Scryptid Games

Make Short Games with Nat Mesnard A Zoom workshop taking inspiration from short TTRPGs to playstorm new games.

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 💕

Creatures & Cryptids w/ Will Roth, Brigitte Winter & Nat Mesnard YouTube video by Scryptid Games

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...

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera Project Update: Vote to send Brigitte to a haunted Maryland location! Hi there, creeps! We are officially only FOUR DAYS away from the end of this campaign and over 70% of the way to our $10K stretch goal, which will add 20 more pages of conte...

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: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera A book of games and writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t solve the mystery. Be ...

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...

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera A book of games and writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t solve the mystery. Be ...

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...

Zinetopia Designers Chat with Sharang Biswas, Dillin Apelyan and Nat Mesnard YouTube video by Scryptid Games

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!!!

Zinetopia Designers Chat with Sharang Biswas, Dillin Apelyan and Nat Mesnard YouTube video by Scryptid Games

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

Positive that @neversaydustin.bsky.social has thoughts on this.

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 🎵🤘

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera An anthology of narrative games and other writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t ...

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...

Pursuant to @natmesnard.bsky.social's comment at 18:10 in the video and suggestions from our viewers (They Might Be Giants is cryptid; ICE is *not* cryptid) we'd love to hear more takes, y'all, the question of WHAT'S CRYPTID 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇

Nat & Brigitte Talk Tales from the Cryptids YouTube video by Scryptid Games

In case you missed last night's livestream with @brigittewinter.bsky.social and @natmesnard.bsky.social, you can still watch our two Tales from the Cryptids campaign producers + editors chatting about this awesome anthology project over on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/lY0bhXl...

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera An anthology of narrative games and other writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t ...

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...

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera Community Achievement: More pages, more contributors At this level, we’ll increase the page count by 20 pages, from 120 to 140! That means we’ll be able to say yes to more game designers, fiction writers, and poets when we open to submissions this sprin...

Next up, we'd love to add MORE PAGES to this incredible book, which will let us accept submissions from additional contributors. If you haven't backed yet, now's the time to help us get there! 🦇 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera An anthology of narrative games and other writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t ...

🎉FUNDED! 🎉 We're so excited that this rad anthology is officially happening, and that y'all want to play (and read) these uncanny cryptid tales. Now, let's get those stretch goals in view... www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera An anthology of narrative games and other writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t ...

Now on Backerkit from our friends at Scryptid Games, Tales from the Cryptids! Check out this anthology of narrative games and other writing on cryptid lore today!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
@scryptidgames.bsky.social

#studio2friends #Crowdfunding #backerkit #ttrpg

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.

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera An anthology of narrative games and other writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t ...

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera is an anthology of games and writings that tell stories about the cryptids and the lives they lead. @scryptidgames.bsky.social are the minds behind this one!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

So excited for this anthology!! Congrats @brigittewinter.bsky.social and the @scryptidgames.bsky.social crew!!

Tales from the Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera An anthology of narrative games and other writing that flips the lens on conventional cryptid lore. In this zine, cryptids are beings with vivid lives, goals, and stories of their own to share. Don’t ...

Tales from the Cryptids just went live on Backerkit! Back this anthology edited by @brigittewinter.bsky.social with work from @lackingceremony.bsky.social, @sharangbiswas.bsky.social, @shing.bsky.social, @aeosworth.bsky.social, @dragons.bsky.social, and more! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...