Nat Mesnard

We are still OPEN FOR PITCHES for Issue 2. All experience and backgrounds welcome. We are especially looking for: -pieces not focussed on medieval europe -experimental writing -reviews have a look at our "experimental" and "reviews" sections in Issue 1! playtestmaterial.org/issue-two-hi...

Congrats, @brigittewinter.bsky.social and @natmesnard.bsky.social! Brigitte’s The Goodest Girls won the 2026 CRIT Award for Best GM-less TTRPG and Nat’s Assemblage was a finalist for Best Multiplayer TTRPG! Celebrate with 20% all of our games through 10/4. scryptidgames.com/discount/FABLE

Last chance to vote for @natmesnard.bsky.social and @brigittewinter.bsky.social for CRIT Awards! Voting closes 8/23.

It's such an honor to have my game Assemblage nominated for the @critawards.bsky.social this year! Check out all the great games and creators and vote!

I'm teaching an online interactive fiction course in a 6-week workshop format this summer w/ @onestorymag.bsky.social and there's still a few slots left. All-levels class, focus on providing the creative community and conversation needed to publish a major IF piece: one-story.com/product/inte...

Our Interactive Fiction Workshop with @natmesnard.bsky.social of @scryptidgames.bsky.social will run July 8-Aug. 12th! Limited to 10 students. Join us for 6 weeks of play & turn your IF idea into a finished project. For complete details visit: bit.ly/4fz3N4Z #interactivefiction

This six-week, 10-student class with @natmesnard.bsky.social of @scryptidgames.bsky.social invites you to explore interactive narrative writing and design in a workshop-style format. For details visit: bit.ly/4fz3N4Z

June 5 deadline: Apply to the @nyugamecenter.bsky.social Fall Game Incubator $15K funding Executive Producer Mentor Workshops Coworking Spcae Advisors Shortlisted applicants pitch by video (remotely) for final slots. Apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #NYMakesGames

Hey #nyc, @meganmilks.bsky.social is running their Prose Workshop this summer. I'll be taking this course for the second time (my first was last year) & I'm so excited about it. In-person, writing prompts, genre-weird workshopping, yeess, all of these things are very good: www.meganmilks.com/classes

These are the things that I write about 🙃

Poems live on @electricliterature.com The Commuter today! Thank you to @kellyluce.bsky.social for giving this work on desire and longing and memory and video games and problematic pop music and expensive soft felted snails a home. ✨ electricliterature.com/two-poems-by...

For NYC folks, this class is happening TODAY at 1-3PM ET. A few spaces are still open! Come make a #ttrpg with us and explore innovative story game design.

The next MAKE WEIRD GAMES class is coming up on 4/19 at @twentysided.bsky.social! Workshops are standalone so you don't need to have attended the first one. We'll be exploring THE DETAILS OF OUR ESCAPE from @possibleworlds.bsky.social! Space limited: twentysidedstore.com/collections/...

New publisher listing for: Tales from the Cryptids Anthology @scryptidgames.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Art; General, Fantasy, Horror; pays). #WritingCommunity

What a lovely review of Why We Fight by @sdrgames.bsky.social! 🎉

Never not going hard. 💪 It's been so fun to read submissions for this project.

This is happening today. Lots of registrations already, but a few spaces are still open if you want to spend your Sunday doing experimental #ttrpg design! Class starts at 3PM ET.

This is tomorrow! Space is still open. If you're in NYC and want to design something new, come join us. We'll playstorm #ttrpg concepts using Legos and you'll leave with new game ideas + maybe the beginnings of a first draft.

You 👏🏻 love 👏🏻 to 👏🏻 see 👏🏻 it!

Hey, NYC cryptids, come out! This is going to be a great class, and Session 1 will be exploring @vidityavoleti.bsky.social's Lego-based #ttrpg Space Goblins! 🎉

If you're based in NYC and want to study #ttrpg design w/ me, come out on Sunday 3/22 at 1-3 PM for Session 1 of MAKE WEIRD GAMES, my workshop on "weird" story game design where we explore brilliant indie zines & playstorm new game concepts! All levels welcome: twentysidedstore.com/collections/...

New Substack post live today, and it's about being a drag clown, attending #AWP26 and the #ttrpg design classes I'm teaching this month ➡️ open.substack.com/pub/natmesna...

Can't wait to find out how the Beta version of this cool game I've been making w/ @laurieblake.bsky.social plays! ✨ For my Metatopia pals, this ran as "Solarpunk Naturalists" at the con last year. The title is now officially "Natural Selection." 🍄

Rather get metaphysical? For a TTRPG try... 🏍️ Starlee Davidson, created by @natmesnard.bsky.social + @patrickdkwatson.bsky.social and brought to us by @9thlevelgames.bsky.social (grab your tarot deck and play the motorcycle-riding spirits of Starlee's inner self, guiding her after a bad breakup)

Stoked to see this recap of my #AWP26 panel from @amandatien.bsky.social. The vibes were SO brilliant and having them recapped in this delightful piece is a gift.

Heyyy that's my game STARLEE DAVIDSON designed w/ @patrickdkwatson.bsky.social about a woman's inner motorcycle gang & their breakup-transcending trip through the woo-niverse! ✨🏍️

A total delight to play bass in this band of game-writing rock stars. 🎸

Looking forward to @awpwriter.org #AWP26 this week, where I'll be moderating my panel "Story Game Presses: Pitching, Submissions & Publishing" with some incredible publishers: @domsdickey.bsky.social @nearfutures.bsky.social @justinsirois.bsky.social @natmesnard.bsky.social

We're bound for @awpwriter.org #AWP26 in Baltimore, MD this week! If you'll be around, come by the panels @brigittewinter.bsky.social and @natmesnard.bsky.social are running on games/writing, and visit us at Booth #T425 on the showroom floor.

So excited for @awpwriter.org #AWP26 this week, where I'll be moderating my panel "Prose, Poetry, and Play: Game Design as a Literary Practice" with some incredible designers/writers: @sharangbiswas.bsky.social, @davering.bsky.social, @nirele.bsky.social, and @brigittewinter.bsky.social! Join us 🎲

This is going to be delightful. My two spookiest friends, Will and @brigittewinter.bsky.social, in one livestream! Come watch us ~~~scare~~~ each other w/ how much we all love to read and write creepy queer fiction 💕

Stayed up way past our bedtime for this earlier in the week, 10/10 would stay up late again! Very interesting conversations as a whole

Of potential interest to fans of 2025's "Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn" anthology from Middle West Press: Baltimore-based @scryptidgames.bsky.social is crowd-funding an anthology comprising story-telling TTRPG, fiction, and poetry! Campaign ends Feb. 27, 2026! Info: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

I had an excellent time chatting with @natmesnard.bsky.social and @superdillin.bsky.social about games, the playful erotic, the rise of fan-games (the next step to fan fiction?) and more! They are cool people, if you didn’t know. Just saying.

This was suuuuuch a dynamic conversation with @superdillin.bsky.social and @sharangbiswas.bsky.social last night! People in the chat were...taking notes?! Tons of good stuff on subversive game design, erotic TTRPGs, and "emancipatory bleed." www.youtube.com/live/qtx5mX6...

New livestream! Join Scryptid Games Co-Founder @natmesnard.bsky.social tonight, 2/17, at 7pm ET for a chat with @backerkit.com #ZineTopia designers @sharangbiswas.bsky.social and @superdillin.bsky.social on their new games & the thriving New York City tabletop scene! youtube.com/live/qtx5mX6...

clown is cryptid; the wind chill in NYC today is NOT cryptid

Always fun to be a little unhinged on the internet with my buddy @brigittewinter.bsky.social. Never once have I tried to be cool 😤

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.

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

TODAY is last chance to submit.

This was such a nice chat with @tabletopbookshelf.com!

Brooklyn: Join Nat this Saturday @20sidedstore.bsky.social!

I'm stoked that this is coming up on Saturday in NYC at @20sidedstore.bsky.social. If you're coming, grab your spot! Tix are free, but space is limited. Let's play together & tell stories of grief and ecological resilience: twentysidedstore.com/collections/...

The Quiet Year is now back in stock no matter where you live! The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US! store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...

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!