#gameschooling

Okay, y'all, I'm SUPER stoked: Gigacity Guardians, the choose-your-own-adventure, coloring book, story-focused, literacy-building, zero prep RPG that comes WITH IT'S OWN PLAY-ALONG PODCAST is going up on Kickstarter for a PRINT RUN!

If you dug Starsworn, this is another Stories RPG arc - this one in the center for masterminds, mutants, and meta-human mayhem: Gigacity! Players are students at Signora Sun's Sanctuary, finding out about themselves, their powers, and how to find family in a sometimes unfriendly world.

One arc of the podcast and the first play-along chapter are finished, with a whole new arc and two more to come! If you'd like to listen, find the episodes of Gigacity Guardians anywhere you listen to pods on Stories RPG!

Okay, y'all. It's ONE WEEK till the Luna Uni Kickstarter ends - and that's really only the BEGINNING.

Luna Uni is set in a future in which the Coreworlds are safe, sustainable, equitable - and BORING. The punks who push the limits with super-science experiments and plans for zany adventure are sent to Luna Uni: an entire moon terraformed into the universe's center for radical learning!

Write the world based on Lore Seeds, and as you edit in Lore sessions together, gain the Story Points to develop your character and the setting. Use Live sessions to explore what you've created and get inspired for the next Lore you'll write!

Fund the PDF for a print-n-play experience, the digital toolkit to get the bits to play online with friends, or the Teacher's Toolkit for everything you need to run Luna Uni as a writing unit for 3rd - 8th grade.

I got to present at SXSW about using role-playing games to teach and learn writing, and this approach completely transforms a classroom. My playtest teachers are running this with two classrooms of 5th grade kids and CAN'T STOP talking about how it's changed EVERYTHING - kids who cried about writing won't stop working on their stories and sharing them!

Want to write worlds with your friends? Teach kids and have them BEGGING to read their stories aloud for the class? Make live RPG sessions content-standard aligned learning?

Yes Indie'd is a mainstay of the indie RPG scene, and it was an absolute honor to be interviewed by Marx Shepard (a lovely person and brilliant designer) about Starsworn, which has only 4 days left to go (and only two stretch goals that have yet to be unlocked!). I'm a teacher who designs games that teach, and teaches kids to fall in love with writing with games. Starsworn is a zero-prep, play to learn home version of the game I use to teach, complete with coloring book illustrations, read-alouds, characters, and tools to help players of all ages tell wondrous tales together. It funded in under 30 minutes, and is scheduled to ship in time to arrive in backers homes before the holiday break this year.

Give a listen, and if you haven't, back Starsworn today - it would be amazing to be able to send more of these out to folx!

But the moments I KNOW the kids HAVE it - that they've become an independent writing group with a powerful shared project?

We spend the entire two hours reading and shaping lore, and I have to make one of the kids host so they can stay on Zoom working together!

Today on the Stories RPG podcast, we discuss world-building; NOT the worlds we've made (Starsworn, Luna Uni, Gigacity Guardians, and Partnerz In Grime), but those made by the students in my classes!

You can build your own with the Stories RPG World Building Boost, or sign up for a class to create along with me!

Here's the episode!