🗽 Supporting democracy as game designers
Last Saturday, April 24th, members of DitDMV participated in a Democracy Dinner alongside other artists, grassroots activists, community members, and Learning Life, our hosts. We discussed how games and the arts can promote democracy at Learning Life’s Democracy Festival (October 3).
Anne Anderson shows off her strategy game, DC Statehood Now! Learn more about Anne’s game at Labyrinth’s playtest day in June.
🖍️ You, too, can design games!
One reason we formed Designed in the DMV was to let people see that anyone can be a game designer – including you! Check out this upcoming workshop with PA-based (but friend of the DMV!) designer John Mulligan if you’d like to try designing your own game:
May 2
Crash Course in Tabletop Design
Severna Park, MD: Severna Park Park Library
2:00-4:00pm
Slide from John Mulligan’s Crash Course in Tabletop Design
🏅 Awards!
Congratulations to DMV-based designers for their recent award nominations:
Best Rules: Emily Entner, Visual & Graphic Designer, Glatisant
Best Setting: Brigitte Winter, The Goodest Girls
Game of the Year, Most Innovative, Best Rules, Best Art, Best Graphic Design: Samantha Leigh, Editor, The Time That We Have
GAMA Origins Awards: Finalists
Gateway Game: Jason Tremblay, Tacta
Party Game: Andy Looney, Mystery Fluxx
Roleplaying Game: Gene Koo, The Bonsai Diary
🎲 Other happenings
May 16
1d4 Con: The gaming convention of the Shenandoah Valley
Martinsburg, WV: Holiday Inn
May 23-24
GameFace Con: Baltimore’s biggest annual indie tabletop game convention.
Baltimore, MD: Peabody Heights Brewery
Mon, Jun 22
DMV TTRPGs: public playtesting event
ft. local designers Nico MacDougall, Fuzztech, Green Intern Games, and Samovar
Washington, DC: Fantom Comics
✂️ Playtesting!
Mon, May 4
Games Club: public playtesting and gaming
Takoma Park, MD: Takoma Park Library
6:15-7:45pm
Sun, May 10; June 14
Break My Game: public playtesting event
Manassas, VA: Crossroads Tabletop Tavern
3:00-6:00pm
Mon, May 11; June 8
Break My Game: public playtesting event
Baltimore, MD: Creative Alliance
6:00-10:00pm
Sat, May 16; June 20
Break My Game: public playtesting event
Frederick, MD: C. Burr Artz Public Library
12:00-3:00pm
Sun, May 17; June 21
Break My Game: public playtesting event
College Park, MD: Game Kastle
1:00-6:00pm
Sat, May 23; June 27
Break My Game: public playtesting event
Richmond, VA: One-Eyed Jacques
12:00-3:00pm
Tue, May 26; June 23
Break My Game: public playtesting event
Charlottesville, VA: The End Times
6:00-9:00pm
🚀 DMV-based crowdfund campaigns
START, a companion to the award-winning TTRPG Break!! START will be a 200 page hardcover companion book for BREAK!!. It will be filled with adventure content that was originally intended for inclusion in core rules. Now refined and expanded, the new book will help your game group get to the fun more quickly.
🔜 Soot and Charms: Boston by Graftbound Press: Edison's bargain with the Fae brought the world to Boston through teleporter gates. Free Boston's living storms and fight for justice to an alternate history in this cinematic fantasy Tabletop RPG.
Ask your Friendly Local Game Store, comic shop, or bookstore if they carry locally-designed games. If not – let us know, and we’ll send them our catalog: [email protected].
🫴 Still want more?
Follow the Tabletop Designers of the DMV starter pack on BSky.