It's an eggcellent time of year to put this dozen into a gift basket.
It's got clowns, space travel, and Jacques Pepin. Also your writer friend--me. Hey, Mary Roach and Jennifer Egan liked it!
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#easter #egg #ovatures
Maybe also a word or two on the prep/space required?
Thanks for playing them. There is a deep bench of games like this by other amazing designers if you ever want more suggestions! (And please share if you find more; we’re always interested in standing on the shoulders of giants!!!)
PS. Pretty sure that the Algonquin Round Table was famous for its games of Mafia. There's a tradition at the Yaddo Colony, at least, that supposedly dates back to Dorothy Parker and Truman Capote's time there, IIRC.
A very relevant (and very good) game from Six of Hounds @jmstar.bsky.social and @lizziestark.bsky.social - now available!
I am going to use this in my class next fall!
Grab it here:
sixofhounds.itch.io/slow-walk
We're honored and delighted.
If games about dictatorship interest you, we've got another one called The Broadcast, a satire about press censorship. It's quite funny to play...but also brutal.
sixofhounds.itch.io/the-broadcast
@lizziestark.bsky.social and I wrote a game about grinding the gears of oppression in the most annoying, deniable ways, inspired by the 1944 Simple Sabotage Field manual of the OSS. It's cozy! You play cute forest animals who work in a trap factory for predators! sixofhounds.itch.io/slow-walk
It'd be an honor. <3
@jmstar.bsky.social and I have a new game out, about cute animals committing SABOTAGE in a way that maintains plausible deniability. Check it out!
Wish I did. There is, of course, Atzor in the early 1900s. I sometimes wonder where Mafia first popped up too. But the historical antecedents run real deep and I wouldn’t be surprised if there were many more to discover!
Come join @karenpinchin.bsky.social and me next Friday, online at the Creative Nonfiction Collective, for playful ways to get that nonfiction manuscript off your desk and into the world! creativenonfictioncollective.ca/programming/...
Reminder—@jmstar and I made a short, wickedly comic larp about a crew of newscasters weathering censorship.
sixofhounds.itch.io/the-broadcast
This book is 🔥🔥🔥
@bjarcore.bsky.social and I wrote a Romeo and Juliet larp for the Kennedy Center.
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And Sam Liberty made Forsooth, which proceduralizes Shakespeare.
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A herd of goostifs. Magical goodness flock with the butt of a mastiff.
@jmstar.bsky.social and I are designing a game with the tentative title “We Cannot Contain the Spider Baby.”
Heh heh heh. Love being an egg correspondent
Dyeing potatoes? Something is rotten in the US. My latest, in the Washington Post. #ovatures
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
SECRETARY RUBIO: Well, I think there’s a little bit of common sense here. You come to the States and then you decide you don’t like those paper straws that some of the stores are selling and you start protesting or complaining about paper straws – I mean, we’re obviously not going to yank a visa over that. I think it crosses a line – think about it this way. No one has a right to a visa. These are things that we decide. We deny visas every day for all kinds of reasons all over the world. We deny visas because we think people might overstay. We deny visas because the country they come from are people that historically overstay. We deny visas every day, and we can revoke visas. If you have the power to deny, you have the power to revoke.
Can Secretary Rubio give us a full list of the political views the administration will allow immigrants to espouse and which ones he will decide to "yank" their visas over? Be specific, please. www.state.gov/secretary-of...
Ominous icon of a wolf with the words "Slow Walk" beneath it.
Six of Hounds (Me and @lizziestark.bsky.social) is looking for folks to playtest a small activism game called Slow Walk. It's for 2-9 participants/1-2 hours and requires in-person play. We need some external testing. Let us know if you are interested!
The price of eggs is high…but not yet gold rush egg high, as I reported a couple years back.
#dozenovatures #egg
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Cards from a larp in playtest, designed to look like ID cards for forest animals.
@lizziestark.bsky.social and I are working on a new game and I got to playtest it at Larp Shack so that's pretty good. I always want a first playtest to be like "this is perfect and you are geniuses" but that does not happen, so I'll take "you learned a lot and have much more work to do".
Sam Liberty has an awesome Shakespeare tabletop called Forsooth! My class loved it.
Ever wanted to attend a spooky surreal dinner party? Check out @jmstar.bsky.social and my new scenario, Sluga.
sixofhounds.itch.io/sluga
Ha. I'd love to. What kind of high budget romance character would you be?
Ever wanted to star in a romantic indie film? This fall in NYC you can, as Sinking Ship Creations brings Bjarke Pedersen and my two person larp To The Bitter End to NYC this November. Bring a friend, and dare to fall in love and lose it.
www.sinkingshipcreations.com/bitter-end
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #949,532!
Not too impressive, but I guess I’m one in a million (ten million?)
Did you miss #GenerationAnalog2024 panel with @jmstar.bsky.social and @lizziestark.bsky.social? Lizzie and Jason discussed how the pandemic dramatically changed their design process, and how it continues to impact their practice and community. #TTRPGs #RPGs #larp
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UCl...
