Nat Mesnard
@natmesnard.bsky.social
Game designer, writer, teacher in NYC. Co-founder Scryptid Games & Unquiet Games. They/them 🤖 natmesnard.com
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...
Interactive Fiction Workshop with Nat Mesnard – One Story
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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
Megan Milks | Classes
Class offerings from Megan Milks, author of SLUG and MARGARET AND THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING BODY
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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/...
Workshop | Make Weird Games w/ Nat MesnardSUN 5/17/2026 @ 12:45p-3p
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...
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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...
The Delicious Hell of a New Jersey Sex Dungeon - Electric Literature
Two poems by Nat Mesnard
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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.
Nat Mesnard@natmesnard.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe 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/...
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/...
Workshop | Make Weird Games w/ Nat MesnardSUN 4/17/2026 @ 12:45p-3p
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...
twentysidedstore.com
New publisher listing for: Tales from the Cryptids Anthology @scryptidgames.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Art; General, Fantasy, Horror; pays). #WritingCommunity
New Publisher Listing: Tales from the Cryptids Anthology
New publisher listing for: Tales from the Cryptids Anthology @scryptidgames.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Art; General, Fantasy, Horror; pays). #WritingCommunity
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What a lovely review of Why We Fight by @sdrgames.bsky.social! 🎉
Robin J@cozyrpgreviews.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew #ttrpg review day! Why We Fight by @sdrgames.bsky.social - a solarpunk... You know what? If you're on Bluesky you'll be interested in this game. Trust me. YouTube doesn't react well to this kind of topic, so please do give it a watch/share if you can✊Thank you :) vid: youtu.be/s5N-dnwWC1k
Never not going hard. 💪 It's been so fun to read submissions for this project.
Scryptid Games@scryptidgames.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhoa! 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!
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.
Nat Mesnard@natmesnard.bsky.social · 5mo agoI'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...
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.
Nat Mesnard@natmesnard.bsky.social · 5mo agoIf 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/...
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! 🎉
Nat Mesnard@natmesnard.bsky.social · 5mo agoIf 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/...
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/...
Workshop | Make Weird Games w/ 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...
twentysidedstore.com
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...
Clown, Conferences, and Complicité
Would you study tabletop game design with a nascent drag clown?
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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." 🍄
Stop, Drop & Roll@sdrgames.bsky.social · 5mo agoPlaytesting the joint project we've been working on with @scryptidgames.bsky.social this weekend at @groundhogplay.bsky.social! Hyped to get Natural Selection to the table 👀
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.
amandatien.bsky.social@amandatien.bsky.social · 5mo agoMy fave #AWP26 sesh was Prose, Poetry & Play: Game Design as a Literary Practice w/ @natmesnard.bsky.social, @brigittewinter.bsky.social, Erin Roberts, @sharangbiswas.bsky.social, @davering.bsky.social. I wrote a recap at @punishedbacklog.bsky.social: punishedbacklog.com/prose-poetry...
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! ✨🏍️
Knave of Cups@knaveofcups.com · 5mo agoArriving FRI: more @9thlevelgames.bsky.social Polymorph titles 🦉 Goofball bird crime comedy Pigeon's Eleven (in which birds do heists) & 🌛Tarot-and-motorcycles breakup adventure Starlee Davidson (in which the inner metaphysical voices of recently-dumped Starlee encourage her to make "good" choices)
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...
Make Short Games with Nat Mesnard
A Zoom workshop taking inspiration from short TTRPGs to playstorm new games.
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A total delight to play bass in this band of game-writing rock stars. 🎸
Scryptid Games@scryptidgames.bsky.social · 5mo agoOur 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 ✨
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 💕
Scryptid Games@scryptidgames.bsky.social · 5mo agoLast 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...
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
Nat Mesnard@natmesnard.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis 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...
