale! ❄️ Scryptid Games products are 30% off this month on itch.io/s/175091/win...!

i bet you've heard me talk a lot about ALOM now but Elliot gets some more fun tidbits and design thoughts out of me! Esp on colonialism in fantasy Also I got to experience a thing so many of peers have gotten to, seeing my game be played as a physical object lol The joy of my BOOK working!!!

'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...

Tidbit time! If you can't tell from the photo, we’ve been very focused on playing A Message From the Stars. We love that you have to logic out every detail in this game and, while that may not sound relaxing, the level of concentration it requires makes it a great way to clear our heads.

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Coming Zine Month 2026 Rise, Wizards! by @captainkrail.bsky.social is a dice-stacking, map-making game of wizard hubris All's Fair by @superdillin.bsky.social is a duet game about wanting each other so bad you save the world about it Thrilled to be running a two game campaign this zine month!

This week’s Tidbit Tuesday started in a used bookstore in Baltimore, where we found a copy of Of Dice and Men for $2. Not only did it lead us to Otherworld (which will likely get its own post someday) but it helped deepen our understanding of the field of gaming!

For this week’s Tuesday Tidbit, we’re talking about Decrypto. This game is all about crafty communication, and it’s fun to stretch those muscles while code cracking. Add the element of trying to confuse the other team and it’s the perfect combination of teamwork and deception that we love :)

November was a whirlwind! From Metatopia to the NYU Game Design Days panel at @twentysided.bsky.social with Lauren and @natmesnard.bsky.social to PAXU it was all games all the time. Thanks to everyone we playtested, boothed, or even just chatted with for making this month so special.

Tuesday Tidbit - PAX UNPLUGGED! Thank you to everyone who chatted with us, played with us, and made the weekend so memorable. Extra thanks to @twicerolledtales.bsky.social for welcoming us into your community corner and @dotsrpg.org for hosting us in the Access Forward Gaming Lounge!

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Our favorite holiday approaches - PAXU! If you want to say hi or pick up a copy of our games this weekend, we’ll be at the @twicerolledtales.bsky.social space from 3-5 pm on Sunday, and running The Harvest Helpers in the Access Forward Gaming Lounge. Our games are also at the IGDN booth (GH-63C).

We’re back with a Tuesday Tidbit, and this week we’re celebrating character playlists! We love compiling songs to define the vibe of characters we’re embodying - it helps to put us in the right mindset, and they’re honestly so fun to make. What song best represents one of your characters?

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!

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/...

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

More Game Design Days ahead! Following tonight's kickoff party, tomorrow at 2:30pm, return to @wonderville.nyc where curator Mark Kleback will take guests through the arcade to talk about the history of the games, devs, and show us under the hood! 1 hour of free play to follow, all ages welcome!

This Tuesday Tidbit: a game designed by our brilliant friend Rose Hahn! The Virgin Dies Last, published on itch.io, is a one-shot horror game that uses Never Have I Ever, played OOC, as a mechanic to move the in-character story forward. This creates a fun, campy tone, and player bonding!

Bookending with a @sccreatives.bsky.social prototype on Sunday and beyond eager for some TV inspired roleplaying since I'm writing a book right now about reality TV. Let's go!!!

Heading home from Metatopia, very exhausted and happy! Huge thanks to everyone who played in the first runs of The Bottle Episode, and to everyone who was gracious enough to have us in your games.

First day of Metatopia; enjoying designing over drinks!

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 ✨

This week’s Tuesday Tidbit is directly from Nell! I was fortunate enough to play in a campaign of Paranoia XP, which completely changed my mind as to what is mechanically and narratively possible in a TTRPG, as well as leading to some of my most unique and interesting gaming stories!

For this week’s Tuesday Tidbit, we wanted to share the very first TTRPG we ever played: Fiasco, by Bully Pulpit Games. Freshman year of college, sitting in a tiny dorm with some friends, rolling handfuls of dice. Playing this game introduced a new form of storytelling to us! What was your first RPG?

Tuesday Tidbit time! We’ve been enjoying exploring bottle episodes of some of the TV shows we love - Out of Gas (Firefly), Cooperative Calligraphy (Community), and Ice (The X-Files) for starters. Does this count as research for our next game? Only time will tell! What episodes would you recommend?

For this Tuesday Tidbit we’re talking about If We Were Villains! This book by M. L. Rio inspired our game Beneath Hallowed Halls and is one of our favorites. It’s a beautifully written exploration of human psychology and relationships, which are the parts of Dark Academia we find most fascinating.

For this week's Tuesday Tidbit we’re celebrating Ren Faires! We visited the NY Ren Faire this weekend and had an absolute blast exploring the Viking village, drinking mead, and seeing some wonderful shows. Ren Faire is a great example of an immersive world and we are delighted to go every year.

Happy Tuesday! This week we're talking about one of our favorite video games: Inscryption by Daniel Mullins Games. This game taught us the power of genre specificity and is also just a brilliant puzzle/deck-building game. Don’t look this one up - just jump in and see where the story takes you!

For this week’s Tuesday Tidbit, we wanted to talk about our friend Rita and her company Post Curious Games. They produce incredibly unique narrative puzzle tales - story-based puzzle games. Sign up to get notified about their next Kickstarter at www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...

For today’s Tuesday Tidbit, we’re sharing a book that we’ve returned to multiple times throughout the years: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. “I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.”

Our Tuesday Tidbit for today is one of the first video games we both fell in love with: Dragon Age by BioWare. When we were college freshmen, we played simultaneously and compared choices - and it served as one of the inspirations for our game Campanions exactly 10 year after we first played it!

This week, we’re excited to share one of our favorite spots back in Maryland, The Board and Brew. There was nothing better on a weekend than getting a latte, sandwich, and stack of board games to try at this College Park coffee shop/board game library. We try to visit whenever we’re in the area!

For this week’s Tuesday Tidbit, we’re talking about one of our favorite podcasts, Spark & Fire by WaitWhat. This podcast is a collection of interviews with different creatives about their passions and processes, including Rian Johnson of Knives Out, Domee Shi of Turning Red, and dozens of others

This week's Tuesday Tidbit: Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce. We’ve been simmering on a portal fantasy game for awhile now, and what better excuse to consume as much of that content as possible?! This delightful book captures the wonder and transformation that excite us. Any other recs?

Tuesday Tidbit! This week: Overcooked by Ghost Town Games. As writing partners, we are always looking for ways to improve our communication, and we've found no more chaotic way than playing Overcooked. We love the way games can teach us new skills - and how they give us a break to be silly!

It’s a Tuesday Tidbit! This week’s spotlight: The Blonde Dies First by Joelle Wellington. We love a twist on genre, and this book is an intriguing take on slasher horror troupes. We enjoy exploring genre in our games, and love seeing it played with in the media we consume!

Welcome to Tuesday Tidbits where we post things that have been inspiring us! This week’s tidbit: The Quelmar Realm. The Quelmar Realm is an amazing community of gamers that became important to us during the pandemic, and spending time with them is always rejuvenating. Check them out at quelmar.com!

WHAT HO! It's the finale for Campanions out today! Aura comes back to camp to some DRUNK companions on the eve of the final fight I don't think I've EVER played a Dragon Age run with an evil protagonist but for some reason we started this game and I was like "Yeah this lady is gonna suck for REAL"

This week on the podcast we celebrated our 5th Anniversary in style… by officially bringing a new Halfling Host onto the platform. So please everybody, put your hands together four our brand new Halfling: ✨ ✨ ✨ CANDACE ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ THE MAGNIFICENT ✨ ✨ @thecandacemarie.bsky.social

Episode 2 of Campanions by @sccreatives.bsky.social is out and I'm shipping @captainkrail.bsky.social and @struk.bsky.social so hard I'm kicking my feet actually. open.spotify.com/episode/1G2V...

NEW ONE SHOT DAY!!!! We're playing CAMPANIONS, by @sccreatives.bsky.social Ever play games like Dragon Age or Baldur's Gate 3 where you choose your favorite companions to come along? Ever wonder what your other companions get up to while you're off saving the world?

We had an amazing time at Long Island Tabletop Gaming Expo this weekend! It’s amazing to get to meet so many people who are just as nerdy about the same things as we are 🎲

Less than two days remain to be one of the first supporters of "So Many Horrid Ghosts!" We're so honored by the support we've received so far and we can't wait to get this game out. www.kickstarter.com/projects/spi...

We started with six characters in the base game and are adding at least 21 more from our "Get the Most Revenge" tier. Depending on what criteria you use, around 155 characters die over the course of his plays. We're almost a fifth of the way to the full canon! www.kickstarter.com/projects/spi...