Savage

My tarot game The Old Ways Must Go is one of the many delightful games in this collection :)

Tarot for Transformation by MothSpire Games A bundle by MothSpire Games, $20.00 for The Old Ways Must Go, The Optimist's Guide to Tarot

Crowdfunding getting you down? Me too—what are y’all’s alternative strategies?

One thing I’m trying is using itch sales of my prior zines with a sale goal to fund the print run of the next zines.

Feels like lately it’s time for safe bets.

itch.io/s/171885/tar...

Nobody is allowed to die right now, Yall hear me? 2 in 24 hours and 2 funerals this week. I need to beat the “it comes in threes” rule.

Samphire

Want some silly, saucy fun? My love letter to Taco Bell is finally in a consumable form. Relish your saucy hotness:

nerdsomatics.itch.io

Or did the humanities abandon you?

Deal!

Had a lovely time in community last week: we ran a shop but mighty Tarot x Gamer event at our local FLGS Pure Panic and then jammed all day outside Peoples Book for an indie game fair. Thanks @stickydoodler.bsky.social for all your organizing and commitment.

An orange and green gradient flyer reads "Tarot x Gamer" Join local game designers to play with tarot cards in new ways: crafting rituals, storytelling games, rpg design, and card spreads for community repair. In the center is a photographic imagine of two tarot cards crossed 90 degrees over each other, with the Ace of Cups on top. The bottom text reads "Oct 15/6, 2025, 6pm til close @Pure Panic 8317 Fenton St, Silver Spring, MD The bottom left has Pure Panic's stylized pogo of rainbow loops

A free local event next Thursday in Silver Spring. Come join the tarot / gamer party!

A playful game about a hella serious topic (power and non-consent), it's the thing I've had the most fun (yet) designing and testing this year.

Here's the list of 184 products from 108 of our member publishers we'll have in #Booth449 at #GenCon2025, including a link to download
a 36 page PDF or ePub with short descriptions of all of them, in case you wanted a little travel reading.
www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Gen-Co...

Got my weird lil game about credibility and archival silence I've noodled on for two years out of playtest draft and into a TTRPG coherent form by using the @tabletopartsfund.org grant as a Real Due Date. #neurospicy #gamedesign

I was pointed to this right after submitting my weird little game to a thing and I feel so less weird about the things coming out of my weird little head. Also amazing deep dive on the landlords game!

YouTube video by Mary & Amabel Holland Mechanisms as Metaphors: How Board Games Create Meaning

It’s finally here! Mechanisms as Metaphors: How Board Games Create Meaning takes a look at how board games make persuasive arguments, how they might move us emotionally, and how the ways we talk about the form might hinder its development.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG4z...

Spicy opinions on spicy games, a recording:
genesisoflegend.podbean.com/e/episode-38...

Oh hey that's us! @games.mothspire.com

A pamphlet showing three games from MothSpire, and a stack of "Designed in the DMV" placards adjacent.

Designed in the DMV is back out with v2 of our catalog of locally-crafted games! We're using these catalogs to engage local businesses and their customers with our creations. While the main focus is on TTRPGs, we also have a page of locally-designed boardgames such as Wingspan and Fluxx!
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What a lovely group :)

Wet Ink Games

youtube.com/@wetinkgames...

My lil LARP got a little award, and so did my friend @greylibertine.bsky.social
Check em out!
www.goldencobra.org/2024winners....