Thank you to much to Fiction Central for a wonderful Five Hundred Year Old Vampire session last night! Thank you also to CMU Libraries for use of a beautiful space and University Communications for helping us put together the video!

We're only a few hours away from the start of our first International Games Month open game night in collaboration with CMU Libraries! Join us at the Park Library's Copeland Suite and Room 211 from 3-7 to play games from the library's collection and enjoy the company of fellow community members.

Did you think vampire season was REALLY over? Something fearsome (and ...festive?) is coming soon. Watch our social media channels for more. Art: @priscillakim.bsky.social

We are so excited to collaborate with Fiction Central, CMU's creative writing registered student organization (RSO), to film an actual play of Five Hundred Year Old Vampire! We can't wait to see and share the stories everyone creates.

CLGS co-director Tracy Davis, along with CLGS members and CMU professors Wendy Robertson and Daria Kluver, will return this year to inspire more upcoming minds at Girls' Day Out hosted by Delta College! Enjoy these photos from last year! More on Girls' Day Out: https://bit.ly/4qLgFbm.

We're so happy to meet and connect with students on campus who love games as much as we do! After our International Games Month open game night at the Park Library this Friday, check out the first meeting of the Casual Gaming Club! They'll be over at SAC 202 starting at 7:30. Have a great time!

This week, we visited our friends at Calico Games! Thank you so much for carrying our CMich Press games and being a fantastic community partner!

Happy International Games Month! CMich Press is a sponsor of this initiative by the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social and their @alagamert.bsky.social! Join us on Friday with the CMU Libraries to play games from the Library's collection and try a few from CMich Press!

Friends, gamers, educators, supporters -- thank you for such an amazing launch for Art & System: Games for Expanded Play. We could not have accomplished such a crowdfunding success without you. We can't wait to send the games your way -- check our social media channels for updates!

Check out the new components video for @gregisonthego.bsky.social's Keep the Faith, a storytelling game of belief, tension, and transformation. YouTube: https://bit.ly/47UKAWU TikTok: https://bit.ly/47kVpkW Preorder your copy of Keep the Faith at: https://bit.ly/4olJkC1

Happy Halloween from Eugenia and the CLGS staff! This weekend, we hope you and yours are enjoying the beautiful fall colors outside and some adventures with loved ones! (Here are some behind the scenes photos for fun!)

We're on @rascal.news! Check out our official announcement for Five Hundred Year Old Vampire: The Cracked Mirror: https://bit.ly/47gYxyl Get your copy at https://bit.ly/3Jre3OL

MINUTES LEFT! Make your pledge to Art & System NOW and jump on the Backer Train to get us across the finish line -- and up to 1,000 Backers! https://bit.ly/4mIpcbG

Just under THREE HOURS left to pledge for your copy of Dog Eat Dog, Princess with a Cursed Sword, and/or The Mountain Witch before our BackerKit campaign closes! https://bit.ly/4mIpcbG

One day left! Pledge now to Art & System before the campaign ends on October 30th! https://bit.ly/4mIpcbG

We are so excited about the launch of our new Pages of the Press program for CMU students! Read more here: https://bit.ly/49rKCXv

Grab your copy of Five Hundred Year Old Vampire: The Cracked Mirror for an epistolary duet experience with your favorite partner in immortality. Explore the story of Wenu, a new pregenerated vampire character with art from Jabari Weathers. Make The Cracked Mirror yours at https://bit.ly/3Jre3OL.

Only TWO DAYS LEFT to make your pledge for Art & System: Games for Expanded Play! Back it for your hardcover copy of Dog Eat Dog, Princess with a Cursed Sword, and The Mountain Witch: https://bit.ly/4mIpcbG

Share this season of long nights with your closest undead friend.

We just launched a new mod for Five Hundred Year Old Vampire. The Cracked Mirror is an epistolary duet filled with opportunities to explore the story of vampires and their memories. Donate now for early access to this mod before it is released as a free product in 2026: https://bit.ly/3Jre3OL

CMU Students! This is YOUR chance to join CMich Press in the business world of games. In Pages of the Press, gain hands-on experience and build up your resume in a one-of-a-kind immersive learning program. Interviews are this Friday -- sign up for your spot now at https://bit.ly/3JoAmor

GLOW-UPS UNLOCKED! Thanks to your wonderful support, all of the RPGS in the launch of Art & System will now arrive with enhanced features! In the meantime, less than a week left to order your copies of Dog Eat Dog, Princess with a Cursed Sword, and The Mountain Witch: https://bit.ly/4mIpcbG

Yesterday we visited our friend and partner Tim at @catastrophegames.bsky.social to pick up some CMich Press games for our dungeon hoard (storage room)! Thanks to Tim (and pup Oreo!), our stock has a place to stay until it is called forth into the world for adventures with gamers and educators.

i have a lil fiction piece in here! Pledge today. Don't miss out.

We are LESS than $1000 away from meeting our stretch goals for the Art & System crowdfunding campaign. Once we hit $45,678, we will give all of the RPGs currently crowdfunding in our series a cover "glow-up"! Pledge now to help us reach our goal: https://bit.ly/4mIpcbG

CMU Students! We are looking for applicants to our immersive learning program, Pages of the Press. Interviews are October 31st: bring your resume and a cover letter which explains what you are hoping to gain from this opportunity. Questions? Email [email protected].

We had a great time demonstrating @CMICH_GAMES 's game Making History at NASAGA 2025 last week! While we may never know why Briar and Skye broke up, we all got a lot better at asking questions, evaluating evidence, and challenging assumptions.

Check out our latest newsletter -- enjoy a profile of our co-director, Tracy Davis, and a teaser of exciting things in development this October! https://bit.ly/46TutbR There's still time to make your pledge to Art & System before the end of the month, too! https://bit.ly/4mIpcbG

This is our first year as a sponsor of International Games Month hosted by @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social through @alagamert.bsky.social. We sent out 20 copies of our game Hydrologic Cycle to participating libraries across the US, including Lincoln Heritage Public Libraries! Thanks for the photos!

Today we highlight @arayaart.bsky.social's art on Dog Eat Dog! Samuel's work has appeared in videogames, records, books, and more. He is also a gallery artist. Pledge to the crowdfunding campaign to get a closer look at his new cover art for Dog Eat Dog: https://bit.ly/4mIpcbG

Thanks to everyone who joined us for Break Our Games last Friday! You helped us put some games-in-production through their paces to get ready for game store shelves someday, and we had a great time! If you missed last week, join us for Break Our Games events on November 14th and December 12th!

Sink your teeth into the components of the keepsake RPG Five Hundred Year Old Vampire, a multiplayer adaptation of Thousand Year Old Vampire. Add a copy to your cabinet of curiosities at https://bit.ly/4qaDKUv. Watch: https://bit.ly/47dB7bL on TikTok or https://bit.ly/477fAkR on YouTube.

Last night, staff from the CLGS were delighted to meet students at Major Minor Night! Thanks to everyone who stopped by! Students looking for more ways to get involved with us are invited to Anspach 002 at 3PM this Friday to learn more about our new hands-on learning program, Pages of the Press!

Today we highlight @evlynmoreau.bsky.social's art for Princess with a Cursed Sword. Evlyn is an illustrator and game designer who has illustrated many roleplaying games and publishes zines of her own. Pledge here for your copy of Princess with a Cursed Sword to see her art: https://bit.ly/4mIpcbG

Today we highlight @evlynmoreau.bsky.social's art for Princess with a Cursed Sword. Evlyn is an illustrator and game designer who has illustrated many roleplaying games and publishes zines of her own. Pledge here for your copy of Princess with a Cursed Sword to see her art: https://bit.ly/4mIpcbG

Liv and Ian, two recent graduates from our Game Design Thinking Minor, went to the Strong National Museum of Play for the 2025 Board Game Academics Conference. Thank you to the Strong and BGA for hosting such a wonderful conference!

It's time for another Break Our Games event! From 3-5 PM at the Park Library, you can playtest games in development with us, eat pizza, sign a minor in Game Design Thinking, and hear a special announcement from the CLGS about an opportunity to get involved with the CMich Press in a brand new way...

An interview with Anna Anthropy about Princess with a Cursed Sword, on Backerkit now through @cmichpress.bsky.social youtu.be/A3oMrq4U4Ww

An interview with Tim Kleinert about The Mountain Witch, on Backerkit now through @cmichpress.bsky.social youtu.be/-nVicypq-uI

Only 21 days left to pledge to our Art & System campaign to get your copy of Dog Eat Dog, Princess with a Cursed Sword, and The Mountain Witch! We are so excited to preserve these standout indie RPGs and bring them to new audiences. Back the campaign now at https://bit.ly/4mIpcbG

Our new Art & System series was featured in a newsletter for @wyrdscience.bsky.social! Read all about it here: https://bit.ly/4o1Nled Our campaign runs until October 30th -- pledge now for your copy of Dog Eat Dog, Princess with a Cursed Sword, and/or The Mountain Witch! https://bit.ly/4mIpcbG

Our new Art & System series was featured in a newsletter for @wyrdscience.bsky.social! Read all about it here: https://bit.ly/4o1Nled Our campaign runs until October 30th -- pledge now for your copy of Dog Eat Dog, Princess with a Cursed Sword, and/or The Mountain Witch! https://bit.ly/4mIpcbG

Stretch goals for Art & System are here! If we can get to $45,678 before the end of our crowdfunding campaign on October 30th, all of the covers for the RPGs in this series will be upgraded. Go to https://bit.ly/4mE1Ncn to pledge now!

Get ready for our Break Our Games event this Friday from 3-5 at Room 211 in the Park Library! This event will feature games to playtest, FREE pizza, the ability to sign a Game Design Thinking minor on the spot, and a special announcement about game convention opportunities!

Check out this review of Five Hundred Year Old Vampire by @ttrpgkids.com! It's the perfect game for the start of the spooky season...

Great looking art throughout, but I'm particularly excited to see the excellent work by @evlynmoreau.bsky.social on Princess with a Cursed Sword ⚔️

We have some AMAZING news! In less than 48 hours, YOU helped us meet our crowdfunding goal! Check in at our BackerKit page for a forthcoming announcement about stretch goals! https://bit.ly/4mIpcbG Most of all, THANK YOU so much for your support!

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A trio of RPG crafted with love. Including one written by @cyborgurl.bsky.social and illustrated by my humble self. I did full page illustrations for each chapters. Full of small details as usual. If you are in the US and collect what I illustrate grab a copy of The Princess With A Cursed Sword.🗡️

To celebrate our sparkling crowdfunding campaign and the upcoming release of Taylor Swift's newest album tomorrow, here's our homage, featuring a new piece of art by the talented @evlynmoreau.bsky.social! Keep our show rolling by pledging to the Art & System campaign here: https://bit.ly/3KvlTHs