Tabletop Games in the DMV: Jun-Jul

Every month Designed in the DMV highlights events featuring tabletop game designers based in the DC - Maryland - Virginia region. We’re an artist collective helping game designers improve our craft and connect with our audience.

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Come to our bi-weekly TTRPG designer meetups:
6pm, every other Tuesday (Jun 24; Jul 8, 22)
Tatte City Center, 1090 I St NW, Washington, DC.

Previously…

We discussed game design spanning hobby to mass market to TTRPG and beyond at Silver Spring Library, May 31; take a listen:

Upcoming events

June 13-15 (Fri-Sun)

Virtual/Online
TryItCon2: Terry Con
A memorial, not-for-profit, game convention

June 15 (Sun)

College Park MD
Break My Game: playtest tomorrow’s boardgames
3-8pm
Game Kastle College Park

June 21 (Sat)

Washington, DC
Free RPG Day
11am-6:30pm
Labyrinth Puzzles & Games

College Park, MD
Free RPG Day
10am-11pm
Game Kastle

Richmond, VA
Break My Game: playtest tomorrow’s boardgames
12-3pm
One-Eyed Jacques

Savage, MD
Free RPG Day
10am-10pm
Omnihedral

Frederick, MD
Break My Game: playtest tomorrow’s boardgames
12-3pm
Artz Library

June 24 (Tue)

Charlottesville, VA
Break My Game: playtest tomorrow’s boardgames
6-9pm
The End Games

July 4-6 (Fri-Sun)

Charlottesville, VA
SabreCon 2025: ft. Sam Leigh, Lyme, and other DMV-based designers
Sabre Games, Firefly, The Beautiful Idea, Decades Arcade

Aug 27-31 (Wed-Sun)

Washington, DC
NOVA Open
Washington Hilton

Crowdfunds from local designers

May I Enter: A Vampire Game, by Josh Heath

Lily Hop: A “Ribbitting” Game of Strategic Hopping, by Matthew Hocker

The Bonsai Diary: meditative drawing and journaling, by Gene Koo