Get to know the game designers near you!

Big Puffin Games

Led by game-based learning designer Deb Fuller, Big Puffin Games creates fun, whimsical games for all ages. From silly dungeon crawls to reflective solo journaling adventures, every game is designed to spark curiosity, creativity, and joy. Open to collaborations and commissions, especially educational games across all grade levels and subjects.

Binary Star Games

​​A solo designer and publisher based in Maryland with an eye for elegant mechanics, fast tactics, and support for long-term play.
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Blinking Birch Games

​Samantha Leigh (they/she) is a TTRPG designer and editor publishing under Blinking Birch Games. They reside in Roanoke, VA and are best known for their solo tarot game, Anamnesis. Sam was a judge for the 2023 Indie Groundbreaker Awards and has written for Cloud Empress and The Zone, among others.
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​Cloven Pine Games

Alexi is an educator and author living Maryland. He is an Ennie-winning game designer; the creator of The Great Soul Train Robbery and Back Again from the Broken Land; and a contributor to games like Trophy, Brindlewood Bay, Urban Shadows 2e, and Avatar Legends.

Dominic Crapuchettes

Obsessive game designer since the 80s. Loves soccer, classical music, pipe dreams, coffee, and family. Retired Alaskan fishing boat captain. Designer of Wits & Wagers, Evolution, Say Anything, and Nature.

Edaureen Muhamad Nor

Professional book critic, amateur housewife, full-time polymath. Occasional game designer, perpetual game enthusiast. Malaysian American. Feral cellist. Mom of 3 in the DMV. Arsenal till I die. She/her.
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Feeling Fickle Games

Feeling Fickle is Tristan B Willis, a DC-based playwright, zine maker, and game designer interested in the intersection of games and theatre.
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Games By Judith

Judith Harmon, a lifelong maker, teacher, storyteller, and game enthusiast, says, " This isn’t just a company—it’s a passion project". A way to bring people together through worlds built on imagination, strategy, and a little bit of chaos (the fun kind).
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Gene Koo

I love exploring the unique possibilities of games. I’m especially interested in how paper offers you experiences you can't get in digital media: coloring, tracing, sticking, folding. My fondest wish is that you play one of my games and see the world in a different light.
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Graftbound Press

Graftbound is a small press focusing on publishing games and books that are symbiotic in their visuals and structure. We aim to help players discover truth by exploring the meeting of nature and society, medium and message, art and mechanics. All that to say we like to make experiences that help you to experience and engage with yourself.

We hope that people will interact with Graftbound’s creations to seek perspectives other than their own, to be open to learning new things, and to find wonder in imperfect things.

Hessan Yongdi

​Hessan (They/them) is the owner-creator of the Hessan's County publishing house and YouTube channel. They create and give advice on making indie TTRPGs, along with self-publishing and crafting hand-bound books for fun!
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Joel Sparks

Joel Sparks is the designer of CATS OF CATTHULHU and a veteran author of role-playing games and board games. More at misterjoel.com!​
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High Level Games

Josh Heath is the Chief Operations Officer of High Level Games a partnership between a DC area designer and an Edmonton, Alberta designer. ​

Jason Cox

Creator of CON Quest, where players navigate a pop culture convention searching for the coolest merch, collecting "celeb selfies," taking part in competitions, and more!

Joseph Frederick

​Joseph is a born DMV native and has been part of the local tabletop gaming community since childhood in Annandale, VA. His lifelong passion for tabletop gaming led him to launching an indie self-publishing company, Ludamus Games LLC. Their first game, We’re Sinking, was released at GenCon 2024 with more projects planned. Joseph is also Vice-Chair, at the local non-profit, Break My Game.
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Junk Food Games

A designer and self-publisher based in Maryland that
focuses on making small ttrpgs for big moments and
quiet introspection.
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Lyme

​Catch me on the metro with a backpack full of local RPGs. I blog occasionally under the name Brackish Draught. All of my games are printed on 100% recycled paper.
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Matthew Hocker

​I've been designing and making games for seven years as Coo' Games, and am a chair for the non-profit Break My Game.
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McCricket Publishing

​McCricket Publishing Co. makes games and supplements that focus on distinct flavors and bringing the strangeness from a creator's mind to life.
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Mothspire

​MothSpire Games is the team up of award winning designers Tim Rodriguez and Samphire Savage, making games for thoughtful togetherness.
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Reynaldo Madriñan

​​I write for BREAK!!, an adventure and teamwork focused tabletop rpg influenced by classic video games and anime among other things.
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Samovar Games

Samovar Games is Ben Glickstein, a creator based in Takoma Park, MD. His first storytelling game is Emissary: a love letter to Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle.
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Scryptid Games

​Scryptid Games is a studio and small TTRPG press publishing games for cryptids. We are proud to publish innovative narrative games that encourage aspirational, immediate, and collaborative storytelling.
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Unicycle Games

Unicycle Games (Alan and Lex) are creating independent tabletop games in Baltimore, MD. Their debut title is THE LONG ROAD AHEAD and they are currently at work on an original system for their next project.
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Winged Sandals Games

At Winged Sandals Games, we aim to bring you new strategic games focused on building community and sustainability