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jo kelly
@miasmacorp.bsky.social
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i make music & games. i have recently started morris dancing. they/them
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ᏫᎵ Will Thompson @willmthompson.bsky.social · 16h
Happy Indigenous People's Day! ᎠᏁᎯᏯ ᎤᎾᏤᎵ ᎢᎦ!
May all my indigenous family, friends, coworkers, and colleagues be recognized as they should be.
If you'd like to support a Native business, we've got Winter Rabbit on sale just for today.
www.absurdistproductions.com/product/wint...
Winter Rabbit – Absurdist Productions
Winter Rabbit is a semi-cooperative, hidden worker placement game set in the world of Cherokee animal stories. Winter Rabbit is available for pre-order now.
www.absurdistproductions.com
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jo kelly @miasmacorp.bsky.social · 12d
This game was made by a good friend of mine. I've played it a lot, and if you'd enjoy a comic book narrative and wide variety of puzzle and dexterity minigames in your escape-room-style game, I'd highly recommend it.

(also you may recognise someone in the video)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/min...
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jo kelly @miasmacorp.bsky.social · 12d
Nice! Vibrant, cute, love it.
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jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · 14d
hi i'm getting a kickass set of new genitals installed in 2 weeks from now !! isn't that fucking cool ?

i could use a little bit of help with medical bills + housing expenses during recovery and so i've set up a little gofundme!
gofund.me/394dc2e93
Donate to Support Jay Dragon's sicknasty bottom surgery, organized by Jay Dragon
Hi I'm Jay Dragon, a queer disabled game designer best known for her work on … Jay Dragon needs your support for Support Jay Dragon's sicknasty bottom surgery
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jo kelly @miasmacorp.bsky.social · 14d
I'm constantly blown away by the things people write about Molly House. This one feels especially powerful.
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Mollie Russell @spookysyntax.bsky.social · 17d
Finally played Molly House. Had a breakdown. Bon appetit. www.wargamer.com/molly-house/...
Molly House is the most important board game you'll play this year
Molly House is a perfect marriage of theme and mechanics, where the challenges you face are complex, frightening, and very, very real.
www.wargamer.com
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jo kelly @miasmacorp.bsky.social · 14d
What a powerful piece! Thank you so much.
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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 28d
Hey heads up, The Game Changers paperback is on the shelves in most good UK bookshops right now. If you would like some positive reading about how we are all deeply connected as humans, & how games build communities in the darkest times, you might find something of value in it.
A picture of my book The Game Changers out on the table in Waterstones
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jo kelly @miasmacorp.bsky.social · Sep 12
aww that's so cool to hear! honestly this is gonna be on my mind a lot with any future designs I work on, it's condensed a lot of the ideas we gradually found along the way and added a lot more to chew on
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jo kelly @miasmacorp.bsky.social · Sep 11
That's awesome, congratulations! And it looks amazing already 💕
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Salt & Pepper Games @saltandpeppergames.bsky.social · Sep 11
💣 A royal secret is out… 👑🕵️‍♀️
Queen of Spies is our next game!
From the brilliant minds of @beyondsolitaire & @djackthompson .
Follow the Gamefound campaign here 👉 gamefound.com/en/projects/...
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Wehrlegig Games @wehrlegig.games · Sep 10
Molly House will have a little spot at Essen this year 🎉 If you can spare a thumb on BGG, we just got it listed on their preview page. Help our heavy queer party game climb the ranks! boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/...
SPIEL Essen 25 Preview
Hundreds of new games will be introduced at SPIEL Essen 25. This preview covers games debuting at that show or recently released or (for smaller publishers) released since 2024.
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Xo3 (it/its) 🐰🔪 @xoe.gay · Sep 9
If your courtship game has you competing with other players to have a higher stat to attract the attention of an automated partner, then your courtship game has the ideology of incels. Maybe it isn't as sexist, but it shares the same mindset as people who think dating is a metrics game you can win.
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Wehrlegig Games @wehrlegig.games · Sep 9
🚨 The John Company & Molly House Reprint Kickstarter campaign launches October 21st, 2025. www.kickstarter.com/projects/124... /🧵
Two close-up lifestyle photos, one of a John Company tower and metal flag and the other of the Molly House movement dice.
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jo kelly @miasmacorp.bsky.social · Sep 8
this manifesto has given me a lot to chew on!! thank you jay!
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jo kelly @miasmacorp.bsky.social · Sep 8
I'm really interested in continuing to work in the board game space on games about individuals in community, simulating the outside pressures placed on them and leaving them space to inhabit and create characters and stories that come out of that system.
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jo kelly @miasmacorp.bsky.social · Sep 8
I love when people lean into it and play a really fiery, strategic game of MH. but I also love when players invest in building the community, often to their own detriment, or have such a wildly good time they throw caution to the wind, gluttonously devouring all the joy they can before they all die.
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jo kelly @miasmacorp.bsky.social · Sep 8
MH presents win conditions that I have described elsewhere as a trap. the game asks you to engage in jealous rivalry over 'joy', or destroy a community to avoid your own death, or even to throw a tantrum and get your friends killed. all of this fuels a fiction that resembles historical records.
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jo kelly @miasmacorp.bsky.social · Sep 8
the abstraction in the final game is intentional, the gaps left to be filled, much as the historical record is full of gaping holes, waiting to be interpreted. it requires players to rub up against the system (and each other) to be brought to life.
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jo kelly @miasmacorp.bsky.social · Sep 8
nothing we could design in board-game-mechanism vocabulary could hold a candle to the narrative capabilities of our players' imaginations. we designed the systems and the incentives, but not the stories.
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jo kelly @miasmacorp.bsky.social · Sep 8
we realised this approach felt... well, firstly, gross, but also nothing like real parties and real relationships. it was really @colewehrle.bsky.social's development of the poker/brag-inspired festivity system that started to bring the game to life.
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jo kelly @miasmacorp.bsky.social · Sep 8
unfortunately, what board games excel at most is simulating financial competition and military conflict, and a lot of the mechanisms we've inherited reflect this. festivities were, for a while, an uninspiring set collection side quest. relationships were area control conflicts on molly cards.
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jo kelly @miasmacorp.bsky.social · Sep 8
from early in the process, MH was about building community, and finding ways to have romance, sex and get up to gender fuckery against the backdrop of a campaign specifically designed to kill you for doing so.
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jo kelly @miasmacorp.bsky.social · Sep 8
this is absolutely electric.

here's some first thoughts about jay's inclusion of Molly House in this manifesto (I was nodding along while reading and honoured to see it mentioned!) and how we sort of stumbled into this approach.
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jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · Sep 8
good morning, i wrote a manifesto about a new direction for game design / play
possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...
The Expressionist Games Manifesto
“Work! Intoxication! Brain-racking! Chewing, eating, gorging, rooting up! Rapturous birth pangs! Jabbing of the brush, preferably right…
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jo kelly @miasmacorp.bsky.social · Aug 28
I'm overjoyed by this Molly House review from @mattthr.bsky.social in the latest @senetmagazine.bsky.social! It's a wonderful thing when a reviewer gets it, and Matt definitely gets it. Thank you.

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First page of the review of Molly House from the latest issue of Senet Magazine. Features a picture of a metal pawn, and a wooden pawn on the board. Picture of the second page of the Molly House review. Features the joy track from the game board and one of the cards, the 2 of fans.
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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · Aug 22
For research reasons I'm trying to get hold of scans/photocopies of Sid Sackson's columns in Strategy & Tactics, particularly the ones from #45 through #48 (looking for a specific item which would have landed in one of those issues), published in late 1974 and early 1975. Feel free to share this.
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