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Marshall Miller

@mease19.bsky.social
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Games/Game Design/Game Studies, Nutrition, Psychology, Aging, The Warren, Larpbus, Nanoworld, 200WRPGC, he/him.

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 6h
Announcing the newest peer-reviewed series for Carnegie Mellon University Press: games! This week during @meaningfulplay.bsky.social, we're launching our first-ever CFG (call for games) for Promptuary, a playable anthology. www.cmu.edu/university-p... #boardgames #tabletopgaming #stayanalog
cmu.edu
Games
Carnegie Mellon University Press has expanded publishing to include a new series of tabletop games, one of the first game series by a university press.
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 5h
Gen Z Stare: The Class sounds like a real banger of a horror film.
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Keith Knight: Gentleman Cartoonist @keefknight.bsky.social · 21h
Come on out to the 10th anniversary of #zinemachine The finest indie comix/ zine fest in the Triangle! I'll be there with bells on
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Our understanding of writing has a cavity that only your presentation can fill?
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Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Want to help science about how we understand comics? My graduate student is running an online study now in need of participants! It takes about 10 minutes and runs in a computer browser. Please participate and share! jatos.mindprobe.eu/publix/P4a3Q...
jatos.mindprobe.eu
OSWeb
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Feels like there’s some conceptual crossover with the idea of design for cause vs design for effect.
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The best thing about 2nd hand games is the random ephemera from previous owners (especially from really old games).
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The two bags oscillate, turning each other inside out, over and over. They are completely inseparable but sustain perpetual motion.
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The inner bag disappears, the outer bag increases in capacity. There can be only one.
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Maps and miniatures are key artistic aspects of the hobby. See also character sketches, hand drawn maps, and other ephemera.
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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The Golden Cobra Challenge @goldencobra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
ssssssssss The Golden Cobra Challenge 2026 is OPEN for sssubmissions. Ssubmit by October 15th! www.goldencobra.org
goldencobra.org
Golden Cobra Challenge
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
On a 10+, yes! On a 7-9, yes but it will also include other recognizable sources of inspiration. On a 6-, no but choose one: =someone immediately makes a PbtA hack of it. =you'll later realize that it actually was PbtA. =everyone always asks if it's PbtA and you keep having to explain why it's not.
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Now you have to print all the meme responses and create a game about litigating/canonizing/debating theoryslop at the international theoryslop conference.
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Equal parts, with the game adding procedure and ritual and the writing being the commitment to a course of action or outcome or reaction.
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
All these weird game designer facts could be a book, just saying...
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Letting the Wookiee win is sort of a one-two punch with someone else setting you up. Maybe something like: When someone threatens violence on your behalf, you both take +1 forward.
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The pieces of fiction on which to base your game.
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
That is simply glorious - love it!
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
…and that’s how we get from Francis Tresham’s board game Civilization to Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game.
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Unless you’re writing rules for games, then there’s also a fourth version that happens during play.
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Stay weird!
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Rule books are many things and one of those things is a script.
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Bully Pulpit Games @bullypulpithq.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Let @jmstar.bsky.social further pique your curiosity with his #NineSpaceGames walk-through! #TTRPGs #RPGs #games #larp youtu.be/x4OaeHSBxkA
youtu.be
Nine Space Games Walk-through
YouTube video by Bully Pulpit Games
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Catlilli Games @catlilli.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Excited to share that Jonathan and I will be speaking at the Serious Play Conference 2026 at Duke University on August 5-7! It features talks, workshops, panels, & an expo/arcade zone, all centered on games, learning, health, and social impact. #seriousplay26 seriousplayconf.com/registration/
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Great listen!
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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Something randomly reminded me to share this! lumpley.games/2019/10/21/g...
A simple graph showing two parallel skill acquisition lines. As you practice a skill, you don't improve steadily, you improve in steps: a sudden improvement, a long plateau, a sudden improvement, a long plateau...
This chart shows "creative skills" and "critical skills" improving out of step with one another, leapfrogging: your creative skills suddenly improve while your critical skills plateau, then your critical skills improve while your creative skills plateau. Creative skills: design, development, production; critical skills: analysis, interpretation, vision.A simple graph showing two parallel skill acquisition lines. As you practice a skill, you don't improve steadily, you improve in steps: a sudden improvement, a long plateau, a sudden improvement, a long plateau...
This chart shows "creative skills" and "critical skills" improving out of step with one another, leapfrogging: your creative skills suddenly improve while your critical skills plateau, then your critical skills improve while your creative skills plateau. Creative highs and lows: when your creative skills outpace your critical skills, "my game is amazing!" But when your critical skills outpace your creative skills, "my game is terrible!" ...When of course it's the same game.
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Heyyyyy
"Indie Games Explosion --Gen Con 2026"

Find our friends in the exhibit hall!
Booth 132 - IGDN
Booth 423 - Pelgrane Press
Booth 449 - Indie Press Revolution
Booth 458 - Rowan, Rook and Decard Booth 2560 - Wet Ink Games Booth 2758 - Central Michigan
University Press

Want to Play?
Just Show Up!
GAMES ON DEMAND
>45 Different Games
8+ Tables, 25 GMs
No Registration Necessary!
2 & 4 hour games, starting at:
Thu-Sat: 10, 12, 2, 4, 6, 8
Sun: 10, 12
Please arrive 10m before game start!
No experience needed - all rules taught!
Ages 10+ (some games 18+)
located at the
WESTIN
on the 2nd floor in
Grand Ballroom 3
W Washington St
GAMES
• N
DEMAND
Updates:
https://gamesondemand.github.io/
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Domestication might be more challenging but symbiosis might be more tolerable.
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Just put out issue #30 of my game zine, which feels like a milestone!
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Could they be ephemera for a larp? Could they be seeds for a game jam? Could they be the basis for an article on shelving ideas? Could they be a corpus for a student project? Could they be background textures for zines? Could they all somehow fit together like a combiner mecha?
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A math teacher told me I was a nerd.
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Add a start card with a compass rose to denote directions.
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Maybe frame movement around the boundaries that are being crossed. Movement across card edges. Movement across long and short sides of the card. Move to a card whose edge touches that of your current location.
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
It’s not Nomic, but I would happily watch a video about Nomic if you are so inclined, just saying…
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urvy ✨ 🔜 PAXU @urvyfitz.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
this is just a reminder of how i need a copy of the warren rpg, i wanna play it so bad.
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Here's a more recent map from a game with my students (October 2023).
Quiet Year map
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Here's a map from October 2012.
Quiet Year Map
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MegueyB 🔜Metatopia @megueyb.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Let's GO! The project is LIVE! #PsiRun2e #ttrpg #PBTA #SuperPowers
kickstarter.com
PsiRun Second Edition
Whoever was holding you captive, you're free, for now. You have superpowers & amnesia. You know they're after you. What could go wrong?
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The Diana Jones Award @dianajonesaward.org · 18/06/2026
The Diana Jones Award committee is pleased to announce the finalists for its 2026 award. In alphabetical order, they are:
The Diana Jones Award trophy in a blue light.
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I really enjoyed the small pilot game we ran - wish I'd been in a position to play in the longer one!
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brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.dev · 09/06/2026
you don't know?
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Glowing embers or firey baseplate?
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
As a rule, gamers want to ___________. A) make their toys fight B) make their toys kiss C) set their toys on fire D) all of the above
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Alternately, successful APs accept pitches and invest in TTRPG publication, and then go on to produce new APs based on games in which they already have a stake.
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The Diana Jones Award @dianajonesaward.org · 01/06/2026
We’re excited to announce the three winners of this year’s Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program: @classicalglaiza.com, @yesnogoodbye.ca, and @jaztice.bsky.social!
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Edda Mendes @leakyeaves.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Just restocked 50 free copies of Collectible Trading Moon Game. Get 'em while they last.
leakyeaves.itch.io
Collectible Trading Moon Game by leakyeaves
a card game where every card is the moon
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Misquotation Game Jam where you buy a copy of AW, print out exactly one copy, cut it up, and make a new game by rearranging the snippets of text. Multiple submissions are acceptable as long as they are made from a single printing.
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Congrats! A copy of Spine is perched atop my to-play pile.
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Marshall Miller @mease19.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
A cookie will be eaten to honor your hard work!
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