Scryptid Games

08/12/2023

We had a blast doing a 15-minute game jam with Wet Ink Games at PAX Unplugged in Philly last weekend. Watch the video (link in comments) to see us concept a game called The Brides Are Crying using tarot cards, random game components, and beef jerky. Should we make this game? Y or N? 🤔 👰 👰‍♂️ 😭

01/12/2023

Come find us at Pax Unplugged in Philly this weekend. We are at booth 4250 hanging with Nerdburger Games through Sunday. 🦝

24/11/2023

It's Creator Day on itch.io! Today, itchi.io is donating their cut of sales to creators like Scryptid who host games on their site. And we are celebrating by passing those savings on to you! Today only, you can buy a digital bundle including Ball of the Wild and Psychic Trash Detectives for $13 (35% off) or buy either game individually for 25% off. Link in comments!

Thanks for being part of this community. Happy Creator Day!

22/11/2023

Art credit to 👉 cryptid club

13/11/2023

We are thrilled to announce that Scryptid Games Co-Founder and Psychic Trash Detectives creator Brigitte Winter is a Dicebreaker Tabletop Awards Finalist for Designer of the Year: https://www.dicebreaker.com/events/tabletop-awards-2023/news/tabletop-awards-2023-finalists

Congratulations, Brigitte!

Award finalists across eight categories were decided by a panel of industry experts, and a final winner in each category will be announced at the Tabletop Awards 2023, revealed on-stage in December at the PAX Unplugged convention in Philadelphia. We’ll be there again this year--all five Scryptids--and we hope you’ll come find us and say hi!

The Designer of the Year Award is determined by a panel of esteemed judges from all over the industry, so we can't really help Brigitte claim that crown, HOWEVER… you CAN vote in Dicebreaker's People’s Choice Awards!

If you liked Psychic Trash Detectives and think it’s super cool and you think wow, those folks deserve a trophy, then please vote for us by following the link in the comments.

Thanks for being part of this community and supporting indie games and creators. We love playing with you!

09/11/2023

Psychic Trash Detectives spotted in the wild! We were thrilled to hear an enthusiastic review of the game from our friends at AcadeCon in Dayton, Ohio. A group of trash animals convened around this table to solve a mystery together last weekend, and we are so proud of the mess they made. The facilitator specifically complimented the game's safety mechanics, and said the game benefitted from opportunities to pause and change direction mid-game, as well as the invitation to debrief after play concluded.

If you have a fun Psychic Trash Detectives experience to share, please send us your story and photos! It's such a joy to see our trashy little baby all grown up and burrowing its way into your gaming tables and hearts.

If you haven't grabbed your copy yet (or if you want to give the gift of creative garbage to the friendly raccoon in your life this holiday season), the game is now available for purchase on our website: https://scryptidgames.com/psychic-trash-detectives

02/11/2023

It's this guy's birthday today!! Scryptid Co-Founder Dustin Blottenberger is turning 42. Join us in celebrating Dustin, and the meaning of life, by following Against the Gloomon Backerkit (link in comments). Let's see if we can get 42 new follows today!

Designed by the birthday boy and produced by Scryptid Games, Against the Gloom is a TTRPG for 3-5 pirate troubadours about the joy and power of music, and building community in the face of the void.

The Gloom is a sentient, fog-filled purgatory world of bleakness and despair, and there is no escape. It is alive, quite intelligent, and it wants to hurt you.

Fortunately for you, the Gloom is vulnerable to one thing: music, especially amplified music. In the Gloom, music is a powerful kind of magic. And you know how to play, because you are all Gloomfarers. You sail aboard fantastic ships powered by music across this vast world, using your best songs to fight back against the Gloom and keep your band moving.

It’s a little like if the Ghostbusters were also Van Halen, who were also heroic pirates.

Who's in?

03/10/2023

Sir. SIR. Please do not agitate The Gloom.

13/09/2023

What an incredible weekend! Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Baltimore launch events for Psychic Trash Detectives at Bird in Hand Charles Village and No Land Beyond! And congratulations to Brigitte Winter for designing and writing this gorgeous game, to Avary Schwartz for her stunning illustrations, to Tiffany Salter for laying out this fantastic book, to Nat Mesnard for editing the book and co-editing the anthology with Brigitte, to Dustin Blottenberger for his art direction, to Patrick Watson for handling our logistics and getting hundreds of books in the mail for our backers, and to all of our brilliant anthology contributors: Tyler Vile, Jason B. Crawford, Deidre Delpino D***s, Tonee Moll, Nino Budabin McQuown, A.E. Osworth, Tristan B Willis, Nat, and Dustin!

This weekend included a literary reading, a game-a-thon, a coloring party, contests and prizes, and so much fun together. Our guests at Bird in Hand even did an erasure poetry activity using pages torn from the Psychic Trash Detectives book!

At its heart, Psychic Trash Detectives is a game about chosen family and community, collaborative art-making, and discovering beauty and possibility in the discarded, forgotten, and overlooked. We are deeply grateful for the Scryptid Games community and the creativity and joy you've brought to this game so far.

If you backed the game on Kickstarter, your books are in the mail and should arrive in the next few weeks. The PDFs should also go out soon. If you haven't gotten your book yet, you can still place an order through Backerkit (https://psychic-trash-detectives.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders) for a limited time, and then it will be available on our website and through Indie Press Revolution, Exalted Funeral, and the growing list local stores who have already signed on as retailers so far. If you'd like to join our retail community, slip into our DMs or email us at [email protected].

We hope you all enjoy playing Psychic Trash Detectives as much as we enjoyed bringing it into the world! Thanks for being part of this community.

30/07/2023

Don’t threaten me with a good time

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30/07/2023

It’s happening! Distribution for is scheduled for September, and that means it’s time to party like a trash animal! Join us September 9-10, 2023, for a weekend of book launch events in Baltimore, Maryland.

On Saturday, September 9, at 6pm, we will kick off the weekend with a reading of poems and fiction inspired by the game at Bird in Hand.

And on Sunday, September 10, at 6pm, we will host a Psychic Trash Detectives game-a-thon at No Land Beyond, Baltimore’s first-ever board game bar, game shop, and event venue.

More info and RSVP links here: https://scryptidgames.com/news/baltimore-launch-events-for-pyschic-trash-detectives

08/07/2023

When someone asks a game rules question you don’t know the answer to

01/07/2023

Before you agree to go halvesies, get it in writing

25/06/2023

Lake-Side Gallery

04/06/2023

GIMME DAT HOT DOG, MISTER

03/06/2023

One person’s treasure is another person’s treasured trash

02/06/2023

I bet it tastes just as good out of the dumpster

01/06/2023

Get your vitamins (from the dumpster behind the supermarket)

scrønch

24/05/2023

What a weekend! The Scryptids road-tripped from Maine to Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia for Avery Alder’s super inspiring Games That Matter intensive! We left with new design practices, new friends and collaborators, and so many new game ideas to share with all of you. Stay tuned….

07/05/2023

Last chance to enter our Psychic Trash Detectives ! winners selected 5/7!

Contest announcement! Want to create a new character for the Psychic Trash Detectives game book? We raised enough funds during our Kickstarter to add a mini-anthology of trashy poetry and flash fiction to the game book, and two of our writers have agreed to craft original stories featuring characters designed by YOU. For a chance to win:

1. Tag someone in the comments who will love this game.
2. If you BOTH like Scryptid Games on Facebook and sign up for our email list at https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/dSOekys you'll both be entered into a raffle to win the opportunity to build characters to star in the book.

You'll each also get an original character sketch of your critters, and you'll be credited in the book for your creations. If you are both already following us and signed up for emails, all you have to do is tag your bud to enter. Two pairs of winners will be announced Sunday, May 7.

06/05/2023

Eeee we are on Sarah’s Table right now playing Ball of the Wild, Nat Mesnard’s fabulous drag show TTRPG about animals dressing as other animals! 💃🏼 🐘 🐅 🪩

Sarah’s Table
Friday May 5th
7pm CT
www.twitch.tv/gencontv

A game about performing, living your life authentically, and Being Fabulous.



Gen Con
Scryptid Games

30/04/2023

Contest announcement! Want to create a new character for the Psychic Trash Detectives game book? We raised enough funds during our Kickstarter to add a mini-anthology of trashy poetry and flash fiction to the game book, and two of our writers have agreed to craft original stories featuring characters designed by YOU. For a chance to win:

1. Tag someone in the comments who will love this game.
2. If you BOTH like Scryptid Games on Facebook and sign up for our email list at https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/dSOekys you'll both be entered into a raffle to win the opportunity to build characters to star in the book.

You'll each also get an original character sketch of your critters, and you'll be credited in the book for your creations. If you are both already following us and signed up for emails, all you have to do is tag your bud to enter. Two pairs of winners will be announced Sunday, May 7.

26/04/2023

Psychic Trash Detectives writer and Scryptid Games Co-Founder Brigitte Winter scurried over to the Tabletopped Podcast recently to chitter about her creative journey from theater to game design, the magic of q***r games and chosen family, and the genesis of Scryptid’s first trashy release. Check out the episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2YLlZAvMfBxwqj6on4haJG or wherever you listen to podcasts.

15/03/2023

Hey, we've got LESS THAN 24 HOURS left in the Psychic Trash Detectives Kickstarter! Last chance to join over 350 backers & support this diceless played with REAL TRASH:

Psychic trash animals race to solve a mystery before the city’s trash is collected at dawn. A diceless TTRPG played with trash.

14/03/2023

LAST 48 HOURS to back Psychic Trash Detectives! Zine + PDF is only $15. Get the garbage goods before it's too late:

Psychic trash animals race to solve a mystery before the city’s trash is collected at dawn. A diceless TTRPG played with trash.

14/03/2023

Only 48 hours left!!!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scryptidgames/psychic-trash-detectives

Our campaign for Psychic Trash Detectives is almost over and we are SO CLOSE to hitting the final $10,000 stretch goal. If we hit this mark before the end of the campaign, our illustrator, A.V.Eerie will create a custom print-and-play Psychic Trash Detectives coloring page! PLUS we’ll throw a big launch party that all of our backers are invited to! If you’ve never partied with a trash bear, have you really ever partied?

Spread the word and come hang out in the dumpster with us!

Psychic trash animals race to solve a mystery before the city’s trash is collected at dawn. A diceless TTRPG played with trash.

13/03/2023

CREATURE FEATURE! Continuing to spotlight each of the Scryptids behind our new publishing collective. 🦇 Patrick is a writer, teacher, and game designer originally from Western Montana, home of cryptids like Flessie and the Shunka Warakin:

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12/03/2023

We were so stoked to see that Geek Native covered Psychic Trash Detectives! Check out the spotlight:

Psychic Trash Detectives is a collaborative tabletop roleplaying game where characters mine trash for psychic clues to solve a mystery plaguing their animal community. By touching trash, they receive a powerful and unique psychic vision...

09/03/2023

CREATURE FEATURE! Continuing to spotlight each of the Scryptids behind our new publishing collective. 🦇 Tiffany is a game maker, writer, editor, and educator in Maine who plays games of all kinds. She went all in on the Loch Ness Monster in fifth grade:

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09/03/2023

Interview time! Mark your calendars: Scryptid will be on the Gen Con TV show TableTakes on Friday 3/10 at 2 PT / 5 ET for a chat about all things !

Gen Con is the largest & longest-running gaming & hobby convention in North America. We celebrated our 50th anniversary in 2017! Follow for tabletop gaming news, live play, and learn-to-play sessions year-round! Gen Con will return to Indianapolis August 3-6 2023.

07/03/2023

CREATURE FEATURE! Continuing to spotlight each of the Scryptids behind our new publishing collective. 🦇 Brigitte is a writer, photographer, and game designer based in Maryland whose favorite cryptid is the “hairy and pretty” Wolf Woman of Mobile:

Meet Brigitte Winter, co-founder of Scryptid Games and creator of both Psychic Trash Detectives and the new game Dear Marley.

03/03/2023

CREATURE FEATURE! Continuing to spotlight each of the Scryptids behind our new publishing collective. 🦇 Nat Mesnard writes POV-bending literary fiction, and their cryptid of choice is the Beast of Busco, a giant snapping turtle:

Meet Nat Mesnard, Scryptid Games co-founder and creator of the new game Adventurer's Respite.

01/03/2023

Psychic Trash Detectives made this excellent roundup of weird and creative games! 🎉

Whether it’s a blues dance LARP or a haunted recipe game, creativity was the theme for 2023

27/02/2023

CREATURE FEATURE! This week & next, we're spotlighting each of the Scryptids behind our new publishing collective. 🦇 Dustin Blottenberger is interested in creating games & stories about found family, polyamory, and casting rad spells. His favorite cryptid is the Squonk:

Meet Dustin Patrick Winter, Scryptid Games co-founder and creator of the new game Filling an Empty Breath.