Nat Mesnard

I'm teaching an interactive fiction class at @onestorymag.bsky.social this summer! Join me online July 10 - August 7 to make interactive stories in Twine. No coding experience required. Sign up here:
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Next month I'll be taking this Interactive Fiction class (as a student!) with @natmesnard.bsky.social at @onestorymag.bsky.social. Join us as we play & create stories that break the mold. All levels welcome. one-story.com/product/inte...

@thealeks.bsky.social hey, I'm a writer / game dev who sometimes works with Twine, and I want to write about your game "Egress" for an anthology I'm contributing to. If you'd be willing to chat about it, would you DM me?

Check out @unquietgames.bsky.social and their debut project BANNED TOGETHER, a first-person, 3D narrative puzzle game that follows two trans college students finding history — and chosen family — in a campus library.

unquietgames.com

Author/publishing friends, Banned Together is a mystery video game about #bannedbooks from NYC-based devs @elanamakesgames.bsky.social and @natmesnard.bsky.social. You play as Ruby, an aspiring journalist.

Coming in 2026: unquietgames.com

#pridemonth #books #libraries

Live fast. Eat trash. Solve mysteries.

Inspired by guidebook-style TTRPGs and a pulpy, punk ethos, Psychic Trash Detectives from @scryptidgames.bsky.social is a shared-GM game for 3-4 players about psychic trash animals solving the mysteries no one cares about

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Poster art for the Steam Sale reading "5/29 - 5/31 1PM EDT, Games in New York"

A graphic schedule for live streams and broadcasts occurring during the Steam Sale. On the left: Games in New York Showcase, Featuring: Immortality, Trombone Champ, Despelote, Consume Me and any many more NYU Game Center Incubator Showcase, Featuring: New and upcoming games from the NYU Game Center Incubator 2025 Center: 5/29, starting at 1pm EST, Games in NY Showcase, followed by a live streamer block, the Incubator Showcase, and an evening of more live gameplay 5/30, starting at 11am EST, Game Center Live, followed by Lecture Series restreams (Featuring Connor Carson - Immortality, Bennett Foddy, Nicole He, and many many more), a GUMBO Mixer stream, and finally more live gameplay. Featuring New York local streamers: @LeggoBeggo // @SylvesterstoneKhandr // @HitoRetroGaming // @Jetset // @Thatsoalykat

Announcing: Games in NY Steam Sale event!

A selection of more than 100 games made, set, or published in New York, on sale for one weekend!

Join us Thurs 5/29 at 1pm EDT with a showcase on Twitch (twitch.tv/nyugamecenter) coinciding with the Sale page launch!

More info at linktr.ee/nyugamecenter

NarraScope 2025 Showcase A game jam from 2025-02-01 to 2025-05-02 hosted by vel & NarraScope. A showcase of narrative game excellence in conjunction with NarraScope 2025 . Calling all narrative game makers! Designers, develop...

The @narrascope.org conf is coming up this June in Philly, and this year includes a narrative games showcase.

This will be attended by leaders in narrative spanning industry, academic, and independent backgrounds, and also has a wee bit of prize money involved 🏆

Submit now! itch.io/jam/narrasco...

Blue Prince is OUT NOW!

Your journey to find Room 46 begins.

linktr.ee/blueprincegame

Registration is now open for NarraScope 2025! Until April 11, full NarraScope 2025 memberships are available at a discounted Early Bird rate. Your membership provides access to all NarraScope talks, meals, and opportunities to sign up for workshops. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/narrascope...

Assemblage: A TTRPG of World Building & World Breaking Together, become a weird ecology. When the world shatters, how will we survive? Assemblage is a science-inspired eco-fantasy TTRPG in which 2-6 players collaboratively build the story of an interdepen...

We are truly in the final hours of the Assemblage #ttrpg campaign through @backerkit.com's #Pocketopia. Weird ecologies, remarkable interdependencies, survival in an uncertain future. 🍄 If this is your jam, a pledge before we close at 4PM ET would mean a lot to me! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Assemblage: A TTRPG of World Building & World Breaking Together, become a weird ecology. When the world shatters, how will we survive? Assemblage is a science-inspired eco-fantasy TTRPG in which 2-6 players collaboratively build the story of an interdepen...

Honestly that was the perfect conclusion to the Assemblage Pocketopia campaign, which ends tomorrow. One last chance, y'all, to back this playful love letter to collaborative science-psychedelia... 🍄 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Playing a bit of my GMless #ttrpg Assemblage today with the wonderful @drbrightstar.bsky.social, we found ourselves describing an organism (and its symbiote) who swims in a stomach-acid mangrove and sports a ridge of pitcher plant-like ears 🌱

happening tomorrow:)

Hey, I am so delighted to see @goblinmixtape.bsky.social bringing the spotlight to these Pocketopia projects, including Assemblage! 💙

A signal boost for this awesome dev log by @elanamakesgames.bsky.social! I got to playtest Old and Gray from @bolerogamestudio.bsky.social for the first time at GDC and I am so ready to cry my way through this wonderfully heartfelt and cozy narrative game when it comes out ✨😭💕

I had the delight of chatting with Nat about Assemblage during GameFace Con - after hearing more about the game, this was a no-brainer back for me!

If you're interested in weird, fictional ecologies (and/or you were a Spore kid, like me), you should absolutely give this a look.

Assemblage: A TTRPG of World Building & World Breaking Together, become a weird ecology. When the world shatters, how will we survive? Assemblage is a science-inspired eco-fantasy TTRPG in which 2-6 players collaboratively build the story of an interdepen...

On the note of GDC, I'm taking a break from Narrative Summit panels today for a livestream with @sdrgames.bsky.social to chat about Assemblage and our amazing partner project Why We Fight! It's at 3:30 ET / 7:30 GMT, and you can tune in on the Assemblage page: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Every time I crowdfund I'm incredibly grateful to the people who financially support my projects. Literally posting this from GDC, and legit y'all are making me feel like my connection to queer, indie TTRPG magic remains strong amidst my inaugural encounter w/ "big games."

This game means a lot to me. It's my first release since crowdfunding a tiny zine during ZineQuest in 2022, and I'm weirdly excited to be both designing & publishing a storygame with *cards* 💚 Plus, showcasing some of my design thinking about reflective TTRPG play from the last 3 years.

Assemblage: A TTRPG of World Building & World Breaking Together, become a weird ecology. When the world shatters, how will we survive? Assemblage is a science-inspired eco-fantasy TTRPG in which 2-6 players collaboratively build the story of an interdepen...

My #ttrpg Assemblage is crowdfunding on BackerKit and we just (very tentatively) hit our initial funding goal 😭 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Assemblage: A TTRPG of World Building & World Breaking Together, become a weird ecology. When the world shatters, how will we survive? Assemblage is a science-inspired eco-fantasy TTRPG in which 2-6 players collaboratively build the story of an interdepen...

A separate post for this little gem of a ttrpg, also part of #Pocketopia 2025: "Assemblage" by @scryptidgames.bsky.social - and particularly the talented @natmesnard.bsky.social

I had the chance to playtest "Assemblage" at Metatopia and it was really good! 💙

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Assemblage: A TTRPG of World-building and World-breaking just went live on Backerkit! bit.ly/AssemblageTT.... Support this new eco-fantasy TTRPG by @natmesnard.bsky.social in which 2-6 players collaboratively build the story of an interdependent ecosystem on the verge of environmental disaster.

New achievement unlocked: @natmesnard.bsky.social & I pitched our game together in front of a live audience at a public event, and we had a great time! Next stop: GDC ✈️

Great article, Jay! 💕 I've spent years thinking about these issues, particularly the differences between what people *say* safety tools accomplish vs. what actually happens w/ them at the table. The Palette Grid feels like a great way to get out of a yes/no binary around content!

Pixel-art flyer for an event called “Diversity in Game Design Pitch Contest,” hosted by Make It In Brooklyn

We’re honored to be selected as finalists to pitch our game on Tues! ✨ Come see us talk about Banned Together, a first-person mystery game about book banning & chosen family: www.downtownbrooklyn.com/event/miib-g...

Congrats on this awesome coverage!! So glad to see Bundle of Joy getting the attention it deserves!

Hey Bluesky! We're a tiny studio in NYC, co-founded by @elanamakesgames.bsky.social & @natmesnard.bsky.social. Thanks to the amazing mentorship of @astridmrefstrup.bsky.social (Dev Relations @ the WINGS Fund) & support of @nyugamecenter.bsky.social, we're making games that uplift queer narratives 🌈🎮

Table Talk - Interview with Brigitte Winter (Scryptid Games) — DnDark Podcast Interview with Brigitte Winter (Scryptid Games)

Thanks to @dndarkpodcast.bsky.social for interviewing @brigittewinter.bsky.social about Scryptid Games, Brigitte's approach to game design, being a theater kid, making outsider games, and our next crowdfunding project: @natmesnard.bsky.social's Assemblage! bit.ly/dndarkinterv...

Narrascope 2025 | Celebrating Narrative Games NarraScope 2025 at Drexel University is an event that supports interactive narrative, adventure games, and interactive fiction by bringing together writers, developers, and players.

Narrascope 2025 is now accepting talk proposals through February 21st! Yet another reason you should write up your big idea and send it here: narrascope.org/talks/