Team #MFWG lucky enough to be here today but for those that aren't this thread is an excellent resource 👇🧵

Adrian Hon@adrianhon.bsky.social · last wk.

At the Playable Heritage conference in Edinburgh today, on plans to collect video game culture in the UK… 🧵

#MFWG will be running some 'A Wandering for Wondering: Wyrd Walks to Adventure Playfully and Make Playful Adventures' game/creature/treasure design workshops at www.whisperingwoodsfayre.co.uk this weekend! Come along! Fun for young and old! #StayWyrd #Games #Scotland #Scottish #Fantasy

#MFWG founder @abs.ventures will be @tabletopscot.bsky.social all weekend running #Games & helping @cymerafestival.co.uk stand (Thanks TTS for inviting us!) ! Come say hi/chat about our upcoming #Cymera Loves #Romantasy Festival www.cymerafestival.co.uk/the-festival & #Games at our festival in June!

TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR REBEL COUNTRY: A SQUADRON OF ROGUES! The Empire has unveiled its ambitions for the water-rich planet of Al Bas. Some among the native populace wish to resist. Play in this #Megagame inspired by Star Wars: Andor! Info/Tickets morefunwith.games/a-squadron-o... #Games #Scotland

We're making a #StarWars themed #megagame with @sonof0neeye.bsky.social exploring what it means to rebel & resist... but also how the power of the dark side can corrupt. Nov 7th at Queen Charlotte Rooms #Leith #Edinburgh more details/tickets here morefunwith.games/a-squadron-o... #Games #Scotland

Amazing day for #MFWG running Control for #CrisisMars #Megagame @arworkshop.bsky.social ably abetted by @octoorchid.bsky.social & @sonof0neeye.bsky.social Stay tuned for some more #Megagame action soon with #ASquadronOfRogues #Games in #Edinburgh on November 7th, save the date, more info incoming!

Team #MFWG looking forward to tomorrow when @georgeosborn.bsky.social will be at the @edbookfest.bsky.social discussing his new book Power Play www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/georg... #Edinburgh #Games #Politics #Books #VideoGames

#MFWG #Edinburgh #Fringe tip for those that like #Games or #Comedy www.edfringe.com/tickets/what... Shit Arcade satisfyingly did exactly it what it says on the tin, ably hosted by @mikedrucker.bsky.social and with a suitable dose of encouraging audience participation #VideoGames

#MFWG in #Glasgow for @uofgfantasy.bsky.social #Fantasy 's Present Pasts Conference helping facilitate a workshop Thu AM, A Wandering for Wondering: Ways to Adventure Playfully and Make Playful Adventures a wee walk aboot campus unveiling some fun join us for a chill daunder! tinyurl.com/yp6x8tkh

Hey the @cymerafestival.co.uk #Games strand was amazing this year (#MFWG founder @abs.ventures organises it so we're maybe biased :) a wee highlights write up here morefunwith.games/cymera-2026/ And if you would like to pitch a game/talk/workshop please reach out, we return on 4th-6th of June 2027!

#MFWG lucky enough to help playtest the upcoming History & Games Lab & @chaosium.bsky.social #CallOfCthluhu #TTPRG Horror in the Cisterns adventure recently - more details here www.chaosium.com/blognext-mon... no spoilers but had a lot of fun & we learned a lot, in fact so much we lost some SAN!

June 5-7th @cymerafestival.co.uk is back & #MFWG founder @abs.ventures has helped curate the #Games strand, to sign up to play shorturl.at/FEOrc (he's running 2 games!) shorturl.at/ob2EC has Workshops & #game related events. Free/low priced ticket options for many of the games events! #TTRPG #RPG

Team #MFWG minds still 'whorling' (pastry pun ahoy) from Creative Tech Scotland Gathering last week, #CTSG was amazing as usual, our wee snapshots cannot do it justice but ctsg.scot/2026/program... will give you the flavour! So many interesting talks and folks. (Cinnamon) roll on next year!

accessibility.day 'Today is the 15th Global Accessibility Awareness Day! ...The purpose of #GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access/inclusion and people with different disabilities.' Who can you talk to today about #Accessibility ? #TheFutureIsAccessible

#MFWG excited to be attending jubenshacon.com First English language #Jubensha convention, looking forward to listening, learning, playing and helping inform my #GameDesign practice. Games so far are amazing! What is Jubensha? Well I'll know more soon but jubensha.co.uk/pages/what-i... a good start

The Big Telly Jam #Dundee was an appropriately anarchic mashup day, #game designers, #artists & more. #MFWG delighted to attend, met old #friends, made new ones, lots of creative fun! Grateful to Arcadia & @biomecollective.bsky.social & all the organisations who supported it, more of these please!

One more sleep until the #Games #Accessibility #Conference online and free! Tickets still available www.gaconf.com for more info, a welcoming community and trove of #GamesAccessibility info! @gaconf.bsky.social #GAConf See you there!

Team #MFWG stopped by the #LeithWalk #PoliceBox to see the @collegefungames.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy team, check out the #LessMiserables demo on steam #IndieGames #Games #Leith #Edinburgh #Scotland

Team #MFWG is @conpulsion.bsky.social #TTRPG convention in #Edinburgh all weekend! Running #CallOfCthulhu this afternoon and #Liminal tomorrow afternoon playing and attending talks around that, hopefully see some of you there! #Scotland #Games #RPG #LARP #Megagames

Team #MFWG founder @abs.ventures is at the Police Box today, come and have a chat and find out more about our @cymerafestival.co.uk #Games programme which he has curated! We're looking for game makers and creators to run adventures at Cymera send us a pitch games@cymerafestival.co.uk

Team #MFWG is looking forward to the #Edinburgh @gamestalkslive.bsky.social later tomorrow, please say hi if you see us! There are also #Dundee and #Glasgow events over the next couple of days too, #Scottish #Games #Scotland #VideoGames #GamesTalksLive www.gamestalks.live for tickets and more info

Team #MFWG looking forward to this talk from the #History & #Games Lab at #Edinburgh University tomorrow on #RPG #ActualPlay by @friede.bsky.social free and online, info at historyandgames.shca.ed.ac.uk/events/

Team #MFWG was delighted to be at the @scottishgames.bsky.social #HelloWorld #Games event in #Glasgow this week, some insightful talks, made some new friends, met some old ones and saw a lot of cool stuff, thanks @brianbaglow.bsky.social! #Scottish #GameDev #Scotland

Tomorrow is the launch of LEVEL UP #SCOTLAND: The National #Games Action Plan see you in #Edinburgh in the AM and also there is another event in #Dundee in the #PM more info at the @scottishgames.bsky.social website scottishgames.net/2026/01/14/l...

Thought provoking & fun show by #DavidOxley in #edinburgh on for next couple of days, #free tickets/info davidoxley.art/2025/11/18/b... in particular sphaerosymphony.com with #PieraMorlacchi was fascinating, dynamic music from air pollution data also #bubble #dance !#art #creative #tech #Scotland

Team #MFWG is looking forward to helping staff the Post #Apocalyptic #Christmas #Party tomorrow hosted by our creative pals @ghostsociety.bsky.social @ #BarntonBunker info and tickets www.ghostsociety.co.uk/post-apocaly... #Edinburgh #Scotland #Buclear #Bunker #Hohoholocaust

#MFWG are en route to the Crossover with Creative Tech Scotland Gathering put on The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Innovation Studio, in partnership with the Creative Tech Scotland Gathering looking forward to it! #CTSG

#MFWG founder @abs.ventures will be @ #Dragonmeet tomorrow! 12.30 @mongoosepublishing.bsky.social seminar @ 14.30 @gonzohistory.bsky.social & @lostpages.co.uk #Making #Magic #Marvellous then the #KARTAS live recording with @kennethhite.bsky.social & @robindlaws.bsky.social 17.30 #TTRPG #Games

The Hidden History of Women Game Designers daily.jstor.org/the-hidden-h...

The Hidden History of Women Game Designers - JSTOR Daily

Nineteenth-century women turned music lessons into interactive entertainment, complete with spinning wheels and ivory counters.

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Also founder @abs.ventures is part of an amazing line-up panel @ptbopoetry.bsky.social on Sunday afternoon pushtheboatout.org/events/gamin... with #CalumRodger @ghostsociety.bsky.social @luciholland.bsky.social and a #TinderboxOrchestra young game designers demo #Scotland #Games #Immersive #Poetry