A photo of three people's hands near two small circular tables. One person in the lower right is holding a bowl of food. The person in the lower left is holding a sheet of paper. The person in the upper left is drawing a map on a sheet of paper. Scattered around the tables are square character sheets which have portraits printed on top. A small deck of cards sits near the center of the two tables. The photo is surrounded by a maroon frame which reads Playtesting at RMCLAS at the bottom in gold letters.

Photograph of a hand reaching to move a piece in the center of a table. There is a large piece of paper and a pen in the front center of the photograph, below the hand. The six game board pieces are hexagonal and little cubes sit on top of them. Cards surround the circle of hexagons. A small card which reads Silencio is at the bottom left corner of the photo.

Specially printed cards from Keep the Faith are laid out in a circle around a central card. Around this photograph is a maroon frame which reads Keep the Faith in gold letters.

Some of our games traveled to the @rmclas-conference.bsky.social last week! Do you see any familiar games on the table? (Hint: The Blue Way is in there!)

#thebluewaygame #jasonmorningstar #rockymountaincouncilforlatinamericanstudies #keepthefaithgame #gregloringalbright #silenciogame #luissalas

*Apologies for the typo, Michael Canterino!

Maroon square graphic with the circular logo for the CLGS in the top left. Next to this logo are maroon words within gold rectangles. The words reads CLGS Game Night with Special Guests! Below is another cluster of similarly formatted text which reads April 23, 5 to 7 PM in Pearce 303. Around this cluster of text are two logos. One is to the right of the text and features a caricature of a man with sunglasses, long brown hair and a long brown beard behind a black circle which reads 20 Sided Gamified LLC. Below, the second logo is stylized white and green text which reads 20 Sided Gamified LLC Game Design Team. A red twenty-sided die separates the 20 and Sided parts of the title for both logos.

Join us to welcome special guests Jared Fishman and Michael Cantering, educators and game designers, to campus on April 23rd for a special game night! Play their game, Challenge to Power, and explore many others from CMich Press!

Our last on-campus Break Our Games event of the season was fantastic! We played student games and were delighted to have guest designer Jason Hitman join us with his RPG, CLASH! (See the itch.io link in our bio for more!) Thank you particularly to student photographer Corey Hogue for the photos!

Maroon text reads Second Annual CMU Student Game Capstone Showcase. Smaller navy letters beneath read May 7, 2026. CMU Student Activities Center. 5:30 to 7:30 PM. A golden block highlights this text. Below this section of text is one more block, also in navy, which reads, Celebrate and play CMU students' games from the past academics year! A faded graphic of a game board is visible behind the entire image.

Get ready for the Second Annual CMU Student Game Capstone Showcase on May 7th! We'll be celebrating wonderful student work and playing lots of games! Join us from 5:30 - 7:30 at the CMU Student Activities Center for a spectacular end to the semester!

#gamedesignthinkingminor #fireupchips

This game is based in real historical research, aims to encourage understanding and empathy for the people who lived during Scottish 17th-century witch hunts, and is quick and fun to play!

The gray box for Witch Hunt: 1649 stands next to a column of maroon text. The text reads, Call for reviewers! Below it are bullet points which read, free review copy, any medium, and open to many areas of expertise. Below this text is a smaller line which reads contact cmichpress@cmich.edu for more information.

Calling all gamers, historians, and fans of anything witch history-related! We are seeking content creators who would be interested in reviewing the revised version of Martha McGill's game, Witch Hunt: 1649. For more information, email cmichpress@cmich.edu.

#witchhunt1649game #callforreviewers

A golden cartoon envelope in the middle of the graphic is open to show a taller white rectangle like a message unfolding from the envelope. On the rectangle are maroon words which read Newsletter drop! Read our April newsletter at CMichPress don com slash news. Sign up for our mailing list at the link in bio! Behind the envelope graphic is a maroon filter over an image of a table with a game laid out on top.

It's here! Read our newsletter at cmichpress.com/news (or click the link in our bio) to catch up on recent CLGS events, game announcements, and more!
#newsletter #cmichpress

Text reads The Blue Way launches in 9 weeks. Above the text on a light blue background, a faded Monumental Consequence Box has blue paint dripping down the front, partially covering the name.

Something is slowly taking over our social media feeds... follow the prelaunch page at The Blue Way link in our bio. #TheBlueWayGame #jasonmorningstar #samaraya #backerkitcrowdfunding

We will! ❤️

IT'S HERE! Order Keep the Faith, @gregisonthego.bsky.social's storytelling game about a religion in transition with art by @goblinprincete.bsky.social and
@momatoes.com. Available at cmichpress.com and some retailers. Ask your local game store! #keepthefaithgame #KTFShareTheLore

An image of tabletop game components like dice, a colored board, an hourglass, and colored pawns. Below the image is maroon text which reads HWLC International Game Night. Below reads more text which says Tuesday, April 14th, five to seven PM, Pearce 303 and 304. Come and join us to play games from all over the world!

Looking for more opportunities to play games on campus? This Tuesday, join the Department of History, World Languages, and Cultures for International Game Night from 5-7 PM!

Looking for more opportunities to hang out with the CLGS and play games? We're hosting visiting educators Jared Fishman of the 20 Sided Gamified podcast and Michael Canterino at a Game Night on April 23rd in Pearce 303. Join us from 5-7 to play their game, "Challenge to Power," and play games!

Hello, @jdrake3b.bsky.social! Keep the Faith is available now for purchase on our website and at retailers! Thanks for asking!

Maroon background with gold text. Text reads Listen to a chat with our co-directors on campus conversations. Special thanks to CMU Advancement! There is also a small gold line graphic of a microphone next to the words.

A little while ago, we were lucky enough to be the featured guests on CMU Advancement's "Campus Conversations," a virtual chat for alumni. Check out the link to the video in our bio! Thanks again, Central Michigan University Alumni Association! Fire up!

A student in a red sweater is seated at a round wood-patterned table. In front of her is an array of cards from the game Witch Hunt: 1649. She is poised ready to pick up one of the cards.

The last Break Our Games night of the semester is this Friday! Meet us at Room 211 in the Park Library from 3-5 to play games in development at CMich Press!

White text on a maroon square reads Sign Up for the CMich Press Newsletter. Monthly updates on game launches, projects, and more! Behind this square is a faded collage of CMich Press game cover art, including Five Hundred Year Old Vampire, Rising Waters, Dog Eat Dog, and Monumental Consequence.

It's our favorite week: the one before the newsletter drops when we gather all of our good news and exciting updates to share with you next Wednesday! If you haven't already, sign up for our mailing list. We'll see you in your inbox!

Photograph of a rectangular, tan prototype game board. There is a compass in the upper left corner and a stack of rough-textured cards in the bottom left. Small tan three dimensional buildings sit atop the board at the intersections of little line networks.

We are immensely proud of the students in our Game Design Thinking program. We can't wait for the Second Annual CMU Student Game Capstone Showcase on May 7th to play this amazing game and others!

The Blue Way is a tabletop storytelling game about a fictional community resisting assimilation, deriving its theming from historical examples like the Norman Conquest and Spanish colonization of the Americas.

Black text reads College educators! We are seeking playtesters for The Blue Way. DM or email cmichpress at cmich dot edu for more information! The word Blue is colored blue.

Are you a college educator who loves games? We are seeking playtesters to run The Blue Way, our forthcoming game, and provide feedback on their experience. Participants will receive credit in the published game manual! Message us directly here or email cmichpress@cmich.edu for more information.

Three students sit around a circular table with cards laid on the table. The student most prominently in the middle is smiling.

ONE week until our last Break Our Games event of the season!
Park Library, Room 211, 3-5 PM. Will we see you there?

Overlapping blue squares form a dense line at the top and bottom of the graphic. Within a narrow clear space in the middle, black text reads, The Blue Way is coming.

Follow the prelaunch page now at the link in our bio to prepare for the June 16 launch of the latest CMich Press game, designed by @jmstar.bsky.social with art by @arayaart.bsky.social.
#thebluewaygame #jasonmorningstar #samaraya #backerkitcrowdfunding #cmichpress

Screenshot of the website Meeple Mountain. A long charcoal bar fills the top fifth of the screen with the words Meeple Mountain in white on top and a small shield-shaped logo with two Ms on the far left. Below it is a featured graphic with the Keep the Faith box. The art on the box is centered on two people in hoods holding out their hands to make triangles.

Check it out!!! @whatsforlynch.bsky.social posted an awesome review of Keep the Faith. Link in our bio!

#keepthefaithgame #ktfsharethelore #gamereview #newgame #storytellinggame

Salmon pink background with black text outlined in royal blue. Text reads Announcing the latest from CMich Press... College: The Trading Card Game! Power up with citations! Duel for your degree! Collect all the textbooks! In the lower left corner is a stack of cards fanned out. The top card reads Game Based Learning Professor above a purple and blue cartoon of a professor. Smaller text reads Stats: Awesome and Million bajillion XP.

Happy April 1st...follow this link for more info! acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

Keep the Faith Game Review – Meeple Mountain Keep the Faith may straddle the line between a board game and an RPG, but it is clear-eyed in its purpose. Read more in this Meeple Mountain review.

A new review up on @meeplemountain.com today, for Keep the Faith from @gregisonthego.bsky.social and @cmichpress.bsky.social. This is the kind of game whose arguments are inherent to its systems, an elegant statement whose profundity can slip right by.

www.meeplemountain.com/reviews/keep...

That is huge praise! We are so glad you enjoyed Keep the Faith. Thank you for the wonderfully-written review!

Thanks!!! We're so proud! The exhibit is up until 2028, we'd love to see you in town for a visit! (Rising Waters is part of the CMich Press display!)

Two blue arcade cabinets. Each of their screens is blue. Over the top of the screens is the wooden sign panel for the game, and each one reads Code of Heroes. The building to the right has side art showing a shining sun over mountains.

Photograph of a black textured tabletop with a laminated booklet, a wooden token, and a plastic cube with a die inside it. The laminated booklet reads Sword and Board at the top. These are instructions for a game. The die inside the plastic cube is yellow. The token is only partially visible and features a red dragon atop a green circle.

Photograph of a black wall with tan signs mounted upon it over a tan table that looks like a supply box. The topmost sign reads Mirror with a Memory: A Game of War and Chance. Below it is a sign which is printed to look like a map, with two sections marked generally as the Federation of Boardgamis and the Arcadian Union. To the left of this map panel is a tan panel of instructions. The table below is painted a deep brownish tan with the words U.S. Sanitary Commission painetd on the side in black.

Photograph of a cubby-like grid standing upright. Above it on the wall is a sign which read Follow Suit. The first column of the grid has labels for "France," "Switzerland," and "Northern Italy." Across the top of the grid are line drawings which provides other clues. Little wooden blocks with symbols and words on them, such as a flower or a diamond, are placed inside the cubbies to play the game.

We just wanted to take a minute to share some images of the FANTASTIC games -- all developed by CMU students and alumni for "Magic Circles: Society through Game Spaces." All of these games are available for you to explore now at the CMU Museum with the opening of the new exhibit!

The cover of Dog Eat Dog, the roleplaying game. It is spread so that the back cover is on the left and the front cover is on the right. The back cover is mainly back with text and a faded image of a circular map. The front is teal with a crimson pittbull-type dog holding scales in its mouth. Dog Eat Dog is spelled out in bright yellow text.

This is a layout of the cover for Princess with a Cursed Sword the role playing game. The back cover is on the left side of the image and the front is on the right. The back image is a collection of tarot-like cards featuring different characters. There is a card with small text in the middle. The front features a sword floating between a grove of trees with the name of the game written on banners around it.

A page of text from Dog Eat Dog. It is white with black text beginning one-third of the way down the page. A faded circular map covers the top third.

A page of text from Princess with a Cursed Sword. The heading reads Character Creation. The text is black on white paper with a right margin full of cartoon green leaves. The back of a tarot card is inserted into the next closer to the bottom of the page. It has a pattern of pink and black floral shapes.

What's this? Proofs?! We can't wait to hold these games in our hands and send them out to you -- and now we're one step closer! Aren't they beautiful? #ArtandSystem #dogeatdogrpg #princesswithacursedsword

"Magic Circles: Society through Game Spaces," the new exhibit at the CMU Museum, opens to the public on Monday! Between this page and the CMU Museum's Facebook and Instagram pages, we will be rolling out Dalan's interviews with students. Tune back in for more behind-the-scenes content!