Erica Bridges

my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries

- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support

youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand

Just had a blast running HIT! with Games on Demand at GenCon 😁 psyched to run it again tomorrow!!

Diabolic Dialect by Storygames Chicago A game of frail wizards, over-reliant on their magic, twisting langauge to cast freeform spells.

Check out Diabolic Dialect now on Itch!

A game about weird, frail wizards and freeform spellcasting!
Take a look if you're into playing around with words and getting creative with our shared languages!

storygameschicago.itch.io/diabolic-dia...

Hit! by Honey Cup Games A blackjack-powered space heist TTRPG

Out now on itch: my blackjack-powered space heist TTRPG zine, "Hit!" Become idiot space criminals and carry out the greatest heist this system has ever seen.
honeycupgames.itch.io/hit

Honey Cup Games

Would love to be added!! I’m a transfem TTRPG designer, historical consultant, and freelance writer/editor with a PhD in Classical Studies. I just released my latest game HIT! last week!

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I’m gonna be running sessions of HIT! at GenCon this weekend with Indie Games on Demand — plus generally hanging out and meeting peeps!

Excited for my first GenCon 😁

My 2024 game of the year. What an INCREDIBLE thing this game is.

HIT! The Blackjack-Powered Space Heist TTRPG by Honey Cup Games A blackjack-powered space heist TTRPG

Check out Hit!, available now at honeycupgames.itch.io/hit

Illustration by @thelen0.bsky.social

An illustration by Helena Ramos for the TTRPG zine Hit!. The scene depicts two characters in a shootout in a sci-fi casino. Using an overturned roulette table as cover, an anthropomorphic bat clumsily tries to reload his revolver. To his left, a pink-haired woman dives into cover behind the roulette table and narrowly dodges a hail of bullets rippling across the casino floor, presumably from some security guards these would-be thieves have alerted.

Occasionally, heists go according to plan. Most times, though, they end up a bit more like this.

In Hit!, you play as a bunch of idiot space criminals trying to pull a Job. Shuffle up a deck of cards, think up a heist, and play it from start to finish — all in one hour, no prep required!

Historiographies of Game Studies is now published open access with @punctumbooks.bsky.social ! This massive collection examines why game studies is the way it is, and how it might change and grow in the future. Congrats to all contributors, and please share!

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I participated in the art for this RPG! I reckon a lot of you play tabletops, so go give it a shot! It was lovely working on some original projects after so much time.

Oh this game is great, by the way! I had the pleasure of playtesting it and I loved the way the literal blackjack push-your-luck mechanic drives heist play forward; sometimes you know things are gonna go bad and you have to try anyway

new work for Honey Cup Games:
HIT! The Blackjack-Powered Space Heist TTRPG
digital cover, illustration, & branding

Featuring art by the incredibly talented Helena Ramos and cover and logo design by the likewise incredible Tavish Buchanan ‪(@boocanan.bsky.social‬)!!

Hit! by Honey Cup Games A blackjack-powered space heist TTRPG

Out now on itch: my blackjack-powered space heist TTRPG zine, "Hit!" Become idiot space criminals and carry out the greatest heist this system has ever seen.
honeycupgames.itch.io/hit

Most personally revelatory: this page on Tournamentality in games. Too much for alt text here, but my words in summary: treating your life like a series of matches in a big tournament, in or out of games, will cook your brain.

the origins award

i wasnt expecting yazeba's to win an origins award (i honestly assumed it just wasnt gonna happen) so i didn't prepare a speech or someone to accept it or anything

what it means to be alive
#persona3 #ペルソナ3

World ended. What now? Sail.

Everyone “finishing” this game is like “my my what a delightful little puzzler” and everyone that sticks with it sounds like the protagonist at the end of a lovecraft story.

From Stage to Screen: How Devised Theatre Shaped 1000xResist – Thumbsticks Remy Siu of Sunset Visitor revealed how the story of 1000xResist came together in an insightful talk at GDC 2025.

1000xResist wasn’t written... it was discovered! Here's our recap of a brilliant #GDC2025 talk by @sunsetvisitor.studio on how devised theatre informed the game's narrative. #GameDev #1000xRESIST #GameNarrative

Honey Cup Games

Nostos is @ericabridgesphd.bsky.social 's first game and it is VERY clearly written by an academic. I love the themes and the art, I'm a bitch for a game that feels like Earthsea, and I can't wait to follow its development after getting it through the bundle.
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Buy 34 amazing games. Directly support protests. This itch.io bundle is raising money to train new street medics.

Guess who has an announcement in @rascalnews.bsky.social and read a bunch of CMS tutorials to make it FANCY

Anyway help @rufflejax.bsky.social and I help @bmorestreetmedics.bsky.social help protesters help you by buying this itch.io bundle

www.rascal.news/every-party-...

Ojisan TCG is the pinnacle of card games Cardboard never should have left the school yard.

No joke, a new TCG is taking over the small Japanese town of Kawara. But instead of fighting fantasy creatures, Kawara's kids are collecting cards of elder volunteers at the local community center.

@chasecarter.bsky.social writes about the intergenerational beauty that is the Ojisan TCG.

My /To Rob Death's Dominion/ is in this, along with a lot of other great games. If you've ever wanted a straightforward, gentle introduction to Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine and/or to pull a heist against Death Himself, now's your chance!

Maybe you don't know what a street medic is.

Street medics provide first aid and medical support at protests, direct actions, uprisings, encampments, natural disaster sites, and within our local communities.

This bundle has a ton of awesome games in it, including Yazeba's B&B, an intro adventure for Chuubo's I'm told is EXCELLENT, a duet game where you get possessed by Jonathan Frakes — plus the preview edition of my game Nostos, and 30 more cool projects!

All this for a great cause, at a bargain!

Screenshot of a single question and answer from interview in the Times Literary Supplement with Ursula K. Le Guin. Here is the quote: If you could make a change to anything you’ve written over the years, what would it be? In The Dispossessed, I would mention the communal pickle barrels at street corners in the big towns, restocked by whoever in the community has made or kept more pickles than they need. I knew about the free pickles all along, but never could fit them into the book.

Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer

Just started Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon The Deep and y’all, I cannot BELIEVE I’ve had this book just sitting on my shelf unread for like half a decade

This is EXACTLY my kind of sci-fi