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Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him)

@gregisonthego.bsky.social

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gloringalbright.com Game designer (Ahoy, 2022; Bloc by Bloc: Uprising, 2022 w/ T.L. Simons; Keep the Faith, 2025). Asst.Prof. Game Studies & Game Design @HarrisburgU

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Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · Jun 27

I put down some thoughts about game design, what it’s good for, and what it isn’t good for in this zine!

Plus, a short guide to help get you started making a game if you’ve never done that before: gregisonthego.itch.io/rulebooks-fo...

✂️ 🎲 ✊ 🔥

A photo of the cover of the zine, featuring a black protest sign with an icon of rolling dice on it. In the background are some board game boxes, including Bloc by Bloc: Uprising and Fog of Love

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Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 9h

💯 I’m still leaning how to effectively pass a turn, but I have a blast every time I play it.

Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 10h

Got to teach Inis to the neighborhood dads today while our kids hung out a played legos. Lost to a particularly clever Epic Tales card combo. Dream Sunday.

A medium close-up of game pieces for “Inis” — lavishly illustrated tiles with green, blue, and orange plastic figurines and tan villages (“sanctuaries”) placed on them.

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Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 17h

They had this on the batch brew and it was GREAT.

A bag of Little Amps whole-bean coffee labeled “Kerehaklu: Chikmagalur, India. Milk chocolate, lemon, tropical fruit.”

Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 17h

Amps (state st.)

Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 18h

Annoyingly put-together guy getting way too chatty with the busy baristas at the coffeeshop this morning: "Billy Joel is like the perfect music for this morning."
Barista, slammed, in the midst of making tons of drinks, incredibly flat affect: "This is Bob Dylan."

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Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 1d

Yes

Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 1d

@melissainau.bsky.social or @dashiellsteven.bsky.social might know or have a good trail to follow to find out

Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 1d

1: ??? (claim one of these three token or card types?)
2: ???
3: ???
4: Gain 1 Health
5: Discard 1 Card
6: 1 Free Movement

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Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 2d

I always think this!

Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 2d

Central PA folks, we've opened up our playtesting day to non-University-affiliated playtesters! Come playtest games designed by 10 (!) student designers in downtown Harrisburg next Friday: www.harrisburgu.edu/news/2025-10...

Interactive Media Program Offers Public Playtest of Student-Designed Tabletop Games

Co-taught by Professors Greg Loring-Albright, Ph.D., and Anthony Ortega, Tabletop Game Design Studio challenges students to ideate, develop, and playtest a board game or card game as a semester-long p...

www.harrisburgu.edu

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Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 2d

Watch till the end!

(also, where can I get the banjo possum shirt please)

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Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 2d

“30 Rock 2025“ is the new “Seinfeld 2000.” I will read a million of these. Everyone please keep writing them.

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2d

Jenna would make Liz write jokes for her, Liz would write a bunch of feminist material because she’s mad at Jenna and then try to pull it at the last minute because she’s worried for Jenna’s safety. Jenna would ham it up so hard that the Saudis would love it as parody of shrill American women

Suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens.bsky.social · 2d

which 30 rock character was most likely to headline the riyadh comedy festival, tracy or jenna

Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 3d

Bloc by Bloc: Uprising for a little lunchtime gaming break. We notched an easy win due to a sustained commitment to keeping police morale low. #boardgame

The comments for Bloc by Bloc: Uprising (colored tiles, white wooden vans, and cubes) spread out on a black fabric mat.

Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 4d

I've got an open table looking for players right now!

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Leder Games @leder.games · 4d

Aye, 'tis a glorious day when you can play Ahoy ... for FREE on Board Game Arena!

Gather ye crew from far and wide and get a game going! bit.ly/AhoyOnBGA

A close-up of the ahoy board game cover, featuring sharks and other sea creatures as pirates.

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Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 4d

Central PA represent! Rosco has been a longtime advocate of game design and designers and it’s so cool seeing that he gets to work with the Diplomacy license. Congrats! 🎉

Rosco Schock 🔜 Origins 🔜 PAXU @roscoschock.bsky.social · 4d

Excited to share that my first published game design has been officially announced!!

Diplomacy: The Golden Blade card game is a new twist on the classic. Plays 2-7 and ~15 minutes per player but keeps a lot of the backstabbing fun!!

renegadegamestudios.com/diplomacy-th...

Diplomacy: The Golden Blade PRE-ORDER

Renegade Games Online Store

renegadegamestudios.com

Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 4d

You're close enough to the board game scene that they're already on your list, but just in case: Space Biff and No Pun Included have written/posted/spoken about this topic.

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Sandy Pug Games @sandypuggames.bsky.social · 6d

Everyone's already got all the good ones about taking care of your rapidly degrading body and mind but here's one: take more risks. You probably haven't recalibrated how much safer and capable you are now vs when you were 20 and it won't be long till that's eclipsed by fragility, go apeshit a lil

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 9d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 7d

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7d

Harrisburg is launching a tool library and if you live in the area they are seeking supporters: hbgtoollibrary.com

HBG Tool Library

Share Tools. Build Harrisburg.

hbgtoollibrary.com

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Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 7d

Just got out of a meeting to organize a day of one-shot TTRPGs at the local library in early November! if you’re local and want to play, hit me up (I’ll be running Galactic 2E).

Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 9d

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Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 9d

This is also my vibe, so much so that my partner bought me this: stayhomeclub.com/products/sad...

Sad Songs Dad Hat

Unstructured, 6 panel baseball hat (AKA "dad hat") with "Sad Songs" embroidery on the front. Available in solid black. Adjustable strap back with metal clasp.

stayhomeclub.com

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Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 9d

@goblinprincete.bsky.social and I talked about this with regard to Keep the Faith -- how do we create visual touchstones in a worldbuilding game that can be applied to any setting at all without causing players to subconsciously adopt the depicted setting in their play. It's thorny issue for sure.

Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 9d

I'll be at the semifinals of an informal "best pizza in the Harrisburg area" bracket if you wanna drive west for a few hours.