Joe Dewhurst
@joedewhurst.bsky.social
Boardgame designer, developer, and occasional player. Carrying a new world in my heart.
Come watch Pierre and I chat to @seedlinggames.bsky.social and @lukegearing.bsky.social about @samsorensen.bsky.social's ridiculously ambitious massively multiplayer rpg(?)-wargame(?) hybrid!
Tomorrow at 5pm GMT, @joedewhurst.bsky.social @pierrevj.bsky.social will be discussing their recent mega campaign of Prospero’s Dream Mothership module (I think...), with 1600 players with guests @lukegearing.bsky.social and @seedlinggames.bsky.social - Sounds insane
www.youtube.com/live/2DpZ_ks...
www.youtube.com/live/2DpZ_ks...
O/U Discussion with Pierre, Joe, Luke Gearing and Seedling
Joe Dewhurst and I recently took part in a massive, month-long, real-time play-by-post, multi-faction sci-fi roleplaying game called OVER/UNDER, based on the Prospero’s Dream Mothership module, which ...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Come watch Pierre and I chat to @seedlinggames.bsky.social and @lukegearing.bsky.social about @samsorensen.bsky.social's ridiculously ambitious massively multiplayer rpg(?)-wargame(?) hybrid!
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This afternoon, IWGB Game Workers joined together with unions from all over Europe, including @stjv.fr and @csvi-cgt.bsky.social to protest against Rockstar's union busting in Paris - on est là!
Protests continued today outside Take Two's offices in London, but also in Paris, where Le Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo (@stjv.fr) came out to show their international solidarity with the fired Rockstar workers.
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This afternoon, IWGB Game Workers joined together with unions from all over Europe, including @stjv.fr and @csvi-cgt.bsky.social to protest against Rockstar's union busting in Paris - on est là!
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Over the course of the month I drew a portrait or 2(hundred) in #over/under and called them 🩸HEADSHOTS🩸
And @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com said he might put them in the Mothership app so now you can all apply gentle pressure to that situation too! lol
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
And @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com said he might put them in the Mothership app so now you can all apply gentle pressure to that situation too! lol
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Over the course of the month I drew a portrait or 2(hundred) in #over/under and called them 🩸HEADSHOTS🩸
And @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com said he might put them in the Mothership app so now you can all apply gentle pressure to that situation too! lol
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
And @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com said he might put them in the Mothership app so now you can all apply gentle pressure to that situation too! lol
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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Fourth game of Cross Bronx Expressway in the books. Finally a victory! Really flabbergasted by this one, but in a good way. The “interaction dynamic” is equal parts narrative and cut throat. Lots of smart little nuggets throughout. Super relevant given current events as well. Review later this week.
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Fourth game of Cross Bronx Expressway in the books. Finally a victory! Really flabbergasted by this one, but in a good way. The “interaction dynamic” is equal parts narrative and cut throat. Lots of smart little nuggets throughout. Super relevant given current events as well. Review later this week.
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Tonight @joedewhurst.bsky.social, @patrickstactics.bsky.social and I will demo Combat Commander: Vietnam, the upcoming entry in @gmtgames.bsky.social series
www.youtube.com/live/L_6AGDo...
www.youtube.com/live/L_6AGDo...
Combat Commander: Vietnam - Preview of the upcoming tactical wargame
YouTube video by Homo Ludens
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November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Tonight @joedewhurst.bsky.social, @patrickstactics.bsky.social and I will demo Combat Commander: Vietnam, the upcoming entry in @gmtgames.bsky.social series
www.youtube.com/live/L_6AGDo...
www.youtube.com/live/L_6AGDo...
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what's up gamers I've barely posted about this since #over/under has eaten all of my time, but my space trucking Mothership Month 25 project, ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE, has just under 36 hours left, go check it out: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE: Space Trucking for Mothership RPG
Mothership space trucking 101, set in the star system surrounding Prospero's Dream
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November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
what's up gamers I've barely posted about this since #over/under has eaten all of my time, but my space trucking Mothership Month 25 project, ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE, has just under 36 hours left, go check it out: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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When companies think they can fire people to stop unionization efforts and try to get away with it, they teach the workers one of two things:
1. Don't unionize, or else you'll be fired.
2. Unionize even harder and take bigger, more powerful actions together.
I know which takeaway I've learned.
1. Don't unionize, or else you'll be fired.
2. Unionize even harder and take bigger, more powerful actions together.
I know which takeaway I've learned.
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
When companies think they can fire people to stop unionization efforts and try to get away with it, they teach the workers one of two things:
1. Don't unionize, or else you'll be fired.
2. Unionize even harder and take bigger, more powerful actions together.
I know which takeaway I've learned.
1. Don't unionize, or else you'll be fired.
2. Unionize even harder and take bigger, more powerful actions together.
I know which takeaway I've learned.
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Had an amazing time demoing Cross-Bronx Expressway for two tables at @sdhistcon.bsky.social this morning. Thanks to @alexknight.bsky.social, @yoyoni.bsky.social, and Justin DeVries (and, not pictured, @mirikuski.bsky.social, Damani Pant, and Nathaniel James) for playing!
November 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Had an amazing time demoing Cross-Bronx Expressway for two tables at @sdhistcon.bsky.social this morning. Thanks to @alexknight.bsky.social, @yoyoni.bsky.social, and Justin DeVries (and, not pictured, @mirikuski.bsky.social, Damani Pant, and Nathaniel James) for playing!
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Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help our fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union.
Help us fight back! Anything you can donate will massively help our efforts to hold Rockstar to account.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Help us fight back! Anything you can donate will massively help our efforts to hold Rockstar to account.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Support Rockstar Workers Fighting Unfair Dismissals!
Last week over 30 members of staff at Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar were fired en masse in a “calculated attack on workers”. The IWGB described Rockstar’s actions as ‘the most blatant and rut...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help our fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union.
Help us fight back! Anything you can donate will massively help our efforts to hold Rockstar to account.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Help us fight back! Anything you can donate will massively help our efforts to hold Rockstar to account.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
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#OVER/UNDER a bit proud of this one
November 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM
#OVER/UNDER a bit proud of this one
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There are different stages of an organizing drive - early on you want to be VERY hush hush and only talk with people you trust. Later on you widen that to people you know and trust less.
Sometimes you take collective actions (petitions, protests, etc) as a way to rally and organize more people. 5/
Sometimes you take collective actions (petitions, protests, etc) as a way to rally and organize more people. 5/
November 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
There are different stages of an organizing drive - early on you want to be VERY hush hush and only talk with people you trust. Later on you widen that to people you know and trust less.
Sometimes you take collective actions (petitions, protests, etc) as a way to rally and organize more people. 5/
Sometimes you take collective actions (petitions, protests, etc) as a way to rally and organize more people. 5/
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Rockstar: not only making history in terms of profits, but in enacting the most brazen act of union busting the games industry has ever seen.
This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct.
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
October 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Rockstar: not only making history in terms of profits, but in enacting the most brazen act of union busting the games industry has ever seen.
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This is one of the most blatant union busting efforts I've ever seen.
BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct.
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Grand Theft Auto’ Studio Accused of Union Busting After Firings
Union says 30 and 40 people were terminated. Rockstar Games’ parent company cites ‘gross misconduct’
www.bloomberg.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is one of the most blatant union busting efforts I've ever seen.
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This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct.
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Grand Theft Auto’ Studio Accused of Union Busting After Firings
Union says 30 and 40 people were terminated. Rockstar Games’ parent company cites ‘gross misconduct’
www.bloomberg.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.
Love this take on #over/under as the 2020s cyberpunk we deserve!
But it *does* feel like a reworking of cyberpunk for the 2020s: a vision of the future not as a unified aesthetic but as this crazed sensory overload, a hundred different stories and worlds fired at you at once, leaping between crassness and warmth, insincerity and sincerity.
October 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Love this take on #over/under as the 2020s cyberpunk we deserve!
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An excellent article from the BBC on the situation at Build A Rocket Boy. IWGB Game Workers stand shoulder to shoulder with Ben, Isaac, and Marg, who have demonstrated enormous courage in speaking out against corporate mismanagement. This is what solidarity looks like.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
MindsEye: How ex-Grand Theft Auto boss’s grand vision became a £200m flop
Lesley Benzies was one of the architects behind one of the most successful video games in history.
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October 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
An excellent article from the BBC on the situation at Build A Rocket Boy. IWGB Game Workers stand shoulder to shoulder with Ben, Isaac, and Marg, who have demonstrated enormous courage in speaking out against corporate mismanagement. This is what solidarity looks like.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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A day in the life of a space station threatening to tear itself apart. #OVER/UNDER injectorseat.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/m...
October 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
A day in the life of a space station threatening to tear itself apart. #OVER/UNDER injectorseat.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/m...
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I have been loving #OVER/UNDER SO freaking much. I love my little newspaper...
October 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I have been loving #OVER/UNDER SO freaking much. I love my little newspaper...
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Something so cool about #OVER/UNDER is how faction asymmetry leads to players leading totally different lives. Today, I heard about folks preparing powerpoints for their boss, the church is organizing art grants, the union is holding internal elections, and the hackers are shitposting.
October 16, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Something so cool about #OVER/UNDER is how faction asymmetry leads to players leading totally different lives. Today, I heard about folks preparing powerpoints for their boss, the church is organizing art grants, the union is holding internal elections, and the hackers are shitposting.
I stayed up way too late for the launch of the #mothership megagame #over/under last night. I immediately signed up to the teamsters union and accidentally started replicating my real-life political activities: joining a mutual aid collective, agitating internally, and scheming behind closed doors 😂
October 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I stayed up way too late for the launch of the #mothership megagame #over/under last night. I immediately signed up to the teamsters union and accidentally started replicating my real-life political activities: joining a mutual aid collective, agitating internally, and scheming behind closed doors 😂
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Alright, let's fucking go.
The lobby for OVER/UNDER by @samsorensen.bsky.social is now live. Come help make history on the Dream.
discord.gg/FDJ7T4C2Sm
The lobby for OVER/UNDER by @samsorensen.bsky.social is now live. Come help make history on the Dream.
discord.gg/FDJ7T4C2Sm
October 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Alright, let's fucking go.
The lobby for OVER/UNDER by @samsorensen.bsky.social is now live. Come help make history on the Dream.
discord.gg/FDJ7T4C2Sm
The lobby for OVER/UNDER by @samsorensen.bsky.social is now live. Come help make history on the Dream.
discord.gg/FDJ7T4C2Sm
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I finally tried CC:Vietnam, currently on @gmtgames.bsky.social P500, with @joedewhurst.bsky.social the other day and I am VERY excited. I plan on doing a stream about it soon to spread the love.
October 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I finally tried CC:Vietnam, currently on @gmtgames.bsky.social P500, with @joedewhurst.bsky.social the other day and I am VERY excited. I plan on doing a stream about it soon to spread the love.
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People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.
There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.
People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.
People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.
October 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.
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on Tuesday, October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 25, I'm going to launch another real-time play-by-post wargame, open to the public, called OVER/UNDER. the server will open to players on Monday the 13th, but in the meantime you can read about it here: samsorensen.blot.im/mothership-m...
Mothership Month 2025 Wargame: OVER/UNDER - Sam Sorensen
Starting on October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 2025—the annual group-crowdfunding campaign and general season of celebration for
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October 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
on Tuesday, October 14th, as a part of Mothership Month 25, I'm going to launch another real-time play-by-post wargame, open to the public, called OVER/UNDER. the server will open to players on Monday the 13th, but in the meantime you can read about it here: samsorensen.blot.im/mothership-m...