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Greg Loring-Albright (he/him)
@gregisonthego.bsky.social
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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 (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
gregisonthego.bsky.social
I made this for 2024's GENeration Analog @analoggamestudies.bsky.social conference after four presentations in a row cited Ahmed's work.
A meme of an anime girl, eyes closed, shouting in celebration, holding a champagne bottle and a glass. The champagne bottle has been replaced by the cover of the book "Queer Phenomenology." The glass has been replaced by the cover of the book "The Feminist Killjoy Handbook." The text, in all-caps Impact font, reads "Sara Ahmed mentioned!"
December 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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exeunt.press
There are over 180 articles in the Skeleton Code Machine archives about game design and tabletop mechanisms.

All available for free: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/archive

#boardgames #ttrpg #gamedesign 🎲✂️
Kingmaker board game spread out on table. Some components in bags.
December 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM
gregisonthego.bsky.social
“You have very good sandwiches here” - @phoeberings.bsky.social’s Crystal Choi accurately assessing Philadelphia, where they opened for @thebeths.bsky.social last night, and will play Johnny Brenda’s tonight.
December 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
gregisonthego.bsky.social
Thanks for the shoutout Chia @cado.bsky.social!

Both Resilience and Rulebooks for Radicals are available on my Itch page:
gregisonthego.itch.io/rulebooks-fo...
gregisonthego.itch.io/resilience
December 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
gregisonthego.bsky.social
The unintentional theme of our final day of tabletop studio was “games that are dumb (complimentary).”
A light wood table with the components of “Betrayal at House on the Hill” on it (tiles, cards, minis, and dice). A light wood table with the components for “Cosmic Encounter” on it (discs, spaceship minis, and cards)
December 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
gregisonthego.bsky.social
I’m so excited to sit on this panel and talk about games & politics! Join us (remotely) a week from tomorrow!
December 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
I’ve forgotten this sometimes but being able to discover something you like, curate it, and make time to enjoy it *is* intelligence, connecting with art is intelligence, empathy is intelligence, the way of the dullard is to find nothing meaningful in art except for a way to seem snidely clever
December 4, 2025 at 3:21 AM
gregisonthego.bsky.social
University wrote up our PAXU trip! Huge thanks to @leder.games and Rio Grande Games for sponsoring student travel (we couldn't have gone without them) and to @thejaybell.bsky.social, @ritualcuts.bsky.social & Nick Brachmann for their time and expertise! www.harrisburgu.edu/news/2025-12...
Harrisburg University Students Return to PAX Unplugged Games Convention
A diverse group of students from Harrisburg University of Science & Technology (HU) once again attended PAX Unplugged, a rapidly growing convention in the tabletop gaming and role-playing games (RPG) ...
www.harrisburgu.edu
December 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
gregisonthego.bsky.social
Cameron has a gift for finding cool people doing cool stuff, and I’m humbled to be embarrassing myself on the same podcast episode as these folks. Give it a listen!
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
gregisonthego.bsky.social
Great read! Makes me think about RPG's debts to wargaming -- hexes make sense if you are presenting two players with terrain for creating emergent objectives (the flank of my opponent's line; the hill where they have their cannons), but without the opposition, everything truly is pointcrawl.
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
gregisonthego.bsky.social
Everybody’s got their limits / nobody’s found mine
exeunt.press Exeunt Press 💀 @exeunt.press · 7d
Clearly the answer is @hinokodo.com and @gregisonthego.bsky.social must have a no-holds-barred cage match to determine if the article should be split or not.

#beatthechamp #heelturn2
Hinokodo and Greg disagree.
December 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
gregisonthego.bsky.social
Are you really drunk or is it just a
A closeup of a wine bottle label, focused on the words “WINE WINE SITUATION LLC”
December 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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kirbyconrod.bsky.social
kconrod.medium.com/the-problem-... okay here
December 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
gregisonthego.bsky.social
“Against Cop Shit“ is my “Tom Holland Lio Syncing ‘Umbrella’.” I see it, I repost it.

Expel cop shit from your hearts.
kirbyconrod.bsky.social Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 7d
"'We are both scamming each other, you and I, and I intend to win.' When a classroom becomes adversarial, of course, as cop shit presumes, then there must be a clear winner and loser."
- Jeffery Moro, Against Cop Shit
jeffreymoro.com/blog/2020-02...
Cop shit is seductive. It makes metrics transparent. It allows for the clear progress toward learning objectives. (“Badges” are cop shit, by the way.) It also subsumes education within a market logic. “Here,” cop shit says, “you will learn how to do this thing. We will know you learned it by the acquisition of this gold star. But in order for me to award you this gold star, I must parse you, sense you, track you, collect you, and—” here’s the key, “I will presume that you will attempt to flout me at every turn. We are both scamming each other, you and I, and I intend to win.” When a classroom becomes adversarial, of course, as cop shit presumes, then there must be a clear winner and loser. The student’s education then becomes not a victory for their own self-improvement or -enrichment, but rather that the teacher conquered the student’s presumed inherent laziness, shiftiness, etc. to instill some kernel of a lesson.
December 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
gregisonthego.bsky.social
This game rules. No prep, easy to teach, hilarious gameplay. I played this for my family, none of whom play RPGs, last Christmas. We had cocktails, dressed up fancy, and told stories of spirits running amok. Highly recommend.
thoughtcrimegames.bsky.social thoughtcrimegames @thoughtcrimegames.bsky.social · 8d
Do you think your band of Halloween nightmares could run Christmas better than that skeleton guy? You're in the right place!

Stumble your way through a successful holiday season, or make a hilarious mess of things in Spirits of the Season, a #ttrpg for 3-6 players.

thoughtcrimegames.it...

Cover of Spirits of the Season by Thoughtcrime Games.
December 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
gregisonthego.bsky.social
Golf courses -> larp grounds (or public sex forests), Data centers -> laser tag arenas, Distribution hubs -> go kart tracks.

Tell your college-age kids to start learning ARG and location-specific game design.
davidjroth.bsky.social David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 8d
Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
December 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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golikehellmachine.com
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
kissphoria.bsky.social gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 8d
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
gregisonthego.bsky.social
Use alt text always, but specifically *to your messaging ends*! People often post guides about "color, subject, angle," etc. but I think that always going so broad does a disservice to rhetoric. Think about why you put the image on the post, then describe the parts of it that matter for your post!
tiffanyleigh.bsky.social Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.bsky.social · Nov 5
Also: those who "use" Alt Text but are clearing using AI summaries of images that don't accurately describe said images are just as bad as those who ignore Alt Text completely.

Reducing "Jack Nicholson crazy eyed nodding gif" to "a man looks up" is a shitposter's crime against humanity
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
gregisonthego.bsky.social
“It’s an older post, sir, but it checks out.”

(if you follow me and are somehow not aware of Galactic / Going Rogue, read this great piece).
aftermath.site Aftermath @aftermath.site · 12d
Tabletop game Going Rogue puts the revolution back in Star Wars: aftermath.site/going-rogue-ga...
illustration of science fiction characters next to a mock up of going rogue and galactic
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
gregisonthego.bsky.social
These rule. I got Realm of the River Dragon for my kids and it’s remained a favorite for years.
portablecity.bsky.social shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 13d
What playmaps? Oh, friends, I am so excited about my playmaps! I am so proud of them, they are printed indelibly on soft, sturdy, machine-washable blankets, and I package them up with all the info you need to feel great about gifting them to kids. Learn more here: www.portablecity.net/playmaps/
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
gregisonthego.bsky.social
The end! The Thieves traded roguish adventure for the stability of ruling the city, becoming like the stodgy merchants they once robbed.
A hand-drawn map of a fictional city with a river down the middle. Buildings are colored in crayon, yellow, orange, and light blue. A photo of handwritten text reads: A restaurant on the plaza. People say they serve the best soup in town. Fancy paintings around windows & doors. Colorful. Inside, in the airy upper room, clerics debate theology and slurp soup.
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
gregisonthego.bsky.social
Drew up a little river city with the 5-yr-old to play @possibleworlds.bsky.social’s “Beak Feather and Bone” together. Will report back tomorrow after we play (it’s bedtime now, so we paused after setup).
Two items on a table. On the left, a black zine with white text (“Beak Feather and Bone” and a drawing of a bird person). On the right, a hand-drawn map with marker and pen marks.
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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omnigamers.bsky.social
Did you attend the Indie Night Market and want to talk to us about how it went (and report on PAXU more broadly)? HMU
omnigamers.bsky.social The Omnigamers' Club Podcast @omnigamers.bsky.social · 18d
We've been chatting about Indie Markets regularly lately and sad to be missing the one at this year's PAXU. We'd love to hear a report from the floor if anyone attending would like to join us.
emilyhancock.bsky.social Emily Hancock @emilyhancock.bsky.social · 19d
Threw together a quick poster / flyer for the event this Saturday. Come check out some cool indie games!
#paxunplugged #pax #indiegamesnightmarket
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
gregisonthego.bsky.social
An incredible team-up. great booth, great folks, great games.
manysidedmedia.bsky.social Many Sided Media @manysidedmedia.bsky.social · 15d
PAX U was a SMASHING success!!

Always a pleasure to share a booth with @turtlebun.com and @gamefiend.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM