Lunarpunk Games
@lunarpunk
the night is for everyone We endeavor to create beautiful, memorable tabletop games with a focus on goals and outcomes that match the complexity and curiosity of real life.
Excited for our first book club on July 28th at 8pm EST! We'll discuss C. Thi Nguyen's "Games: Agency as Art", an excellent text about how games convey agential experiences, and the risk of losing our values to scoring systems. Hosted by @ericdittmore.bsky.social ! discord.gg/NrqwRTm4?eve...
One of our favorite things about Color Jam is seeing how people build a story around their coloring choices. Due to the game's puzzle, we stylized some spaces to be interpreted in different ways. In the photos below, the spaces in the middle right either be a hot air balloon or a part of a cactus!
Color Jam is designed by Gene Koo (@stickydoodler.bsky.social) and Joe Kell, with art by Erin Laue. We've loved seeing how players color in each picture in wonderfully different ways, navigating the puzzle of the game + a limited palette of 6 colors with surprising choices to craft a unique story.
On May 12th at 3pm est, we'll chat with thelast19digitsofpi about his diplomacy game Ornithocracy, and how unranked games are particularly well suited for games of negotiation. discord.gg/d4nMFq3e?eve...
We are accepting submissions for this year's Midnight Market, an annual event where we host a curated library of small-print run games available for purchase for a limited time. If you would like to submit your game, please click here: forms.gle/tJcB22LQe4aM... The night is for indie games. 🌙
We are really excited about publishing Color Jam, designed by @stickydoodler.bsky.social and Joe Kell. It's a cozy, print-and-puzzle coloring game for one or for you and some friends. It's perfect for lazy summer evenings or for when you want a whisper of strategy in your coloring. 🏖️🖍️
Tonight at 9pm EST, @xoe.gay will be having a chat with @gregisonthego.bsky.social about his design Keeping the Faith, as well as encouraging social change through game design! You can come join the chat and ask us questions over on discord: discord.gg/7SQXuB4M?eve...
On December 3rd at 9pm EST, Xoe and Matthew will chat with @junkfoodgames.bsky.social about melding elements of board games and TTRPGs, creating play without an exact destination, and how to use victorless conditions to break boundaries within game design. Find us on discord: discord.gg/pxZduDfKNZ
The Midnight Market is live. The night is for indie games. 🌖 lunarpunk.games/midnightmarket
What If I'm the Devil? by Jamie Sabriel is a tense, unsettling social deduction game where you and your community must plumb the depths of darkness to eliminate the Devil while it corrupts and forces your community to do its bidding. It's our 4th Midnight Market game, available this weekend.
Pyrotechnics, designed by Michael Sprague and published by @thinkdeepplaylight.bsky.social, will be available at the Midnight Market! It's a two-player card duel that fits right in your pocket and plays in ten-minute bursts. 🎆🎆🎆 Snag it November 7th at www.lunarpunk.games/midnight-mar...
Duck, Duck, Choose! and What Does My Rival Desire? by Zach Morris are a 2-for-1 set of hand-assembled games where you distribute and sort trinkets between ducks or divey up trinkets based on your secret identity. Snag it at the Midnight Market this November: www.lunarpunk.games/midnightmarket 🌙
Today at 2pm EST We'll be chatting with Ban Hammer, designer and publisher of We All Take From the River, to discuss modeling coexistence and nature, as well as using multivictor framework to help capture those themes. Find it right on our discord: discord.gg/pxZduDfKNZ Hope to see you there! 🌙
Tonight, we'll be chatting with Joe Kell right in our Dialogues at Dusk stage channel at 10pm EST. Learn how to motivate players through design and drive players with untraditional incentives. Come by, listen in, and ask your awesome questions! Hope to see you there. discord.gg/pxZduDfKNZ
Midnight Market is coming! lunarpunk.games/midnightmarket Joe Kell's game, Tootin' & Hollerin', features beans making silly fart noises. Our gassy gal Xoe drew these fellas. It can't decide if their dulcet tones are more of a bwa bwa bwaaa or bbbrp brp brrrp. What do you think they sound like?
The Midnight Market shall offer games from worlds unknown, starting on November 7th, at 11:59 pm EST. It will feature f̴i̴v̴e̴ four amazing games made by indie creators. After that, who knows if you'll be able to discover these games again . . . Follow along here: www.lunarpunk.games/midnightmarket
Join us as we chat with @vickilanger.dev all about designing games that break conventions in ways that help players learn. We'll also dig into what working on unranked games has taught them. Tune in right on our Discord tomorrow (August 12th) at 3pm EST: discord.gg/RUKkAUEQ6g See you there! ✨
We've been working on custom game boxes for our upcoming Midnght Market for holding some cool indie games. Whadaya think? 🌙 (This is a tiny test print) 🎲✂️
On July 14th at 8:00pm EST, we'll chat with Zach Morris on Discord about their experience designing for player curiosity around games as well as other players. We'll also discuss how unranked games lead players to both ask questions and discover answers. Be sure to join here: discord.gg/DW2U2NXhnZ
We've selected games and we're preparing to summon our first Midnight Market for November of this year! Follow along using the link below and catch them when the witching hour is upon us! www.lunarpunk.games/midnight-mar...
If you see a purple cloaked cultist with propaganda at a tabletop convention, it's probably us.
This Saturday evening at LFG Con in Burbank, we'll be selling Vibes! We don't have a lot of copies left of this printrun, so get em' while they last! www.lfg-con.com/eventschedul...
On June 10th at 10:00pm EST, we'll be having a Dialogue at Dusk with @ericdittmore.bsky.social about his experiencing adapting Adulting from a competitive game into an unranked game, and how a game's goals contextualize the experience and shapes the player's motivations. discord.gg/jfFGvsd2cq?e...
For those outside the US, or for the arts and crafters, we've made the print and play for Vibes available. Included is the option to print cards with blank pages so you can personalize your copy with your own artwork! www.lunarpunk.games/vibes 🎲✂️
On May 13th at 11:59pm EST, we'll be having a Dialogue at Dusk with @rollplusfun.bsky.social about games modeling and shaping reality, historical games, and other ways games breach the veil . . . Particularly unranked games. Join the conversation in our discord! discord.gg/HjHStPkg?eve...
We recently began our Dialogues at Dusk video series, where we discuss unranked games and the challenges/opportunities they offer. If you have topics you'd like us to discuss, or want to guest on an episode and discuss your unranked game project, please submit to us here: forms.gle/DB5ULT6FyVJ1...
We are preparing the Midnight Market, a boutique-style virtual market that lasts for only 3 nights (72 hours). The Midnight Market will offer a small, limited selection of games that can't found elsewhere. If interested, you can submit your game here: forms.gle/vRioTDYWRWt4...