Chloe Mashiter
@chloemashiter.bsky.social
game-designer / performer / creative technician. Agender (they/he/she). Sometime organiser of community funding dinners
Pinned
Immersive Makers Jam: a day-long free event on Mon 23rd Feb in London
Next month I'll be running (with the brilliant Gryph Griffin) an immersive makers jam - a low-pressure space to try things out, learn from others, and meet collaborators!
More info/bookings here:
ticketpass.org/event/ENGMTG...
Next month I'll be running (with the brilliant Gryph Griffin) an immersive makers jam - a low-pressure space to try things out, learn from others, and meet collaborators!
More info/bookings here:
ticketpass.org/event/ENGMTG...
Only 3 spots left for the Immersive Makers Jam next month! It's a free day of meeting other creatives, making things together in a low-pressure environment, trying them out, and socialising in the evening! Come join us at the Bridge Command venue on 23rd Feb!
ticketpass.org/event/ENGMTG...
ticketpass.org/event/ENGMTG...
Ticketpass - The Ethical Ticketing Platform for Events
Ticketpass is an ethical ticketing company that helps event organisers sell tickets online, and donates 50% of its booking fees to charities around the world.
ticketpass.org
January 21, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Only 3 spots left for the Immersive Makers Jam next month! It's a free day of meeting other creatives, making things together in a low-pressure environment, trying them out, and socialising in the evening! Come join us at the Bridge Command venue on 23rd Feb!
ticketpass.org/event/ENGMTG...
ticketpass.org/event/ENGMTG...
Reposted by Chloe Mashiter
It cannot be made clearer.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
October 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It cannot be made clearer.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
Reposted by Chloe Mashiter
Because...
Please sign and remember to confirm your email address.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Please sign and remember to confirm your email address.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...
petition.parliament.uk
January 18, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Because...
Please sign and remember to confirm your email address.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Please sign and remember to confirm your email address.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Reposted by Chloe Mashiter
Excited to announce a trial run of [Untitled Games Event], a new Amsterdam-based space for experimental games and playable arts 👾
This will be a monthly 'book club' of sorts for games and conversations about play, inspired by @molleindustria.org + others' LikeLike.
Help us spread the word!
This will be a monthly 'book club' of sorts for games and conversations about play, inspired by @molleindustria.org + others' LikeLike.
Help us spread the word!
![A poster for [Untitled Games Event] on Sunday the 18th, in Amsterdam!
Sunday 18 Jan 2026
5-7PM
Tussen de Bogen 46
1013JB Amsterdam
(canal side through the gate)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fa7s4oiqp5wrpa6mpygojl3t/bafkreifrvbe5dqv2owd27qn6ezzehg5rsig7wujhijvcick63wok66dpra@jpeg)
January 15, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Excited to announce a trial run of [Untitled Games Event], a new Amsterdam-based space for experimental games and playable arts 👾
This will be a monthly 'book club' of sorts for games and conversations about play, inspired by @molleindustria.org + others' LikeLike.
Help us spread the word!
This will be a monthly 'book club' of sorts for games and conversations about play, inspired by @molleindustria.org + others' LikeLike.
Help us spread the word!
Hell yes. I remember seeing Mr Burns years ago and the pairing of that show with Boots Riley (big fan of Sorry to Bother You) feels so utterly perfect
wow, I hadn't seen anything about the play before either, this is gonna be a hell of a ride
Boots Riley Confirms He’s Turning Post-Apocalypse ‘Simpsons’ Adjacent Off-Broadway Dark Comedy ‘Mr. Burns: A Post‑Electric Play’ Into A Movie
Filmmaker Boots Riley confirmed he is making a film adaptation of the apocalyptic dark comedy 'Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play.'
theplaylist.net
January 13, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Hell yes. I remember seeing Mr Burns years ago and the pairing of that show with Boots Riley (big fan of Sorry to Bother You) feels so utterly perfect
I had (as usual) a fantastic time at The Smoke this past weekend, and wrote a blog late Sunday night whilst still buzzing from games/socialising/cider. Added a few sober thoughts where they felt apt.
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/a...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/a...
A drunk blog! (with sober interludes)
Okay, so I’ve had two ciders. But I didn’t really have a dinner today, so the impact of those ciders is really ratcheted up. And general intense-larp-adrenaline-high which adds to it to…
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:05 AM
I had (as usual) a fantastic time at The Smoke this past weekend, and wrote a blog late Sunday night whilst still buzzing from games/socialising/cider. Added a few sober thoughts where they felt apt.
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/a...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/a...
Help I'm too deep in Pretending To Be A Scientist For Bridge Command and finding myself writing headers for in-world work docs like 'Space-time as an emergent property of quanta' and my (checks notes) zero high-level education in either acting or science *has not prepared me for this*
January 8, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Help I'm too deep in Pretending To Be A Scientist For Bridge Command and finding myself writing headers for in-world work docs like 'Space-time as an emergent property of quanta' and my (checks notes) zero high-level education in either acting or science *has not prepared me for this*
Immersive Makers Jam: a day-long free event on Mon 23rd Feb in London
Next month I'll be running (with the brilliant Gryph Griffin) an immersive makers jam - a low-pressure space to try things out, learn from others, and meet collaborators!
More info/bookings here:
ticketpass.org/event/ENGMTG...
Next month I'll be running (with the brilliant Gryph Griffin) an immersive makers jam - a low-pressure space to try things out, learn from others, and meet collaborators!
More info/bookings here:
ticketpass.org/event/ENGMTG...
January 5, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Immersive Makers Jam: a day-long free event on Mon 23rd Feb in London
Next month I'll be running (with the brilliant Gryph Griffin) an immersive makers jam - a low-pressure space to try things out, learn from others, and meet collaborators!
More info/bookings here:
ticketpass.org/event/ENGMTG...
Next month I'll be running (with the brilliant Gryph Griffin) an immersive makers jam - a low-pressure space to try things out, learn from others, and meet collaborators!
More info/bookings here:
ticketpass.org/event/ENGMTG...
Reposted by Chloe Mashiter
I have never seen anything more impotent than the EU right now. The US just invaded a nation for its own financial benefit, murdered dozens, disappeared the de facto leader, claimed governance and the oil - and has openly said Greenland is next, and our leaders are here going "oh well yeah haha"
January 4, 2026 at 12:20 PM
I have never seen anything more impotent than the EU right now. The US just invaded a nation for its own financial benefit, murdered dozens, disappeared the de facto leader, claimed governance and the oil - and has openly said Greenland is next, and our leaders are here going "oh well yeah haha"
"They may know your blood type but they don't know how to bleed."
Enjoying writing unhinged things for a project this morning (it's one of those great projects where the above is not nearly bizarre/unsettling enough)
Enjoying writing unhinged things for a project this morning (it's one of those great projects where the above is not nearly bizarre/unsettling enough)
December 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"They may know your blood type but they don't know how to bleed."
Enjoying writing unhinged things for a project this morning (it's one of those great projects where the above is not nearly bizarre/unsettling enough)
Enjoying writing unhinged things for a project this morning (it's one of those great projects where the above is not nearly bizarre/unsettling enough)
Have made my fantasy theatre advent calendar for this year, which is all about things I'd genuinely like to make for *next* year...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/t...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/t...
This year’s fantasy theatre advent calendar…
I didn’t have time to do a day-by-day fantasy theatre advent calendar this year. But I had a pleasingly quiet Christmas Day (family Christmas was done a few days early, so actual Christmas Da…
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Have made my fantasy theatre advent calendar for this year, which is all about things I'd genuinely like to make for *next* year...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/t...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/t...
More game design thoughts with me getting into my fascination and frustration around the various potential overlaps between so many play spaces (larp, theatre, escape rooms, etc)
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/w...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/w...
Why I want theatre to make me feel cool & larp to let me lose
Whilst I might not have been monumentally impressed by the overall experience, one thing that I did really enjoy about audio-visual immersive experience AMAZE in Amsterdam was how cool it made me f…
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com
August 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
More game design thoughts with me getting into my fascination and frustration around the various potential overlaps between so many play spaces (larp, theatre, escape rooms, etc)
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/w...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/w...
Reposted by Chloe Mashiter
Posting this again. Not enough electricity left to build affordable homes in 3 west London boroughs, because all capacity has been used by a data centre.
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
Report: Home building to halt in West London, due to data center power demands
All the electricity capacity is already used up, GLA tells developers
www.datacenterdynamics.com
August 14, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Posting this again. Not enough electricity left to build affordable homes in 3 west London boroughs, because all capacity has been used by a data centre.
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
Getting through a blog backlog (a bblockg?)
Some thoughts about some structures or 'containers' that play occurs in, including ones utilised by events wanting to emulate or suggest play whilst not dedicating the time and attention needed...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/a...
Some thoughts about some structures or 'containers' that play occurs in, including ones utilised by events wanting to emulate or suggest play whilst not dedicating the time and attention needed...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/a...
Approaching a theory of play: containers of play
I promised the delivery of this post in my blog about messiness (as an arbitrariness of structure that, in its lack of clarity, its changeability, its somewhat chaotic nature, can be mistaken for p…
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com
August 15, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Getting through a blog backlog (a bblockg?)
Some thoughts about some structures or 'containers' that play occurs in, including ones utilised by events wanting to emulate or suggest play whilst not dedicating the time and attention needed...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/a...
Some thoughts about some structures or 'containers' that play occurs in, including ones utilised by events wanting to emulate or suggest play whilst not dedicating the time and attention needed...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/a...
Reposted by Chloe Mashiter
If you're partnering with an IP, please do not partner with one owned and operated by a known bigot. Obviously, JKR is a ravenous transphobe, but this really goes for any and all forms of hate. Just be better. Don't, as a company or individuals, give money to bad people.
Shame on Ultimate Guard.
Shame on Ultimate Guard.
This is such a supreme disappointment.
🎲✂️
Ultimate Guard, known for their popular game sleeves and deck boxes, are making a new line of Harry Potter themed products.
Only through collective, direct action can we start to see change.
Let them know of your discontent:
ticket@ultimateguard.com
🎲✂️
Ultimate Guard, known for their popular game sleeves and deck boxes, are making a new line of Harry Potter themed products.
Only through collective, direct action can we start to see change.
Let them know of your discontent:
ticket@ultimateguard.com
i really like ultimate guard boulders and katana sleeves. too bad i'm never buying any of them ever again.
August 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
If you're partnering with an IP, please do not partner with one owned and operated by a known bigot. Obviously, JKR is a ravenous transphobe, but this really goes for any and all forms of hate. Just be better. Don't, as a company or individuals, give money to bad people.
Shame on Ultimate Guard.
Shame on Ultimate Guard.
Getting through more thoughts/reflections on the various places I visited earlier this year and how they all helped people to play...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/w...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/w...
Where I’ve been and how it supported play
The title’s a bit simplistic, but it feels apt – when recently asking people about what would be useful for me to share about my recent research trip into all things games, one suggesti…
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Getting through more thoughts/reflections on the various places I visited earlier this year and how they all helped people to play...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/w...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/w...
I've been away from bsky for a bit (not intentional, just other things in life drawing focus and me simply not being around here), but to those who've been in touch asking for help: i'll do what I can, you're not writing into a void I promise, there are people who hear you and want to help
August 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I've been away from bsky for a bit (not intentional, just other things in life drawing focus and me simply not being around here), but to those who've been in touch asking for help: i'll do what I can, you're not writing into a void I promise, there are people who hear you and want to help
(Not on socials much atm - getting back into the swing of work/ figuring out various work-life balance bits, *but* still have many unpublished blogs to share!)
Thoughts on the importance of putting your playable thing in *the right context*:
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/a...
Thoughts on the importance of putting your playable thing in *the right context*:
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/a...
Approaching a theory of play: smacking TVs, sitting on bean bags, and context
One of my biggest takeaways from Berlin, the penultimate stop on my trip around Europe – where, significantly, I visited both the Computer Games Museum and A MAZE. / festival – was the …
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
(Not on socials much atm - getting back into the swing of work/ figuring out various work-life balance bits, *but* still have many unpublished blogs to share!)
Thoughts on the importance of putting your playable thing in *the right context*:
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/a...
Thoughts on the importance of putting your playable thing in *the right context*:
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/a...
Even more escape room thoughts! I genuinely think there's something really exciting to be potentially developed in increasingly narrative and theatrical rooms...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/w...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/w...
Why I’m looking to [Dutch] escape rooms for the future of interactive & immersive work
Recently, I had my mind blown by some escape rooms in the Netherlands (specifically Molly’s Game and The Alchemist), and my headline for anyone in the immersive/interactive theatre industry from my…
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Even more escape room thoughts! I genuinely think there's something really exciting to be potentially developed in increasingly narrative and theatrical rooms...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/w...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/w...
The headline I've been sharing with folks since returning from my big research trip has been 'ahhhh Dutch escape rooms ahhhh' - so I've written a couple of posts digging into their design, here's the first:
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/h...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/h...
How Dutch escape rooms helped me play
I hadn’t initially planned on visiting the Netherlands for a week during my trip around Europe – a cancelled larp left a gap in my itinerary and, after some general googling, it seemed …
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com
July 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The headline I've been sharing with folks since returning from my big research trip has been 'ahhhh Dutch escape rooms ahhhh' - so I've written a couple of posts digging into their design, here's the first:
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/h...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/h...
Playing my first day-long megagame tomorrow! (Den of Wolves being run over in Reading) So, so excited and already assuming this will open up another gaming hobby I need to fit into my life...
June 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Playing my first day-long megagame tomorrow! (Den of Wolves being run over in Reading) So, so excited and already assuming this will open up another gaming hobby I need to fit into my life...
I got to share Support Group for the Newly Human at @voidspacezine.bsky.social Live last weekend and I've reflected on how all my design changes played out, and what might happen with future versions:
explorealongame.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/s...
explorealongame.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/s...
Support Group for the Newly Human: design blog #6
About a week ago, the latest version of Support Group for the Newly Human was shared at Voidspace Live! I’m delighted with how it went, how much people got into role-playing, how it felt like…
explorealongame.wordpress.com
June 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I got to share Support Group for the Newly Human at @voidspacezine.bsky.social Live last weekend and I've reflected on how all my design changes played out, and what might happen with future versions:
explorealongame.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/s...
explorealongame.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/s...
Reposted by Chloe Mashiter
Making a poster for your TTRPG Actual Play or cast announcment?
Can I please recommend using a colour contrast checker?
I see so many graphics which don't pass accessibity checks.
colourcontrast.cc
Can I please recommend using a colour contrast checker?
I see so many graphics which don't pass accessibity checks.
colourcontrast.cc
Colour Contrast Checker
Check the contrast between different colour combinations against WCAG standards.
colourcontrast.cc
June 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Making a poster for your TTRPG Actual Play or cast announcment?
Can I please recommend using a colour contrast checker?
I see so many graphics which don't pass accessibity checks.
colourcontrast.cc
Can I please recommend using a colour contrast checker?
I see so many graphics which don't pass accessibity checks.
colourcontrast.cc
Planning on doing essentially a mini game giveaway at @voidspacezine.bsky.social Live tomorrow. Will bring my many escape-room-in-an-envelopes/puzzle boxes/narrative puzzle games (that I've played but studiously never written on etc so they're all in playable states), anyone who wants can have one!
June 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Planning on doing essentially a mini game giveaway at @voidspacezine.bsky.social Live tomorrow. Will bring my many escape-room-in-an-envelopes/puzzle boxes/narrative puzzle games (that I've played but studiously never written on etc so they're all in playable states), anyone who wants can have one!
Gutted to have missed day 1 of @voidspacezine.bsky.social Live in favour of (checks notes) nausea/headaches/shaking/dizziness (which is finally easing off), fingers crossed I'm properly recovered for tomorrow!
if you were there today tell me about your best bits!
if you were there today tell me about your best bits!
June 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Gutted to have missed day 1 of @voidspacezine.bsky.social Live in favour of (checks notes) nausea/headaches/shaking/dizziness (which is finally easing off), fingers crossed I'm properly recovered for tomorrow!
if you were there today tell me about your best bits!
if you were there today tell me about your best bits!