Game designer, writer, teacher in NYC. Co-founder Scryptid Games & Unquiet Games. They/them 🤖 natmesnard.com
Nat Mesnard
New publisher listing for: Tales from the Cryptids Anthology @scryptidgames.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Art; General, Fantasy, Horror; pays). #WritingCommunity
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
New publisher listing for: Tales from the Cryptids Anthology @scryptidgames.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Art; General, Fantasy, Horror; pays). #WritingCommunity
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 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/...
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
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 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/...
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...
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Nat Mesnard
These are the things that I write about 🙃
Workshop | MAKE WEIRD GAMES w/ Nat Mesnard (3 Sessions) In this three-session workshop, we'll take inspiration from "weird" story games and other innovative indie titles to playstorm new game concepts...
All of existence and nonexistence, reality and surreality, is spoken in a Universal Language. It describes all the laws of the universe: what is and what is not, everything that ever happened and ever...
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
Nat Mesnard
Workshop | MAKE WEIRD GAMES w/ Nat Mesnard (3 Sessions) In this three-session workshop, we'll take inspiration from "weird" story games and other innovative indie titles to playstorm new game concepts...
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/...
Nat Mesnard
Nat Mesnard
Workshop | MAKE WEIRD GAMES w/ Nat Mesnard (3 Sessions) In this three-session workshop, we'll take inspiration from "weird" story games and other innovative indie titles to playstorm new game concepts...