Scryptid Games

Very excited that our official announcement for BLOOMFALL — a school days portal fantasy TTRPG — is live today on @rascal.news. Such an exciting project designed by @sharangbiswas.bsky.social and @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social in collaboration with @labx.org! 🍃 www.rascal.news/scryptid-gam...

It's coming... my 6th (!!) publication this year "Devil in the Pines" is releasing in this GORGEOUS anthology edited by my dear friend @brigittewinter.bsky.social and @scryptidgames.bsky.social coming out this week! It's in hardcover! Full color! With a ribbon! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Showing of BLOOMFALL: HERE, THERE & ELSEWHERE at @meaningfulplay.bsky.social It's been great making this portal-fantasy TTRPG with @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social, @labx.org, and @scryptidgames.bsky.social!

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

In BLOOMFALL, (with @scryptidgames.bsky.social & @labx.org), @yeonsoonerorlater.bsky.social & I deliberately eschew any semblance of “open world”-edness. We’re calling the game a “storybook TTRPG” scryptidgames.com/pages/bloomf...

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

Highly recommend both! <3

Honored to be nominated for a CRIT Award for The Goodest Girls. 🐕 💕

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!

The Goodest Girls by @brigittewinter.bsky.social and Assemblage by @natmesnard.bsky.social are Crit Awards finalists! Vote The Goodest Girls as Best GMless TTRPG and Assemblage as Best Multiplayer TTRPG before August 23 & help bring the spotlight to these awesome games: www.critawards.org

Links for Voting and Finalist List with reference attachments can be found on linktr.ee/CRITAwards which is listed on all socials. Additional information can be found on our website: critawards.org Voting is open July19th - August 23rd

👏🏻 We are pumped for this anthology!!!

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

We ❤️ this actual play!

We'll be taking inspiration from Spell: The RPG today by @whimsymachine.bsky.social and playstorming with Scrabble tiles! whimsymachinegames.com/Spell-The-RP...

The final MAKE WEIRD GAMES class of the spring is today! Come make a narrative #ttrpg in #nyc. All levels, stand-alone game design workshop in BK: twentysidedstore.com/collections/...

The Goodest Girls and @brigittewinter.bsky.social are nominated for an Indie Groundbreaker Award! Celebrate with 20% off this sitcom-inspired TTRPG about senior shelter animals living their best lives. (Discount Code: Sophia) scryptidgames.com/discount/Sop...

Wow! You all really showed up. We are now well beyond our max for fiction subs, so we will close to stories 4/30. (Games, poetry, and ephemera are still open until 5/15.)

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

Whoa! We've already hit our cap of 100 fiction subs for Tales from the Cryptids, but @brigittewinter.bsky.social is so delighted by what she’s read that we're keeping the portal open until we hit 200 or reach our May 15th deadline. Keep 'em coming, and get us your #ttrpg and #poetry submissions too!

Love being in such excellent company. 🐀 ❤️

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.

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! 🎉

Tales from the Cryptids is open to submissions! Send us your weirdest fiction, poetry, and TTRPGs. 10 cents/word. Open until May 15. Let us peek into what might be—at the edge of what is known. Don't solve the mystery. Be the mystery. #callforsubmissions scryptidgames.moksha.io/publication/...

An absolutely amazing recap of our #AWP26 panel "Poetry, Prose, and Play: Game Design as a Literary Practice" from @amandatien.bsky.social!

I'm teaching a 2.5 hour Zoom workshop on March 29 called MAKE SHORT GAMES. We'll discuss tiny #ttrpgs and one-pagers, and playstorm games of our own. A great opportunity to design your first game, or (for experienced folks) make something new: www.eventbrite.com/e/make-short...

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

This panel was so joyful. Love the energy at @awpwriter.org around game design as a literary practice!

We had a really lively panel, with lots of back-and-forth! Woot!

Our panel Prose, Poetry, and Play: Game Design as a Literary Practice at #AWP26 was amazing yesterday, with brilliant insights from @natmesnard.bsky.social @sharangbiswas.bsky.social @brigittewinter.bsky.social @nirele.bsky.social @davering.bsky.social! If you attended, let us know your takeaways ✨

Great reading happening during #AWP26 w/ our "Prose, Poetry, and Play" panelists @sharangbiswas.bsky.social and @davering.bsky.social!

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 🎲

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.

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 💕

Last liveSCREAM of our Tales from the Cryptids campaign is tonight at 7PM ET / 4PM PT / 12AM GMT. 👻 Join @natmesnard.bsky.social, @brigittewinter.bsky.social and Will Roth of Creature Publishing to chat about scary fiction, spooky games, queer books, and more! youtube.com/live/cuFN88E...

Vote to send @brigittewinter.bsky.social on a haunted photo shoot for Tales from the Cryptids! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Tales from the Cryptids limited rewards are running low! Only 2 spots left for the Scryptid Scholar and Batboy's Bargain tiers, which both come with written feedback on a complete TTRPG, short story, or poem to help you prepare your submission for our open call: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

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...

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...

VERY excited for this chat I think you should come by and hear it!!!

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...

My friends at @scryptidgames.bsky.social are running a crowdfunding campaign for #TalesFromTheCryptids Back it! BUT ALSO: you can submit & be a part of it! Poems, games, art, short stories!! This project is rad. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... SUBMIT WITH ME! #JoyfulPromo #ScryptidGames

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 🎵🤘

Already funded, but always great to support @scryptidgames.bsky.social - check out their latest anthology project, with contributions from wonderful authors! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

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. 💕 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...