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Check this out! If you like what you see here, visit https://bit.ly/3RNi2WN for our ongoing holiday sales and get Rising Waters and more for your holiday celebrations!

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The CLGS and CMich Press wouldn't be here without you. Thank you for all you do to support our work in the educational and tabletop gaming world.
Go to https://bit.ly/44fO5Fd and type "Center for Learning through Games and Simulations" in the search bar to donate today.

Support CMU’s Center for Learning Through Games and Simulations Help power game-based learning at CMU’s Center for Learning Through Games and Simulations this Giving Tuesday, supporting hands-on creativity and student innovation.

Our mission is powered by donor generosity. Go to https://bit.ly/44fO5Fd and type "Center for Learning through Games and Simulations" in the search bar to donate.
Read more here in this fantastic article by the CMU College of Business Administration: https://bit.ly/4oteZk6

Happy Cyber Monday! Our Gifts for Gothic Gatherings sale ENDS today: https://bit.ly/43lWh6t
Choose the Bloody Holiday bundle, with Five Hundred Year Old Vampire content, or bring the Gothic Gathering bundle into your favorite group of people and play Monumental Consequence, too!

Game box for Five Hundred Year Old Vampire, plus the Liber Generis Sui journal and the Beguiling Whispers deck of cards. In the background is a lit Christmas tree.

Happy Cyber Monday! Our Gifts for Gothic Gatherings sale ENDS today: https://bit.ly/43lWh6t
Choose the Bloody Holiday bundle, with Five Hundred Year Old Vampire content, or bring the Gothic Gathering bundle into your favorite group of people and play Monumental Consequence, too!

Game box for Five Hundred Year Old Vampire, plus the Liber Generis Sui journal and the Beguiling Whispers deck of cards. In the background is a lit Christmas tree.

Happy Cyber Monday! Our Gifts for Gothic Gatherings sale ENDS today: https://bit.ly/43lWh6t
Choose the Bloody Holiday bundle, with Five Hundred Year Old Vampire content, or bring the Gothic Gathering bundle into your favorite group of people and play Monumental Consequence, too!

Paper texture collage of game covers from Eyeball to Eyeball: The Cuban Missile Crisis, Five Hundred Year Old Vampire, Hydrologic Cycle, Rising Waters, and Monumental Consequence.

Check out this article by the CMU College of Business Administration on what to get the CMU Alumni in your life, or anyone interested in games, education...and so much more! https://bit.ly/4paiNYS

Until Tuesday, shop a 25% off sale of some of our most popular items at https://bit.ly/489wP77

A collage of game covers and book covers from Central Michigan University Press' publications.

This Black Friday, game the system: stay at home in your coziest clothes and get a head start on your shopping online! Take 25% off physical and "print and play" versions of our ship-ready games and their associated curriculum guides at our webstore: https://bit.ly/485bATW

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We are thrilled to announce that tickets are on sale NOW for our upcoming event with Brengman Family Wines: a "Winter Wine & Games Night." Join us on January 31st for an evening of games, wines, and snacks at their beautiful Traverse City site! Purchase your tickets now: https://bit.ly/4ijuj1g

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Planning for Black Friday and Giving Tuesday? Keep the CLGS in mind!
We will be offering a limited-time sale on our website starting on Thanksgiving, and you can designate a donation to the CLGS by searching for us through CMU's giving page! Visit giving.apps.cmich.edu/donate to get started.

Hello, friends and vampires! Try this new link to our Discord server and join our Five Hundred Year Old Vampire fan channel: The Prime Convocation. Share your stories, art, and questions with others in the community and expand your cohort. https://bit.ly/4px0H33
Art: @goblinprincete.bsky.social

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This winter, join our Five Hundred Year Old Vampire Facebook Group (https://bit.ly/4a2irP8 ) and/or our Discord channel (https://bit.ly/4prW4r3) to share the stories/art you have created!

Pick up FYOV through Gifts for Gothic Gatherings: https://bit.ly/43lWh6t

Art: @goblinprincete.bsky.social

Four people sit around a table. The game Hydrologic Cycle, which includes a board and two decks of cards, is laid out on the table. Two players look at their hands of cards and two read info sheets.

Glide into the weekend on the wings of great news! The latest CMich Press newsletter is live now: https://bit.ly/4prRh93

Did you know you can designate a donation to the CLGS this year for Giving Tuesday? To donate, go to https://bit.ly/44fO5Fd then search 'Center for Learning through Games and Simulations' in the 'Search for Funds' bar.

Did you know you can designate a donation to the CLGS and Simulations this year for Giving Tuesday? To donate, go to https://bit.ly/44fO5Fd, then search 'Center for Learning through Games and Simulations' in the 'Search for Funds' bar.

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Gifts for Gothic Gatherings is ALIVE! (Well...unless you count the vampires.) Grab your curated bundles of Five Hundred Year Old Vampire and Monumental Consequence content for a limited time (and at a discount)! Start your holiday shopping here: https://bit.ly/43lWh6t

Art:@warbeard.bsky.social!

Two men sit in a room with drums in the background. One man has long dark hair and a blue shirt. The other man has a red jacket, turquoise shirt, and shorter hair. He spreads his hands as he talks.

Many different creative disciplines, including sound, can come together to form a game. Check out this article on video game music featuring two faculty members from CMU's School of Music: https://bit.ly/3LHoHC5

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for Break Our Games last Friday -- we had such an amazing turnout, we had to grab more games! Thanks also to Friendly Skeleton for sharing their wonderful creations with us!

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Young dark-haired woman in a pink blazer and dress poses with peace signs in front of a balloon archway.

Games can take you anywhere! This week, our Coordinator of Outreach, Veronica Gregory, is attending the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) Expo to learn more about how games are emerging in this space and see what's new. We can't wait to hear all about it!

Text Gifts for Gothic Gatherings. Embrace your friends, consume your enemies. Text is in a spidery, Gothic-looking font. It is written across a banner of blood from which vampire ornaments dangle.

Be one of the first to pledge to Gifts for Gothic Gatherings TODAY and get access to some of CMich Press's best-selling games packaged in a curated bundle -- at an enticing discount.
Get a head start on your holiday shopping here: https://bit.ly/43lWh6t

Text Coming Soon, Gifts for Gothic Gatherings, On BackerKit's Holiday Market. Four pieces of art form a grid, with two line art pieces diagonal from a pair of grayscale and red illustrations.

TOMORROW, Gifts for Gothic Gatherings drops on BackerKit. Explore two curated bundles featuring Monumental Consequence and Five Hundred Year Old Vampire at a special seasonal price -- follow the prelaunch page now: https://bit.ly/43lWh6t

Art: @warbeard.bsky.social and @allenpanakalart.com

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During the nights of winter, when charades usually hold sway at holiday gatherings, mix it up. On Tuesday, order the Bloody Holiday bundle from our BackerKit Holiday Market, full of Five Hundred Year Old Vampire content. Follow the prelaunch page: https://bit.ly/43lWh6t

Art: @arayaart.bsky.social

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Checking out the Catastrophe Games booth at u-con and came across a couple games from @cmichpress.bsky.social!! You can spot 500 Year Old Vampire there towards the top mid-left!

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What's in your future this winter? Pick up the Gothic Gathering bundle from CMich Press, which includes Monumental Consequence and Five Hundred Year Old Vampire, to play through adventures where you steer the course. Follow the prelaunch page here: https://bit.ly/43lWh6t

Art:@warbeard.bsky.social

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We are excited to announce that our Pages of the Press program is off to a wonderful start! We had the chance to speak with Jordan Fox from Epicenter Mt. Pleasant about the program and its background as part of the CLGS last week -- thanks for the great article! https://bit.ly/43Qq3Rd

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Tonight's the night! Join us at Room 211 in the Park Library from 3-5 to test games in the development process at CMich Press! No experience is necessary; all are welcome. See you soon to Break Our Games!

Printed photo frame with illustration of a man with glowing red eyes, a patterned sash around his forehead, and another around his chest. Text Coming Soon November 18 on BackerKit's Holiday Market.

Gifts for Gothic Gatherings is coming... beginning on November 18th, buy a Five Hundred Year Old Vampire bundle on BackerKit and explore the evolution of vampires like Anathi Mbeki, or create your own character! Follow the prelaunch page to get a head start: https://bit.ly/43lWh6t
Art: Goñi Montes

Five people stand in a line. Two wear yellow life vests. The person second from the left holds a long wooden paddle.

On Monday, our co-director, Dr. Jon Truitt, won the Central Michigan University Honors Program Life Raft debate in the Intro to Honors course after a mighty struggle with other faculty and staff! Just one example of the cool things CLGS professors do on campus!

Photo from the Honors Program's post.

A scarlet and black ornament with a black line drawing of a mortar and pestle hangs in front of. snowy graveyard scene.

In less than a week, bring home curated holiday bundles featuring CMich Press' games Five Hundred Year Old Vampire and Monumental Consequence. Follow the prelaunch page today: https://bit.ly/43lWh6t

Line art: @warbeard.bsky.social, CMU alumni!

Three-panel vertical collage of a student reaching forward to pick up a die, two hands exchanging cards, and a woman holding cards. In front of the collage is the logo for Break Our Games.

We know it's cold outside and you're looking for something to do to get out of the house or dorm... so join us this Friday from 3-5 at Room 211 in the Park Library to Break Our Games! Step into the game design process and help us play games in development at CMich Press. See you then!