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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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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
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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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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
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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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This image is increasingly central to my philosophy of technology
The "Da Share Z0ne" post featuring a skull in front of flames. It reads "Computer's should do what I tell them to. Stop guessing what I want. Do not ever "remind me later"
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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A faith of holy stoners grapples with its commitment to altered states as the world modernizes around them. Will they withdraw to the wilderness or take political power to shape society in their image? (Demoing Keep the Faith this morning before the expo hall opened).
A carpet with a mystical starburst pattern. On it, a ring of cards and a few tokens that comprise Keep the Faith.
November 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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We’re still marketing in the market! come by! #PAXU.

The game is also live on itch! You can buy it now! (in PNP digital form) here: gregisonthego.itch.io/resilience
A table spread with stickers, zines, and game sheets
November 23, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Indie night market is almost ready! I’m at the green table showing (and selling!) Resilience, my dice placement game of community disaster preparedness. Come by!
A green table with blue orange and white game sheets Me standing behind the green table holding up a 12” long cardboard tube
November 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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HU student-designed games are back on @unpub.org tables today from 10AM-4PM! #PAXU #🎲✂️ The students had a great day of testing yesterday and are back at it again. See alt text for each game's pitch and when it will be on the table.
A spread of cards with a computer-programming aesthetic featuring big numbers. This game, titled "If/Else," will be on the table in the 1:30-4:30 block. A closeup of a prototype card reading "Causing Problems," an apt description of the playtester's role. The other picture of this game has the details. Four tiny rats and a larger wizard figurine on a grid board. This game, "Rat Chase," is an asymmetric game that adapts the opening scene of Ratatouille. It will be on the table in the 10AM-1PM slot. A spread of paper tiles with meeples and poker chips sitting on some of them. This game is "Broken Mirror," which is Clue meets Betrayal at House on the Hill -- deduction plus chaotic silly nonsense in a haunted house. This game will be on the table in the 10AM-1PM slot.
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Good morning PAXU! I’ll return to repping my students’ games shortly, but I wanted to show a little beer-and-pretzels negotiation & area control game I’ve got with me.

Shared incentivizes, simple rules, and a map that uses the negative space on the table.

Find me today to try it!
November 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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ASCEND ( @unpub.org @stickydoodler.bsky.social )
Two huge escalators (they lead to the unpub room)
November 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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HU crew, table B2, Unpub at PAXU.
A row of people (four young men and me, cheesing in the middle) stand in front of a table with a green tablecloth that reads “Harrisburg University of Science and Teachnology.”
November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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The components for Keep the Faith, with a tighter focus on the box art. The components for Keep the Faith: cards in a variety of sizes, wooden cubes, and a tall pink pawn with a small blue box showing two hooded figures
November 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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philly forever!
Graffito reading “fuck ice” in black on a red background.
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Philadelphia! About to step out for class dinner.
November 20, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Very excited to bring four student game designers to PAX Unplugged! #PAXU We'll be in the @unpub.org room in shifts. Look for a chaotic deduction game about ghosts (pictured), an asymmetric game about rats & the human who hunts them, an Uno-inspired cyberpunk shedding game, and a co-op heist game!
The components of Broken Mirror (a chaotic ghost-hunting deduction game) on a wooden table: Colored tiles, poker chips with icons affixed to them, and blue-sleeved cards. A stuffy of Remy the Rat from the movie Ratatouille overseeing a dry-erase (not final -- this is an old pic) gameboard. Four people sit around a table playing a card game. Sadly, this none of these people will be on our trip -- this is Lilian Bowerman's "It's Your Funeral," which was featured at Feedback Frenzy last PAXU.
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Gotta bring the agitprop to the #IGNM! 🏴 🔥I’ll have copies of my zine about making games, plus three different stickers with critical, political messages for our time. #PAXU

HUGE thanks to @marcelineleiman.bsky.social for encouraging me to get stickers and to oliviasy.design for doing the designs.
A half-page zine on white paper titled “Rulebooks for Radicals.” To the right, three stickers in orange and blue. From top to bottom: “we keep us safe” / “all we have is each other” / “talk to your neighbors”
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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I hate finding errors in my work! I printed and laminated 200 player sheets before I realized they all described a mechanism from an old version in one little place. 😡Trying to embrace the DIY nature of the #IGNM process, but it’s tough. The digital PNP versions are correct at least! #🎲✂️
A photo of a rulebook with a small piece of paper taped into it describing a rulebook change A bright table with cardboard tubes in the foreground and dice and white erase markers in the background
November 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Rulebooks are printed and stapled, game sheets are laminated, gonna spend the weekend filling tubes with dice, dry-erase markers, rulebooks, and game sheets for the Resilience deluxe kit! #🎲✂️

Get it (and/or the PNP version) at Indie Games Night Market #IGNM at #PAXU!
A stack of rulebooks that read “Resilience” in large letters sits on a light wood table. Orange and light blue dice sit on the books, and cardboard tubes are visible in the background.
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Mamdani sign generator output (blocky yellow words on a blue field) reading “the mayor for the senate.”
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Galactic 2E went great, as expected! We decided to play in the prequel era, which is not my favorite, but we had a blast telling a little 2-episode clone wars arc about family, clones, and trust. See my character sheet below
A closeup of a character sheet for Galactic 2E with a handwritten note “I am a half-assed Jed.”
November 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Getting set up!
A library book sale shelf with a DVD box set of the Star Wars trilogy. Above: a sign reading “Star Trek.” A star field tablecloth with papers (printouts from Galactic 2E), pens, and two plastic Star Wars spaceship toys (an X-Wing and a TIE Advanced) on a folding table.
November 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Beautiful morning in the best city on earth.
A low angle shot of the Philadelphia museum of art with Rocky Run signage in front and a clear blue sky above
November 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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The LONG stapler. I’m gonna staple so many zines (and rulebooks for Resilience) with this thing.
An extended-arm black stapler on a light wood table. A pile of papers in the foreground.
November 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Got to play Madrino last night. Hilarious procedurally-generated architecture crimes. Thanks @tiffanyleigh.bsky.social! #BoardGame
The rulebook and components (dry-erase sheets and dice in four tastefully-muted colors) for Madrino laid out on a light wood table.
November 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM