jo kelly
@miasmacorp.bsky.social
i make music & games. i have recently started morris dancing. they/them
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i got to play a version of this at UKGE and it was a brilliant blast! jo has such a way of identifying the real dynamics at the heart of social relationships, cutting through the nonsense that people tell themselves to expose how systems actually work
In 2026, I'm releasing my next game: WENDYBUXXX.
Play as song characters brought to life by singer Wendy Miasma and forced to compete as lifestyle influencers to promote her new necrocurrency*, WENDYBUXXX. Gain the most followers by setting and following trends, while balancing controversy.
Play as song characters brought to life by singer Wendy Miasma and forced to compete as lifestyle influencers to promote her new necrocurrency*, WENDYBUXXX. Gain the most followers by setting and following trends, while balancing controversy.
December 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
i got to play a version of this at UKGE and it was a brilliant blast! jo has such a way of identifying the real dynamics at the heart of social relationships, cutting through the nonsense that people tell themselves to expose how systems actually work
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We playtested this multiple times the other night and I'm hungry for more!
In 2026, I'm releasing my next game: WENDYBUXXX.
Play as song characters brought to life by singer Wendy Miasma and forced to compete as lifestyle influencers to promote her new necrocurrency*, WENDYBUXXX. Gain the most followers by setting and following trends, while balancing controversy.
Play as song characters brought to life by singer Wendy Miasma and forced to compete as lifestyle influencers to promote her new necrocurrency*, WENDYBUXXX. Gain the most followers by setting and following trends, while balancing controversy.
December 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
We playtested this multiple times the other night and I'm hungry for more!
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Hell yes; I cannot wait to check this out. And hey, If you aren't following Jo, you should fix that now.
In 2026, I'm releasing my next game: WENDYBUXXX.
Play as song characters brought to life by singer Wendy Miasma and forced to compete as lifestyle influencers to promote her new necrocurrency*, WENDYBUXXX. Gain the most followers by setting and following trends, while balancing controversy.
Play as song characters brought to life by singer Wendy Miasma and forced to compete as lifestyle influencers to promote her new necrocurrency*, WENDYBUXXX. Gain the most followers by setting and following trends, while balancing controversy.
December 31, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Hell yes; I cannot wait to check this out. And hey, If you aren't following Jo, you should fix that now.
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FOLLOW JO they make impossibly cool shit, including the best board game released in 2025, Molly House
In 2026, I'm releasing my next game: WENDYBUXXX.
Play as song characters brought to life by singer Wendy Miasma and forced to compete as lifestyle influencers to promote her new necrocurrency*, WENDYBUXXX. Gain the most followers by setting and following trends, while balancing controversy.
Play as song characters brought to life by singer Wendy Miasma and forced to compete as lifestyle influencers to promote her new necrocurrency*, WENDYBUXXX. Gain the most followers by setting and following trends, while balancing controversy.
December 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
FOLLOW JO they make impossibly cool shit, including the best board game released in 2025, Molly House
In 2026, I'm releasing my next game: WENDYBUXXX.
Play as song characters brought to life by singer Wendy Miasma and forced to compete as lifestyle influencers to promote her new necrocurrency*, WENDYBUXXX. Gain the most followers by setting and following trends, while balancing controversy.
Play as song characters brought to life by singer Wendy Miasma and forced to compete as lifestyle influencers to promote her new necrocurrency*, WENDYBUXXX. Gain the most followers by setting and following trends, while balancing controversy.
December 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
In 2026, I'm releasing my next game: WENDYBUXXX.
Play as song characters brought to life by singer Wendy Miasma and forced to compete as lifestyle influencers to promote her new necrocurrency*, WENDYBUXXX. Gain the most followers by setting and following trends, while balancing controversy.
Play as song characters brought to life by singer Wendy Miasma and forced to compete as lifestyle influencers to promote her new necrocurrency*, WENDYBUXXX. Gain the most followers by setting and following trends, while balancing controversy.
The best game I played this year was Wanderstop.
You play as Alta, a fighter, stopped in her prime by an unexpected defeat and an insurmountable case of burnout. The setup invites you to imagine the game she wishes she were in - an action-packed gladiator fighting game.
But this is not that game.
You play as Alta, a fighter, stopped in her prime by an unexpected defeat and an insurmountable case of burnout. The setup invites you to imagine the game she wishes she were in - an action-packed gladiator fighting game.
But this is not that game.
December 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The best game I played this year was Wanderstop.
You play as Alta, a fighter, stopped in her prime by an unexpected defeat and an insurmountable case of burnout. The setup invites you to imagine the game she wishes she were in - an action-packed gladiator fighting game.
But this is not that game.
You play as Alta, a fighter, stopped in her prime by an unexpected defeat and an insurmountable case of burnout. The setup invites you to imagine the game she wishes she were in - an action-packed gladiator fighting game.
But this is not that game.
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My final video for 2025 compiles the lessons I learnt about games design this year, from rethinking how I work, what I want to design, and the people who I couldn't have done without.
Thank you everyone who has supported the channel this year, and have a wonderful 2026!
youtu.be/62zLZONQc4Q
🎲✂️
Thank you everyone who has supported the channel this year, and have a wonderful 2026!
youtu.be/62zLZONQc4Q
🎲✂️
Game Design Lessons from 2025
YouTube video by Matthew Dunstan
youtu.be
December 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM
My final video for 2025 compiles the lessons I learnt about games design this year, from rethinking how I work, what I want to design, and the people who I couldn't have done without.
Thank you everyone who has supported the channel this year, and have a wonderful 2026!
youtu.be/62zLZONQc4Q
🎲✂️
Thank you everyone who has supported the channel this year, and have a wonderful 2026!
youtu.be/62zLZONQc4Q
🎲✂️
An honour for Molly House to be included in Best Week! More than just that, it's really exciting to see there are enough great board games exploring interpersonal relationships to make a Best Week list from. I hope this is the start of something that will continue to grow.
Today is the fifth day of Best Week! Did you know that 2025 contained an unusually high number of games about human relationships? An unusually high number of *good* games about human relationships? Now you do! Read about them here: spacebiff.com/2025/12/29/b...
Best Week 2025! The D.T.R.!
Do people still D.T.R.? When I was a youngling, the acronym stood for Define The Relationship, that belly-clenching moment when two people would sit across from one another, lock eyes, and hold a s…
spacebiff.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:41 AM
An honour for Molly House to be included in Best Week! More than just that, it's really exciting to see there are enough great board games exploring interpersonal relationships to make a Best Week list from. I hope this is the start of something that will continue to grow.
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I'm honored to see Molly House in such company! Congrats to @miasmacorp.bsky.social for their debut Best Week appearance and to all of the other ways fantastic games on the list.
Today is the fifth day of Best Week! Did you know that 2025 contained an unusually high number of games about human relationships? An unusually high number of *good* games about human relationships? Now you do! Read about them here: spacebiff.com/2025/12/29/b...
Best Week 2025! The D.T.R.!
Do people still D.T.R.? When I was a youngling, the acronym stood for Define The Relationship, that belly-clenching moment when two people would sit across from one another, lock eyes, and hold a s…
spacebiff.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I'm honored to see Molly House in such company! Congrats to @miasmacorp.bsky.social for their debut Best Week appearance and to all of the other ways fantastic games on the list.
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6. Molly House
Give me more historical games like this! I love the semi-cooperative nature of this one and the way it presents its setting in the mechanisms. One of the more opaque games I played this year but it gets better the more you play! @miasmacorp.bsky.social @colewehrle.bsky.social
Give me more historical games like this! I love the semi-cooperative nature of this one and the way it presents its setting in the mechanisms. One of the more opaque games I played this year but it gets better the more you play! @miasmacorp.bsky.social @colewehrle.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
6. Molly House
Give me more historical games like this! I love the semi-cooperative nature of this one and the way it presents its setting in the mechanisms. One of the more opaque games I played this year but it gets better the more you play! @miasmacorp.bsky.social @colewehrle.bsky.social
Give me more historical games like this! I love the semi-cooperative nature of this one and the way it presents its setting in the mechanisms. One of the more opaque games I played this year but it gets better the more you play! @miasmacorp.bsky.social @colewehrle.bsky.social
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BOARD GAME: The incredibly produced, lovingly researched, and just ludicrously FUN Molly House by @miasmacorp.bsky.social and @wehrlegig.games
Play as queer 1700s Londoners trying to find queer joy while being pursued by fascists. Throw parties and go cruising, or betray your own people to survive
Play as queer 1700s Londoners trying to find queer joy while being pursued by fascists. Throw parties and go cruising, or betray your own people to survive
December 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
BOARD GAME: The incredibly produced, lovingly researched, and just ludicrously FUN Molly House by @miasmacorp.bsky.social and @wehrlegig.games
Play as queer 1700s Londoners trying to find queer joy while being pursued by fascists. Throw parties and go cruising, or betray your own people to survive
Play as queer 1700s Londoners trying to find queer joy while being pursued by fascists. Throw parties and go cruising, or betray your own people to survive
The next Bristol daytime playtesting event is on 19 December! Sign up on the Meetup page:
www.meetup.com/playtest/eve...
@playtestuk.bsky.social
www.meetup.com/playtest/eve...
@playtestuk.bsky.social
Bristol Daytime Playtest meetup, Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 10:30 AM | Meetup
If you're working on a game, whether it's an early idea or almost done, we want you! Board games, card games, puzzle games, silly or serious, short or long, any kind of gam
www.meetup.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The next Bristol daytime playtesting event is on 19 December! Sign up on the Meetup page:
www.meetup.com/playtest/eve...
@playtestuk.bsky.social
www.meetup.com/playtest/eve...
@playtestuk.bsky.social
Endurance is a wonderful game that made me feel absolutely awful. I mean that as a compliment. If that sounds like your thing, I think you should buy it.
The furnace broke. It's very cold, so we're having a sale on an appropriately chilly game!
December 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Endurance is a wonderful game that made me feel absolutely awful. I mean that as a compliment. If that sounds like your thing, I think you should buy it.
Many Nights a Whisper was absolutely one of the best games I played this year.
It heaps you with responsibility that's impossible to shoulder, asks you to carry out an improbable task your character has spent years honing, puts fate in your hands, then has you questioning if it was worth it at all.
It heaps you with responsibility that's impossible to shoulder, asks you to carry out an improbable task your character has spent years honing, puts fate in your hands, then has you questioning if it was worth it at all.
My game of the Year is Many Nights a Whisper by @selkieharbour.com & @deconstructeam.bsky.social 🧵
December 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Many Nights a Whisper was absolutely one of the best games I played this year.
It heaps you with responsibility that's impossible to shoulder, asks you to carry out an improbable task your character has spent years honing, puts fate in your hands, then has you questioning if it was worth it at all.
It heaps you with responsibility that's impossible to shoulder, asks you to carry out an improbable task your character has spent years honing, puts fate in your hands, then has you questioning if it was worth it at all.
Really surreal to see Molly House included in both The Guardian's 30 best board games to play this Christmas and NPR's 50 best board games of 2025! What a year.
@wehrlegig.games @colewehrle.bsky.social
@wehrlegig.games @colewehrle.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Really surreal to see Molly House included in both The Guardian's 30 best board games to play this Christmas and NPR's 50 best board games of 2025! What a year.
@wehrlegig.games @colewehrle.bsky.social
@wehrlegig.games @colewehrle.bsky.social
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Let's talk about board game boxes and their role in selling a game, framing and contextualizing the experience, and creating meaning.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgfV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgfV...
Boxes: Selling, Framing, Meaning
YouTube video by Hollandspiele
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November 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Let's talk about board game boxes and their role in selling a game, framing and contextualizing the experience, and creating meaning.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgfV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgfV...
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Next Bristol Friday daytime playtesting event is on 28th November! Sign up on the Meetup event to join.
@playtestuk.bsky.social
www.meetup.com/playtest/eve...
@playtestuk.bsky.social
www.meetup.com/playtest/eve...
Bristol Daytime Playtest meetup, Fri, Nov 28, 2025, 10:30 AM | Meetup
If you're working on a game, whether it's an early idea or almost done, we want you! Board games, card games, puzzle games, silly or serious, short or long, any kind of gam
www.meetup.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Next Bristol Friday daytime playtesting event is on 28th November! Sign up on the Meetup event to join.
@playtestuk.bsky.social
www.meetup.com/playtest/eve...
@playtestuk.bsky.social
www.meetup.com/playtest/eve...
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Drew and I have been overwhelmed by the support for the reprint campaign. If you've been looking for a copy of John Company or Molly House, this is your best chance to get a copy and the way that most directly supports us and our further efforts.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...
November 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Drew and I have been overwhelmed by the support for the reprint campaign. If you've been looking for a copy of John Company or Molly House, this is your best chance to get a copy and the way that most directly supports us and our further efforts.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...
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Great afternoon thinking about society and games (and the gamification of history) at the social justice and gaming workshop at KCL! Also most importantly finally got to play Molly House, explained by the wonderful @miasmacorp.bsky.social , which I've been hoping to play since seeing it at TIPC4!
November 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Great afternoon thinking about society and games (and the gamification of history) at the social justice and gaming workshop at KCL! Also most importantly finally got to play Molly House, explained by the wonderful @miasmacorp.bsky.social , which I've been hoping to play since seeing it at TIPC4!
Finally got my copy of The Old King's Crown (@theoldkingscrown.bsky.social) to the table.
I first played a demo of it at UKGE, I want to say 3 years ago? It was already impressive then, but I can see it's so much more now.
Absolutely spellbinding. Congratulations to the whole team.
I first played a demo of it at UKGE, I want to say 3 years ago? It was already impressive then, but I can see it's so much more now.
Absolutely spellbinding. Congratulations to the whole team.
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Finally got my copy of The Old King's Crown (@theoldkingscrown.bsky.social) to the table.
I first played a demo of it at UKGE, I want to say 3 years ago? It was already impressive then, but I can see it's so much more now.
Absolutely spellbinding. Congratulations to the whole team.
I first played a demo of it at UKGE, I want to say 3 years ago? It was already impressive then, but I can see it's so much more now.
Absolutely spellbinding. Congratulations to the whole team.
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Come join Drew and Jo, and I for a mid-day game of MH on the lovely new BGA mod. www.twitch.tv/wehrlegiggames
@miasmacorp.bsky.social @wehrlegig.games
@miasmacorp.bsky.social @wehrlegig.games
October 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Come join Drew and Jo, and I for a mid-day game of MH on the lovely new BGA mod. www.twitch.tv/wehrlegiggames
@miasmacorp.bsky.social @wehrlegig.games
@miasmacorp.bsky.social @wehrlegig.games
I'm going to be at a Gaming Social Justice event at King's College London on 14 Nov, running a Molly House demo and then talking with others including @baddeo.bsky.social and @maxhaiven.bsky.social - it's free but tickets are at this link:
www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...
www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...
Select tickets – Gaming Social Justice – REACH Space
Gaming Social Justice – REACH Space, Fri 14 Nov 2025 -
‘Let the children once see clearly the gross injustice of our present land system and when they grow up, if they are allowed to develop naturall...
www.tickettailor.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I'm going to be at a Gaming Social Justice event at King's College London on 14 Nov, running a Molly House demo and then talking with others including @baddeo.bsky.social and @maxhaiven.bsky.social - it's free but tickets are at this link:
www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...
www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...
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Je lu les règles de Molly House (merci @canardpc.com pour l’avoir rendu visible) et c’est une réussite de fusion thème/regles. Et quel thème ! La communauté queer du Londres du 18eme où on sent la menace de la corde à chaque fois qu’on fait la fête. 1/2
October 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Je lu les règles de Molly House (merci @canardpc.com pour l’avoir rendu visible) et c’est une réussite de fusion thème/regles. Et quel thème ! La communauté queer du Londres du 18eme où on sent la menace de la corde à chaque fois qu’on fait la fête. 1/2
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would you like to own two of the best games yet made? yes. and you can.
We are now live! If you want to grab a copy of the new printings, now's your best chance.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...
This is also a bit of a strange campaign for us. To be honest, I don't even think I've ever been as nervous about a launch. I suppose that needs some explaining 🧵
www.kickstarter.com/projects/col...
This is also a bit of a strange campaign for us. To be honest, I don't even think I've ever been as nervous about a launch. I suppose that needs some explaining 🧵
John Company & Molly House Reprint
Two of the most evocative historical board games are back for a new print run.
www.kickstarter.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
would you like to own two of the best games yet made? yes. and you can.