Games

MothSpire designs games! Find some of them below!

Roleplaying Games

The Old Ways Must Go

The Old Ways Must Go is  a cooperative story telling game about coming together to create new ideas, frameworks, or rituals from outdated, decaying old ones.  Its structure offers a framework for creating new rituals and for guiding gentle conversations for healing and moving forward in times of community upheaval.

Rule of Three: A Fairy Tale Game

A live-action framework designed for family play, based on the structure of fairy tales.

Golden Cobra 2024 Honorable Mention

JOURNALING GAMES

F#$% I am a Sucker for Hexagons in Space

A solo-journaling RPG about leaving home, exploring, and examining the change you bring to places you visit and the way you are changed in return through creation of a logbook artifact that documents the marks you make on the galaxy.

SMALL GAMES

Conversational Shrapnel

“Conversational Shrapnel” is a term for the phrases that come up in everyday conversation that get picked out and isolated because they’re so catchy. This game takes those phrases and turns them into creativity prompts.

Plato's Cave game cover art

Plato’s Cave

Plato’s Cave is an exquisite corpse style storytelling game based on the principle of imperfect knowledge described in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.

Taco Sauce Slam Jam

Taco Sauce Slam Jam

A Spicy Game of Hotness and Eating Your Words

COMING SOON

Gorgon's Garden Banner, 
subtitled "Help Mortals Escape." 
a cooperative social deception.

Gorgon’s Garden

A cooperative social deception game. Help mortals defy their fates and escape the attentions of Zeus and Hera.

Kung fu Kittens

An Elemental trick-taking game of cats and martial arts

IN DEVELOPMENT

Curvy Cryptids Roller Jam title image

Curvy Cryptids Roller Jam

A real-time Roller Derby board game, featuring all your favorite cryptids!

My Dear Lady Disdain

A two-player game of romance and snarky attitude.

Threat or Menace!

A headline-building wordplay game about the supers (heroes and villains alike) of the city. Create headlines to either describe what’s happening, or to make the changes you want to see in the world.

Turn Your Back to the Forest

A tabletop RPG, based on structures derived from and inspired by Rule of Three.

White Space

A game about archival control, power, credibility, and how narratives change between teller and receiver.