Art & System: Games for Expanded Play

Hi all,

Liz Davidson of the Beyond Solitaire podcast recently dropped some interviews with the designers of our Art and System launch games. In case you didn't catch them on the internet, we want to highlight them directly to you, so you can learn more about the games straight from the horse's mouth, as they say.

First, Liam Liwanag Burke sat down with Liz to talk Dog Eat Dog last week:


Then this week, she dropped interviews with Anna Anthropy about Princess with a Cursed Sword:


And Timothy Kleinert about The Mountain Witch:


Check them out, and if you haven't backed the campaign yet, better get on that. 

Stay artsy, everyone!

Back during our first crowdfunding campaign for Monumental Consequence (launched on Kickstarter back in 2021), we offered an exclusive stretch goal short-form game for the campaign called This Last Supper.

This improvisational roleplaying game by Tim Hutchings (of Thousand Year Old Vampire fame) is for six-to-fifteen players that explores a renaissance painting from the perspective of the painting's subjects and the architects studying the painting in order to make an architectural change to the building where the painting is hung. The architects must decided which painting subject to remove to make way for the architectural change while the paintings subjects must communicate their rich history and meaning while not drifting too far away from the overall motif of the painting.

After that campaign fulfilled, we locked This Last Supper away in a gilded mahogany chest and buried it in the greenspace between Anspach and Pearce halls here on the campus of Central Michigan University. We had every intention of never releasing this zine version of the game again, but, after much deliberation, it seemed a shame to do that, especially with Tim coming on to be series editor for the new Art and System game series. So we dug the zine back up and added it to this campaign as an add-on. Many of you have noticed the zine in the add-ons list; for those that haven't, well here's your heads up to add it to your pledge if you want a physical copy of this awesome yet esoteric Tim Hutchings game.   

Backers!!! You helped us achieve our crowdfunding goal in RECORD BREAKING TIME for CMich Press -- less than 48 hours -- AND you continue to carry us past it! We cannot thank you enough!

Since there is such demand for this campaign, we are preparing to announce add-ons and stretch goals very soon...stay tuned! 

Good morning and -- what's this? Backers, you've already carried us past the 3/4 funding mark!!!!! 

Thank you so, so much for your excitement and your pledges! We might just break another one of our own records...

Keep it up!!!