Scryptid Games

Positive that @neversaydustin.bsky.social has thoughts on this.

Great work @tabletopbookshelf.com! @luluinwa.bsky.social, let us know how it plays...and if you like, share your playlist so we can listen in to your game 🎵🤘

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera An anthology of narrative games and other writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t ...

Already funded, but always great to support @scryptidgames.bsky.social - check out their latest anthology project, with contributions from wonderful authors!

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Pursuant to @natmesnard.bsky.social's comment at 18:10 in the video and suggestions from our viewers (They Might Be Giants is cryptid; ICE is *not* cryptid) we'd love to hear more takes, y'all, the question of WHAT'S CRYPTID 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇

Nat & Brigitte Talk Tales from the Cryptids YouTube video by Scryptid Games

In case you missed last night's livestream with @brigittewinter.bsky.social and @natmesnard.bsky.social, you can still watch our two Tales from the Cryptids campaign producers + editors chatting about this awesome anthology project over on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/lY0bhXl...

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera An anthology of narrative games and other writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t ...

Hey, Tales from the Cryptids is a featured project on the @backerkit.com main page today! What an absolute honor to be featured. Thank you to everyone at BackerKit who believes in the weird and wonderful stuff that we're making. 💕

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Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera Community Achievement: More pages, more contributors At this level, we’ll increase the page count by 20 pages, from 120 to 140! That means we’ll be able to say yes to more game designers, fiction writers, and poets when we open to submissions this sprin...

Next up, we'd love to add MORE PAGES to this incredible book, which will let us accept submissions from additional contributors. If you haven't backed yet, now's the time to help us get there! 🦇 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera An anthology of narrative games and other writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t ...

🎉FUNDED! 🎉 We're so excited that this rad anthology is officially happening, and that y'all want to play (and read) these uncanny cryptid tales. Now, let's get those stretch goals in view... www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera An anthology of narrative games and other writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t ...

Now on Backerkit from our friends at Scryptid Games, Tales from the Cryptids! Check out this anthology of narrative games and other writing on cryptid lore today!

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@scryptidgames.bsky.social

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Don’t miss our livestream tonight, 2/6, at 7pm ET. @natmesnard.bsky.social and @brigittewinter.bsky.social will share the story of how this project came to be, what Brigitte wants from submissions, and what to expect from the new "Make Short Games" class Nat is offering as a campaign reward.

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera An anthology of narrative games and other writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t ...

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera is an anthology of games and writings that tell stories about the cryptids and the lives they lead. @scryptidgames.bsky.social are the minds behind this one!

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So excited for this anthology!! Congrats @brigittewinter.bsky.social and the @scryptidgames.bsky.social crew!!

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera An anthology of narrative games and other writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t ...

Tales from the Cryptids just went live on Backerkit! Back this anthology edited by @brigittewinter.bsky.social with work from @lackingceremony.bsky.social, @sharangbiswas.bsky.social, @shing.bsky.social, @aeosworth.bsky.social, @dragons.bsky.social, and more! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Don’t forget to reserve your ticket for the Assemblage launch party! See you at 4pm today! 🍄 ❤️

Thanks, @epiclevels.bsky.social! Perfect teaser for Tales from the Cryptids (which launches on Monday, 2/2!): www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

YouTube video by Tabletop Bookshelf Tabletop Bookshelf Chats with Nat Mesnard about their storytelling card game Assemblage #ttrpg

This month we had the opportunity to chat with @natmesnard.bsky.social from @scryptidgames.bsky.social about their new worldbuilding card game Assemblage! Check out our chat about games, writing, and how they come together 👇
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Spotlight | Assemblage Eco-Storytelling Release Party Come celebrate the release of Assemblage, Nat Mesnard's TTRPG of world-building and world-breaking.  We'll kick off at 4p with a short design talk between Nat and featured guest Hannah Tinti. Then at ...

We are excired to annnounce that @hannahtinti.bsky.social of @onestorymag.bsky.social will join @natmesnard.bsky.social in conversation at the Assemblage Game Launch Party at @20sidedstore.bsky.social on 1/31!

Designing for GMless Play w/ Nat Mesnard

New podcast episode just dropped featuring an interview with @natmesnard.bsky.social and Talk of the Table! open.spotify.com/episode/52Oq...

Spotlight | Assemblage Eco-Storytelling Release Party Come celebrate the release of Assemblage, Nat Mesnard's TTRPG of world-building and world-breaking.  We'll kick off at 4p with a short design talk between Nat and a featured guest. Then at 5p join a t...

Join Scryptid Games and @natmesnard.bsky.social on 1/31 for the Assemblage game release party at Twenty Sided Store in Brooklyn, NY! twentysidedstore.com/collections/...

Get Ready for Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera From Scryptid Games - Get Ready for Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera

And we will open to additional submissions from contributors in spring 2026! The more funds we raise, the more cryptid content we’ll include in the anthology, so follow our preview page to be the first to know when the project launches in February! tinyurl.com/cryptidtales

Tales from the Cryptids is edited by @brigittewinter.bsky.social, and features art by @artofamberramirez.bsky.social and games, stories, and poems from @lackingceremony.bsky.social, @sharangbiswas.bsky.social, Jason B Crawford, @shing.bsky.social, @aeosworth.bsky.social, and @dragons.bsky.social.

In Tales from the Cryptids, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Enjoy games and other writing featuring popular cryptids like Bigfoot, Mothman, and Nessie, as well as new takes on cryptids and creative reflections on the wondrous in the everyday.

Get Ready for Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera From Scryptid Games - Get Ready for Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera

Get ready for Tales from the Cryptids! We are crowdfunding our first anthology in February 2026! Edited by @brigittewinter.bsky.social, this collection of TTRPGs, fiction, poetry, and other uncanny ephemera flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore: tinyurl.com/cryptidtales.

Celebrating the official launch of Assemblage, a new TTRPG of world building and world breaking by @natmesnard.bsky.social, with this inspiring Tabletopped Podcast episode about the challenges and rewards of creating truly collaborative play spaces. tinyurl.com/4mt7zn8c

Hope all of our backers are enjoying the little Assemblage bundles landing on their doorsteps this month! We are so happy to finally see this game out in the wild. ❤️ 🍄 🌱

'Tis the season for hot chocolate, cozy blankets, and the itch.io Winter Sale! Check out our game discounts and core game bundle going on now until January 5th ☃️🏷

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Winter Sale 2025 by Scryptid Games A bundle by Scryptid Games, $28.00 for 4 games

Winter sale! ❄️ Scryptid Games products are 30% off this month on itch.io/s/175091/win...!

We're looking forward to connecting with writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction with an interest in games at AWP in March!

December reading.

Some of this is re-reading, to be fair. A lot of this job is thumbing through games and then seeing which are the ones I can't stop thinking about

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.