Nat Mesnard

Ahhh thank you 🙏🏻 The games are on their way to me and will fulfill soon 💕

This is a good essay by @natmesnard.bsky.social !

Can't wait to receive my copy of "Assemblage"!

If you picked up Assemblage at PAX Unplugged and wanna read more about it, I have this exceedingly nerdy design diary / personal essay up over on @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social 🍄

Oooh, this haul also looks so so good 🤩

Delighted to see Assemblage amidst this enticing haul, being its RPG-in-a-box self at center along w/ so many indie friends! 🍄

I’m editing an anthology! And it’s about cryptids! 👀 This is a dream project for me, and I can’t wait to share this book of games, stories, poems, and other uncanny ephemera with you. Follow the project on Backerkit to learn more.

We are crowdfunding our first anthology! Tales from the Cryptids will launch on Backerkit for Zinetopia in February 2026. Follow the project to be the first to know when it goes live: bit.ly/3XVa94n.

I've tried testing TTRPGs at Unpub before and found it challenging. If your table doesn't seem to have board game components on it, people are wary of sitting down. 😑

3 FT Lecturers of Game Design jobs at UAlbany

Open to game designers, developers, technical artists, narrative designers with a Master's.

Metro North is starting limited train service from Grand Central

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HT/ @jcorace.bsky.social

I got to playtest this at Metatopia and it was an atmospheric delight. I love what this design team is doing with ritual space and immersion. ✨ Definitely a project to support!

Thanks to Nat Mesnard and Lauren Bilanko for having us at their Game Design Days panel! We had a blast talking about media inspirations, playtesting, and how to pinpoint the fun in a game. Keep an eye out for other events at Twenty Sided Store, especially Nat’s Assemblage release party on 1/31!

Tomorrow Nov 16 is the TTRPG Writing Workshop at Twenty Sided Store in NYC! It is part of NYU's Game Design Days and is lead by one of our Narrascope volunteers @natmesnard.bsky.social game-design-days.com

Spotlight | NYU Game Design Days w/ Scryptid Games & Twenty Sided Game Design Days is a week-long NYU Game Center sponsored event highlighting indie game design and production, connecting students and game enthusiasts with professionals to inspire creative futures. ...

My @nyugamecenter.bsky.social Game Design Days event is gonna be so much fun. Just finished outlining the playstorming plan, and we'll be writing TTRPGs that take inspiration from TV and video games (like the delightful @sccreatives.bsky.social game Campanions!)

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The Iron Below Remembers by Sharang Biswas — neon hemlock Publication date: March 25, 2025. An 8” x 5” novella. Set in an alternate version of the British Isles where South Asian imperial interest colonized much of the globe thanks to their advanced techno...

If you’re looking into novellas during awards season, I humbly put forth my own, from @neonhemlock.bsky.social?

Gay archeologists, academic footnotes, alt history shenanigans, giant robots, hot superheroes, and hard-to-cook samosas are all plot points!

www.neonhemlock.com/books/iron-b...

Ahh congrats!! 🎉 Can't wait to hold it in my hands!

This cute little game I designed with @patrickdkwatson.bsky.social is out now! ✨

A live game show, a game manual jam, game-based street dance & live music, networking and gallery shows… a few highlights from our packed week of Game Design Days 2025!

The fun kicks off this Friday, 11/14, leading up to No Quarter on 11/22. Free events all week — most requiring RSVP!

Link in bio!

Spotlight | NYU Game Design Days w/ Scryptid Games & Twenty Sided Game Design Days is a week-long NYU Game Center sponsored event highlighting indie game design and production, connecting students and game enthusiasts with professionals to inspire creative futures. ...

New York friends, who will we see at Game Design Days at Twenty Sided Store this Sunday, 11/16??

Join us for a two-part interactive creative event with @natmesnard.bsky.social, @twentysided.bsky.social, and @sccreatives.bsky.social.

More info: bit.ly/4oIP9da

I'll be at Twenty Sided this weekend with some absolutely delightful folks discussing #ttrpg design and playstorming new games! Event is free, but tix are limited. Come on out!

Hehe. So pumped to playtest this unhinged sock puppet TTRPG I codesigned with @natmesnard.bsky.social this weekend at Metatopia! It’s been too many years since I had to pick dried glue off my hands for days.

Bookending with a @sccreatives.bsky.social prototype on Sunday and beyond eager for some TV inspired roleplaying since I'm writing a book right now about reality TV. Let's go!!!

Also weirdly excited to play a physical version of Party House from UFO 50 w/ @perryjon.bsky.social!? I frickin' love that game. 🎉

Definitely looking forward to co-GMing some truly unhinged puppet shenanigans with @brigittewinter.bsky.social. Puppets in TTRPG are having their moment, so let's get glue and googly eyes all over the Hyatt Regency Morristown!!! Haha just kidding, we totally promise it will be clean. Sort of. Yeah.

Getting to playtest my @sdrgames.bsky.social collab titled (for now) Solarpunk Naturalists. Intense Scavengers Reign vibes and creating a designer brain chimera of crunchy TTRPG stuff and lyric storygame stuff. You love to see it!

Other Metatopia 2025 highlights! 🧵

Peak Metatopia is getting off the waitlist today into @jenkatwrites.bsky.social's Friday morning playtest for Pax Deorum. Ideal schedule complete. I can't wait to play!

Really excited to be presenting our second iteration of the @scryptidgames.bsky.social x @twentysided.bsky.social TTRPG Writing Workshop during Game Design Days this year! We'll be joined by the amazing @sccreatives.bsky.social ✨

Game Design Days poster art depicting the New York City skyline, with low rise buildings and elevated subway train in the foreground, and arcade cabinets underground listing the event partners of the series: Women in Games NYC, Boshi's Place, Game of 1000 Boxes, School For Poetic Computation, BumbleBear, Wonderville, LayeRhythm, Scryptid Games & Twenty Sided. Events supported by NYU Game Center and Empire State Development. Art by Parker Benjamin.

Game Design Days is also returning November 14-22! This event series highlights the underground independent game design communities of NYC, creating additional opportunities for anyone curious about game design to connect with local studios, collectives, and spaces.

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Role-Playing Queer Assemblages Amidst Capitalist Ruins - Edge Effects Ecologically inspired role-playing game Assemblages is a meditation on extinction, grief, and collaborative, queer survival.

Today on Edge Effects, @natmesnard.bsky.social reflects on their new table top role-playing game Assemblages: the strange creatures players create for its imaginary multispecies universe and the meditation they elicit on extinction, grief, and collaborative, queer survival in the Anthropocene. ♟️🍄

[DAS VIDEOSPIEL] Bad Apple Evergreen Review

“My ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ character was a fat, short, slutty, transmasculine lightfoot halfling bard named Apple (no relation to Gwyneth Paltrow’s daughter).”

Up now in Evergreen’s DAS VIDEOSPIEL: “Bad Apple” by @natmesnard.bsky.social. evergreenreview.com/read/bad-app...