Chloe Mashiter
@chloemashiter.bsky.social
game-designer / performer / creative technician. Agender (they/he/she). Sometime organiser of community funding dinners
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Chloe Mashiter
@chloemashiter.bsky.social
· May 18
American Journal of Play - The Strong National Museum of Play
www.museumofplay.org
In the interest of being useful and sharing resources, here are some of my favourite hubs of *freely available* information on game/play/design that I've been looking at during my trip:
American Journal of Play - all issues hosted on Strong Museum of Play site: www.museumofplay.org/journalofplay/
American Journal of Play - all issues hosted on Strong Museum of Play site: www.museumofplay.org/journalofplay/
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)
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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…
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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...
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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…
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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…
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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!
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PRIDE IS AN ACRONYM
Personal
RIghts through
Defense &
Education
(It's 1st really radical queer org--1966! It prefigured the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), ACT-UP, Queer Nation, etc, maybe laid the seeds for Stonewall...)
❤️🔥🔥💚💙💜🤎🖤💗💙 Pride is inherently radical.
ht @revterrywilliams.bsky.social
Personal
RIghts through
Defense &
Education
(It's 1st really radical queer org--1966! It prefigured the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), ACT-UP, Queer Nation, etc, maybe laid the seeds for Stonewall...)
❤️🔥🔥💚💙💜🤎🖤💗💙 Pride is inherently radical.
ht @revterrywilliams.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
PRIDE IS AN ACRONYM
Personal
RIghts through
Defense &
Education
(It's 1st really radical queer org--1966! It prefigured the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), ACT-UP, Queer Nation, etc, maybe laid the seeds for Stonewall...)
❤️🔥🔥💚💙💜🤎🖤💗💙 Pride is inherently radical.
ht @revterrywilliams.bsky.social
Personal
RIghts through
Defense &
Education
(It's 1st really radical queer org--1966! It prefigured the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), ACT-UP, Queer Nation, etc, maybe laid the seeds for Stonewall...)
❤️🔥🔥💚💙💜🤎🖤💗💙 Pride is inherently radical.
ht @revterrywilliams.bsky.social
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Jonathan Joss' husband Tristan has released another statement saying that donations to their old home GoFundMe are not needed at this time and would ask for everyone to direct their energy towards spreading the message about how he was in fact murdered in a hate crime
June 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Jonathan Joss' husband Tristan has released another statement saying that donations to their old home GoFundMe are not needed at this time and would ask for everyone to direct their energy towards spreading the message about how he was in fact murdered in a hate crime
Reposted by Chloe Mashiter
It can't be overstated how much seeing things like this will make a designer's day, maybe even their week.
And do what this person did! Your reviews on itch aren't public so you need to post them as a comment as well!
And do what this person did! Your reviews on itch aren't public so you need to post them as a comment as well!
June 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It can't be overstated how much seeing things like this will make a designer's day, maybe even their week.
And do what this person did! Your reviews on itch aren't public so you need to post them as a comment as well!
And do what this person did! Your reviews on itch aren't public so you need to post them as a comment as well!
Reposted by Chloe Mashiter
It's still Free Palestine, today and every day, from the river to the sea, until Palestine is free.
June 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It's still Free Palestine, today and every day, from the river to the sea, until Palestine is free.
I was asked for an overview of the things I went to/played/saw etc over my recent research trip, so I've done my best to write one!
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/w...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/w...
Where I’ve been and what it was like
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
June 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I was asked for an overview of the things I went to/played/saw etc over my recent research trip, so I've done my best to write one!
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/w...
chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2025/06/04/w...
Imma really, *really* need sellers at future cons to brief everyone on their stalls *properly* about whether their items contain AI-generated images. Deeply fucking aggravating - having asked before purchasing (because some demo materials looked potentially sus)...
June 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Imma really, *really* need sellers at future cons to brief everyone on their stalls *properly* about whether their items contain AI-generated images. Deeply fucking aggravating - having asked before purchasing (because some demo materials looked potentially sus)...
Reposted by Chloe Mashiter
Enough of this racist fiction. Enough. Not a single non-white person in England is in a job in the NHS *because* they are non-white. Not a single one. And as for the idea that England's criminal justice system goes easy on non-white people because they are non-white.
Well. Just think about that.
Well. Just think about that.
A group of Labour MPs, peers and supporters write:
“We should legislate to root out DEI in hiring practices, sentencing decisions and wherever else we find it in our public bodies.”
Devastated to see how quickly this has arrived in the UK mainstream.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“We should legislate to root out DEI in hiring practices, sentencing decisions and wherever else we find it in our public bodies.”
Devastated to see how quickly this has arrived in the UK mainstream.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters
Faction influencing No 10 says government should legislate against DEI in hiring, sentencing and ‘wherever else’
www.theguardian.com
June 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Enough of this racist fiction. Enough. Not a single non-white person in England is in a job in the NHS *because* they are non-white. Not a single one. And as for the idea that England's criminal justice system goes easy on non-white people because they are non-white.
Well. Just think about that.
Well. Just think about that.
I have a dozen or so different docs for rewrites/notes/ideas/etc for the rework of Support Group for the Newly Human and I've just made the *definitely final absolutely the definitive doc for the 2nd iteration of the show*.
It's called 'Support Group 2: Support Harder'
Makes me smile, at least.
It's called 'Support Group 2: Support Harder'
Makes me smile, at least.
June 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I have a dozen or so different docs for rewrites/notes/ideas/etc for the rework of Support Group for the Newly Human and I've just made the *definitely final absolutely the definitive doc for the 2nd iteration of the show*.
It's called 'Support Group 2: Support Harder'
Makes me smile, at least.
It's called 'Support Group 2: Support Harder'
Makes me smile, at least.
brb just making myself weepy (again) writing up the scripted parts of Support Group for the Newly Human (which is *A WEEK AWAY*)
I've written a new design blog - about killing darlings, time & music, and the degree to which I have to design 'me'
explorealongame.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/s...
I've written a new design blog - about killing darlings, time & music, and the degree to which I have to design 'me'
explorealongame.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/s...
Support Group for the Newly Human: design blog #5
It’s only a week now until Support Group… at Voidspace Live, which primarily means one thing: I should really move from thinking about the opening/set-up/out-of-character part of the sh…
explorealongame.wordpress.com
June 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
brb just making myself weepy (again) writing up the scripted parts of Support Group for the Newly Human (which is *A WEEK AWAY*)
I've written a new design blog - about killing darlings, time & music, and the degree to which I have to design 'me'
explorealongame.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/s...
I've written a new design blog - about killing darlings, time & music, and the degree to which I have to design 'me'
explorealongame.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/s...
my time has COME. find me sitting in a luggage rack (fully what I had to do last night), knitting some bizarre entity and humming an old sea shanty before I deliver a riddle from one of my vintage books
Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.
May 31, 2025 at 12:16 PM
my time has COME. find me sitting in a luggage rack (fully what I had to do last night), knitting some bizarre entity and humming an old sea shanty before I deliver a riddle from one of my vintage books